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rcemviili peruLATita Of c. a. CENSUS GREENVILLE, S. TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 18, 1941. Sixteen Pages PRICE 5c SUNDAY 10c On Run At Moscow, Reds Say Reich Claims Kerch LEWIS DEFIES TO OLDSE SE et Out Pacific Or Fight, General Drum's Capture Termed Red Propaganda Japanese Attitude To U.

Germans Are Near Border Of Caucasus Two-Mile Strait All That Is Between Them, Berlin Says TULA REGAINED Troops Not Break Strike, He Declares President's Request. For Personal Report Is Ignored GRACE FLAYED Some Solons Assail FDR For Doing Nothing But Talking Logue In State Armies Are Locked In Terrific Battle In Pee Dee Minimum Peace Demands To 0 Quit Helping China And Lift Blockade By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In an atmosphere of gloom that perhaps was more suggestive than what actually was said, the Japanese parliament gave the impression last night that the empire had fatalistically resolved to go to war with the United States unless Washington made what would amount to utter capitulation in the Pacific. Japan's house of representatives heard, without questions save from a single speaker who was more a friendly interlocutor than a critic, those "minimum" peace requirements which the house of peers already approved. These are that the United States quit helping China and drop its alleged participation with Britain, China and the Dutch East Indies in what Tokyo claims is an "economic blockade" and "military encirclement." Nnthinff said in the Hhnxe khgt- gested that the government was going to be checked in any way, and barring the single possiblity that it was a grandiose and terrible hazardous bluff it appeared that the United States could not make friends with aJpan short of getting out of the Far East. INDO-CHINA PROTECTION Moreover, Shanghai heard on good authority that Japan had asked the Indo-China government of Vichy France to provide facilities for 50,000 more Japanese troops in U.S.

May Offer Japs Status As Anti-Axis Ally WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. (U.R)- The United States may offer Japan the status of an ally instead of foe as the basis for settlement of critical Japanese-American differences, usually authoritative quarters said tonight as fateful "peace-or-O war" talks with Japanese envoys got underway, Saburo Kurusu, Japan's diplomatic "trouble-shooter," and Am George R. Logue, a farmer of Edgefield county, lies wounded in the state penitentiary hospital at Columbia after a gun battle at his home in which Sheriff W. D.

Allen, and Fred Dorn, a sharecropper, were shot to death. Logue and Deputy Sheriff W. L. Clarke were wounded. Sheriff Allen and Clarke had gone to the home to arrest Logue and his sister- Penitentiary death yesterday.

Neil said Sheriff Allen told him while in Newberry Reentry that he believed he would be killed in connection with his investigation of the slaying of Davis Timmerman, Edgefield county merchant who was shot dead in September. SHERIFF ALLEN'S RITES EDGEFIELD, Nov. 17. iPj Funeral services for Sheriff W. D.

Allen of Edgefield were conducted here this afternoon at the Baptist cemetery here. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Anna Hollingsworth Allen, and a son. J. Hord Allen, 2nd, of Myrtle Beach.

DORN RITES TODAY GREENWOOD, Nov. 17. Funeral services for A Fred Dorn, farmer, who with Sheriff W. D. Allen, was fatally wounded at the home of George Logue in the Meeting Street section of Edgefield county Sunday morning will be conducted at Mount Carmel church in the county Tuesday at 3 o'clock by Rev.

W. H. Clark and Rev. N. A.

Jordan. Mr. Dorn died at a local hospital late yesterday. Sheriff Allen was killed instantly. Mr.

Dorn was a native of Ninety Six, but had been living on the Logue place for a number of years. He was a son of Mrs. Essie Ouztz Dorn and the late Yancey Dorn. Besides his mother he is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ethel Ouzts Dorn; one daughter, Irene: six sons, George, James, Hoyt, Raymond, C.

W. and an infant son; one brother, W. S. Dorn, and five sisters, Mrs. L.

Murrah, Mrs. Lloyd Turner, Mrs. Ed Haylor, Miss Ruby Lee Dorn and Mrs. Fred Wilson. in-law, Mrs.

Sue Logue, on charge of being accessories in slaying of a neighbor, Davis W. Timmerman, last Sept. 17. Sheriff Allen Had Death Premonition COLUMBIA, Nov. 17.

W) Sheriff W. D. Allen of Edgefield county had a premonition that he would be killed, Deputy Sheriff J. C. Neil of Newberry county said today.

