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TMF outworn iwrtw tmu JIM IM Mpl UM IT HnlM a Mt Miwrwur PMM IM M4 it vlll prtmH THE DELTA DEMOCRAT-TIMES tOCAL OMIRVATMNI (24-hour report 7 Mulmum Minimum River (Huge, S'i umht tall Fair, not cold Sunday. GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1941 HUMBERTS Vm I IMF 4A Ifcfcfc, i i -j FDRlENDSllthMENOTf TO AI RULER SENATORS DRIVE FOR LESS DRASTIC STRIKE CURB BILL Committee May Retain Only Title Of Drastic Strike Measure WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (AP) Possession Fortified Army Engineers Speeding Defense Outposts In Alaska To Completion WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (AP)- ping and flying. At airusnKS Disbarment Sought With an eye to lowering wai clouds in the Pacific, the War de- At Fairbanks, where the air forces are conducting cold weather forces in the senate ipaigned today to replace the -uimstic house-approved strike curb bill with a milder measure next week.

There were stronger indications that the Senate Labor committee might retain only the title of the house bill by Rep. Smith (D-Va), and substitute for its contents a much less sweeping control system proposed by Sena- engineers were conquering formidable obstacles in Alaska to speed new air fields and other defense outposts to complet'in. Despite temperature as low as 50 degrees- below zero, inadequate transportation of labor and other difficulties work is being rushed on more than flying fields and large bases In the foggy Aleutian islands which extend across the North Pacific into Asian 10 air fields are being built on army-se- coniroi byiiteui fields are ocmg uu.n tor Ball (R-Minn). The Ball plan lected sltes by the Civil Aeronau- lUr Oa.l 1 1 calls for establishment of a voluntary system of mediating defense labor "disputes, and would outlaw strikes over closed shop question. "Goes Too Far" Senator Norris (Ind-Neb) addition the itrt ten uj -tics administration as a part of the defenses of the navy's new major base at Dutch harbor.

der clared the Smith bill "goes too far against labor" and said he favored the hearings on the measure lengthy enough congress a cooling off period before it does something hysterical." The Smith bill by the house Wednesday, would require secret balloting before strikes could be called, would outlaw sympathy and jurisdiclional stnkss, require registration of unions, ban picket line violence, and establish the Defense Mediation hoard as a statutory agency. Calling a closed session of the labor committee for Monday -morning Chairman Thomas (D-Utah) told reporters he personally was opposed to holding hearings on (Continued on page 5) HUGE MONEY BILL READY FOR SENATE Measure is Said To arry "Body Blows For Mr. Hitler" WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. (AP) --An $8,244,041,531 appropriation Details Some Problems Announcing that "construction goes on at a rapid pace," the War department detailed some of the problems which it was asserted engineers were mastering.

Temperatures ranged from moderate in the southeast extreme cold in the central section where 50-btlow readings are not uncommon. Just now sudden high winds, known locally BS "'willaw present serious hazards to ship men must race darkness at top speed as daylight at times lasts only three hours. At one unidentified sile the sou said to be permanently frozen down to bed rock, and military structures in effect are being ing put up' in ice. In the eilder areas almost all construction materials must be thawed out. In others, a soft vegetable growth called muskeg which a depth of 15 feet, must be rermved before air field runways are built.

Two Navy Bases Vast distances, a heavy rainfall in some sections, the necessity of importing virtually all materials and laborers were listed os other obstacles. Aside from the Aleutian islands air fields and the Fairbanks base, tha army has composed groups of pursuit and medium and heavy bombardment planes at Elmendorf field, Anchorage, and bases are being prepared at Metlakatia Yakutat and Nome. The navy has iws," i two new maior bases in addition ship- to that at Dutch harbor. TRI-STATE BUS DRIVERS STRIKE; SEEK WAGE BOOST Operations Tied Up In Mississippi, Sight Other States SHREVEPORT, Dec. 6 -(AP)--R.

