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BEE AIR RAID SIGNALS- Single whistle blest Blackout-Two blasts repeated every minute for five minutes All One long one short blast repeated at Intervals HOME ED I I THE REPUBLICAN VOL 39 NO 6969 FRESNO CAL MONDAY EVENING DECEMBER 22 1941-22 PAGES (TWO SECTIONS) Enured secna Asm luiir (Per Copy Pally Sc Sunday 10c) Oct IT ItSS at rmaat Calif (By earner Da II vary 10! Monthly) THE Fourth Ship Attacked Qff California Coast Emidio Loses 6 Men Reds Capture Important Nazi SupplyBase German Position In Tula Sector Imperiled Leningrad Pressure Eased lingayen Invasion Try Raids Near Santa Barbara Atlantic Gunfire PLAYS IS TAKEN Add To Depredations Heard 14 Axis Move To Adjourn Legislature Is Fought By Olson Governor Seyi Saboteurs Fifth Columnists Will Not Wait Solons1 Action Tanks Clash As Huge Tokio Force Tries Landing 100000 Men From 80 Enemy Treniports Suffer Losses in Luzon Assault Klin-Volokolasmk Road Is Littered With Dead Teutons Equipment Hitler Ousts Army Chief Takes Reins In Cryptic Maneuver BERN (Switzerland) IVc M1)-Field Marshal General NValther Von Brauchltsrh who led the German armiea victoriously through France across the Balkans and Into Russia was tumbled from a hero's pedestal today by Adolf Hitler's momentous decision to assume personal command of his legions The fuehrer's stroke taken al an hour when he himself declared Ger- Japanese Submarines SAN FRANCISCO Dec 22 (IIP) A Japanese submarine attacked the Standard Oil tanker Storey off Point Arguello 175 miles north of Los Angeles today the fourth submarine attack on United States-shipping off the California coast since 2:10 Saturday Submarines Hit Knox Also Announces De struefion Of Some Pacific Undersea Raiders SACRAMENTO Dec 22 vB-Uovernor Olson today rallied his forces in opposition to the proposed recessing of the legislature for the purpose of mhking a comprehensive study of state guard and defense needs many's battle was fast approaching TOPPLED HERO Its and mrning point" klw created a sensation when It was disclosed last niaht In dispatches from Berlin Ohservers In this neutral capital! seeking an explanation for a mow' whlrh they believed must have not I am tremendously disappointed onjy profoun(j causes but vital con-not receiving the roc Deration I inmi aaiir Htati nAKiltllllllN! not receiving the rorperation saw these possibilities: MOSCOW (Tuesday) Dec of a number ot populated points hy Red Army forces steadily advancing In fierce fighting was announced hy the Soviet information bureau today The communique said the gains were registered all the way from Leningrad In the north to the See of Azov In the south 7t mentioned specifically heavy fighting In the sectors before Leningrad Moscow and Kalinin LONDON Dec (bB-Radio Leningrad tonight reported that Russian troops have rleared out German troops from the Volkhov Tikhvin railroad south of Leningrad and have transformed the Nazi retreat in this area into a "disorderly rout" CAPE HENLOPEN (Del) Dec 22 Major Ralph Baker commanding offirer at Fort Miles said today sentries and officers reported hearing heavy detonations which were believed to be gunfire He said: "We have no exact knowledge of what ii happening The firing was heard at icattered points along the shore clear down to Maryland However there were no visible indications of gunfire but the reports were very clear" The naval base at Cape May said it had Army officials at Fort Salisbury also reported hearing the blasts They said the detonations apparently were from gunfire and that they knew of no practice firing in the area sequences That the German reverse in which Rerlin has rils-i rounted as a strategic withdrawal In Winter holding actually are so serious that Hitler has lost faith in his army command That a serious rifl has de-veloped between German army leaders and Nazi Party chieftains on a question of strategy Thai the whole maneuver is a piece of Nazi trickery designed to riislrart the attention of Germany's enemies from some new move now In the process of making such as an invasion of England an attack upon Turkey nr a thrust through Snaln toward Gibraltar May Move Toward Libya In I-ondon a sonrre which often haa had remarkahly accurate he- in had hoped he said at a press conference am sure no plans of fifth columnists for sabotage in connection with an attack on the roast or from the air will await long drawn out deliberation on matter providing for civilian protection and the pro-lection of vital plants and places the necessity for which Is so clearly and emphatically stated by General De Witt of the western army command Opposes Keren am opposed to the tsking of a recess No more Information ran be acquired hy delay Utah can be gotten right now in connection with subjects submitted to