The Daily Telegram from Adrian, Michigan • Page 1

ADRIAN DAILY TELEGRAM Not Much Change in Temperature (Weather Details on Face Two) VOL. 93, NO. 29. ADRIAN, MICHIGAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1942 PRICE 3 CENTS. 6 Men and 5 Women Believed Lost When Cabin Cruiser Sinks Woman Swims 7 Miles to Safety; One Body Found; Submerged Craft Located By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS STANDISH, Aug.

cabin cruiser which foundered Sunday in Saginaw Bay with 13 persons aboard was sighted submerged near Point Au Gres today and Coast Guards expressed the belief that all but one known survivor had perished. Fear that 'six men and five women still missing would not be found alive was voiced when Coast Guardsmen discovered the body of Cecil Day, 45-year-old boat liveryman and pilot of the craft, at 9 a. m. today two and one-half miles east of where the craft, a converted tug, was located. The cruiser, which had left early Sunday, on a fishing party, foundered eight and one-half miles southeast of Point Au Gres.

The only known survivor, Mrs. Louis Repkie, 23, of Bay City, who swam an estimated seven miles to safety, was recovering meanwhile from a horrifying experience to give the first account of the apparent tragedy. Regaining strength but still shaken, Mrs. Repkie told of having set out with her husband and a second woman in an attempt to swim to shore after the 30-foot craft, a converted tug, presumably struck a rock in mid-bay. From about 3 p.

m. until darkness, the three kept together. Then they became separated. After what she believed to have been hours, Mrs. Repyie attained shore and struggled to an unoccupied hunting cabin, there to fall into an exhausted sleep.

Walks To Farm House At noon yesterday she awakened and walked three miles to a farm house. (Turn to BOAT, Page 7) At yesterday's city commission meeting the ordinance providing for the organization of a five-man airport commission received its final reading and was adopted. When new ordinance becomes effective September 2, 30 days after its adoption, the commission will be appointed by Mayor H. W. Lundahl with the confirmation of the city commission.

The new group will then assume complete charge of the Adrian airport, including the handling of its funds and the appointing of its officials. Monthly reports from Justice Franklin J. Russell, the police department and the city treasurer were presented at yesterday's meeting and were accepted by the commission. Other business consisted of the granting of one limited trailer license. The permit, which was issued to Elgie Coulon of 1030 Lowe Avenue, is the twenty-first license to be approved.

War At A Glance By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS report flank attacks cut off Germans in "Battle of Bend" 80 miles northwest of Stalingrad, but Nazis continue advance on lower Don and in Caucasus. Germans claim capture of Voroshilovsk, 180 miles southeast of Rostov, making of distance to Caucasian oil fields. Reds blow up dam to halt foe. SECOND FRONT Mussolini, plagued with unconquered Yugoslavia, warns Italians and rest of world against "idle dreams" of second front. dwindles to oc-.

casional patrol and aerial clashes. EUROPEAN daylight raiders hit rwo English towns after night-long lull on both sides. AUSTRALIA Japanese reinforcements sail down southern New Guinea coast to bolster threat to Port Moresby as Allied fliers strafe foe on Papua. fliers heavily attack Japanese headquarters and barracks at Linchuan, China, and gun Yangtze shipping as pepped-up Chienese troops encircle Linchuan. American fliers also raid Japanese in central Burma.

County Registration for Autumn Canning Will Begin Wednesday The sugar registration for the autumn canning season will be held in Lenawee county beginning tomorrow. The registration period will be divided into two periods, the first lasting from August 5 through August 8, and the second starting August 12 and continuing through August 15. The- registration -will be -held 13 localities. In Adrian registrants will go to the Adrian armory. Other county places are as follows: Addison high school, Blissfield council rooms, Britton high school, Clayton high School, Clinton high school, Deerfield township rooms, Hudson Washington school, Jasper post office, Morenci Stair gymnasium, Onsted Baptist church, Tecumseh Methodist church parlors, and the Riga schools.

The time of the registration is from 9 a. m. to 4:30 p. m. every day.