The sheriff was shot' to Moscow Reports Nazi Troops Turn Tail, Run At Moscow LONDON, Nov. 17. () The Russians were reported in pursuit the retreating Germans in three major sectors of the Moscow front today and there were signs of continued improvement in the Red position before Leningrad, whose great garrison was said here to be still in military communication with unoccupied Russia. Of the far south in general and the Crimea in particular, however, the silence of the Soviet command strongly suggested that the greatest of all current struggles was going badly for Soviet arms. There was no authoritative comment on Berlin's claims that Kerch, the eastern Crimean port that could serve as a difficult bridgehead to the Caucasus, had fallen to the German and Rumanian offensive.

KALININ ACTION IS HEAVY About Moscow, said Russian military dispatches, the heaviest of all action was in the vicinity of Kalinin, 95 miles northwest of the capuai, wnere it was declared a German offensive in progress since Friday had been broken and turned into a retreat southward in which the Russians had recarjtured three settlements on the west bank of the upper Volga river. Near Mozhaisk, 65 miles west of Moscow, Red troops smashed across to the west bank of the Protva river, said these official accounts. and were driving the nazis before tnem. KERCH CAPTURED, CLAIM BERLIN, Nov. 17.

UP) Only the two-mile-wide strait of Kerch stood between Axis armies tonight and the Caucasus, Russia's land of oil which the Germans regard as one of the greatest potential prizes of me war. Even that barrier was viewed as only a short water Jump for the troops which won the port of Kerch ana now noia all the Crimea exceDt a Russian guarded semi circle around the naval base of Sevastopol. German planes already are ranging far east of the strait as far as the Caucasus mountain barrier. Kerch, whose capture was announced in a special high command communique, wa described by a military spokesman as "more important to us than Sevastopol." VALUE OF KERCH GREAT He gave these reasons: 1. Kerch is the "bridge" to the Caucasus; 2.

In a commercial and military sense it is at the mouth of both the Don and Donets rivers which no more Russian ships can enter through the Sea of Azov from the Black sea; 3. In itself Kerch is a navy yard and an important iron Industry center. Military dispatches indicated Kerch fell only after a hard fight with German and Rumanian troops approaching from the west and south forced to battle every mile of the way. The high command said actual occupation of the city was achieved only after bitter street fighting. There was no indication immediately whether Premier Stalin's scorched earth policy together with German shells and bombs had damaged the city badly.

Normally Kerch has a population of 100,000. GERMANS IN PANIC MOSCOW, Tuesday, Nov. 18. MV-German troops have been rolled back eight miles In a Russian counter-drive outside Tula which sent surprised nazis "running down frosty streets in their underwear," and at Leningrad two-month-held German positions were overrun by other Red army units who still are advancing, the official agency Tass said in a broadcast today. "They ran, and ran, and ran," the Soviet account said of the Germans' "panic-stricken rout" at Tula, a big Red munitions center 110 miles south of Moscow.

"Hats, overcoats, boots and other articles lie abandoned," the agency said. "Huge piles of shells, cases of cartridges, hundreds of grenades, rifles, machlneguns, tanks and bowls (Continued On Page Col. 3) Fourth Corps Hurls Tanks Against Larger Force ATTACK 'CHERAW By RICE YAHXER WITH THE ARMY IN THE FIELD, Nov. 17. In two booming battles, with about 800 tanks Involved, the Fourth army corps hurled its might today against the slow, but apparently sure, advance of the bigger First army.

Although no official figures were immediately available, it was authoritatively estimated that hundreds of tanks were knocked out of the battle by the anti-tank gunners, with 75 mm and 37 mm weap ons. SCRAP ON AT CHERAW At sundown the biggest scran was near the little South Carolina town of Cheraw. There the field guns fired blanks and dive bombers roared, drowning out the crackling of machine gun and rifle fire. At almost the southern end of the North Carolina-South Carolina line of the training battle, it was the point where the First army got its strongest force across the Pee Dee river in the first two days of the field exercise. To crack the bridsrehead and try to remove a dangerous threat to tne lourth corps flank.

MaJ. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold threw the entire Second Armored division, reinforced by about 150 medium tanks from the first division, at the town. TROOPS ARE WITHDRAWN Infantry and atrillerv also were withdrawn from the 31st division support the drive.

