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Lines Stiffen Nazis ast 7 Die, Zcffi Spans of Laigest Girder Bridge Plunge 150 Feet to Wafer Believed Against Red Thrusts Basin I ThroughD Reply (fcorgia Schools Lose Accredited Ranking in Row LOUISVILLE, Ky Dec. 4. (AP) -Ten state colleges of Georgia were dropped today from the accredited list of the southern association of colleges and secondary schools because of "unprecedented and unjustifiable political interference" by Gov. Eugene Talmadge. Gov.

Talmadge brought charges on which the board of regents of the university system of Georgia dismissed Dr. Marvin Pittman, for mer president of the. Georgia State College for Women, and Dr. Walter Cocking, dean of the school of education at th4 University, of Georgia, charging that they favored teaching of whites and negroes in the same schools. Today's action by the association becomes effective Sept.

The following institutions of higher learning in the GecrgU system are effected: University of Georgia. Georgia Tech, Georgia's State College for Women, Georgia State Woman's College, Georgia Teachers College, Georgia Southwestern College, Middle Georgia college. South Georgia College, North Georgia College and West Georgia College. The action will not effect credits earned by students prior to Sept. 1 of next year, and the' Georgia schools may apply for return to the accredited list at next year's meeting.

In Atlanta, when informed of the association's action-. Governor Talmadge said: I hope the Atlanta Constitution and the Atlanta Journal are satisfied. "I am proud that the degrees of the university students -ore not af the entire spans, crashing into the water with a rof that could be heard for blocks. An hour after the collapse workmen still were struggling in -the water. An emergency call was sent to the' United States- Coast Guard base at New London and diver were hurried here by automobile.

As quickly as the workmen were dragged from the river 'they were bundled into blankets and taken to hospitals. Eddie state highway department rivet inspector, said he had left the bridge only five minutes before it gave way. "I was just about to go up again," he said, "'when one of the painters stopped me to talk for a while. Just then the whole thing collapsed." He donned a steel helmet, helped rescue men floundering in the water and aided in a search tor missing men. Monroe, a bridge worker of 30 years' experience, said be had played a hunch and hadn't reported for work today.

had a hunch yesterday something was going to happen," he said. "So I. said to myself, I'm (Continued on Page 13, Col. Black arrows show how Germans. are continuing pressure toward' Moscow In the Volokolamsk area, where Russians admit a "serious -situation'' exists, and according to London reports, German reinforcements were mortar Into the Mariupol area to stem the Russian southern drive.

White arrows shew where Russians claim 'to have made gains near Moscow, and the direction of reported thrusts in the Rostov attack. ajor Japjress Says U.S. Document Not Acceptable Unofficial Observers Report No Progress in Negotiations the Associated Press TOKYO, Friday, Dec. 5. The authoritative Japanes-2 news agency Domel said today that "Japan cannot the stipulations of the document which the United States government handed to the Japanese ambassador Nov.

26, in the course negotiations aimed at maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Quoting observers described' as thoroughly reliable, although unofficial, Domel said: a document cannot srve as a basic datum in Japanese-American negotiations henceforth "Japanese-American conversations -have taken place twice since the United States handed over to Japan "the document in question, and the United States government has sent the Japanese Inquiries pertaining to certain questions. Ne Evidence of Progress "But there is no tangible evidence of progress of the negotiations. Because of Domei's close connections with the government, Americans considered the Domel statement to be an accurate forecast of the; eventual Japanese reply to the American questions. i -(The Tokyo radio, in a broadcast heard in New York by NBC, referred to the Domel statement and said, "a peaceful solution is becoming more difficult every day as the anti-Japanese encirclement is being continuously tightened on the Instigation of United tne-i'nited States and Britain try to keep Thailand out of the East Asia prosperity sphere, that fact alone will be a.

most eer lous threat to peace as far as Japan is concerned. cannot' tolerate any in trnsion by the Anglo Saxon powers 'into her natural economic and political expansion towards south-em Asia.) Hall n-Agrression Document. -The Domel reference was to the document which Secretary Hull; on 26," handed to the two chief Japanese envoys conducted definitive negotiations in Washington. 7 (This set forth the basic principles -which the U. S.

feels must be observed byall nations, including Japan; if peace is to be achieved and maintained in the Pacific. These -i fundamental enumerated by Hull in 1937. would, in their practical application require Japan to en her armed expansion in the Far East, withdraw military (Continued on Page 15. CoL 5) Christmas Sales Will Set Sy2 Billion Mark WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.