(Turn to SUGAR, Page 6) WAR PRISONERS ARRIVE TOKYO (From Japanese Broadcasts), Aug. 4. British and American Army and Navy Officers have arrived at the war prisoners camp of Zentsuki on the south Japanese islands of Shikoku, a Domei dispatch said today. The only prisoner named was Lieutenant Wilson, attached to the Naval Attache's office of the Tokyo Embassy. Navy directory lists a Lieut.

William R. Wilson as assigned to the former United States Embassy in Turn Off Lights, Keep Off Streets During Blackout Adrian citizens will experience their first test blackout Friday evening when lights in all houses, stores and other places of business which may be visible either from the outside or from above are required to be extinguished from 10 o'clock to 10:15. According to the blackout rules issued by Mayor H. W. Lundahl under the ordinance which was adopted by the city commission May 25, all city residents must leave the streets and enter a building when the warning sounds.

Automobiles are required to go to the curbs, stop and turn off automobile lights. House lights must be extinguished or shielded so they do not show. The most important duty of the police department will be to enforce the regulations regarding automobiles. Auxiliary police will assist them in controlling traffic in the downtown areas. Auxiliary firemen will be stationed on the outskirts of the city to stop and warn motorists who are entering Adrian.

Patrolling the streets in their own precincts will be the air raid wardens. They will be assisted by messengers. May Use Force The police, firemen and air raid wardens have the power under the city ordinance to enter any premises, with force if necessary to extinguish lights. All are authorized to take the name and address or automobile license numbers, ol any violator and to turn them over to L. B.

Kuney, chief air raid warden. The ordinance provides for a fine up to S500 and imprisonment "up to three months or both for violations of the blackout regulations. The Consumers Power Company has received written permission from city officials to turn off all street and boulevard lights during the 15-minute blackout Lights Aid Enemy The ordinance declares that a state of war exists between the United States and Japan, Germany and Italy and that, in modern warfare, no city, however distant from the enemy, is free from attack. Lights at night time are declared to be a definite-aid to the enemy and that failure to extinguish lights may result in loss of life by thousands of Adrian residents. The ordinance was adopted by city officials to put teeth into the blackout effort and to avoid confusion and unnecessary loss of life if bombs actually fall.

The Adrian practice Friday night will be a dress rehearsal for another blackout August 12 when 41 counties, in southern Michigan will douse lights simultaneously at 11 o'clock in the biggest blackout test since the war began. Participating in the test with Michigan will be sections in Illinois and Wisconsin, which with Michigan, make up the Sixth Civilian Defense Region. GRAND BALLROOM BECOMES A DRILL HALL The grand ballroom of the Stevens Hotel in Chicago, scene of many a resplendent gathering, resounds to the feet of a battalion of military police from Fort Custer as the Army took over the hotel. largest in the world. The glittering chandeliers and the soft carpets remained as the soldiers drilled in the air-conditioned comfort of the hotel, now known to the Army simply as "Unit 1." Gates of New City Dam Likely to Be Closed In 5 or 6 Weeks The work of relocating the Consumers Power Company's high voltage transmission lines across the site of the artificial lake to be formed by the Riverside Avenue dam now is under way and is scheduled for completion within five or six weeks, Roy McPhail, local manager of the company announced today.

The construction work is being done by the L. E. Myers Company of Chicago under contract with the Consumers Power Company. The city and the' power company recently signed a contract providing for the relocation of the power line at a cost of $10,850 to the city. The power company owned the right of way its lines across the "site to be- flooded by Lake Adrian.

The steel tower transmission line is being moved north about 500'feet from its present location. Before the steel tower line can be moved, it is necessary to build a temporary line on 85-foot wooden poles. When the temporary line has been built the present steel towers and lines will be taken down and rebuilt at the new locations. In addition, two wooden pole transmission lines must be moved from the lake area. One of these serves Tecumseh and the nearby territory.

In its original location the steel tower line extended across the proposed artificial lake at one of its wider points. It is being transferred to a location that provides for a shorter water span. The power company is giving the city the right to flood its old right of way, a strip of land 165 feet wide through the center of the lake site, in exchange for a small point of land for a tower site on the east side of the lake. "Priorities have been obtained on the material needed," Mr. McPhail said, "and prompt completion of the work now is assured.