Despite the great lorce oi ngntmg venicies, there apparently was no decision in sicht as nignt leu. Farther north on the 50-mile fighting front the first armored division was fighting in the vicinity of Wadesboro, N. against an advancing semi-circle of anti-tank guns, artillery and motorized infantry that Lieut. Gen. Hugh A.

Drum was throwing across the Pee Dee in increasing numbers. It was a race whether the depleted armored division could get support from the 43rd infantry division before the First army could get enough men and guns across the river to overwhelm it. CROSSING FIVE BRIDGES The 28th. 44th, 1st and 2Gth divisions in the northern sector were crossing on five bridges and even using assault boats. Bombing attacks delayed but did not stop them.

On the southern end of the line, the 8th, 9th and 30th divisions were carrying through the slrtff fight. With about 1,500 anti-tank guns to oppose about half that many tanks, General Drum apparently sought to clear out the pocket irhich the First armored division was holding, straiRhten out his battle front and by driving in at the ends, squeeze General Orilwold's corps into submission. The problem directed by army general headquarters, may last as long as six davs. It started Sunday. President Requests Another 7 Billions Some Expected To Be Used In Aiding Russia WASHINGTON, Nov.

17. A surprise request bv President Roosevelt for a $7,083,419,046 increase in defense funds reached Congress today and legislators immediately conjectured that a substantial part of it might be to finance lend-lease aid to Russia. If the additional funds are provided, they will bring to approximately $66,000,000,000 the total of cash and contractual authorizations made by Congress since July 1. 1940 for defense and lend-lease aid. House appropriations subcommittees, already at work on deficiency appropriation estimates including $449,720,000 for more naval airplanes, arranged to beRln consideration of the huge new measure tomorrow.

More than half of the which the President asked for the Army was earmarked for ordnance and informed sources said a large part of it probably would go for a tremendous expansion of the tank production program. to several of the elephants while the circus was in Charlotte, N. about 10 days ago. The witnesses, Odell Grlffie and Claude Bolick, said they had gone to Charlotte to see the bin show and were "peeping under the elephant tent when they saw Michael take the capsules, "each as big as your finger," and feed them to the pachyderms, After the elephants were stricken and seven of them had died in Atlanta early last week, Grlffie and Bolick told authorities what they had seen. They described Michael and ac tnMitriarf In trrain RIVER IS CROSSED (Picture On Page Nine) By A.

F. LITTLEJOHN WITH FIRST ARMY IN THE FIELD, Nov. 17. VT) Headquar ters of the Blue First army re- i ported today that operations west of the Pee Dee river against, the Red forces of Maj. Gen.

Oscar Griswold were "proceeding according to plan" in the mock battle bringing to a climax eight weeks of maneuvers in the two Carolinas. The communique issued by Lieut. Gen. Hugh A. Drum, commanding, was couched in general terms giving no specific data as to the place and magnitude of engagements, but it said some of his infantry divisions were in contact with forward elements of the enemy's two armored and one motorized divisions.

BATTLE IS RAGING Hostilities were apparently in progress from the northern boundary of the 10,000 square mile maneuver area to its southern edge, west of the Pee Dee river, which had been designated the "interna tional boundary" with the Blues to the east and the Reds to the west at the start of the maneuver yesterday. No reports had been received indicating that any of the Reds had succeeded in crossing to the east bank, although their advance ele ments were said to have encroach ed the western end ot some of the vital bridges across the stream. A published report that General Drum had been captured bv Red forces and released after belnc held for an hour was dismissed at army headquarters with the suggestion that it was probably merely Red propaganda. DRUM CAPTURE 'SKIPPED' The only official comment was that General Drum had been "actively present in command of the army" throughout yesterday and today. Drum's communique revealed thai his special tank attacker units, organized since the start of the maneuver October 4, and consisting of strong artillery elements, equipped with 75's and 37's augmented by Infantry and aviation, had been dispatched to engage Griswold's armored forces.

Bridgeheads established last nluht on the west bank of the river were enlarged, the communique stated, and it asserted that "the bulk of the Blue First army continues to advance to the west." Air forces of both sides were active during the day. From the blue standpoint, the results were summed up as follows: "Blue observation, pursuit and light bombardment air forces carried out successfully numerous missions deep in Red territory. A large number of Red planps were destroved by Blue air and antiaircraft action. DIVE BOMBERS HIT MARK "Many Red armored forces were struck by Blue light and dive bombers. Red medium bombers continued attacks on bridges over the river frontier." The Mission given General Drum's first army of 200.000 men, with its strength predominantly in its Infantry, was to drive the Red forces, consisting of the Fourth corns and two armored divisions, with a total streneth of about back across the Catawba river in the western edge of the maneuver arear.

