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UNITED PRESS International Hhutrated News EVENING TRIBUNE UNION COUNTY'S HOME DAILY WEAffltfc Clondy and probahly tonight and Sunday, Vol. XLIV, No. 20. MARYSVILLE, OHIO, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1941 By Carrier, lOc a Week NAZIS CLAIM CONVOY SUNK IN ATLANTIC Destroyer Kearny Hit by Torpedo Of Iceland BERLIN SAYS TWO BRITISH DESTROYERS AND TEN FREIGHTERS SENT DOWN BY ARMY LAUNCHING SERIES OF COUNTER. ATTACKS IN THE DESPERATE BATTLE FOR THE RUSSIAN CAPITAL By UNITED PRESS Adolf Hitler's armed forces claimed victories in the North Atlantic ami'on the flaming front around Moscow today hut in the Far East it appeared that Japan had delayed action in the Pacific crisis.

A German submarine pnck roaming the North Atlantic inside the so-colled Axis blockade which, includes the waters around Iceland patrolled by American the sinking of two British destroyers and ten merchant vessels of a convoy enroute from America to Great Britain. The submarine attack was made over a period of several days, according to the Germans, and included a "mighty battle" against the destroyers as they entered the TRAIN WRECK SUSPECT HELD 73-YEAR-OLD MAN ARRESTED AT FINDLAY MAY HAVE CAUSED WRECK OF STREAMLINER IN WEST NAVY IS CONDUCTING INTENSIVE SEA HUNT FOR NAZI SUBMARINE Here is the U. S. destroyer Kearny, torpedoed while on patrol duty about 350 miles southwest of Iceland. The under command of Lieutenant A.

L. Danls, was able, to proceed under her own power, after the attack, accord- ing to the navy announcement The picture shows the Kearny at the time it was commissioned a year ago at the Brooklyn navy yard. blockade zone, which might put the action not far from where the U.S.S. Kearny was torpedoed. Berlin insisted, however, that it knew nothing of any American warships' being involved recently in any clashes with U-boats.

Japa Hesitate Whatever Axis pressure was brought on the Japanese failed to force them into any sudden decisions to'strike, either at Russia in the Far East or otherwise to aid the German drive on Moscow'by a move in the South Pacific that Would detract American attention. The new Japanese' Premier Tojo a cabinet of moderate nationalists in which Slgemorl Tojo, former envoy to Moscow, was named foreign minister and a large part of the government of resigned Prince Konoye was retained. Moscow Front Russia, asserting that the Red Army had Orel, 210 miles south of Moscow, in a thrust at the southern prong of the three-pointed German drive on the Soviet capital, admitted today that the situation elsewhere on the front remained serious though its troops were counterattacking at numerous points. All reports indicated that the German drive had been slowed north, west and south of Moscow and that at points the Germans had been driven back by determined counterattacks. Radio broadcasts from Moscow and dispatches of the official news agency Tass agreed that the Russian position was still grave.

They told of innumerable battles steadily increasing in ferocity, in which men fought day and night. Both sides threw in all reinforcements they could mass in men, machines and planes. FINDLAY, Oct. 73- year-old transient, registered as Joe Fair, was held in Hancock County jajl here today as a suspect in the unsolved wreck of the streamliner City'of San, Francisco near Harney, Nevada, on August 12th, 1839. Sheriff Lyle Harvitt said Farr's fingerprints were identical with those found on crowbar at the scene of the wreck, according to a check made by the FBI.

The sheriff edded that stitches in a leg of Farr's trousers were similar to stitches in two jackets found near the scene of the wreck. Railroad police have been unable to gain coherent answers from Farr to their questions. Sheriff Harvitt believes the elderly transient unbalanced mentally. Farr claimed he has never been in Nevada. He was picked up as a vagrant and held after his fingerprints were taken.

CHECK SHIPS ON THE COAST WEEK OF DEBATE PLANNED ON SHIP ARMING MEASURE WHEELER, TAFT AND OTHERS CONCEDE BILL WILL PASS EASILY WHEN VOTE IS FINALLY CAST 920,000 BLAST SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Navy today ordered that henceforth it must approve all commercial sail Ings from San Francisco harbor. Similar orders were understood to have been issued for San Pedro and customs officials "assumed" that all Pacific shipping would be brought under Navy control for the first time since the World War. Officials of the 12th Naval Command would not comment for 'publication but they unofficially confirmed the order. YOUNGSTOWN.

