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Centenary Washington 13 Vanderbilt 46; Princeton 7 Fordham 28; Tex. Christian 14 Texas 40; Rice 0 L. S. U. 10; Florida 7 Mississippi 20; Tulane 13 Alabama 27; Georgia 14 Texas Aggies 48; Bayior 0 Minnesota Michigan 0 Oklahoma 16; Santa Clara 6 1 (Other Scores on Page Twenty-Three) I TO CALL THE TIMES From 8:30 a.m.

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Gentle to moderate easterly winds on the coast. Arkansas Partly cloudy In east, considerable cloudiness In west, showers in northwest portions. East Texas Considerable cloudiness, scattered showers In west portions Sunday and Monday. VOL. LXIX NO.

148 SHREVEPORT. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26. 1941 PRICE TEN CENTS PER COPY Ml CT3 UYJ It's 'Everybody 's Day 1 CENTENARY IS Lewis Rejects FDR Request; Orders Miners to Stop Work SENATE BODY VOTES LIFTING OF WAR ZONES MOSCOW IS ENDANGERED FROM WEST At State Fair Vli uvvaw A ms ax a DEFENDS MOSCOW Afternoon, Night Grandstand Programs on Schedule; Youth Symphony Concert Opens Evening Program 'Bachelor' Girl Weds Scores Defense Mediation Board, Criticizes OPM's Sidney Hillman APPROVES REMOVAL OF SEA RESTRICTIONS GENTS' SHOWING BEST OF SEASON SUPREME TEST IS FAST DEVELOPING The 1941 Louisiana State Fair one of the biggest and best in the 36-year history of the event rounded out its n-Movie Agent first week yesterday, probably cheated out of an all-time Former Beaumont Athlete Reinforced Germans Also Washington, Oct 25 (U Monday Set for Beginning of Debate on Amended Armed Ships Act attendance record only by the steady hot weather which dis couraped many mid-week crowds. President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers late Carries the Burden for Washington Hurl Massed Drives at Crimea, Rostov Today Is Everybody's Day on the Fair calendar and some SO.

000 "everybodies" from a 100-mlle radius of shreveport are expected to show By JOE R. CARTER Sports Editor, The Shreveport Times Wilson "Bud" Schwenk, a former Today at the Fair Sunday, Oct. 2fi Pay, All-Arkansas Pay, Everybody' Day, Lynch Thrill Pay. 2 p. m.

Lynch Thrill Show, grandstand track. p. m. Final performance of Night Grandstand show, "Mate Fair Revue of 1911" with ripening concert by Shreveport Youth Symphony orchestra. up for a Sunday look at the best line-up of exhibits ever shown here and a ride on the Gladway's thrillers.

The Shreveport Youth Symphony orchestra, conducted by Eugene be featured today In a concert at 7:30 p.m. before the opening of the final performance of the grandstand revue, "State Fair Revue of 1941." Jane Ann Gleason, soprano, will be soloist with the orchestra. The 1941 attendance will come very close to last year's record figures, today rejected President Roosevelt's that work not cease in the steel industry's captive coal mines and ordered the 53,000 workers to stop operations at midnight. Bitterly criticizing the defense mediation board, which had gained a five-week postponement of the threatened strike, as "casual and lackadaisical to the point of indifference," Lewis made his Intentions known at a press conference less than eight hours from the walk-out deadline. "There'll be no production of coal on Monday In the captive mines," Washington, Oct.

55 (IP). By a vote of 13 to 10 the senate foreign relations committee approved legislation today permitting American merchant ships to carry arms and allowing them to sail to any port In the world. The momentous bill, a substitute for the house-approved measure limited to ship arming, was accepted after the committee had voted 12 to 11 to take It In lieu of similar legislation proposed by Senators Pepper Lee and Green Senator White (R. -Maine), who voted with the opposition on the first tally, Joined the administration majority on the final ballot. Dcmocrftic Leader Barkley, who the 1941 Fair was on Its way to a new record of more than 325.000.