We are glad that the city and company have been able to work out all their problems in a way that is fair and satisfactory to both parties." Once the power line is moved the gates of the dam will be closed and the area will be flooded. Employees from the water board now are completing the removal of logs and brush from the lake site. The waters of Round lake were still being searched today for the body of Joe Beaubien, formerly of 1015 East Maumee Street, who drowned at 8 o'clock Sunday night in a boating accident. Boats operated by the sheriff's office, Adrian city firemen, Michigan State Police, and relatives of the victim were dragging the bottom with grappling hooks without success up to noon today. The search lasted until late Sunday night and was continued all day yesterday.

Mr. Beaubien, 21 years old, was said to have fallen out of the back of the motor boat in 30 or 40 feet of water. Allen Harsh, a brother- in-law, attempted to save him, but had to be helped back into the boat by Perry Crockett, the third member of the party, when he became exhausted. CHILD KILLED COLDWATER, Aug. 4 UP) -Unnoticed, 16-months-old Irvin Biddinger crawled underneath a truck parked near his home here last night, and was killed when the vehicle, driven by Milton Larson of started to move.

U. S. Raiders Make A Direct Hit On Jap Headquarters CHUNGKING, Aug. 4. (JP) United States air raiders dropped a 550-pound bomb squarely on a Japanese headquarters in the Kiangsi Province center of Lin- chuan yesterday, Lieut.

Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters announced today. The communique said American fighter pilots also had machine- gunned two Japanese transports on the Fu river. Both demolition and incendiarj bombs were used by the bombers The waterfront also was bombec and-direct hits on two docks left several large fires burning, the communique said.

As the fighter-escorted American bombers made their run over the enemy base, returning pilots reported, they saw Chinese ground forces attacking the invaders. Quarter-ton bombs struck Japanese barracks and 12 hits were counted on Japanese positions, the war-bulletin, One of these was the direct An army spokesman said Chinese troops have encircled Linchuan and reached the city's west and south gates. These forces were handicapped by lack of heavy eqiupment for an assault on the town and the spokesman said yesterday's air raic was of great aid to them. In north China, the spokesman said the Japanese were seizing wheat and other crops, kidnaping women and holding ransom for payment of a specific number of bushels a head. AIR RAID 'SIREN' MISSING FROM BAPTIST CHURCH Adrian's air raid "siren" either is lost, strayed or stolen and defense officials today are seeking some new means ol sounding the warning that will blackout the citj Friday night.

Adrian's siren was recorded on a phonograph record that was to be broadcast over the loud speaking equipment at the Baptist Church Three records of air raid sirens were ordered from a Detroit concern and they arrived in the city last week. One of them was tried Saturday noon and it seemed to meet all requirements. The indications are that when the louc speaking equipment at the church is turned on full force the noise of the siren can be heard all over the city. The siren record was decided upon to save the cost of buying some type of mechanical siren. After the Saturday test the three records carefully were filed away at the church in what was thought to be a safe and secure place.

Today they were gone. L. B. Kuney, chief air raid warden, said today he feared they were stolen. It is possible, however, he said that the three records were picked up by mistake and turned over to the "records for our fighting men campaign" now being conducted by the American Legion.

On the other hand, none of the other records from the extensive collection at the church was disturbed. Defense officials have one cracked recording of an air raid siren left but it isn't satisfactory and probably can't be heard for any great distance. They'd like to know where the three good records went. In the meantime, they're trying to get another from Detroit. STRAITS TRAFFIC OFF LANSING, Aug.

4. forty three per cent drop in vehicle traffic across the Straits of Mackinac in July compared with last summer was reported yesterday by the state highway department. A total of 46,009 vehicles were transported across the straits in July, compared with 80,444 lasl year. For the year to date, traffic is down 23:6 per cent The department said it was dismissing at once the crews of the steamer, Straits of Mackinac which until now has been kept in readiness to assist the three state- owned ferries in case.of:a traffic overload. POLICE JAIL OF Mothers Plunge to Death With Children Rather Than Be Arrested BERN, Aug.