L. Burton, federal labor conciliator, today was endeavoring to arrange a conference to settle a strike of bus. drivers and station ugeiits of the Tri- State Transit company which tied up operations of the bus company in nine states. About 190 employes of the company are affected by the strike, which began at midnight A special erand jury rave a presentment to justices of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme court, calling for the disbarment of Attorney Alfred E. Smith, jr.

(above) on 11 specific charges of malpractice. The son of Former Governor Al Smith Is shown as he prepared to eo to Fort Dix, N. last August for army service. DEADLINE PASSES; BRITISH TAKE ON NEW ENEMIES I Only Finland i Sends Response To British Note LONDON, Dec. 6 (AP) Great Britain will be at war 1 against Finland, Hungary and a i a at one minute a midnight tonight, Greenwich time (7:01 p.

m. Saturday, EST), because the three nations refused to stop i i Britain's Russian ally. The actual declaration, however, i materially change the situation now existing, it was said shortly after Britain announced her inten- ,11011 of declaring war. The British explained Jhe chief difference would be at the peace conference, when the three nations "will be sitting on the other side of the table." Mission Failure? FHA Asks Survey Of City Housing The Federal Housing administration is calling on the city of Greenville to make a thorough canvass of housing possibilities in the community. Mayor M.

C. Smith requests that the ladies' societies of the various churches and the women's civic clubs be responsible for providing from three three to five teams each, each team to he comprised of two canvassers. These teams are asked to report to the mayor's office as soon as possible. bill, described by one member of Friday. the house as carrying "body blows otto DeBate, vice-president of (or Mr Hitler," was ready today the Amalgamated Association ol for senate action.

and Electric Molor Coach The supplemental defense meas- Employes an A. of L. orgam- urc passed the house yesterday, 309 to five. It was designed to double arm- an agreement on a proposed ament production and if enacted into law will bring the defense expenditures and contractual authority up to $67,990,256.596, which would be twice the amount of money the United States spent in the World war. The measure set up $1,556,490,264 for lend-lease purposes, and the War department was authorized to transfer an additional $500,000,000 worth of supplies on a lend-lease basis if necessary.

Rep. Case (R-SD) said that because congress had approved the lend-lease program he saw no reason for "pulling our punches now and that the bill carried the "body blows for Mr. Hitler." The extra half billion dollai authorization was opposed by Rep Johns (R-Wis) who told the house the American people should know vages contract. On Seniority Scale The disagreement, he said, was over a proposed graduated scale of wages based on seniority and service of the drivers and agents. He said certain wage increases offered by the company had been agreed to but that the trouble was over the seniority scale.

The union asked for a quarter of a cent a mile increase for driv- (Continued on page 5) Jhey would money back." "never get this In addition to $6,687,569,046 for the War department and lend- lease purposes, the measure included $1,129,870.000 for the navy. This includes the cost of mor. than 2,000 planes, some of whicl may be used on merchant ships being converted into aircralt carriers. COTTON FARMERS TO CAST VOTES ON MARKETING QUOTA County Planters Will Co To Polls On December 15 Washington county cotton farmers will go to the polls on next Saturday, Dec. 13, to cast their vote in the cotton marketing quota referendum.

Plans for the election have been completed and J. W. Whitaker, county agricultural agent, said yesterday a total vote of between 6,000 and 7,000 arc expect- ITALIAN KING BARELY ESCAPES AIR RAID HOME, Dec. 6. Emauele caped a British air raid Thursday at San Giovanni, on the toe of the Italian boot, where he was en- route home from a nine-day visit to British-bombed places in Sicily, it was disclosed today upon the monarch's return to Rome.