the legislature" Adjutant General Donovan Colonel Carr coordinator nfjhind the srenrs information said th Mrd United State Infantry andHitler's assumption of full rnmmand about twenty five commander ofjof the German Army and new axis The Storey however escaped undamaged behind a smoke screen according to the Coast Guard which disclosed the attark The submarine fired upon the tanker with a deck tun After missing the submersible disappeared belong the sea's surface A coast guardsman said the attack could he seen plainly from the shore Details were withheld pending release from the navy The Storey la a tanker of 9838 tons It was huilt in 1921 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation In Alameda It Is operated by Standard Oil of California Its home port Is San Francisco Other Attacks Other attacks were on the Richfield tanker Agwlworld off Monterey on the General Petroleum tanker Emidio off Cape Mendocino 0ylth three crewmen dead three Aliasing and five wounded and on the Hammond Lumber Company freighter Samao between San Francisco and San Diego Additionally the navy department announced a submarine sank the Matson freighter Lahaina December-nth while enroute from Hawaii to San Francisco The Lahaina suffered a toll of two dead Two others are missing Csptaln Telia Story In San Diego Captain Nels A Simmes of the Samoa revealed that an unidentified submarine rame within forty feet of the lumber steamer Thursday before dawn after firing five sheta and one tor-p-do et the boat The Samoa was not damsged in th? rttack which took place off the Coast apparently In the of Santa Barbara Ccplpln Simmes said that after nr the shots the submarine hove r' eside the Samoa was so close that If we had hM a gun the submarine would b- made a perfect Simmes told reporters in an interview- "Some one on the suh yelled Hi-Ya' at us I shouted bark but there was no answer" The captain of the Samoa said the submarine then disappeared In the darkness Simmes said the submarine commander evidently thought that the shots had struck the lumber ship because of a heavy port lit i Poor Japanese marksmanship near Santa Crus also enabled the tanker Agwiworld to outmaneuver its foe and reach port safely but the tanker Emidio was shelled and tor-pedoed off Cape Mendocino and abandoned by its crew Thirty one survivors five of them injured I were brought to Eureka Calif to-'(py Two of the crew were killed i d'nd five are missing A torpedo exploded In the vicinity of the Samoa Two of the crew of the Lahaina are dead and two are missing Thin-ty survivors have landed at Kahulul on the Hawaiian Island of Maui The navy communique No Ill MANILA Dee AmerL nn battle forces Including the first tank units to are action against Japan than held their own" tonight against a major Japanese attack launched great force" against Lingayen Gulf 139 mllea north nf Manila General Douglas MacArthur re- ported that American and Philippine troops backed up by the heavy iguna at the coastal defense works smashed Japanese landing attempts at one point and than held their own" in a (lay of fierce combat A fleet of eighty odd transports brought the Japanese landing parties to the Lingayen shores Th! transports were protected by destroyer flotilla with air support and Japanese bombers Intensified their attacks on American air bases in the Philippine coincident with the landing attempt The Japanese faced well equipped American and Filipino troops under the command nf a seasoned cam-naigner Major General Jonathan Wainwright former commander ot the Philippine Dtviillnn The war department communique Issued In Washington estimated tha strength of the Japanese expeditionary force on Lingayen Gulf at 80000 to 100000 Keen As Main Offensive Tha main Japanese drive for thn Philippines was believed tonight to he underway Despite indications that the Ja anese have suffered heavy losses they were reported pressing their assault on the Lingayen shores with vigor Japanese tanks have been put ashore at some points the official communique Indicated and have been met In battle hy American tanks In the first United States tank rnmhat of the war American lank have seen action in north Africa where they were used hy British crews in the offensive In Libya The Lingayen atlack was by the United States high 'ommenri aa the malar exp-ditlonary drive being aimed it the Philippine" enemy in gieat fnrre la pushing his attack" MacArthur reported at 4 fighting is going on In the north including lank combat Our troops more than held their own Heavy Gun Prevent Landing one point Japanese destroyer and transport were driven off hy our heavy guna and a landing was prevented Our troop behaved Humor were h-srd at headquarter during the day of the sinking of Japanese transports in the gulf Field Uanlutl Von