4 French oolice, prodded by the German Gestapo, started mass arrests of Jews in Paris suddenly at 4 a. m. July 18 and touched off at least five days of terror during which many committed suicide rather than submit to arrest, according to a letter reprinted in the newspaper, Berner Tagwacht, yesterday. In all 27,000 were arrested and sent to concentration camps as previously reported in brief dispatches. Today's letter, giving details of the roundup, was printed by the Takwacht with the editorial comment that "we cannot keep silent." The writer of the letter said that the arrests were begun were 1 continuing the date'' of writing, July 21, with Jews being picked up on the streets.

"We passed --many terrible hours," the writer said, citing several instances of women who jumped out of windows with their children rather than submit to arrest. Women were interned in the Paris Hippodrome girls and women without children were taken to Drancy to await final determination of their cases. Some deaths were reported among those arrested along with many cases of scarlet fever and measles. The Hippodrome was filled with so many people that there was room for them to sleep only in a sitting position. The writer of the letter said that many Parisians extended sympathy to the Jews, warning them not to go to their apartments.

Keys to cellars and vacant apartments were given Jews so that they could escape the Gestapo. Children left behind were quickly adopted. There were a few cases of apartments left behind by Jews being plundered, the writer said, but he added that these were few. Up to the time of writing no direct word had been received from the arrested Jews, the writer said. It has been reported that Jews, first taken to Drancy, since have been sent to Germany and Poland.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GENERAL MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Aug. Japanese have sent more ships down the New Guinea coast to the Papuan Peninsula, presumably with reinforcements for the Gona-Buna area, it was reported here today. These ships, which eluded allied bombers, were believed to have carried only small numbers of men and supplies. The original force put. ashore on the peninsula was estimated at between 1,500 and 2,500 troops.

When the Japanese made their first landing in the Gona-Buna sector on July 22 the invasion Armada included two heavy cruisers, three destroyers and five transports, of which one transport was sunk and two others hit. A headquarters communique said today that the situation remained unchanged at Kokoda, about halfway across Papua to the allied base at Port Moresby. Allied planes strafed positions held by the Japanese patrols in that sector yesterday, starting numerous fires. Other allied planes raided the Lae-Salamaua area, some 150 miles above Buna, yesterday and hit an enemy cargo ship which the communique said later was beached and was still burning today. A separate headquarters announcement reported that a small British trawler escaped in an attack by a submarine, the first reported enemy submarine activity in this region since mid-June.

Two of the trawler's crewmen were killed and four were injured. The shipping question was brought to the fore today by the Melbourne Sun in' an editorial Army Won't Pay More Than $1 Rent For Fair Grounds LANSING, Aug. 4 (ff) Army officials have informed the State Administrative Board they have no intention of paying more than $1.00 a year rental for the Michigan state fair grounds at Detroit. If the state doesn't wish to do business on that basis, it said, the Army will condemn the grounds and use them anyway. As a result, State Highway Commissioner G.

Donald Kennedy prepared for submission to the board today a new contract which reaffirms the rental of the grounds to the Army for one dollar annually. Kennedy, unsuccessful in attempts to negotiate a higher contract, said the Army refused to be swayed by arguments that the Yellow Truck and Coach Pontiac, had been willing to pay a five-figure rental to the state for the grounds. Kennedy said the contract permits the state to file a'claim for damages after the war and specifies that the Army shall return the grounds and equipment in as good condition as it received them July 1. Referring to criticism'that the grounds are in a mess, Kennedy said "the Army hasn't done a very good job of protecting-the grounds so far, but I think things will be- better after today." Leasing of grounds to the Army is subject to the terms of the state's contract with the Michigan Racing Association, he said. German Ground, Air Forces Push Russians Back On The Entire Southern Front Japs Sending More Troops To The Papuan Peninsula Sub Builder Warns We Have Not Yet Seen Full of U-Boats By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Four more recent ship sinkings were announced by the Navy yesterday amid conflicting declarations came from two quarters on the continued success of Axis submarines in the Western Atlantic.