Oct. Dr. S. G. Patton, Mahoning County health comissioncr, yesterday cloved the New Springfield centralized school after Martha Lippy, 10, was reported to have, infantile paralysis.

WELDING OF ARMY TANKS WILL REDUCE WAR HAZARD RIVET FRAGMENTS DRIVEN INTO TANKS CAUSE HEAVY CASUALTIES IN EUROPEAN WAR, ARMY LEARNS Oct. ordnance officials have developed a welded tank to protect crews from flying rivet fragments being driven into the interior of the machine by bursting shells. Whether the tanks being produced at the present time are of this variety is not known, but officials Indicated that soon all tanks will be of the "one'piece" welded pattern. The new tanks were developed following a study of the effect of fire on anned columns during the invasion of France. Nearly all nations armored their tanks by nifcttcs of the rivet method prior to the war, but the Battle of France demonstrated that shells, particularly ''3 MM projectiles, would shear the head from the rivet and then drive the body into the inside of the vehicle with the force of a bullet.

Casualties were heavy among tank personnel. "The were forced through of the tank with a ah'ot-gun loaded like someone epraying the inside with broken one officer said. First problem of ordnance officials wais to design a tank to protect its crew from flying metal without weakening armor protection, A new rivet was desinged that could not be blown into the Inside, but then learned that if armor plate was produced with beveled edges. could be welded together and the tank a one piece affair. The was found to be superior to Ujfuw equipped with special rivets.

Besides giving the lank, greater over-all strength, no pieces of flying can penetrate the interior uiiicaa it pierces the thick armor jjliHe. WASHINGTON, Oct. privately conceding that the bill to arm merchant ships will pass, said today that their floor, fight against house- approved legislation will last only about a wpek. They planned to save their heavier ammunition for an expected amendment to the neutrality act to repeal its ban on entry of American ships in combat zones. The ship arming measure was given a 259 to 138 majority in the house yesterday amid tension reminiscent of World War' days.

Grim supporters and opponents of the upon the 1 torpedoing of the American destroyer Kearny and the uncertainties presented by the Japanese cabinet shakcup to emphasize their arguments for and against the legislation. Senate Democratic Whip Lister Hill of Alabama was confident of passage. He predicted that the Kearny incident and the recent North Atlantic sinkings of American-owned merchant vessels would give proponents a few more votes than they have held in other foreign policy victories. The senate foreign relations committee meets Monday to arrange for hearings on the historic measure. They also are expected to be comparatively brief.

The house vote-on the ship arming bill found the big majority of Republicans still opposed to Mr. Roosevelt's international policy. A total of 113 Republicans voted against it along with 21 Democrats, three Progressives and one Farmer-Laborite. In favor of the measure were 210 Democrats, 39 Republicans and one American Laborite, Rep. Vito Mar- cantonlo of New York.

KELLOGG, Oct. thousand pounds of dynamite exploded in the main powder house of the Sunshine Mining Co. yesterday, causing damage estimated at $20,000. OHIO WPA ROLL TAKES BIG DROP FROM 287,000 PERSONS IN 1938 THE ENROLLMENT IS NOW DOWN TO ABOUT 50,000 200-YEAR SENTENCE COLUMBUS, Oct. terms totaling 63 to 200 years were imposed yesterday on Eddie Turner 31, who pleaded guilty to assaulting and robbing five Columbus women.

GOING TO SHELBY COLUMBUS, Oct. ing by train Sunday Gov. John Bricker and Adjt. Gen. Whittiur Bird will inspect Ohio's 37th Divi sion at Camp Shelby, Miss.

They will return to Cincinnati next Friday. COLUMBUS, Oct. a seemingly inexhaustible reservoir of labor supply for Ohio farms and industry, the WPA rolls today are a mere shadow of their former selves. From a peak enrollment of 287,000 persons in September, 1938. the Works Project Administration is down to 60,000 which WPA officials call "rock bottoms" This irreducible minimum is made up of three those to old to work and women.

"The president said there should be no discrimination in defense work because o'f race or color," Dr. Carl Watson, state administrator, said! "But we can't force employers LOUIS IS 1-A CHICAGO, Oct. weigh champion Joe Louis, who was ex amined earlier this week by draf board physicians, was placed ir class 1-A, subject to immediate mill tary service. LAKE SEASON NEAR RECORD NAVY DEPARTMENT STILL AWAITING FULL DETAILS OF ATTACK ON DE- STROYER KEARNY Screen Beauties in JNews WASHINGTON. Oct.