Brauch-itxch replaced by fuehrer with "inward ealln Smashing Blow Is Dealt Nippon Force liMalaya Heavy Casualties Inflicted By British Striking 300 Miles From Singapore Emidio Crew Is Shelled In Lifeboats By DKMOTTE EUREKA Dec 22 MB Survivors charged today that a Japanese submarine that torpedoed the United States tanker Emidio also shelled the Emidio's rrew as they struggled to pull away in open lifeboats Reporting at least five of their comrades missing and possibly dead instead of twenty two aa reported hy the navy department in Washington thirty one survivors battered and with anger at white heat were brought here by the United Slates Navy and Coyt Guard Five of them were wounded and one died aboard a roast guard cutter They said two American bombing" planes dropped depth charges on the submarine while it was attacking the (anker Crewe Tell Ktorlrs This is the composite story of the crew members on their arrival at the Eureka naval section base were running south Saturday afternoon on our way from Seattle to San Franrisro when we saw a submarine on the surface about a quarter of a mile away "As we watched It it began approaching us swiftly Then it opened fire One of the first shots struck the radio antenna on the Emidio and parried it away Other shots struck lifeboats which were In their slings on deck "The captain ordered us to take to the lifeboats Three of the crew were attempting to launch one boat when a shell atruck It spilling them Into the water Other lifeboats were put over the side to search for the three missing men "Before the antenna had been snapped Sparks (the radio operator) managed to get out an SOS Bombers Appear "It mulrin't have been ten minutes after the rail when two American bombing planes rame roaring off the coast We were in the lifeboats by then "The submarine heard or saw them coming for It submerged rapidly The planes circled around where the sub had been and one of the planes dropped a depth charge As the 'planes were rlrrling we aw the periscope of the submarine slowly push up above the surface of the water While still partially submerged the sub apparently tired torpedo For we could see th" trail of the torpedo as it sped straight for the tanker It struck the Emidio with a loud explosion "The planes were on their way hack hy this time and one of them dropped another depth rharge Th charge produced a hig explosion hill we couldn't lell whether the charg-hit the rnhirarine" Four of the Emidio's Injured were listed aa: Frank Moore Enrino Calif Wendell Willelte Dallas Texas MacDonald Lo Angeles and A Gentry Wallerla Calif Captain A Farrow of Long Beach the Emidio's skipper made his report to naval authorities Immediately upon arrival "Five of our men are missing and unaccounted for" he said "I don't know what happened to them One Herionaly Injured "One of the men is very seriously injured He was In the engine room when the lorpedo hit hut we managed to get him Into a lifeboat Those who are missing also were In the engine room" The survivors were picked up al the scene where the Emidio operated hy the General Petroleum Corporation was attacked Saturday afternoon off Cape Mendocino 1)0 miles south of Eureka and 2H0 miles north of Snn Franrisro Shells Miss Second Tanker The Emidio was one of two tankers attnrked off the Callforna roast Saturday The other was Richfield's Agwlworld shelled eight times off Monterey but not hit The Emidio was enroute from Seattle to Ventura Several survivors confirmed a navy department communique say MOSCOW Dec Russian armies slashing at the heels of retreating German forces claimed today that a aeries of weekend sue-ceaiaes had aerkusly Imperiled the Nazi position in the Tula sector below Moscow and further relieved pressure In the Leningrad area The outstanding success reported oy the Russians was recapture ot tne imortanl highway junction ot Plavsk between Tula and Orel which was said to have served the Germans as a supply base and concentration pc-int Tula is about 100 miles from the capital and Orel approximately the same distance farther south Krapvino a town southwest Tula also was officially reported in Russian hands Rpds Drive Four Wedges Russian reports received in Lon don declared Soviet forces overcoming stubborn Nazi resistance from strongly fortified positions had smashed German fortifications and hammered wedges as deep as four miles into the enemy line in the region of Maloyaroslavets shout seventy miles southwest of Moscow The Germans had massed their forces there to try to stem the Red Army assaults in that vital region between Moscow nnd Kaluga one anchor cf the capital's defense are these reports said Break Through At Night A British broadcast today said Russian break through German lines in a night attark with tanks fifteen miles southeast of Leningrad