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1 Mm 4 FDNAL CITY EDITION 3f 'P- PUBLIC LEDGER An Independent Newspaper for All the People CIRCULATION: July Average: Daily 418,268, Sunday 1,081,595 SATURDAY MORNING. AUGUST 23. 1941 Copyright, 1941, by The Phila. Inquirer Co. VOL.

2J3. No. 54 abde Second Largest 3c Morning Circulation In America THREE CENTS ii 1- 1 1 ay or Lamberton Die Suddenly; ameel Smeceeds Him Ti Glasgow Democracy Lord Mayor Is 'Pat' Lives in Artisan's Flat Works on Newspaper But Has Been Knighted I 1 7- Death Comes While He Sleeps In Home at Shore A Full Pane of Lamberton Pictures on Pane S. HERMAN A. LOWE Mayor Robert E.

Lamberton died suddenly in his sleep at 6.30 P. M. yesterday at his summer home at Longport, N. a suburb of Atlantic City. He was automatically succeeded as chief executive by Bernard Samuel, president of City Council, who will take office today, and serve until a new Mayor is elected at the Nov.

4 general election. Lamberton died of hematosis and sclerosis, or Parkinson's disease, an ailment which his attending physician, Dr. Clarence L. Andrews, of Atlantic City, described as a chronic degeneration of the muscles and nervous system. HAD HE EN 'RARING TO (JET RACK TO WORK His death came as a complete and shocking to the entire city, as only a few days before the 5 1-year-old Mayor had apparently been on the road to recovery.

Scouting reports that he intended to resign, lie declared that he was "raring to get back" to his desk akCity Hall. He had been resting for some weeks at his summer home, 35th ave. and the Beach, Longport. His physician said he had been considerably improved during the last week, but that late yesterday afternoon he had taken a sudden turn for the worse. MAYOR WAS ASLEEP WHEN DEATH CAME After playing bridge with friends the day before, and Leningrad Drive Ha Ited, RedsRou Troopship Convoy Soviet Lines Hold as Germans Order Destruction of City; Nazi Officer Slain in Paris, Hostages Decreed War Map on Page 5 The Northern Red Army was reported checking the German-Finnish assault on Leningrad early today, while the Soviet fleet was said to have smashed a convoy bearing German reinforcements for the drive on the old Czar-ist capital, sinking two ships and running three aground.

In Leningrad, a huge People's Army of men and women erected barricades in the streets, drilled and vowed that the Germans would never capture the city. The German air force was reported in Berlin to be launching a series of paralyzing raids on Leningrad, and the German radio reported that the Nazi High Command had ordered the city's destruction. To the north of the beleaguered city, the Nazis' Finnish allies reported that their drive down the Karelian Isthmus had broken the Red defenses on the ruins of the old Mannerheim Line and that they were within 50 miles of Leningrad. Meanwhile, a crisis developed in Iran (Persia), which many believed Britain and Russia would invade to drive out German influences and to secure the great Asia Minor oil pool which fuels the Mediterranean air and sea fleet. The commanding general of German forces in Paris disclosed the slaying of a German army oflicer in the former French capital Tuesday and said that in any future slayings "a number of hostages corresponding to the gravity of the act committed will be shot." To stifle ferment, the Vichy Government has decided to impose the death penalty for Communistic activity.

i i i V' I i 1 telling them he was feeling extremely well, the Mayor did not BLAZE AT FIRES 12 HOMES i Hundreds Routed; Millions in Defense Materials Lost at 19th and Cambria Illustrated Page 3 By GEORGE M. MAWHINNEY Raising a great glare that brought a semblance of daylight to a huge area in the northern section of the city, a five-alarm fire raged through the lumberyard of Joseph H. Sykes, 19th and Cambria early this morning, and spread rapidly to ad-Joining structures. Within a half-hour after the first huge tongues of flames had licked against the sky, at lenst a dozen dwellings had been damaged by the spreading flames, and hundreds ot persons living in the adjoining residential neighborhood had abandoned their homes, against the threat of a sudden spread of the flames. LOSS IN MILLIONS Destroyed along with millions of dollars worth of lumber, which was being made ready for distribution In defense housing work, were a row of frame buildings -of the millwork plant of C.

