The Delta Democrat-Times from Greenville, Mississippi • Page 1

THE DELTA DEMOCRAT TIMES kmum Ttanwmvni Minimum fg Nalnfill fttvtr Otuit, 6 Unttit UN 1M ertinvmt Ctoutfy cwlw toniiht; Ttmtfu cooler. GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1941 NUMBER 44 Twelve Killed As Tornado Sweeps TWO HUNDRED HURT IS TWISTER STRIKES VIUAGE LAST NIGHT Storm Blasts Residential Section, Leaving Many Homeless HAMBURG, Oct. 27 (AP) At least 12 persons were killed. some 200 injured and many left homeless- by a tornado which swept through this small southeast Arkansas county seat shortly before midnight. Rescue workers, hasnpered by rain and power failure, labored in darkness through ths, night searching for dead and missing.

Doctors converted a hotel into an emergency furnishing beds for 25 seriously hurt and giving first aid to scores with minor- injuries. victims were taken to hosoitals at nearby Monticello and Crossett. These Known Dead The known dead were: Shelby Jordan, 25: Mrs. Jordan, 23; and their son, Shelby, jr 5. Ulius Walker, 46; Mrs.

Walker. 40. and their son. Clavton. 21.

Mrs. Charles Kelly. 65; Mrs. Tom Collins. 50; Travis Sawyer.

26. and his three-year-old son; Mrs. Vester Austin, 40. A Negro man named Robinson, 30. Assisting in the rescue work were between 30 and 40 Camp Livingston soldiers who were en route to Louisiana after furloughs and whose chartered- bus passed through Hamburg shgrtly after the storm.

The soldiers ordered the bus to stop and took over police duties. Wrecks Gas Tanks Their first act was to throw police lines around a section of the town where the tornado had wrecked three goSoliRe stor- pse tsnks at an oil comnanv's bulk station, cascading gasoline into the streets and over the wreckage of frame buildings. Fears was ex- pressed tlfst a carelessly dropped match or lighted cigaret would add the danger of fire to the storm hawrds. The tornado missed the business section of the town by a few blocks, dealing its full blast at r.e?- idential sections in which residents, for the most part; had retired for the night. Marty citizens spent hours until morning clad only in their night clothes, unable to find their belongings in the confusion.

A Negro district was particularly hard hit. The twister struck here some six hours after another storm roared along the Arkansas river valley near Dardanelle, in north- central Arkansas, killing at least five persons and injuring 15 or more. Tornado Takes Toll At Dardanelle LITTLE HOCK. Oct. 27 (AF) Tornadoes struck two widelj- separated rural sections of Arkansas, last night, leaving least 17 known dead, scores injured and many homeless.

A twister swept into the little Southeastern Arkansas town of Hamburg shortly before midnight, killing at least 12 persons and injuring several score. SoSne six hours earlier another tornado roared alnne the Arkansas river valley near Dardanslle in north- central Arksns-as. killing five and injuring at least 15. Those dead in the Dardnn- elle section were Mrs. Bill Price and her daughter, Mrs.

Otis Heartcoat of Bethel, Mrs. Alfred McDonald of Oak-E- Doak, and Minnie Bruton and her two-months-old daughter of Dardanelle. Dardanelle, a county seat of nopulatian, received heavy property damage, particularly in th-a residential section where several homes were demolished. All communication lines went down In the Dardanelle area and two medical units of the 134th infantry were sent from Camp Robinson, near Little Rock, to assist in caring for victims. FREAK CYCLONE HITS MANSFIELD Twelve Hurt, Two Believed Fatally, In Louisiana Town MANSFIELD, 27.

(AP) --A freak cyclone struck in the neighborhood of Holly, five or six miles north of Mansfield, between MINERS IGNORE FDR'S APPEALS TO STICK TO JOBS UMW Claims Almost All Workers Heed Strike Order WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (AP)-The United Mine Workers claimed today that practically all of the 53,000 coal miners in captive mines of the nation remained idle in answer to a strike order by President John L. Lewis despite a second appeal by President Roosevelt that the miners stick to their jobs. K. G.

press official of the UMW, said Lewis would reply this afternoon to Mr. Roosevelt's second request that the mines continue in the interest of national defense. Adams said all captive mines were shut down, and that a "stack" of telegrams from local unions endorsed Lewis' rejection of the President's i request, that miners remain at work pending further negotiations. Demand Union Shop The UMW claimed it had about ijfi per cent of the miners in the captive mines organized, with nearly 100 per cent strength in some mines. Captive mines are so- called because they are owned by steel and other corporations which use practically all their output.