has put the Nazi troops around Lake Ladoga In danger of being rut off The British broadcast said the sudden ontlnught was coordinated with continuing Russian pressure westward from Tikhvin tn miles southeast of Leningrad The London broadcast added 1 he German force around Mozhaisk fifty seven miles directly west of Mtscow Is in similar danger of he ing rut off by Russian advances from Volokolamsk to the north Another broadcast from London said a German division has hern completely smashed In heavy Russian pressure upon Stalino northwest of Rostov on the southern front Pravda reported the Germans aro 'bendonln "scores" of vll'a'je on he Tuln front and said th Rtf-ians recaptured thirty five town a single day A broadcast of a Pravda rnrre-spondrnt's report from the Tula fiont SHid that the Germans were evacuating their troops from score of villages every day and General Boldin's Red Army men are tepidly pushing hark the mechanized army of German General Heinz Guderian Another report from southwest of Moscow said 100 villages hsd been recovered in a single day Three INvialona Smashed Rerapture of Plavsk was announced twenty four hours after reports that Russian troops had reoccupleri Volokolamsk sixty five miles northwest of Moscow after destroying the better pail of three' German Infantry divisions and one armored division Foreign correspondent who visit ed the front said that the 'Klin-Vulokolmsk road was littered with German bodies and wrecked equip ment They said (he scene Inril movement Indinaled the German are preparing for a swift attark to rlose the Mediterranean The object he said would he toj salvage the Libyan rampalgn and to offset the retreat In Russia The campaign obviously Is In the making" this source said may take the form nf stash through Spain and Portugal a drive through Turkey at Suez nr both or it may he a combined air and sea Jump Into North Africa from Greece and Italy like that made Into Crete A Rerlin hroaiYast recorded hy the Associated Press said the war is approaching its derisive phase and It la therefore understandable that Hitler should now take over supreme rnmmand of the army In order to arhiev even greater concentrations of German fnrros The speaker said th Winter rest meniinnrd in Hitler's appeal ferrd merely to ihe east front and declared Diet there were various nlher battlefields where if was he Ileved big thing sre in the offing oon Hitler who like to think nf him self as a man nf destiny mystically guided hy a providence that look out especially for the German peo pie had the world guessing over ni next meve The speculation undoubtedly was what the fuehrer hoped for when he ordered disclosure nf th" facl hid stripped th rnmmand of 'h Gorman Army from Vnn Hrau-diiirh as able a soldier a the rm-n Army ever produced and n-rsonnlly took over the Job The most noteworthy point In the official German explanation of Hitler's startling move was that Hitler the plodding little rorpcral of the World War la a military genius 'Today Germany Is In a fortunate position that her political leader I at the same time also a militarv enlns" said an official Rerlin -oadrsxi Kiefed To Rtin Arm The P'o hol-ii nf he Noi'ornd eliiin-r iiiolnd newspaper snying Hiller proh-ibly oilM nirtlst nctiuil army eoiiiinand In hi two intimate General Alfred Jodi and Colonel Geneial Frnnz Haliler General Jodi an arllllcry-mnn tia been a ort of personal advlsur to the fuehrer on military matters Haider ha been chief of the general staff of Ihe army The Rfnrkliolm rot respondent said the Swedish pres believed Hraiirhlivh'i amazing ouster wns other than military reason" Happened ll Meek The announcements from Rerlin nf the change (llsHosed that It ae Inally wa effective nn DecemW inih Jliiler himself gave no clue to the real reasons for hi move thnugh (Cnnllnueid (In I'sge B-A (ol'li NEW YORK Ier 22- 'AV British loops "ere Inflicting severe (kscs on Hie Jipanerc" who galnrd i fnniiinld In Sarawak on Ihe Dland of Borneo the RRC said lonishl In quilting a Rntavia dispatch WASHINGTON Dec 22 BUB Announcement of the sinking or damaging of at least fourteen enemy submarines in the Atlantic and several Japanese submarines in the Parific was "good today to capital that had just received navy department reports of enemy submarine activity off both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts Secretary cf Navy Frank Knox intimated the destruction of an estimated total of fourteen submarines in the Atlantic undoubtedly German or may have shattered an "Impending" axis undersea offensive aimed at slicing the United States' vital supply and convoy routes He also said the navy has I vely dpalt with aeveral Japanese Outlines New Tollry His statement outlined a new pol icy on reports of action against submarines Heretofore there