Operations of the Blues were observed by a group of military attaches from seven foreign countries today. Those in the party were: MaJ. Gen. Shih-ming Chu, China; Brig. Gen.

H. F. G. Letson, Canada: Col. Oscar Klingenberg, Norwav: Col.

F. G. L. Weijerman, the Netherlands; Col. Wodzlmlerz Onacowicz.

Po-Innd: Lieut. Col. Mom Luang Kharb Kunlara. Thailand, and Lieut. Col.

ZlveJIn Rndoylch. Yugoslavia. Troops Are Ordered Be Ready To Move ALEXANDER. Nov. 17 PI Several military police companies stationed here tonight were reported ready to move instantly.

Commanding officers said they did not know when they will be called or wnere tney will be sent. of 225 circus employes who filed before the two men here this morning. They pointed him out without hesitation as the suspect. Circus officials said Michael iolned the show at Springfield. 0 last June 16, and formerly had been a "wheeler" with carnivals and road shows.

The 11 elephants which died were valued at approximately $110,000. although circus official said the fact that they were trained animals made their value more. It was ascertained that arsenic was used to poison the huge animals. ifltr Minn! wmm IrianHfUrf Kv WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.

An effective strike of United Mine Workers (CIO) slowed the flow of fuel to steel mills to a trickle today, and John L. Lewis, belligerently defying the government to use troops, declared "the army is not going to shoot our people and the soldiers are not going to mine coal." To President Roosevelt, who had asked for a personal report on week-end negotiations concerning UMW's demand for a union shop in "captive" coal mines, Lewis sent nstead a letter which he made public. UNION SHOP DEMANDED Tliis communication recited mint workers' contention that an open shop agreement with steel compan ies owning the captive mines wouio violate union shop agreements with commercial coal mines. Then it tersely summed up the three days of conferences with steel men: "We offered the Appalachian agreement (providing for a union shop) xxx the steel executives refused acceptance. They offered an open shop agreement.

We Mr. Roosevelt received also a report from the steel industry representativesBenjamin Fairless of United States Steel. Eugene Grace Ycungstown Sheet fc Tube. It was delivered orally in the forenoon. -but thev Promised a written report later.

UNION WINS MANY DEMANDS Their written report, made public by the White House, recalled that contract negotiations with the UMW began in July, and said -all issues "were disposed of, practically all in favor of the union," with the exception of the union shop demand. On this, it said, the union refused to yield while "we firmly and sincerely believe that the right to work in our coal mines, or in any other industry, should not be dependent upon membership or non-membership in any organization." It closed with an expression of belief that "everything reasonably within our power has been done to avert a work stoppage." WHITE HOUSE SILENT The White House was silent, for the time being, on what the President might do in the light of his public assertion last week that production from the "captive" mines which produce fuel for steel mills busy with armament orders must be continued without delay, and his assurance to Congress that "the government proposes to see this thing through." But even before Mr. Roosevelt received the reports of the fruitless negotiations many members of Congress were fuming for action for legislation to restrict strikes. Speaker Rayburn took cognizance of this sentiment by announcing that the House would be given op portunity to consider such measures "at the earliest date consistent with proper consideration." PRESIDENT JUST TALKS Before Rayburn's announcement. Representative Cox Ga.) had complained vehemently during a meeting of the House Rules committee that President Roosevelt "is still in the talking stage" and had suggested that Congress might "put the lid on" the administrations price control legislation until the President consented to consideration of labor measures.

The strike itself appeared to have stopped work by all but relatively a handful of the 54,800 miners who dig the coal to keep the steel nulls functioning. About 95 per cent of these, by the Defense Mediation board's estimate, are members of the TJMW. In addition, there were scattered commercial mines where the UMW has contracts, such as it. desires with the steel industry mines, requiring all miners to become members of the unior. GENERAL ST LOOMS The UMW's contracts would per- (Continued on Page Col.

6) the two North Carolina men. he was taken to a downtown hotel where almost a score of peace officers and private detectives questioned him throughout the after- noon. Officials were unable to advance any motive for the poisonings as the short, swarthy roustabout denied during the interrogation that he had given capsules to the elephants. Ten of the pachyderms died in Atlanta as the show moved there from Charlotte, via Greenville, C. reducing the circus' herd to 37 beasts.