Principal issue at stake was the union demand for a union under which all miners must become union members after servinC a probationary period of employment. UMW officials at Pittsburgh said 10 and 11 o'clock Sunday night, two FIFTEEN MEET DEATH WHEN BUS (RASHES, BURNS Alabama Vehicle Is Transformed Into Raging Inferno CLANTON. Opt, (AP) Death claimed its I5th victim in the Nim nassengpr crash which interior of the ca'-'-ip-- ni- nn infprno. W. P.

Alton, driver nf thp third section of the local nn ln-4 between the two Alabama cities, 1 -n a her" of burns resuliirifi frnm his heroic e'f-irts to rescue his screaming passengers. Lou Finney, Roston fled fiox outfielder, identified one of the Head as his first cousin. Eleanor Finney. 24. physical education teacher at MontevjtUol Ala.

She was en route to the school. from her home at Buffalo. Ala. Bodies of the other IS. burned beyond recognition, awaited nosi- i identification Dt two funerU parlors.

Thrre Identified Coroner J. Mell Martin said three other Head have tenln- lively identified as William D. Davis. Troy; A on7.o Renfroe, rljii-ks and Alton B. Yatcs, Union Springs.

All were youths from Alabama en route to a civilian conservation corps camp here. The bus struck the concrete railing of a four miles south of here last night. Almost instantly it was a of flames, th-? b'lsze being visible for three miles or more. Hardie Jones carnenter who livs 100 yards from the scene, ran out to see Aultman, the driver, tumble from the bus, dragging a man by the arm. "The driver went back into the bus." Jones said, "and came nut with some more people.

His clothing was on fire, and he ran tn the roadside. We cut his clothes off and sent him to the hosoilal." Aultman made the trio last niRht as a substitute for Robert Johnson of Montgomery, who arranged the change to have the nieht off. Mac Stephens, another witness, said cars gathered quickly after the crash and explosion, and hnr- rified spectators heard screams of the victims. Stephens quoted Aultman as saying the bus caught fire just before it struck the bridge railing, although the explosion came after the crash. Sides Red From Heat Sides the were red from heat Highway patrolmen arrived.

Most of the dead were in a mass near the rear seats. C. V. Vourson, Montgomery (Continued on page 8) 5 000 i at the Jones and Laughlin and Alleghany Ludlui.i injuring at least 12 persons, believed fatally. Virgil Moon, 35, is in a Mansfield hospital with a broken neck and is given little chance of recovery.

His sister, whose name, was not immediately available, also suffered a number of broken bones. Physicians from Mansfield went gave first aid to the injured, and to the scene Sunday night and the local chapter of the. Red Cross sent representatives to the area today. The storm hit a community i around a new saw mill, recently erected by the Southern Pine Lumber company, of Diboll. Texas, and all of those hurt had lived in east Texas.

Being comparative strangers in this parish, much difficulty in getting the names of the injured was being experienced. NLRB MERIDIAN COMPANY mines, which have already granted the union shop, were at work, but that 25,000 others were idle. There was no picketing at the Western Pennsylvania mines. A few miners showed up for work at Southwestern Pennsylvania mines but they were closed. Mines Picketed In southern West Virginia mines were picketed and 11,000 to 12,000 miners were idle, while in the northern part of the state there was no picketing but 1,800 were idle.

Lewis Tells Press Of Strike Silting on the edge of his cliair John Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers, tells tlic press at a conference in Washington that he has declined to recommend extension of the negotiations prior to a strike of captive coal miners. Nation Joins In Observance Of Navy Day; FDR To Give Address Tonight KNOX (ALLS FOR NATIONAL UNITY Holds France Up As Bad Example lit Navy Day Speech DETROIT, Oct. 27. A Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox called today lor "national solidarity and unity" in order that the United Siaics might make certain of escaping the fate of France. Knox, in a Navy day speech, urged an end to "selfish partisanship and internal division." "If we need resolution to determine that this shall be our course." he said, "let us recall the pitiful situation in France where the most bloody reprisals are now being resorted to by France's German masters in a desperate effort lo save themselves from assinalion.

"Contemplate the pitiful spectacle of the aged Pctain pleading with his people to avoid stili more bloody reprisals by more- thorough subservience to their masters." Denouncing isolationism, Secretary Knox said that Russia had practiced a policy of "Russia first only to find that it proved disastrous. The navy chief HIGH COURT MAY ACT ON WAGE-HOUR OVERTIME PAY Review Of Decision In Dallas News Case Is Sought WASHINGTON, OK. 27 A -The supreme c.iurt may uct today on fa'r-rcachtnp litigation about the propel' method ol eumpulini-: overtime piiy under the wage-hour act. The vwifie-lnwr administration sought a review of a circuit court decision holding a the Dallas inter-relHl'Irl domestic problems News i i Ms rights in SIJ iis defense strikes. It wns WASHINGTON.