have been no announcements of retaliatory moves hy the United States Navy sinre President Roosevelt or-dered It to shoot on sight the axis Henceforth Knox said he will give summaries of the losses inflicted on the nemy The enemy losses revealed by Knox covered the period sinpe the on sight" orders were Issued on September 11th Earlier the navy department's rommunique No 14 revealed that there were Indirations of "enemy submarine activity off the east coast" and reported details of the sinking of Emidio and the shelling of the Agwiworld near the California Coast Most Relieved German announcement did not denllfy the fourteen submarine bellevrd to have been sunk oi dnmaged in the Atlantic Most I hem presumably were German undersea raiders although Italy has boasted that her submarines are in action in the north Atlantic operating from channel coast bases Naval analysts believed the Jape nese submarines which Knox said were dealt with" in the Pacific may have hern several ot the forty or fifty long range ub which I he Japanese are hrllred If have In their fleet of 80 to 100 untlcrrcn craft Tlie navy lias been aware to some lime that enemy sulimnrinr activity in the near American waters was Knox said The release of Information of attacks on our shipping unacrom panled by Information as to what we are doing to protect it must not lie construed by the public as an indication that the navy has done nothing about he explained Assures I' PiiMIe can assure the public that the navy has already adequately dealt with more than one submarine which has sought to make attacks on our naval and merchant ships Immediate announcement of the strength and disposition of (he United Stales naval forces which are comhailing enemy submarines the methods that we have used and the plare and lime of our attacks upon them would provide the enemy with military information which he would dearly love to obtain Ry this Knox meant that the United States like the British re fuses to tip the Germans off aa to what has happened to submarines failing lo return to their bases Submarines do not report while at sea for their own safely Likewise an Immediate announcement of the the state guard called upon the governor today to emphasize the needs for adequate equipment of stnte force Donovan said the combined military experience nf the state officers present totaled M2 years B'll la reseed The assembly psssed a bill already approved hy the senate giving authority to cities counties and other governmental subdivisions tu ure local funds without regard to budgetary restriction for local de fense purposes It was returned to the senate for concurrence In minor amendments The bill rarriesiout one of the recommendations made by th governor In his opening message to the special session Despite the governor's objection to the propord twenty day recess the assembly proceeded to perfect its committee nrgsnirerion for making the Interim study of dfne and state guard legislation It adopted a resolution adding the names of the members nf the assembly rule committee to the budget commlllr which would conduct the Inquiries during the recess The senate would he permitted to name six additional mem hers to th Joint group and each house would provide £23(10 for firing the Investigation ith th two houses of the legis-a'ure still mil apart aft threat of nrpuiea over rrliiormn' t- fence the as-mblv side track Governor Olson's program and appropriate Jlnnonno as "slop gap" pending a twenty day study of the question The action followed a healed meeting nf the assembly's Joint way and means governmental efficiency nnd military affairs commit tee which reduced a senate appropriation from FincnniKi for th "mergency fund to 81000000 Ollier Bill In lair The cimmll'e d-rlln-rt to rpnrt ml a rcunl euro-'l h'M anoro-riming SinmWpno fur th unt' guard and Infi hrnrin" lo m'nnli three oilier motor defense hills including a promised ae propria tion for fit supprew-don Opponents of the governor' program contended their 8luxiixi slop gap apprnprinlinn plus money-on hand wilt lie sufficient to rare for the emergency until they return In special session on January 12lh Senator and assemblymen appear to he In agreement on one a proposal to permit peramis to resign from the stale guard within thirty days herause nf dependency Inability to sers'e ant aide the county of enlistment or because of physlrsl disability noth house passed hills In ae-omplish this purpose hut Ihev still must agiee on which bill Will finally he sent to I he governor Rilllon Refuse War Blueprint Temper were on edge at 111 cnmmlrie meeting which ran long' iContinucd Ok S-A Col A) (Continued On Page 8-A Col 4) War Requires Money Nation Needs Your Aid War need money! It will cost money to defeat Jnpnn Your government calls rn rou in help