The eleventh victim died that colony "for defense," thus creating a force of about 100,000 there, and was not waiting for Vichy's answer to rush them in. Speculation at once arose that a Japanese attack against South China or more likely against Thai land, which adjoins Indo-China and lies above Malaya and the British Pacific fortress of Singapore, was in sight; Trie iJntisn, now pieagea 10 join the United States in war upon Japan within an hour of the start of any such coninct, announced me arrival in Singapore ot more Indian troops the seventh group of reinforcements since September 1. TIME TO STRIKE, CHIANG SAYS The Chinese generalissimo, Chiang Kai-shek, seized the oppor tunity to suggest that "tne vital moment" to deal with. Japan had struck, and his foreign minister observed: All signs seem to point in the direction of an ABCD alliance" that is, one of American, British, China and the Dutch East Indies. MILITARY LOAN VOTED TOKYO.

Nov. 17. (IP) The House of "Representatives gave swift approval tonight to the government's 3,800.000,000, yen (nominally $874,000,000) extraordinary military budget while press trump eted that Japanese-American re lations have gone from bad to worse." Similar speedy action in the House of Peers tomorrow is a fore gone conclusion. This action, completing diet passage, is expected to follow presentation of an outline of the nation's finmces to peers. Despite the momentous diet ses sion, most eyes in Tokyo tonight were glued on Washington, where special Envoy Saburo Kurusu held his first crucial meeting during the day with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull.

The ioreign otnce-controlied Ja pan Advertiser and Times summed up the editorial view with the statement: "The international situation as regards Japanese and American relations has gone form bad to worse. It is now felt in Japan as never before that the war Japan has waged the past four years has in truth and reality been not with Chungking but with America and Britain." It said spread of the war to the Pacific would be "a tragedy to humanity" and that statesmen on both sides should make every effort to avoid it. Candidates' Own Vote Not Counted DETROIT, Nov. 17. (Fl Frank Kujawa, self-styled workingman's candidate for mayor, received four votes in the November 4 election.

What irked him, he told Recorder's judge John J. Maher today, was that the official canvass showed he received no votes in his own precinct. "I was robbed," declared Kujawa. "I distinctly lemember voting for myself." Judge Maher, a member of the city election commission, referred Kujawa's complanit to the elections director. bassador Kichisaburo Nomura today turned a scheduled 20-mlnute "courtesy call" on President Roose- veit into an hour's discussion of fundamental issues, and informants said Mr.

Roosevelt might already have made the "ffer." AGREEMENT BE PROPOSED The administration is willing to come to an agreement with Japan ft and avert a possible war in the Fa-cific, but only if the Tokyo government is ready to do an about-face in its foreign policy, it was said. Whether or not that position has as yet been made clear to the Japanese is not known, but it will soon be stated bluntly, according to United Press sources. Against the background of Japanese Premier Hideki Tojo's belligerent speech to the Japanese diet today officials said there seemed little hope for successful outcome of the historic conferences for which Kurusu made his dramatic clipper flight from Tokyo: However, Japanese sources here said the atmosphere of initial talks today was "hopeful, friendly, and optimistic." Kurusu and Nomura were represented as satisfied. With the international spotlight trained on their mission, the Japanese envoys, formally dressed in cutaways, called first on Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Hull escorted them across the street to the White House.

A REMAIN FOR HOUR Mr. Roosevelt received the emissaries in the Red room. They were scheduled to remain only 20 minutes but more than an hour elapsed before they emerged. Both were noncommittal except A to remark that they had talked of "many things." Hull, at a subsequent press conference, likewise declined comment. Informed sources said the United States offer will be predicated on Japan's abandonment of its axis ties.

They said that Kurusu will be 9 informed, without reservations that, if Japan wishes toreach a basis for talks, it must approach this government as a peaceful nation and without any war commitments to Germany and Italy. It was added that there lsno possibility the United States can otherwise yield to either of the two demands which Premier To.1o made in Tokyo Sunday: First, that the ABCD powers (America, Britain, China and the Dutch East Indies) relax their economic blockade a against Japan, and second, that aid to beleaguered China be halted. Red Cojlese Girls Seduce Nazi Troops ROME. Nov. 17.