Oct. 27 -President Roosevelt ninde no cn- fUiKcmcnts except the usual Monday urn Terence with legislative leaders today so he could finish his speech fur tonight's Navy Day dinner a speech expected to he of paramount simiificanco the field "of international and national defense. The entire nation joined the navy today in observance of a day set aside to honor the ships and men of the fleet. Vessels in port dunned the full drees of nal pennants hut for those churning Atlanlic and Pacific swells it wits battle dren-s us usual. May Stress Strikes Mr.

Rooi-evclt. in his 'first on in weeks, is expected to stress only how the wai not Europe cur- entlv (iffeels America hut computing overtime paid its em- the basis of nri ngrecd A'hich was above the i i pay. ploye.s wa ge quired Destroy Section (if Law i i U. Fleming, w.igr- hour c'lnleunV'i a if this rlnciMim by I i federal circuit court at New Orleans were permitted to stand it would "largely destroy" the section of the'legislation i i for 40." hour week "which has done much 1" increase employment in this period of increased production." In reply, the newspaper that the method urged by the signed to i i overtime work and was "square in the fare of the needs of national defense upon which our very existence as a believed ht 1 would mention speci- i a the strike in coal mines owned by companies i out defense-vital steel. $1,015,919 COLLECTED IN DELINQUENT TAXES JACKSON.

Oct. 27. A I i i I in delinquent the lust 21 iniuHhs was reported by tin; skill' tax colli'i-tor's 'iffire. Collector Carl N. Criiii! sail! this a mor; 1 than double the total colli-eled in the preceding two The state obtained the counties the levee districts municipalities SII0.32:t.

antl drainage dist i S19.35I. Nazis Push Steadily Toward Rostov; Stalino Falls; Japs Attack Soviet Frontier Post FRESH STRAIN PUT ON U.S.-TOKYO RELATIONS To jo Charts Course Of "Ever-Expanding Progression 1 Hy The Associated Press For Eastern developments put fresh strain today United relations. A reported uttfick by 20 Japanese Koidiurs on frontier post ot Fur Eastern Russia four days aRo emphasized the ticklish situation between mussing Japanese forces in Mtmclmkuo itnd Russia's Fur Eastern armies. Premier Gencnil Hlrickl Tojo's charting of Japan's course toward "ever-expanding progression" appeared to he reply to Navy Secretary Knox's warning thnt collision in the Pacific was Inevitable if Japan persisted in her Far East- em expansion. The Japanese press resumed talk of "Anglo-Artiorican economic and military pressure" on Thailand and Enid that nation wus being imitated by "groundless that Japanese forces were crossing the border from Trench Indo-Chl- il.nv Will She Move? A Japanese 1 'professor, Knnemit- suVoshikwe, returning from mis- office, was i very 7iiaiiBiivr Ihdo-Chlna as a result of (Continued on puge 8) This Is U.

S. Fleet On Navy Day WASHINGTON. Del. in. (AP) How the fleet looks statistically on Navy tiny; Hllllt Haitleships 17.

car- rlciK 7. cruisers y7, tlostrny- crs I7a, subs 113. Ti.tnl 341). sion for the foreign quoted UK roporllng cale situation' and THIEF ATTEMPTS TO ENTER STERLING Would-Be Intruder Removes Panel An attempt to burglarize the Sterling store, Washington avenue and South Shelby was frustrated Sunday night and the would-be Intruder who had removed a panel of heavy glass from the skylight loft the panel behind in his flight. Chief of Police William Tuggart, Assistant Chief C.

A. Hol- lingsworlh and Officer Clco Lester answered a call to the stoif this morning when the burglary attempt was discovered. Rain lost night poured Into the Battleships 15 plaiie carriers 11, cruisers destroyers IU2, subs 73. Total 345. Totals Battleships 32, plane cur- riers id, cruisers 01.

destroyers 3IM, subs 1BG. Totals (Ittl. In addition to these major vessels there are hundreds of smaller craft-- torpedo boats, minelayers, etc. In the fleet or under construction. CONNftLLY SAYS U.S.