As the Associated Press tabulation of announced wartime merchant losses for the area rose to 412, Simon Lake, pioneer submarine builder, asserted in Washington in advocating a fleet of undersea freighters, "we have not yet seen the full fury of the (enemy) submarines such as will probably descend upon us in the days to come." He testified before a Senate committee. At Balboa, C. meanwhile, Rear Admiral Clifford Evans Van Hook, commandant of the loth U. S. Naval District, reported that during July the in a 12-day period raiding U-boats picked off 13 victims the month been particularly free of effective enemy attacks.

Admiral Van Hook told newsmen that the increasing freedom from submarine attacks in the Caribbean might be due to the recent extension of the convoy system in those waters and might also be a result of "the urgent need of the Germans and Italians to employ their submarines elsewhere." The four vessels announced yesterday as sunk were a British and a Norwegian merchantman and two small American a tug, the other a trawler. Two men were killed and 40 were saved in the torpedoing of the British ship in the South Atlantic 300 miles from shore May 28. The sub riddled the lifeboats with machine gun fire as the seamen tried to lower them. Thirteen of 24 crewmen aboard the Norwegian perished when their craft was torpedoed in the Gulf of Mexico July 19. The American tug was sunk more than two weeks ago off the east coast, presumably by a mine, with two men missing and 15, including a mess girl, rescued.

The trawler's casualty list included five killed and' seven wounded in a North Atlantic attack in which five other crewmen escaped unscathed as a sub shelled their craft. 2 TOWNS BOMBED LONDON, Aug. 4. English towns were damaged bv bombs in daylight Nazi raids today but a blistering anti-aircraft barrage saved another on the south coast from raiders on a morning sweep across the channel. The daylight attacks ended a night-long halt on both sides.

WILLED BRONX CHEER PORTLAND, Aug. 0. The will of A. C. Forrester, Portland sanitary engineer who died last month, was admitted to probate yesterday.

It included this bequest: "I give and bequeath unto the so-called sanitary engineering profession or professors a good healthy Bronx cheer." which charged "there is abundant evidence that in connection with this important aspect of the war effort a state of affairs exists which would be discreditable even In time of peace." "Delays in dispatching ships, go- slow methods in handling cargo and wholesale pilfering are three evils which call for drastic remedial action," it added. The Sun said this not only was delaying essential supplies but was gravely hampering efforts of the government to secure more ships from United States authorities. THOUSANDS SEE CIRCUS ANIMALS TO DEATH Fire Sweeps Menagerie Tent of Ringling Brothers In Cleveland 50 ANIMALS DESTROYED By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CLEVELAND, Aug. today swept the menagerie tent of the Ringling Brothers circus destroying at least 50 wild and trained animals. Terrified animals were burned alive in their cages before the eyes of 5,000 persons at the circus grounds on Cleveland's lakefront.

Other animals, including an elephant and several giraffes, tore loose from their manacles. Police used riot guns to destroy the giraffes. The crowd watched the catastrophe with helpless fascination. Some of the animals raced at large, aflame. At one point when the fire was- at its-height, an ostrich with plumes-blazing ran from the menagerie tent.

The flames were patted out by circus employees and the bird was captured by trainers. A witness counted 30 carcasses lying amid the embers of the menagerie grounds and 20 others, their pelts charred, lying in their cages. At that time the fire was under control, although straw in the tent still was smoldering. No official estimate of the damage was immediately available, but the loss was believed to amount to tens of thousands of dollars. The blaze apparently started on top of one of the animal cages and spread quickly through the rest of I the menagerie.

AH available squads of police were called to the scene to handle the noon hour crowd of 5,000 persons which was drawn by the heavy smoke and billowing flames. (Turn to-CIRCUS, Page 7) Nazis Claim to Have Reached Kuban River In Caucasus at Several Points By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW, Aug. 4 A great weight of German tanks and reserve troops, actively supported by clouds of dive-bombers, pressed heavily on the entire Russian, southern front today, and a Russian communiquS acknowledged that Red army forces had fallen back to new positions in the Salsfc region 100 miles southeast of Ros- tov after repulsing fierce enemy attacks. Germans claimed they had captured the town of lovsk, 100 miles south of Salsk: and had reached the Kuban River at several points in that Caucasus area. British radio said today that the Russians had blown ilp a dam, flooding the Manych River valley, in order to stem the advance of German armored unfs north of Salsk, In the western Caucasus.