now Huy defense bond or stamps today Ruy them every day If you can Rut buy them on a regular basis Ronds cost aa litlla a 1873 alnntpa coma aa low aa 10 cents Defense bonds and stamps can be bought at all banks and post-orficea and stamps ran also ba purchased In retail stores The Bee urges all Americans to support thrlr government with their dollars Glv defense stamps and bonds for Christmas present Defense stamps may ba purchased In the business office nf The Be each week day be lwwn A- M- nl and from The Be carrier hoys (Continued On Page Col I) In The Bee Today PWW Calling AIK DoRflintiiiMMi iB Cirlnnnn iMiMmumn RB 1 City Nfwi In BriffnitiMMi 2A Clnu'lfiPri Advertising 6-7B Club News i 12A Comics a 4B Conirart Bridge im1U Crossword Fuzxle 4B Dorothy Dlx Editorials KB Financial News Markets Health 4B Household Arts -tlllA Glorifying Yourself Hary Hampton Public Thinks BB News Behind The News 8B Patterns Radio a MIMMMtaiMMMM 5R Serial Story aaaaataaaaaaaaa 6B SOClal NeWS aaataeaaaaaaaal2A Sports mi taaaaaateMta823B Vital Statistics aiaaiiMMiaa KB Your Baby And Mine 13A lly YATES SINGAPORE Dec iFi-Brlt-ish forces drawn up on a new line across the Malay Peninsula shout Wt mile nnith of Singapore were reported today to hnve smashed heavity at fotca gathei-n-: for a lov c- 1 ih" impor-ciil I ii nliini: rvi nf 1kiIi The h'iUlr a communique said re Jute snni'wliei nn the main highway lending soul Ii from (Irik when- ibe Japanese hnt hern using ihe Perak River lo move up rcinforcrnienl by raft trmqta engager! the enemy and Inflicted heavy Ihe bulletin declareil Ilne la Trarnl It Indicated that the new HrliMi line was anchored on I he west side of the peninsula In the vicinity nf Kuala Kangssr about twenty miles north nf lph snd 310 miles from Singapore From Kitsl Knngsar the front apparently extended eastward through Kuala Krai whith la aim-ated on Ihe rentrai Malayan Kail road about forty fixe miles south of Kota Rlintit where the Jnian made (heir Initial 'anrling on the crocr Ileccmlier Nt Withdrawn! In lltia line Ihe llrll-Ith said wa effected aucresritilly despite attempted Japanese interference In Hie air nnd on Ihe land the renter part of the Hnllili fotec and the majuiliy nf alnres nnd cqiiiinienlN Imi hriiuglit nut in a sene uf night mn rmrnlx nt aiidrume fncilillc In northern KeUntan and the vtilner ability nf iiininmiiicat inna" pi imipt ed a derivliin Severn I tli VS Sint In (I iiiiiliuied (In I'ago W-A t'nl 71 (Continued On Page 8-A Col t) Turkish President Receives Von Papen NEW YORK lie- 22 Hie rad I leported tint Ismel liiiimi of Tut key received German Ambassador Frnnz vnn today al an audience attrn(ld by luiki-h Foidgn Minister Sukiu Satacnglu The broadcast was heard line by CHS Reds Chinese Dutch Discuss War Unity With Roosevelt destruction of a boat would tip mg the submarine shelled their life hf (jprnmn off t0 movr (Continued On Page S-A Col t) Iment of a convoy or warships FOR MOTIF-EFFECTI FRESH of YOUR GROCERS' One piece of fine Specimen Purmlur will bring new gra-cum dignity and charm lo room's to a room's character! 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MEETS A NEED or added qwntiiiet of VITAMINS and IRON that Ihe joint planning for unity nf art Inn Will lie extended Russia China the Netherlands and oilier Kovernmenl engaged In the rommnn cause of defeat ing the axis Stephen Rally presidential sec rotary remarked of today's rnnfr-enres however that they are of a preliminary" nature Mtvlnnv firt nf the Allied diplomats nn the White House engagement list spent less than half an hour with Rnoevet and departed without divulging to reporter any detail of hi rail The Chines amliasadnr sod the Netherlands minister likewise wro silent when they ronrluded thlr rnnferonres with Ihe chief WASHINGTON -c 22- 'AV-Presldrnt Rooeevell today took preliminary steps in planning for unity of action" hy the cun trie combatting the axi In con ferenre with the Russian Chinese and Netherlands envoj to the United Slates The chief executive talked separately with Maxim Litvinov the Russian ambassador Dr Hu Khih th Chin ambassador and A toudn th Netherlands minister He saw Iord Halifax lh Hnlish ambassador yesterday The While House said all these conference are in line with an announcement Katurriay nisht that Britain and the United Ktate already have taken step Inward coordination nf th war effort and SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM WITH ELECTRICAL GIFTS Modern electrical appliance are the perfect home gift We feature MIF4M MtM4nR MIK4M (nmrMtSTIK -StMIMH IRONMAWTFKH MIMM TOAVTKKH Want lan In person will ileltser gift Item purchased here nn ChrUtma lve BARRETT-HICKS CO I nit RRUAimAY re rrfclM III Ovtf nsweiMt (-- Be lUve Tkrllt Pair nutter Items resMl (SKA DUTCH TOAST heWL "ET I 1 4 1 i.