(The British had reported for that day that planes of the Middle East command strafed ries between the Italian main- land and Sicily and also railway sidings at San Giovanni). ed if favorable weather prevails on election day. Polls open at 8 a. m. and close at 5 p.

m. "The referendum this year will be doubly important," the county agent said Saturday in a letter mailed to ths county's farmers, "because it will determine whether or not farmers want to continue narrowly es- to control the production of cot- By The Associated Press Britain suddenly recalls all fighting men to posts at Singapore; Australia arranges to send tanks to Dutch East Indies in event of war in Pacific; Manila orders evacuation of all non-essential civilians. Washington sees crisis unrelieved by Japanese answer to President Roosevelt's inquiry; Japanese privy council urges joint commission to settle Pacific problems without recourse to war. Fighting hits peak violence on Moscow mer- registers 31 degrees below zero; Germans claim capture of seven towns; report Red counteroffensive cracks Nazi lines a i i sector, 90 miles north of Moscow. Britain declares war on Finland, a Ku- mania, effective nt midnight tonight.

Hitler's hifih command says Russian a a beaten off in Donets river basin, three I a i a divisions arrive to bolster a a i forces; Soviet dispatches re- pod Russians a new German line on Mius river, north of Stalino. ton by means o( marketing quota: It will determine whether or not (Continued on page 3) Private Power Projects Ordered Restricted WASHINGTON, Dec. 6. A The Supply Priorities and Al- llocations board ordered OPM today to withhold priority aid from new public and private pow- i 1 er projects unless such construe- i tion is found "essential to na- tional defense or public health and safety." SPAB promised, however, that all possible assistance would he i given in completing such work i now substantially under way. Simultaneously the i agency announced that 1.500 tons i of copper would be allocated monthly to the Rural Elcctnfica- i tion administration, up to a total of 10.500 tons.

This amount would bo i ient 'SPAB declared, lo permit HF.A to finish all of its projects which now arc more than 4(1 per cent complete and to i i a i her of others less than -tC per cent complete. SERVICES MONDAY FOR LIEUT. C. M. JOSE i -crvices 'or Lieutenant Charles M.

who ivas killed Wednesday aflvrnoon when his crashed near A a i a a a will be held Mon-lay a i at 2 o'clock in I i a 'apolis. I i a a The service- i be held from a I I i a a Lieiilnianl a Maxwell field Ilicr. was a son of a i Mr- 11. of Greenville. i a i -lose nn 'y i i i M'hool.

NATIONWIDE STRIKE OF WELDERS if SETFORtDESDAY Union Claims 125,000 Membership; Employed In Defense Work WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (AP) -A call for a nationwide strike of welders employed principally in shipyards and on government defense construction, was announced today by Lloyd Payne, executive secretary' of the United 'Brotherhood of Welders, cutters, and helpers of America. Payne said the strike wouk start next Tuesday, unless President Roosevelt intervened, anc would tnkc approximately 75,000 men from their jobs. Notice of the strike decision, he said, was sent lo President Roosevelt with a requrst that the President halt alleged discrimination against welders by the American Federation of Labor. Payne snid the discrimination consisted of insistence by the AFL that welders obtain working permits "at cx'cessive costs," for each job on which they were employed, and AFL refusal lo issue union cards.

FDR Notified MORGANTOWN. W. Dec. 6 (AP) President Roosevelt has been notified that the Brotherhood of Welders. Cutters mid Helpers (Independent) is ready to call a notion-wide strike lo enforce its for autonomy within the AFL, a spokesman said today.