But heat, averaging for the Oct. fc 1 i Beaumont, Texas, high school athlete, who came here with the Washington university Bears, heralded as a brilliant passer" and one of the finest broken field gridiron runners In the nation, did not let the fans down Saturday afternoon at the Louisiana State Fair. Staging practically a one-man show on the offense, the hard-running 196-pound let halfback who triples In passing, punting and running, beat the Centenary college Gents In the best performance the local color bearers have waged here this season. The final score In favor of the Bears was 13 to 7, and the brilliant work of Schwenk was written into both touchdowns for the Invaders. Schwenk produced one of the most thrilling runs ever staged on local gridiron when he darted through almost the entire Centenary team for Fair association officials thought last 18-25 period 11 degrees above the night.

The first three days sent the normal for that time, stepped In. attendance figures over 105,000 and (Cnnlinnrrf On Kuibyshev, Russia, Oct. 25 7P). German armies reinforced by troops from th Leningrad front are hurling mass assaults against Soviet forces in revitalized offensives at the western approaches to Moscow, into the Crimea, and toward Rostov on the road to the Caucasus, Russian frontline dispatches said tonight. A supreme test, Moscow's defender admitted, was rapidly developing in the 23-day-old Nazi offensive la which the Russians say Adolf Hitler has lost 300,000 men.

Six successive attackj by the German 129th motorized division upon the Soviet left flank In the Mozhaisk sector, 57 miles west of the capital, were declared repulsed In three days. Here a howling wind shrouded th fallen with drifted snow. In the Maloyaroslavets sector, 63 miles southwest of Moscow, the Ger mans were reported thwarted In at tempts to cross the Oka river. A second mighty Nazi offensive la underway irj the Crimea, where Rus sian accounts sTTM the' first was best-en off with 5,000 German and Rumanian dead. Despite these losses, it was admitted the Germans had mada new gains at the approaches of th a Lawrence Gets Life Term For Assault on Girl, 11 ROSALIND KI SSEI.L Pefense of Moscow against the hammering German armies lias been taken from the hands of Marshal Semyon Tlmosbenko and placed in charge of Gen.

(irigorl K. Zhukov. No reason was given for Tlmoshenko's removal as commander of the central army, hut the newspaper I'ravda commented that Zhukov "has no truce of hoastful-ness or ostentation." sponsored the proposal, set Monday for the start of senate debate. He paid that "It Is hard to guess how long' would take to get action. Senator Nye an administration opponent, said there would PEFENSE THREATENED New York, Oct.

(UP) The National Association of Manufactures said tonight that In the event of a prolonged stoppage of captive mine coal production "the whole defense program must collapse." lit a memorandum on the shutdown announced today, the NAM said the nation's steeel companies, which nw nthe mines, bad at the most enough coal on hand to operate for only 3n days. 82 yards and a touchdown In the Caddo Parish JurV Finds third period after intercepting a for Stroller VICHY MOVES Man Guilty After Hour and Half be additional speech making be- cause the committee approved repeal of the neutrality act's provision for- I bidding American merchantmen from I entering belligerent ports or designated combat areas. Nye and 'Senator Vandenberg (R-! Mich another administration foe, i ta'ld there was no Intention to filibuster, but Nye added that "this Is i ward pass. It was the ftrst score ol the battle and set off a spark that resulted In another touchdown the first time the Bears got possession of the ball after the next ktckoff. Al Llndow.

a red-headed 21-vcar-old TO SUPPRESS NAZI SLAYINGS Vernon Lawrence, 26-year-! senior halfback, who is a pre-mdicai old Shreveport baker. caunt the Plrit of tne oc' i j. i i casion and on the second play after night was found guilty of stat- the Gpnts nad been hcW fp0nowns Utory assault On an 11-year- on their own 35-yard line, he broke Lewis told the newspapermen who gathered at his office. He said that he had made this de cision known to the president in a yl-l 7 mvtl K.r 1 A 1 r. on nr, a OR.wnrH fiitl On tho noVt.

(Continued lln Pure Twenty-Fire) EDEN URGES CONFIDENCE IN nnvlck JiVtr.M i (Continued (In Pane Twenty-one) i I 1TSSCS (rfmiaH WlllCialS Solvang, Oct. 25 (TP). Rosalind Russell, Hollywood's bachelor girl actress, today married Fred Brlsson. actors' agent, at the old mission Santa Ynez In this Danish community. 30 miles north of Santa Barbara.