MUST CLAIM RIGHTS TO SEAS Assails Sinkings By Murderous Doctrine Of Sub Warfare WASHINGTON, Ocl, 27 (AP)-- Snylny a American merchant vessels "are being sunk by the brutal and murderous doctrine ot unretrU'tor! submarine warfare," Senator Conmilly Tex.) the ncntrte totnry thni ns a proun nation, the United Statce must claim Us rights to the sens." Before crowded galleries, the chairman ot the foreign relation? committee opened debate on legislation granting American merchant vessels the right to curry arms and to sail to any port in the, worm. Ship arming now forbidden by the 1930 neutrality law, which also prevents American merchantmen from entering belligerent ports or combat areas. DembcraBe ioaasrt wno are cussed the neutrality measure with President Roosevelt this morning reported they had told the Chief Executive thai the bill probably would be paused In Ic-ss than two weeks. 'Tills resolution Is defense measure, not a war Connally told his colleagues. "The stronger we arc, tho less there will be for a succoMful attack being made against us.

We will Increase our strength by protecting our shipping from attack on the high seas and by delivering defense material to those countries store through the window re- now "agnation." moved from the skylight, damaging merchandise directly underneath the skylight. Iron bars under the skylight would have blocked the entrance nf the intruder. S. II. Ilniwnstriii, mimnger of Ihc store, told Chief of Police Diiliam TagRart he heard a noise about 0:30 o'clock last night while he was In the store office but thought it WUB persons walking upstairs in the Kohcnfcld building- To rciich the roof the unidentified man climbed through a i dow from the second floor nf the Rohunfcld building.

sure the American id he would not permit "isolated instances" lo bring them into war, Congressmen Police Inyestigate Lewis' Theft Of Three 'Defiance' Of FDR Wrist Watches HullSays U. 5. Polity Is Self Defense Asks Belligerent Port Ban Repeal Before the dcbulc opened thn senate received Htfilerniml by Secretory Hul! that "we won't be In any xwir i Hitler decree.) REDS REPULSE ATTEMPT TO BLAST OPENING TO CAPITAL Line Southwest Of Moscow Shoved Bjck By Onslaughts LONDON. Oct. 27.

(AP)--Russia's line southwest of Moscow, admittedly shoved back by fierce Gorman onslaughts, wus suid in war dispatches today to have withstood Nazi attempts to blast an opening through toward the Soviet capital. In tho south, however, the da- mans apparently were pushing steadily uhetid toward Rostov, Russia's Important oil pipeline terminus and rail river Junction nt the gateway to tho Caucasus. With the situation In the south weeded to be desperate for Flus.Hlnns, the British again yw- terday renewed' heated detnanqi cm their government to strike in the west to divert some of tlw Nazi pressure from tha There wore indications that BrH- Ish forces mlRht fight side by the RuHnlans to protect SoV- oil resources' Mill) Baltic At Evidence of tho growing of German blows on the southern front was Indicated by KusulM acknowledgement that Important Pnnots basin Industrial center, had fallen althmigh Germans' cost wns said men Killed und woUHdad during several days of vioMWI combat. Dnth Stallno and Kharkov, to the heart of the Donets ready had been claimed by Germans but tho Russians heavy flglillnu 0 in vicinity of Kharkov anu have not conceded that city's lota. Husslnri frontline dispatdiw to Kuibyshev, the Sovist'i office capital" on the Vogi, ggq bin Bed 1 irln charging; defmtm whK ow (Continued on puge 3) GLEN ALLAN BOYS HURT IN WRECK Jeffreys, Seriously Injured; Herbert Perkins Hurt mid Herbert Perk- thut wn shnll." The foriMRn rMiininittei' minle nnbllr nrlnltnni thr Iciili- (Ciinlinucd on pngo B) Ins, niRht Police continued lo inves- thefts of-three ladies' wrist Rod- Drug walchcs and a clock from ney's jewelers and Culley store Saturday.

A watch was stolen from the MERIDIAN. 27. (AP-A showcase Rodney's, store cease and desist order wns ed down by the National Labor i Doohttlc, Relations board in the case of the; woman are suspected. reported and to Officer Bob Negro man and entered tho with a i labor were charged practices. The company was ordered to cease discouraging membership in the union and to desist in refusing to bargain collectively with that union as exclusive representative for the employes.

The firm was further ordered to reinstate three workmen and compensate them lor loss of salaries. tion clerk went to the back 01 me store they helped themselves lo tv wrist watches, one valued at $795 and the other at S10.95 ami an alrm clock and escaped. Of- stronR man of the nation, though not so usable, so sinister and so dangerous as Sidney Hillman wh Ui have been anointed a call, fair-haired boy of the ndmm- ficer Earl Nelson answerf Valentine. 300 Stecle I istration. Officer E.