Berber James Brown of Oklahoma, Calif-, attorney and business representative for the union, said its executive board had decided upon the walkout but had not set a dale. The Independent Brotherhood An authoritative source said that only the Finns replied to the British note demanding that the three countries stop fighting Russia and thattftieir reply was "entirely unsatisfactory." At tne same iimc, circles in London said they considered their government at war with Finland, Hungary and Ruma- lia because the "enemies of Great Britain and the Soviet Union ore the enemies of Czechoslovakia." Takes Decisive Action The British government took decisive action after repeated demands at home and urgent requests from Russia. A brief foreign office announcement was issued early today, just after the zero hour of midnight, when the three countries failed to make "satlsfae toi-y replies" lo the British that they withdraw from the Rus sian war. That announcement said inn communications "are being sent to SABltRO Kl'RHSlI GERMAN RAIDER IS SUNK BY BRITISH CRUISER IN ATLANTIC Nazi Ship Identified Only As Converted Merchantman (Continued on page 3) (Continued on page f) JOHNSON ENDORSES SAFETY CAMPAIGN JACKSON Dec. (AD --Governor Paul Johnson by pro- clniminii today endorsed the safety campaign bcint! conducted by tb.

National a oiuncil am! called for the cooperation of all state i i a members of flic Mississippi i a Patrol, local peace officers and private citizens. six AUTO COLLISION Miss Martha Smith, Harold Yeager Hurt In Wreck Six persons, two while nnd four NCKI'OCM. suffered painful injuries Friday nluht when automobiles in which they were riding collided at Highway 82 and Clay slreetk. Miss Martha Smith, 1205 Washington avenue, was slightly bruised and Harold C. YeaRer, director of the Greenville public school band, suffered a dislocated left shoulder.

Four N-ocrocs, Fannie Mae a i ris Willie Fowler, James Gllmorc and Paul Brown, were Riven treatment of City Physician Dr. Fuller for bruises. Mr Yeager und Miss Smith were driving north on i a 82 in a 11)41 Chevcrolel topic which collided with a 1937 Ford automobile operated by Robert Mayfield, Negro from Grace. Traffic Kcreeant M. A.

f.the- ridfc's report taid Mayfield with other Neprocs in the cur i him. traveling east on a street at a high rate of speed ill a 1937 model Ford, ran the red i at the i i of the highway with Clay street. Both cars skidded considerable distances in the collision and were a damaged. M.xvfield was admitted lo bond and will face i a in city court on a reckless i i LONDON, Dec. (1.

of another German third announced with- a xveek--was crcdilcd by Ihc Admiralty tonight to the cruiser Dorsetshire, the British warship which fired the final, torpedoes into the German battleship 3ismarck. The communique did not iden- i the German raider, describing her only as a fleeing, converted merchantman, which was overtaken by the Dorsetshire and sunk in the South Atlantic. QUusrs Go Down Last Tuesday the Australian cruised Sydney was credited i sinking Ihe German raider Slcicr- mark (also called Ihc in Australian waters in a combo fatal also to the Sydney. The dale of this fight was not Riven. The day before the Admiralty had announced that on Nov.

'i'i the cruiser Devonshire had sunk another rnidor in the South Allah- lie. In bolh the South A a i sinkings the A i a reported thai the- nuspcclcd presence ol submarines caused the British victor), to steam off i Picking up survivors. Besides bciliR noted lor lirinl! Ihc liiijt three torpedoes which sank the Bismarck, the Dorsetshire also assisted in. the destruction ol Our- man freighter a lust April off Rio dc Janeiro. No Date Olvi'ii She cauuhl her Idlest i i as the raidi'r's seamen were loading oil and provisions i i boats Observers View Far East Picture Highly Explosive Hy The Associated Press President Roosevelt went over the heads of Japan's lary q-ivernnu-nt last night and sent a personal message'to Empoi'or I i i in Ihe lalost diplomalie maneuver of the stalemated Japanese-American negotiations.

The State a which announced the move, gave not i as to the a of the President's message, but observers of the explosive Far Eastern situation considered his bold action to be one of tremendous import. The Japanese emperor, regarded by his subjects as being of divine ancestry, ordinarily remains uloof. from affairs of government except to give formal sanction to action taken, Simultaneously, Washington reported new information of heavy Japanese troop concentrations in French Indo-China, placing total Nipponese forces concentrated there at 150,000. Additional developments: Sudden British mobilization order sent hundreds of men i to fleet, army and air force posts. Australian press accounts reported an "llth hour" agreement amo.n)! the United Stales, Britain, China nnd The Netherlands to meet any new offensive move on the part of Japan.