C. Coolbaugh Sons, and a shed of the Robinson Clay Products clay piie makers, both across 19th st. from the lumber yard, north of Cambria. Some damage was also done to a two-story corrugated iron building of the King Bedding at the northeast corner of 19th and Cambria sts. 5000 WATCH FLAMES Upwards of 5000 persons jammed their way through the intense heat and smoke to the scene, some of them, in the earlier stages of the fight against the flames, aiding firemen in dragging and coupling hose lines.

The glare of the flames could be seen for miles distant and brought hundreds of motorists converging on the area, creating a traffic jam so bad, despite the efforts of 200 police men, that it halted Fire Pumper No. 19 three blocks away from ihe fire. THREE FIREMEN fU'RNED Throughout the struggle against the flames, which began shortly after midnight and lasted far into the morning, showering sparks constantly endangered the nearby lumberyard of C. H. White and Sons, at 18th and Indiana ave.

Three firemen were burned about the face during the fire and at least 15 others were treated on the scene for smoke affection and minor injuries. Although the debris continued to smolder for hours, firemen, who arrived with 110 pieces of apparatus, succeeded in bringing the flames under control after 1.15 A. M. DISCOVERED BY GIRL It was shortly after midnight when 17-year-old Mary Ranieri. daughter of Edward Ranieri, watchman of the plant, was disturbed in her sleep by a strange light coming through her bedroom window, at the southwest corner of Garnet and Cambria directly across from the lumberyard.

Looking out, she saw the first huge flames rising over the lumberyard walls. Hastily she warned her father, who had stepped into his home to get a cup of coffee. He sounded the first alarm. ROUTED FROM HOMES Four more alarms were sounded in rapid succession within the next 20 minutes. With the arrival of the first firemen, the conflagration hud so far advanced that it became apparent it could not be confined to the lumberyard.

Police ordered residents out of Continued on Page 3, Column 6 5- LI 1 i i i il I ii ii a in i in irjjMcats-al i Germans Retaliate For Assassination of Officer in France VICHY, France, Aug. 23 (Satur day) (A. All Frenchmen ar I IIv Raymond Clapper GLASGOW, Aug. 22 (By Wireless). A DAY with Sir Patrick Dollars Lord Provost (or Mayor) of Glasgow, taught me some more about democracy over here.

An old friend of his, an American motion-picture executive, had suggested that while I was Glasgow I look up the Lord Provost. "How should I address him?" I asked my American friend. Oh, you don't address him, 3 ist call him Pat," my friend replied. 'He's just like Mayor La Guardia." On arriving in Glasgow I found an invitation to luncheon waiting for me. When I showed up at the Lord Pro-rost's chambers, before I knew it he had me over at his corner cupboard pouring a pot of his best Scotch.

A dozen or so persons were there. One was a former stevedore. James Spencer, now a millionaire, who went to America as a hand on a sailing ship several years before I was born. He made a fortune here as a contracting stevedore, and he has just presented to Glasgow a canteen to provide hot lunches for dock workers. The luncheon was in his honor.

Another guest was a tall. smooth gentleman, D. C. D'Eath. director of the Rhodesian Copper Mines.

On the first day of the war he notified the British Government that he would not raise the price of his copper during the war. At this luncheon he announced that his Rhodesia miners had raised funds for a workers' canteen for Glasgow. Another guest wac a 16-y ear-old girl from the Highlands who had won a contest and was seeing Glasgow for the first time. Across the table was a young British natal officer, who refused to make a speech, and with hirn were two enlisted men. On my right was the chief welfare officer of Glasgow, who had just returned from vhere he studied the problem of caring for bombed-out Ke discussed similar plans forj Glasgow with Ladv Dollan, to my If ft.