The ceremony was performed at 3 p.m., In the ancient mission chapel by Father Ftnian Carroll, padre of the mission. A few close friends witnessed the ceremony. Miss Russell was dressed In a white crepe Danish wedding gown with a brightly colored peasant apron and the traditional Danish head dress. Brlsson wore a dark business suit. Cary Grant was best man and Charlotte Wynter, Hollywood actress, W8.1 maid of honor.

The couple will drive to Florida and then continue to Cuba for their honeymoon. Witnessing the ceremony were Mrs. James E. Russell, the brlde a mother, her sister, Helen, and brother. James, and Mr.

and Mrs. Carl Brlsson, parents of the groom. Other Hollywood notables present Included: Mr. and Mrs. William Powell; Myrna Loy and her husband, Arthur Hornblow; Barbara Hutton; Richard Barthel-mcss; Mr.

and Mrs. Nigel Bruce, and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Lewis. to Halt Executions But the Jury's verdict stipulated A nlftf guilty without capital IV If I II A If III I ft vJia.AJue' m.

of Hostages Coast-to-Coast Taxi Seven soldiers on leave from Camp Hulen, Texas, made a trip to Middleboro, by taxi They made the trip up there with THOMAS J. "RED" MAHAFFEY In two days RED and the boys started back last woek while bands played and Legion and town officials waved fond farewell RED came back with tales of Bunker Hill, clam chowder and frozen pudding In addition to $262.50, since he collected a flat rate of 137.50 each from the Camp Hulen soldiers Whatever he has learned from his passengers of army life may serve RED well because he expects to be drafted shortly. which means that Lawrence will receive a life sentence for his attack GOVERNMENT isthmus. (The early Sunday morning Soviet communique, broadcast by the Mos-. cow radio, said Soviet forces battled the Germans all day Saturday west and southwest of Moscow and in th (Continnrd On Pace Six) STATEAGAIN ASKS ACTION AT DIP CTTTT (Continued lln Puce Twenty-Kite) DUCE PURGES HIGH-RANKING GUILD HEADS Vichy, Unoccupied France, Oct.

25 on the girl, which allegedly occurred last June 7 In an auto near Cross lake. PLANE IS FOUND ON MOUNTAIN (P). The Petaln government adopted Iron-ftsted measures of its own to Dissatisfaction With War Policy Brings Concerted Plea suppress attacks on German occupying forces today and announced It was pressing Nazi authorities to stop A verdict was reached at 7:01 p.m., after the Jury had deliberated an hour and 30 minutes. Trial of the case had required two full days In the court of District Judge J. of Stephens.

Sentence will be given 19 of 22 Directors of Italian Economy Are Eliminated Pilot Killed in One Four Fighters Lost Since Friday London, Oct. 25 (P). Mounting dissatisfaction with the failure of the! the execution of Innocent hostages in reprisal. The new law passed by the cabinet provided for severe punishment for eyewitnesses, accomplices or others who have Information of acts of terrorism against the German authorities but who fail to make tlilr information known to officials. Churchill government to establish a Shushan's Name Dropped in New Request to Supreme Court diversion front In the west and with ether efforts to assist Britain's em i Rome, Oct.

25 (IP). Premier Mus solini cleaned house In his elaborate Fascist guilds organization today, (By Inlted Tress) The wreckage of an army plane with Its pilot dead was found on Grays mountain near Yosemlte park today as land and air searchers con HITLER, CIANO A communique said it hai been decided "to strengthen considerably the measures of precaution and re- Unusual Blossom MR. and MRS. L. T.

BAKER, 730 College street, have an angel's trumpet blossom they can be proud of It's very unusual One of the Freshman Hi-Y clubs at Fair Park high recently adopted, by acclamation, "VICTORY" as Its chapter name We're glad to hear that MRS. L. B. CHEATWOOD will be able to go home from the hospital after undergoing an operation. She won't be to receive visitors for a week, however Friday.