U. S. navy today-was cn- ged in a gigantic air and sea lunt for the submarine which orpedoed and damaged the new 1 destroyer while it was on patrol 0 miles southwest of Iceland, While military secrecy surrounded the operations to avenge the first American warship casualty the current war, the navy awaited a further report from the fCearny to clear up details of the encounter. The crippled destroyer was limping to an undisclosed port, perhaps in Iceland. There was only a terse announcement from the navy yesterday that the ship had been torpedoed and damaged, apparently without casualties among her 13 officers and 177 men.

How the injuries were suffered, their extent, whether the de- stoycr attempted to sink the U-boat with her battery of five-inch guns and depth charges, and other pertinent details were still a deep mystery of the sea. Radio Silent Officials were confident, however, that Lieut. Comdr. A. L.

Danis, 42-1 year-old skipper of the Injured stroyer, would forward all details! of the episode as qulcKly as possible. They assumed that he had or- "dered the radio silenced until he I i ORE MOVEMENT ON GREA LAKES FREIGHTERS MAY PASS RECORD TONNAGE SET IN 1929. BUFFALO, N. Y. Oct.

only a few more weeks of goo navigating, weather remainlni Great Lakes ship operators antic pate a banner finish to one of th most successful seasons in the past decade. Shippers are convinced that -before inland shipping lanes become Ice-locked, the American fleet will have carried sufficient bulk freight to side scores of industries over the winter months. Schedules have been arranged to make the most out of vessel operations and to move enough material as ore, coal, stone and other satisfy the needs of the national defense program. Every available ship on the Great Lakes has been pressed into service and wlil continue in operation until insurance rates or cold could reach port safely to prevent a possible second attack. Observers believed, however, that 'the navy, smarting under the episode, was doing everything possible to capture or destroy the unknown submarine, presumably German, under President Roosevelt's recent edict to "shoot on sight" any Axis marauders entering our defensive areas.

They speculated that the damage to the Kearny, which was put into service last year, must have been comparatively slight if she were able to proceed to safety under her own power and had not suffered casualties. They noted that the 34- foot long craft carried a complement of 190 officers and enlisted men, a large number for such a small ship. Thus, they reasoned, a torpedo hit must have been "lucky" if there were no deaths or injuries. Madeleine Carroll Romance of Madeleine Carroll, screen actress, and a French bomber ferry pilot flying planes from Canada across the North Atlantic, has been disclosed. Miss Carroll frequently makes trips' to Montreal to see the pilot, Count de la Roziere, who had served as a flyer in the French Air Force before it was Ann Sheridan destroyed by the Nazis.

Miss Carroll brought divorce proceedings against her first husband. Captain Philip A'stley. in 1939. The other actress pictured, Ann Sheridan, has been invited by both Harvard and Princeton to attend football games and to be honorary editor of the undergraduate newspapers. to hire negroes'or persons of other weather forces a shutdown of mine races if they don't want to," he added, explaining the present high proportion of negroes on the rolls.

Negroes make up almost 25 per cent of the WPA rolls, and in some metropolitan areas the proportion is as high as 45 per' cent. This is because white workers have gone back into private industry, leaving (Continued on page 2) activities and. other operations. "A remarkable job has been done on the Great Lakes this season," one operator said. "There is a possibility that the ore movement of 1929 may be beaten by 15,000,000 tons." From the opening of navigation until Oct.

1 more than 60,000,000 (Continued on page 2) Curse Of Indian Chief Failed To Affect Child WASHINGTON. Oct. f. McAfee, 63, assistant to the president of International Harvester Co. ia charge of all that concerns nations! defense work, dit-d yesterday.

CONWAY, N. Oct. When 5-year-old Pamela Hollingworth was found alive on Mt. Chocorua recently after being lost for eight days, it marked a happy chapter in the history of a rugged peak best known as the scene of one of the earliest mass murders in America. A favorite region for hikers and picnickers, the White Mountain peak was named for Chief Chocorua, leader of the Sokokis tribe of Indians whose habitat was on the upper reaches of the River.