(U.fi) Russian college girls, versed in foreign languages, are seducing German soldiers while Soviet guerrillas carry out the "scorched earth" policy, the Turin newspaper La Stampa said today. fe The newspaper said that in one sector the Germans found girls between 18 and 30 years old operating with dynamiters and incendiary experts "companies of rational and radical distraction." "These Amazons announced they were students of Moscow unlver- sity." the dispatch said. "They had FDR Favors 6-LaneRoad Through City The Nrwa Bureau. 1054 Press Bid. By Leased Wire BY CARROL KILPATRICK WASHINGTON, Nov.

17. A tre mendous and costly trans-continen tal highway that will pass through Greenville will be the first great post-war project to receive presidential blessing, it was reliably, reported President Roosevelt has assured at least one member of the Senate and one member of the House that this mammoth national highway is No. 1 on his agenda. SIX TO EIGHT LANES For most of its length it will be six to eight lanes wide and "abundantly" lighted at all hours of the night. The exact starting point of this road has not yet been determined, but it is believed some light will be thrown on this quetsion when the national interregional highway commission makes its report to the President, probably before Christ-was.

One suggestion has been that the road start at Ffcrt Kent in northern Maine and another that it near Niagara Falls. In any event it will approach New Yortc city, pass through or near Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond and Petersburg, Va. PETERSBURG TO DALLAS From Petersburg it will branch off in two directions, one wing going on to Raleigh, Sumter, S. Savannah, Jacksonville and Miami, with the other branch going from Petersburg to Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Greenville, Atlanta, Birmingham, Meridian, and Dallas, Texas. From Dallas a branch will drop down to the Mexican border at Laredo, Tex.

It was also considered possible that the road from Meridian to New Orleans would be enlarged. Early in the year President Roosevelt appointed the national interregional highway commission to study plans for post-war highway construction as one public works program to assist in the transition from a war-time to a peace-time economy. Infantrymen who reached the town before the tanks fought their way from door to door, lawn to lawn and from tree to tree as they worked toward concentrated FirRt army forces in the center of the town. Just befcfie the sun set, roaring dive bombers participated in the action, drowning out the noise ot small weapens. The 5.000 people of Cheraw got a good idea of what modern war could be.

CLARK CONDITION FAIR AUGUSTA, Nov. 17. (JP) Deputy Sheriff W. L. Clark of Edgefield, B.C., who.

was wounded in the gun battle near there Sunday in which Sheriff Allen was killed, was reported in fair condition at a local hospital tonight. He is gravely wounded. FDR May Observe Old Thanksgiving For Second Time Warm Springs Trip Delayed WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.WP) President Roosevlt, who proclaimed November 20, as Thanksgiving day. may celebrate instead the traditional last Thursday in November.

He had hoped to eat a turkey dinner next Thursday at Warm Springs, but for a second time postponed a projected visit to the Georgia Warm 'Springs foundation for victims of infantile paralysis. Pressing official affairs and a head cold made it imperative that the chief executive remain here at least until next week, the White House said. But word arrived from the foundation that the Thanksgiving would be postponed for a week in the hope that Mr. Roosevelt would be there to preside at the head table. Georgia as a whole plans to observe November 27.

anyway. Sixteen states had decided against observing November 20, and Georgia was one of them. Circus Roustabout Is a ge With Poisoning Elephants Bombers Dive, Big Roar On Cheraw Revolutionary Battle Site the task of seducing the Germans for the purpose of more easily carrying out acts of sabotage. They were lmmeaiateiy sent to concen tration camps." The Weather South Carolina and North Cam Una Generally fair Tuesday and Wednesday, warmer Tuesday nifht St. PETERSBURG, Nov.

17. (U.W A 32-year-old circus roustabout was arrested tonight on charges that he fatally poisoned 11 elephants of the Rlngllng Bros, and Barnum and Bailey circus. Police charged Elwln Beldcn Michael, of Des Moines, a "wheeler" whose Job it was to help load and unload the big show, with malicious mischief and cruelty to animals. Michael, who malntanled his innocence throughout an afternoon of questioning, was identified by two Gastonia. N.

C. men as the man thev saw slvn flv lur rann1 CHER AW, Nov. town and countryside, which once echoed the rifle fire of the revolutionists and then plagued Sherman's march to the sea, trembled tonight as the army's big 75 millimeter gun roared in simulated defense of this lumber center, The attacking second armored division sent more than 400 tanks in two huge encircling movements against the defending forces of the First army, and Wednesday. Georgia Generally fair and con 9 tinned warm Tuesday and Wednes day. (Other Data en Pafe 14) ij..