M. I Two Mississippi Cleola Alley, reported to Davis, clothins, including a coat and dresses were stolen from her home early Sunday. Reprcsentalives Colmer and Mc- Gchee, joined Cox in his denunc- ialion of Lewis. Forfy And Eight Officers To Be Installed Tonight Officers of Grccnvillp voilurft of the Forty and Eight will be in- stiilk-d the L-egirn tonight at 8 o'clock by Njit UitimiT, grand chef dc giirc fnr Mississippi. R.

Barwk-k is chef dc (jart-l elect of the Greenville voiture find I MISSING PILOTS BELIEVED DEAD Winter Weather Hampers Search, Virtually Ends Hope FI1KSNO, Oii. 27 A Winter weather, interfcrinl! wilh aerial search, today i a ended hope that the i of Hire'' army planes lost in the Sierra- Tchachapi a i area would found alive. Kislit planes a i yesterday to i a trace of the i ships or of a from wlilrti I.ieul. J. I I Pease i-arac-hul- ed wifely.

The retuiuinu pilots reported 22, painfully tuirt niflnl when She which they wore riding into pnrkcd gravel truck about two miles from Glen Allan. At the KinB'H Dnuxhtcru UOH- oiial today where ho is receiving i fur broten rlcht lea anri multiple cutt and bruiser. Young was rc- ported hy attaches us some proved still in xerloiui roudillon. Perkins wns given a a physlciim. Ills itl- i i did fiot nocowiitats htKpl- lives at Glen Allan and wo the a air base here, had ed Ci'-eenville froin Glen i a sophomore ul MISSIS- i i i i i Stale college, arrived homj S'din-diiy Ui spend the wcek-eno i his paiOTtK nt Glen Allan.

He nod vnuiiK Perkins, who also Mian and wo-Ks Bt had i Allen, Ai'cordini! Ui reports the TotA cir a i i iind Perkins the a was ini' another automobile enroute to Glen A a their ciir crashed i parked Kravcl truck. lit the impact the Ford automobile occupied by tin- two men was practically demolished. Th C. WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.

A I Demands were made in the house loday for presidenlial congressional aclion lo meet the issue which legislators said was presented by John L. Lewis' "dc-- finance" of President Roosevelt in i calling a strike of so-called cap- te Inducted Into office tonight with, tho other officers fls follows: Orville Cadeuheau 1 chef de a i Loyaeono, concs- ponrtaut anri eommisKjiire intond- lo i i a corniucteur; i a i ft. L. Kilpatrick, Isola, iiy Luther Brardon of liumed i i Village, tiurde de la portc; pray Howe-, of Imfiauola, lam- piste; and Flowers E. Jordan Cilen A a aumonier.

i Ilornir Hrili, rctiriuii chel I.ydo Ohi live coal miners. Cox (D-Ga) declared the rr llut "do-nothing" policy adopted Ijy the government made it "a co- ipirator with the racketeers, the voiture here, urges for att('iidarice at tiie installa- i i ceremonies this evening. CHILD HURT AT BOYLE Francef. Gilhert. 1'J ycar of i i lioyle, was seriously i Iciday i a i or on her a a car county The accident occurred when the Gilbert child jumped from one to another.

lirouxhl to the Kinti's Daughters hospital late yesterday afternoon, her condition was reported improved today. a a i a i i in the mountains. The U. S. a bureau forecast i a i i and said thai a heavy storm in prospect.

uil! i a i I .1 C. West and li. N. I I I i of a i vii.s found dead ill the of his plane on Salimlay. Fomleeii oilier i in a i i i i 1IJ ships a i i i i i a i i i a a the I heeame (llsperi.ed I in i clouds soulbeast of Friday.

INTERNATIONAL BRIDGE TO MEXICO COLLAPSES 1(10 Mexico. Oct. The i i a i a i i the Itio Ciramle i oliupsed early today the of Hood a i which h.jve bed. i a i i i at it loi a week Only a lew concrete slabs remained alter the Sliii.MiO ture collapsed in the center. i flio Ilico, from which residents were evacuated hy boats last week, was under foui feet of water.

The river recedinji sloivly Defense Bond Quiz i its most from of Defense Savings A. The He has only III- inoncv lo the Rovern- and can it back sin.old lie nerd it. His Bonds increaie iti value. He is lavinj! hy spending powet' against a i of need. iiihoi voiced any onto the participation i members in payroll it plan' fur the pur- ol li-usc Savings i a volurt- ll a i plans endorsed by the if the A.

F. of and the Railroad ioods, as well as by nion al a i a con- I I buy Defense Hi. nils and Stamps, go to Ihe nearest post office, bank, or savings ami loan assoL-intion; or write to the Treasurer of the i Stales, Washington, 13. f. Also Stamps are at stores..