1 Lady Dollan let me in on a se- I ere: When her husband went to' London for his adventure, as she called it when he was knighted bv King George she crashed the 1 gate and got a ringside seat. Naturally I wanted to see my husband hit over the head," she said. They went to New York during the World's Fair, and Sir Patrick got on so well Miih Mayor I Guardia that the City Pavillion at the fair turned over to the Lord Provost, who put up a Glasgow sign and settled down to hold open house. They lived at the Waldorf in a vie to which they both said they had not been accustomed, and henever they could have a meal alone together they slipped away to a Child Restaurant. We couldn't afford to eat at fancy hotel prices," Sir Patrick fa id.

The Lord Provost keeps right cn with his newspaper work, nhich he sandwiches in with his august role as chief magistrate of the city. had to leave the luncheon to go out to the shipyards, and the Lord Provost told mc to return at 6.30. When I came back I found him alone with the naval officer, and both were well into their third drink. After one or two more we three cot into the Lord Provost's handsome limousine, the grandest car in town. We drove to a dingy part of town and stopped in front cf the newspaper office.

The chauffeur swung open the door and the Lord Provost got out. 'T have to write a dispatch for the paper," he said. "You boys go out to the flat and pick up my ontinued on Page 5. Column 3 Enjoy the New Contests $1,000 A WEEK IN PRIZES Payable In U. S.

Defense Savings Bonds and Stamps Turn to Puzzle and Pastime Page for Details get out of bed yesterday. His wife called Dr. Andrews, but the Mayor succumbed just as the physician entered the room. Lamberton had been asleep when death came, Dr. Andrews said.

Mrs. Lamberton, two servants and the physician were the only persons in the shore cottage when the Mayor died. They summoned his son William, and his daughter Laura from Philadelphia, and they arrived at the shore an hour later. Another son, Robert, remained at his Cermantown home, 62-'3 Homer to take care of funeral arrangements. BODY IS RETURNED TO PHILADELPHIA The Mayor's body was returned to Philadelphia late la.t night by a (Jermantown firm of undertakers, arriving here shortly after midnight.

Public funeral services will be held next Monday evening at the undertaking establishment, Germantown ave. and Washington lane. Burial will be private on Tuesday morning. In addition to Lamberton's son and daughter, Director of Public Safety James H. Malone and Detective Inspector George Richardson sped to the shore immediately upon hearing of the Mayor's death.

Lamberton's two secretaries. Walter E. Alessandroni and Samuel Rosenberg, also hurried to Longport. Three leading Philadelphia Republicans were at the shore when they heard the news of the Mayor's death, and hurried to his cottage. They were Recorder of Deeds David W.

Har- Soviet Lines Holding Firm for 5th Day, Moscow Reports MOSCOW, Aug. 23 (Saturday) (A. Marshal Klementi Voro-shilov's Northern Red Army was fighting firmly and stubbornly early today against the Germans and Finns on a vast arc of defenses girding Leningrad, while behind it a huge People's Army erected barricades in the city's streets and drilled on the banks of the Neva River. The midnight Soviet communique made no mention of the specific battle sectors, merely saying, "Our troops continued to light stubbornly with the enemy on the entire front." 5 TRANSPORTS CLAIMED In the Baltic, west of Leningrad, the Russians reported that Red ships had attacked five German transports, sinking two and running three aground. Two escorting motorboats also were sunk, the communique said.

(A United Press dispatch fiom Mas-cow, referring to the Soviet attack on the German transports, de- Continued on Tage 5. Column 5 Continued on Tape 2, Column 3 IN TODAY'S INQUIRER K. LAMRHRTON 20 DAVIS JURY FAILS jTD REACH A 3D TRIAL IS ASKED By JOHN M. McCULLOl (.11 Confessing its inability to arrive at a verdict, the jury of nine men and three women which heard the second crimiral conspiracy trial of retired U. S.

Circuit Court, Judge J. Warren Davis and Morgan S. Kaufman, Scranton attorney, was discharged from service at 5.57 o'clock last night-Walter H. Gahagan, special assistant to the U. S.