After eight witnesses had testified in the trial yesterday, including the defendant himself, Judge J. H. Stephens charged the Jury at 5 p.m., explaining to them that they could return one of verdicts: Guilty as charged, the penalty being guilty without capital punishment life Imprisonment; guilty of assault with Intent to commit rape imprisonment not to exceed 20 years; guilty of assault and battery fine from $10 to $100 and confinement In the parish prison for not less than 10 days or more than three months; guilty of assault de Washington, Oct. 25 (Jp). Drop, ping Abraham L.

Shushan, one-tim against criminal attacks ducted "a widespread hunt for four i pression DISCUSS WAR battled ally, Russia, brought concerted pleas for public confidence from two high cabinet spokesmen today. The most personable member of the British cabinet, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, and A. V. Alexander, first lord of the highly esteemed British admiralty, took the government's case directly to the public in addresses at Manchester and Kettering, aimed at the occupation troops and for which the French population if dropping or shifting 19 of the 22 high-ranking men who direct all phaes of Italian economic life. It was the most sweeping shake-up he has made In years and as drastic as the two previous wartime shake-ups in which he changed the highest ranking commanders In his armed forces and rebuilt his cabi- suffering the consequences." As the cabinet acted, the fate of 100 hostages at Nantes and Bordeaux additional single-seater P-40 fighters missing since noon Friday, Searchers led by Ranger Wes Spen-ney reached the wreckage In the high Sierra Nevada east of Fresno.

Spenney said the plane appeared to have nose-dived into the side of net. nnrl Fnsntet. nofv Fuehrer, Italian Foreign Minister Confer on German Front threatened with execution by firing! only tne heads of the hotels Fin Foil Cluh- squads if the French people fail to I the mountain. Army authorities or-'dered the body, tentatively Identi tention In parish Jail for one month, and not guilty. Judge Stephens told the Jury that irontlniifit lln Pntr Sit) while Prime Minister Churchill him-I scjf some weight to his govern-1 ment's counterattack by Joining I President Roosevelt in a denunciation of Nazi reprisal executions In Ger-1 man-occupied territories.

lieutenant of Huey Long, from th list of defendants, Louisiana renewed a request today for supreme court permission to institute proceedings against two corporations and two In. divlduals of New York in an effort to recover more than 1 1.000,000. The state seeks to file Its complaint directly before the suprem court. It asks the $1,000,000 on account of alleged fraud and bribery In connection with the construction of a New Orleans airport. Permission to file the complaint with Shushan among the defendants was denied by the high tribunal laat Monday.

The court said the petition was "denied for want of Jurisdiction, it appearing that one of the named parties defendant Is a citizen of Louisiana." VEE VEE M'CRACKEN. 14, Lou-ann. Ark, and DOROTHY MURPHY, 14, Cotton Valley, brought STROLLER about 35 pounds of tin fied as that of William Birelli, 22, removed to Fresno. (The army listed the missing aviators as Jack C. West, Leonard C.

Lyndon, W. H. Birrell and R. N. Long.

It apprehend and turn over to German custody the assassins of Liput. Col. Paul Friedrich Hotz, Nazi commandant at Nantes, and a German military councillor at Bordeaux. Already 100 French hostages had been executed for the two assassina-(Cnntinnrd On I'nitp Kliht-A) Eden, who Is said to have more I ion tin foil donors are YOUTHS ESCAPE NAZI SFTIIIF5 Berlin, Oct. 25 (IP).

Adolf Hitler conferred with Count Galeae Ciano, Italian foreign minister, for two hours today at the German front headquarters In a meeting officially described ai occurring "In the spirit of their two countrys' proven was tne WiiHam Birelli' friends and fewer enemies than any-j LINDA LOU TRUSTY, daughter of one else In the government, took ad-j MR. and MRS. J. W. TRUSTY, vantage of a Manchester mass meet-! Haynesville, who was a year old Ing to defend the policy of prosecut-i Oct.

12. JAMES theatres and glass guilds all of secondary Importance In wartime went unchanged. Although reasons for changes were not announced, observers thought II Duce acted to Improve the efficiency of his economic machine and to remove causes for grumbling by the people. Mussolini himself Is president of each of the guilds but leaves most of the work to vice-presidents and councillors, the latter chosen from the Fascist party and their respec-(Continned On Pme Tnntr-KUp) ing the war as a "long term business" STELLA, JR of Fort sent without attempting "any sudden, tin foil to the STROLLER Tues-j day. JAP PAPERS ATTACK KNOX brilliant.