This agreement was snid also to provide dispatch of Australian military aid to the defense of the Netherlands East Indies. Two heavily-guarded Japanese convoys were reported steaming toward the Gulf of Siam (Thailand). The I a i a radio said that Japanese-dominated Mftn- chukuo, which borders Russian Siberia, had ordered mobilizi- tion. On Europe's eastern front, the Germans appeared still to be celling the worst of it ut the hands of the Red anhiet, despite a new threat lo Moscow. The United States ordered Finnish ships in, Americatr ports put under protective custody, finally reluctantly takifljg the view that her one-time close international friend is noiv part and parcel of the Axis.

i' Washington official! (Continued on page 5) CIRCUIT COURT CIVIL TERM REOPENS MONDAY The second week of Ihe i i term of circuit court will IIP convened Monday by Judge Davis. New panels have been drawn aod the i i sum- mooed. There was no FCS'ion of court vesterdav. Davis a i re- Irom Kl'iday i Monday. A oi i Is a liv a i i i Iwo prisoners indicted lasl Monday by grand i were arraigned i a Davis said i i a cases i i he a up i a a i i a WASHINGTON, Dec.

lertlv watched for any overt Japanese net in the Orient today completely unimpressed by Tokyo's explanation of troop movements in French Indo-China. Discussions with Japanese diplomatic representative! here were in abeyance, and when or whether they would be was a matter of speculation. The Japanese h.vp a desire that they be resumed but oflicwls here 1 a not indicated their attitude, AlthmiBh there could be no iluubt Unit President Roosevelt and. Secretary Hull found Tokyo's eX- planiillon of Japanese military operations In French Indo-China unacceptable, neither would make any public comment. Reporters phcd Hull i questions on point ut a press conference today but he would not discuss the from the Orient during Hie May (old of hostile expressions opinion in the Japanese press, HITLER UNLEASHES FURIOUS ATTACK ON RED CAPITAL Moscow Faces Direct Peril As Battle Rages In Deep Snow By The Associated Tress Adoll I a i a radio today ed 1.5011.01)11 troops, and 1.1100 guns int.

i i offensive of have tanks "the most all limes" against Moscow, nnd appeared a i the Hcd capital now hour ol greatest peril. Kighting in deep show, v.lth tin 1 iking as low as .11 dc- with one paper saying that in the SERBS CLAIM SUCCESS IN GUERRILLA WAR MOSCOW, Dec. li. A A Axis-eonquorca igou.iB i' i. ina area ol mercury sinking as low as i declared by the grees below Hihrrllhelt.

information bureau in a sk, Loops were rcpnrlid bm adcast today to i gone a i along In -dcari'd of German YU8 i i a i i i a a lMl in Vu! Itusslaiir, Talu- Positions viil in inten- A British radio broadcast wu" i ul( c'ninnmniqu'-' said. 'Nuj a message icccivod mi lls p.errilla detachments are 111 tne nii.nmst tne. st a i I ol iiRainst the New Cabinet Officer? Department Of Defense i i v'i HI i i i i i i.slrati'm'oi'' program told a he U-lirvi-'l I' 1 1 must he adopl-d if i l.usi- i a chance "I U-Iness is to be saved Irom a i a i a i mi i i i lob'b'-i-l- Mid he I I a i This plan i- Hill.o.lii-il .1 loo, about i I I a introduced by a i pr.v, 1 i Kore HMV a I I i 'I I I 1 11 11 "Vai-ililalr he a a i a i i i a pc liV.m Cairo nnd her this week told i i iielween the.putrlol Gen. Drnja Mihailovu- CJerman 15 SHOPPING DAYS to Christmas AbnGJVK u.s. BONDS and.