Attorney General, promptly moved for a new trial, and asked Federal District Judge Hugh D. McLehan for time to confer with his before asking for specific listing of the case. SEEK OCTOBER TRIAL it was indicated that the Government would seek to list the third trial for the mlddlle of October, approximately seven weeks hence. Ball of $5(XH each was renewed automatically for both defendants. Contrary to reports, the jury was split 7-5 foi conviction from the time it received the case at 7.11 P.

M. Thursday until it was discharged yesterday afternoon. Four ballots were taken, and the vote was never changed, according to Kdwnru L. Slocum. Negro music trnohei.

of 1718 N. 24th st. 5 SOLID FOR A (Jl AL He said that he, the foreman, Harry G. of 5021 I-ocust st a guard employed by the Publicker Commercial Alcohol Co and the three women jurors stood solidly for acquittal "We voted for acquittal." Slocum. who acted as spokesman for the group, explained, "because we felt that the Government's case consist- i Continued on Page 3, Column 4 Says U.

S. Gave Iceland No Choice COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Aug. 22 fA. Prime Minister Thovald Stauning said in a declaration to the lower House of Parliament today that Iceland had no choice in the nutter of fx'cupntion by U. S.

troops. But. Stauning asserted, he had faith in the American promise to leave the strategic northern island after the war. Meanwhile, he said, there is a possibility that Iceland may become directly involved in the conflict. (Iceland and German-occupied Denmark are technically sister kingdoms under the same crown VERDICT MAYOR ROBERT BYRD DEFENSE DATA GROSSLY INCORRECT, ROOSEVELT INSISTS By WILLIAM C.

MURPHY. JR. Inquirer Stnff Rrporfrr HYDE PARK, N. Aug. 22 President Roosevelt said today that American defense production, on the average, was up to advance estimates, but that he was not and never had been satisfied with the amounts of war materials which were being turned out for the American armed services and nations fighting the Axis Powers.

But just the same, the President declared. Senator Harry F. Byrd Va.) was badly misinformed when the Senator made his speech Tuesday giving figures indicating that defense production was falling woefully short of estimates and requirements in practically all categories of weapons. It YR SOLD DOWN RIVER Aside from plane production, on which Byrd's figures agreed with those supplied by the Office of Production Management, the President said, Byrd's statements were completely inaccurate. He supposed, the President said, that somebody had sold Byrd down the river.

Reading from a memorandum supplied by the War Department, Mr. Roosevelt cited half a dozen Instances In which Byrd was In wlri disagreement with the War Department as to facts. The instances cited, the President Continued on Page 4. Column 7 pianos and other musical instruments made principally of metal, attic ventilating fans, cooking stoves, sewing machines and furniture. Starting 1, it will, generally speaking, be illegal for any store or others engaged in the business of giving credit on the affected articles to grant credit without a down payment or to permit lie payment of the balance to extend over more than 18 months.

HERE ARE THE ORDERS The restrictions follow: One-third minimum down payment and maximum of 18 months to pay balance New and used automobiles, airplanes, pow- Continucd on Page 4. Column Council Head Samuel Is Mayor Till Election By JOSEPH II. MILLER Bernard Samuel, president of City Council and Republican leader of the 39th Ward, automatically became Philadelphia's chief executive with the death of Mayor Lamberton last night. Samuel will act as Mayor until the voters, tinder the provisions of the City Charter, elect Mr. Lamberton's successor at the Nov.

1 municipal election. rested by or for German authorities in France will be held as hostages for the assassination of a high German officer two days ago, it was decreed in a German military order effective today. For any further acts, hostages will be shot in numbers according to the German view of the gravity of the offenses, said the order issued by Lieutenant General von Schaum-burg. SCOPK NOT CLEAR It was not made clear whether the order applied to the more than 6000 Jews arrested by the Germans in Paris Thursday, or to any of the persons who have been deprived of their liberty since last May in all of France. The assassination on Thursday, however, followed the recent demonstrations attributed to Communists Continued on rage 5, Column 4 LABOR Detroit transit union assails Mayor's plan for exclusive contract.