Improvisation." He said he could not say when Although no official statement of i In the petition presented today, James J. Morrison, special assistant attorney general, moved to dismiss MR. and MRS. A. W.

COUVIL-! LION, 1H22 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, add about 10 pounds of tin the purpose of the conference wai Britain would strike or even "that! we will strike," and added: "The government, indeed, have but one purpose, which is your and WITH BOAT 1 identification may have been Bir- Irell.) London. Oct. 25 (IP). Two Dutch Nineteen planes were in the orlgi-youths who patiently assembled their nRl mass formation flight. The flight tiny sailboat piece by piece at night originated from the 57th pursuit for three months under the rifles' BrouP Bt Windsor Locks.

and of German sentries on the Dutch wa" destined eventually for McChord coast have reached England, an ac-, Field, Tacoma, Wash, count by the official Dutch newsj MaJ. William F. Kyle of the Fresno agency said today. (i nntlnnfl lii pKe sui The cross channel voyage required 1 64 hours, during the last of which LA GUAR I) I A RECEIVED the two youths had to row when r.0,f 'i-i'r a post-storm calm made their I'llLM! IllUnn "'German patrol planes sometimes! KOLPS, IS CHARGE One Killed When Police li rire Into Indian Mo I) (Continued On l'e Tentj-Flt) foil recent tin foil donors are BOBBIE BARLING. 744 Kirby place, who Is two years and MISS MARTHA RAD AD.

3801 Washington street, Vlcksburg, Miss. Nipponese Diet Nov. to Study Relations With U. S. the name of Shushan from the complaint and requested a rehearing of last Monday's action as applied ta the other defendants.

Attorney General Eugene Stanlej of Louisiana presented the first petl (Continued On Vmtr Twentr-Fire) Two Mexicans Killed in Train-Truck Crash' U. S. Consul Protests Jap Slapping of Nun made, observers say the reference to comradeship in arms would seem to Indicate that the military situation provided the main motive of the talk. Joachim Von Ribbentrop. German foreign minister, also participated In the conversation.

This was the Italian foreign minister's first visit to the German eastern front. He did not make the trip with Premier Mussolini two months ago when the duce spent four days with Hitler. flew as low as 20 feet above thr Dacca, India, Oct. 25 (IP). One perron was killed and two were injured when police fired on a mob which attacked them today In an area where a communal clash occurred Thursday.

A total of four have been killed and 170 Injured In recent disturbances. More than 100 have been KTattr Vnrl Ant Oft r- iinnnn Rt'AF FLIERS KILLED Tupper Lake, N. Oct. 25 p). Three Royal Canadian air force fliers were killed today when their twin-engined bomber crashed in a bog at Tokyo, Oct.

25 (IP). The Japan Times and Advertiser, organ of the foreign office, declared tonight that United States Japanese relations small craft but failed to spot 1 that thrpe ndepondent croups have two youths, the account sa d. Dur- contributed $180,000 toward the rc- mg the storm they became so sea -I h. t.JPlPcUn Mayor F. H.

La Guardia probably would be the chief concern of an extraordinary session of the diet Peiping, Oct 25 IP). The United States embassy announced today that the consul at Tsingtalo had protested to Japanese authorities over the slapping of Anna Soehnlein, a Catholic nun from Milwaukee known as Sister WTurlbla. She was said to have been struck by a Japanese In civilian attire while walking along a street. was given today at an Inquiry Into the foot of Big Tupper lake in thepaulln and their fate to the wind and waves. Adirondack mountains.

Laredo, Texas, Oct. 25 (IP). Tw Mexican laborers were killed and four others injured today when a National Lines fretght train struck a truck near Sanchez, Mexico. Two injured were taken to Sanchez. ductals of Nuevo Laredo 'Ghastly Warning, 9 F.D.R.