CBS recorded the The Salsk withdrawal came er wild-riding: Cossacks, volunteering to try to stem the German drive, had ridden into the battla in an effort to save their villages. West of Stalingrad, in the Klet- ikaya sector, the stiffening Russian troops threw back several attacks by Italian infantry supported by tanks and killed 2,000 enemy soldiers, the mid-day communique; said. Red Star dispatches told of counter-attacks in that region in which the Germans had been driven from some of their strategic positions and cut off from communications. German Supply oa Cut One scout unit cut in several places the main road over which we Germans were moving munitions and reserves, Red Star said the Kushchevka zpne, the Germans' were reported encountering increased resistance and the communique told how the enemy several times attempted unsuccessfully to force crossings over a river. (Turn to RUSSIANS, Page President Studies Saboteurs' Case WASHINGTON, Aug.

4 President Roosevelt gave over virtually his entire day today to what an aide termed a 'Very careful review" of the findings and sentence of the military commission which tried eight Nazis on charges of entering the United States for sabotage activities. There was no indication that Mr. Roosevelt's decision on the recommendations of the commission would come today, inasmuch as he had a tall stack of documents to go through. To provide ample time for this, he scheduled only a late afternoon press conference, a late meeting with Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information, and an engagement earlier to bestow a Congressional Medal of Honor on Lieutenant John B. Bulkley, the torpedo boat expert who took General Douglas MacArthur and high Filipino officials to Australia.

WARNS AGAINST IDLE DREAMS OF 2ND FRONT BERN, Switzerland. Aug. 4. An unheralded speech by Premier Mussolini to warn against "idle dreams" about a second front was disclosed today. Mussolini flew to Gorizia, in northeastern Italy near the border of Slovenia, July 31 and made one of his famous balcony speeches from the staff headquarters there after conferences with his officers on measures to keep order in the Italian-occupied area of Yugoslavia.

"The law in Italy will be applied in unrelenting manner against those who nourish idle dreams on this or that side of the frontier," dispatches to Switzerland quoted him as declaring: "There will not be a second front here any more than elsewhere in the world. "The Axis and the Tri-partite powers have IB their hands the means for IAX BILL Would Aid Taxpayers to Meet Unexpected Expenses WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 of the new $6,271,000,000 additional revenue bill to permit taxpayers to take $400 credits for the support of children attending college and to make deductions for extraordinary expenses caused by illness was proposed today by Senator Brown (D-Mich). Brown told reporters he believed it was important to help taxpayers meet unexpected outlays. He added he had been convinced for a long time that the $400 exemption for dependents up to 18 years old ought to be extended to cover college years.

"With taxes as high as they are going to be under this biH," Brown said, "we must be extremely careful not to place a great many citizens in a position where they cannot pay their debts and cannot meet unsuual obligations." He said he favored extending to individuals the proposed post-war tax rebate which under present plans would apply only to corporations. Several other members have favored such partial rebates, urged strongly by Mayor F. H. La- Guardia of New York City in an appearance before the committee yesterday. Brown said there had been some discussion of permitting corporations, particularly railroads, to set up a reserve of 2 per cent of their gross revenues to be used after the war to replace, repair and expand equipment which deteriorated under the stress of war time maximum use.

Senator Guffey (D-Pa) said he had received favorable comment on such a proposal and indicated something of the nature might be advanced when the committee considers his proposal to increase to 100 per cent the House-approved 90 per cent tax on excess corporation profits, with a 20 per cent rebate after the war. Guffey said he had asked Treasury officials to furnish the committee with an opinion on his proposed amendment. The Treasury has suggested that the 90 per cent tax be retained, with a 10 per cent post-war rebate. The committee heard proposals yesterday from Laurence' A. Tanzer, representing the 'commerce and industry association of New York City, and others for the imposition of a retail sales tax, but Mrs.

S. H. Gilman of Irvington, N. speaking for the New Jersey Consumers Council, contended that such a levy would have a "pernicious" effect on persons in low income brackets..