Page 3 EDITORIALS Mayor Robert E. I.ambcrton; A Soldier's Stirring Appeal; Russia Still a Problem for Nazis; Don't Take Any Chances on Dakar; Sensible Saving on Auto Tags. Hutton's Cartoon. Page fi SPORTS St. Louis beats Phillies in 10th inning, 4-2; Brooklyn defeats Chicago, 8-5.

Tage 15 A's down Browns, 5-4, and take sixth place. Page 15 John Griffin cards 69 to win Montgomery county golf. Page 15 BUSINESS AND FINANCIAL Narrow changes rule as main stock list eases irregularly. Page IS Security quotations. Pages 18, 19, 20 Investors' Guide.

Page 18 Legal intelligence. Page 18 Maritime news. Page 20 Real estate news. I'age 18 SPECIAL DEPARTMENTS Amusements 14 Picture Page 8 Church News 24 Puzzle Pages Comics 12-13 12-13 Death Notices 23 Radio 10 Feature Page 9 Short Story 7 Obituaries 10 Women's Page 7 COLUMNS AND FEATURES Barton Clapper Culbertson Cummings Forbes 9 Johnson 1 Ma lion 7 Newton 11 Parsons 18 Pegler 9 9 6 14 9 THE WEATHER Curb on Installment Sales Set by U.S. to Begin Sept.

1 CITY AND VICINITY Mayor Lamberton dies suddenly at shore Summer home. Page 1 Council President Samuel succeeds Mayor Lamberton until fall election. Page 1 Five- alarm lumber yard fire sets 12 homes ablaze. Page 1 Second Davis jury fails to agree; third trial is asked. Page 1 Three children trapped in Mana- yunk home burn to death.

Page 3 Harr demands $100,000 defense fund go for troop recreation. Page 4 Huge numbers bank smashed in South Phila. raid. Page 11 WAR NEWS Reds check drive on Leningrad, smash Nazi troopship convoy. Page 1 Nazi officer assassinated in Paris.

Frenchmen ordered held hostage. Page 1 Luftwaffe hammers Leningrad airports; Nazis order city destroyed. Tag 5 Finns report rout of Russians on old Mannerheim Line. Page 5 NATIONAL AFFAIRS U. S.

orders installment plan restrictions to begin Sept. 1 Page 1 Byrd figures on defense grossly inaccurate. President says. Page 1 Two-week gasoline cut of 40 percent urged in Fast. rage 5 GENERAL Seven soldiers saw way out of Fort Dix jail; five soon caught.

rage 4 The Council President will officially assume his duties today, but last night he was uncertain as to what time he would take his oath of office. NOMINATIONS REQUIRED Mr Lamberton's death means that tne Republican and Democratic City Committees will be required to nominate candidates foi the office for submission to the voters in November. They have until Oct. 4 to pick their candidates. Whoever is elected will take office immediately after the official count is certified by the Elections Court, probably a week after the balloting takes place.

He will serve until January, 1944. when Mr. LamCerton's term would have expired. ELECTION IMPORTANT Mr. lamberton's sudden death makes the fall election extremely important in view of the fact the city's principal office Is at stake.

Leaders Continued on Page 2, Column 7 Official foreca-st: Eastern Pennsyl-ania. New Jersey and Delaware-Cloudy with a few scattered showers today, clearing and somewhat cooler tonight; tomorrow generally fair with moderate temperature. (Daylight Saving Time) Sun rises 6.1 A.M. Sets 7.46 P.M. Moon rises 7.11A.M.

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The Federal Reserve Board today ordered restrictions, effective Sept. 1, on installment, credit on 24 types of consumer items, ranging from automobiles to trombones, home renovation loans, and small cash loans. The regulations, placing in effect President Roosevelt, -s recent order i directing restriction of consumer credit in order to conserve materials for defense and prevent inflation, generally followed tentative regulations made public last week by the board. NEW ITEMS INCLUDED The final order, however. Included several new items on which credit will be restricted.

These include.