Calls Nazi Executions Denounces Deaths of French Hostages as Example to Those "Who Would Collaborate With Hitler" charges made by O'Dwyer. Democratic mayoral candidate, that La Guardia's campaign was costing more than $1,000,000 At the opening of fie hearing ordered by La Guardia -Robert Daru. representing O'Dwyer's campaign committee, said O'Dwyer, Brooklyn's district attorney, lacked specific proof when he made the charge. He said it was "not charge in the usual sense." "You mean," demanded Arthur A. Ballrntine, representing La Guardia groups, "it was a shot in the dark?" Daru said It was up to the mayor called for Nov 15, The newspaper said foreign observers believed the discussion would center on whether to continue negotiations toward an understanding with the United States, or to break off the talks.

Domet said a "critical moment in Japan's foreign diplomacy' had arrived. The news agency added that the forthcoming parliamentary session probably would deal also with Japan's relations with Germany and Soviet Russia. Throughout the day the Japanese United Community Drive Opens at Meeting Monday Volunteer Leaders, Captains and Workers Will Hear Dr. Cline at 6:15 p. in.

Dinner Rally WEATHER Five Days More For First-of-the-Month Want Ad Action! PROPIRTV OWNERS only DAYS MORE to get your want ad in for the BIU rental and buying crowds who want to act Washington. Oct. 25 (IP). Presi and his backers to prove or disprove the charge. dent Roosevelt denounced today the German execution of hostages In Europe and said that the practice ments of horror and condemnation expressed by the president of the United Statea." Mr Roosevelt's statement said that "the practice of executing scores should be a "ghastly warning" to those who would collaborate with Hitler.

of innocent hostages In reprisal for At. London, Prime Minister TEMPERATl RES YESTtRVY a.m ii. Noon 6:30 p.m -'form 4 Minimum Rainfall 24 hours ending at 6:30 p.m 0 Inches Barometer p.m.) ...29.39 Sunset today 5:32 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:27 a.m. YEAR AGO YESTERDAY Maximum temperature R3 Minimum temperature 61 Highest on record for this date 00 lHest on record for this date 39 440 captains, representing various business firms and groups.

All classified section captains, their workers and teams, have been invited to attend the meeting, according to L. B. Jennings, general chairman of the campaign. Charles Evans, classified section chairmrn, has announced that final essential Information will be given the workers and solicitation carda be distributed at the meeting. A.

E. Haynes, secretary of the Central Trades and Labor Council which (Continued On Two) Active campaign drive of the United Community Organization will be launched at 6:15 p.m. Monday at a dinner meeting In the Washtngton-Youree hotel when volunteer leaders, captains and workers will hear a keynote address given by Dr. Pierce Cline. president of Centenary college.

Reservations already received indicate that the large classified section committee will be represented by hundreds of Its workers. This committee, which will contact all business places and educational institutions of the city, already has enlisted press fired back at an assertion by Frank Knox. United Stiles secretary of the navy, that a collision with Japan is Inevitable unless she abandons her "plans for expansion." An editorial In Hochl said "Knox Is trying to bluff Japan" and added that Japan would not be swemd from her policies. A commentator In Hochl urged Japan to open talks with Geimany and Italy aimed at establishment of the projected new order instead of continuing negotiations with the United States. by the HHT uon I oe ijiwi Sundav Want Ad Hours: 10 AM.

to 12 Noon and 5 P.M. to 7 Place your ad today for Monday Insertion. Only 2rtc a day on ths 7-Day "Economy Plan." Phone 6811 or 3-7151 Police Search for Girl Friend's Boy Friend Dallas. Texas, Oct. 25 (Pi One point in a love triangle today told police tnat his girl friend had returned his borrowed car with an old tire substituted for a new one.

She admitted lending the the car to another boy friend. Officers started looltlng for him. Isolated attacks on Germans In countries temporarily under the Nazi heel revolts a world already Inured to suffering and Drutallty." Even the Nazis, he declared, never before approached such "depths of rightfulness" and he added: "These are the acts of desperate (Continued On To) Churchill issued a companion statement, condemning the "butcheries in France" and asserting that "retribution for these crimes must henceforth take Its place among the major purposes of the war." Churchill said the British government associated Itself "fully with the senti.