Chocorua was defeated by John Lovewell and a group of settlers at the battle of Pequavvket in 1725 but later became friendly with the white invaders and en- trusted his motherless son to one Cornelius Campbell while away on an expedition. During Chocorua's absence, the tiny brave died from drinking fox poison that Campbell had left uncovered in a rude log shed. On return the greif-stricken chief refused to believe his son's death was an accident and during Campbell's absence at work, Chocorua slew all seven members of the white man's family. Frenzied by the tragedy, Campbell pursued the Indian to the mountain top and shot him. Chocorua plunged from a precipice to a rock-filled gully but before dying raised himself on.

one arm and shouted: "Chocorua goes to the Great (Cuntumed on page 2) BUYING COURSE BEING OFFERED ILLINOIS COLLEGE HAS COURSE DESIGNED TO TEACH CONSUMERS HOW TO GET FULL VALUE STRONG UNITED STATES STAND IS HAVING EFFECT ON JAPAN JAP GOVERNMENT HAS INDICATED DESIBE TO CONTINUE THE "PEACE TALKS" AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Oct. I the new Tokyo government prove to be highly nationalistic. Japan's desire to keep the conversations open was conveyed to Secretary of State Cordell Hull last night by Kaname Walasugi, minister-counselor of the Japanese embassy here, Wakasugi conferred with Welles for Japanese government has commu- an hour and a haW tnen paid an un nlcated to the United States a desire scheduled call on Hull. to continue "peace talks" despite! The new overtures came from Japan's political upheaval, it was learned today. The Japanese acted to ease tension in the Pacific after world reaction had coupled collapse of the Konoye interim officials in Tokyo pending assumption of power by the new cabinet.

They were advanced with the full knowledge of Tojo. The rapid-fire developments in Tokyo preceding formation of the cabinet with possibility of. a new new cabinet had brought congres- thrust by Japanese armed forces, sional denunciation of Japan and an The overtures were received with order for a few Amercian vessels, some skepticism but make-up of the presumably in waters, to new Tokyo government led observ- proceed to Mendly once ers here to a more optimistic view. "for instructions regarding their BELLEVILLE. 111..

Oct. course designed enable every consumer to fight his way through rising prices caused by the national defense program and still save money has been announced by Le Clerc College. The course is offered in nigh school and is open to men anc women for both practical value as well as college credits. Directed by Prof. Charles Wuller of Le Clere College and St.

Louis. University, it will follow advices ol the federal government in how to purchase. It will cover the intricacies of the new national defense taxes and detailed operation of 12 federal housirtg agencies. Students will be instructed in how to get the most for their money in virtually every type of consumers goods and will be shown the variety of government bulletins cove-ring nearly every subject of interest to consumers. "During the current national defense program there is a greater need for consumer education than ever before," Prof.

Wuller said. "I want to keep the course as flexible as poisible. I want to get the opinions of the people in the class, find out what they want to and plan course for their needs." Officials declined comment on the new Japanese cabinet headed by Lieut. Gen. Hideki Tojo pending clarification of its policies.

This country has not closed the door to continuation of the "peace talks" voyages. It was conceded that the "peace talks" would collapse immediately should evidence develop of collaboration between Japan and Germany to jockey the United States but it is realized that they would' into sumultaneous crises in the Pa- have no chance of success and the Atlantic. UNITED STATES MINT SPEED-UP FAILS TO MEET COIN DEMANDS OUTPUT OF COINS AT DENVER MINT REACHES ALL-TIME HIGH AS SPENDING INCREASES DENVER, Oct operating at a near record rate, the Denver brunch of the U. S. Mint is installing new coin presses to make money faster to keep up with an unprecedented national demand.

"We're making lots of money these days but we're closing our book at each month's end just as 'broke' as ever because the coins quickly as we turn them out," said flow on to a fast-tpending public as Mark A. Skinner, mint superintendent. In bigjieut Scp- I tember in the Denver mint's history big plant turned out 21,550,000 coins, from pennies through quar- i ters. It operated 24 hours a day and i the coin presses are scheduled to, i keep busy around the clock for many months to come. I Four new coin presses, soon to be installed, will increase the mini's i production capacity 662.3 per cent.

will be on the job with the present money-making machines by Nov. 15. Other departments Ao are step- ping production. The rolling i room has been operating on a 16- i hour-a-day basis. It is scheduled for i a 24-hour ihifl.

The annealing I room, now on an iContiiiuea ou page 2).