The Commerce department today estimated that Chrtmas retail sales' this year would set a record of approximately $5,500,000,000. This total, technically an estimate of December business, was $750,000,000 larger than last year, The department 'added, however, that about half the Increase represented 1 merely higher prices and guessed that the Increase in actual units sold will be about 5 per cent. onets Germans Ask; Support from Allies to Halt Drive, (By Associated Press) BERLIN, Dec. 4. Powerful and relentless Russian- tank, cavalry and infantry charges on the Rostov and Donets basin fronts were reported tonight in German newa dispatches which said the Nazis had called upon their Italian and Slovak allies in an effort to halt tint Red army.

-Swariasofj Russian axrlanej also-fell Hi-tne rAxis armies, one dispatch revealed, in i saytnj 100 Red planes had been downj 'v i planes also were reported roaring to. the aid of their' ground forces. In one 1 indentured sector German- dive bombers. destroyed 16 Soviet tanks and a Red regiment, a dispatch said. territory is of r.o" importance to us, a military spokesman commented on the Russian drives.

"The fighting Is a fanatic Russian effort to recover lost ground. No sacrifice in men and materials seems too great for them. Our object is to destroy the enemy and our advantage is that we can conduct an elastic defense and choose the battlefields giving us strategic The spokesman ridiculed Soviet reports that the Reds had reached Taganrog, 40 miles west of Rostov which the Germans abandoned after hailing-its capture as "the spigot to the Russian aid barrel." "The Reds are nowhere near Tag- (Continued page 15, CoL 7) Enraged Bull Gores, Kills Aged Farmer MANITOWOC, Dec. 4. (AP) Henry Tesarik, 58, was gored and fatally injured late yesterday by, an enraged bull which had escaped from its pen on Tesarik's Town of Kossuth farm.

Tesarik disd three hours later. The bull wandered abom. the throughout yesterday aft-crnocn. After he had finished with fsrin duties Tesarik- attempted to drive the beast back Into its pen. The bull charged.

Tesarik stumbled and fell in trying to elude it. As Mrs. Tesarik looked on helplessly, Tesarik was gored and trampled. azis HARTFORD, Conn, Dec. 4.

CUP) VSeven workmen were lulled, six were believed missingfind 17 were injured today three huge spansof the world's largest girder bridge, being constructed over the Connecticut river, collapsed and plunged 150 feet Into the water with an estimated 30 men. Divers were grappling in the water on the possibility -that the men unaccounted for may have been pinned beneath the wreckage. Pointing to the water, State Police Commissioner Edward, Ilickey One of. the" workmentold that there are six othera inthere. The divers, severals hoursafter the accident, had recovered the bodies of six of the victims.

Eight bf the injured were desl The collapsing spans carried with them a 26-ton mobile crane, operated by place, which was being, used to swing girders into position. The sollapse came when a 88-ton girder slipped from tha crane and smashed into several others Sighing about 95 tons each, and which the workmen were preparing to slip the new section into place. The girders gave way, then Nazi Moves on Turk-Bulgaria Border Hinted NEW YORK, Dec' 4 (AP) Travelers who left Sofia recently reported today, according to European advices to the Associated Press, that Germany is taking military measures along the Bulgarian-Turkish frontier, including erection of highway signs in German pointing the way to' Svilengrad, on -Bulgaria's Turkish frontier, What German troops 7 were seen In Bulgaria apparently were-headed in the direction of the Turkish the travelers reported. Svilengrad is the last station on the railway; from Bulgaria before it enters Turkey. 1 Hizhwav siffns formeily vf directions toTPOinta taweste.

garia pr Yugoslav centers have been removed, it wa3, ad. 4 The i general impretsioa ot the observers was that while possibly the Germans 3 were anticipating American lease-lend aid to Turkey the i comparatively minor German maneuvering was intended to back up Germany In the diplomatic contest lor Turkey's favor. The Bulgarian army has concentrated its major forces in the Turkish sector since the days before Bulgaria joined the Axis. European observers from time to have contended that if Bulgaria entered the Axis war it would beonli one against Turkey, her traditionaTioe. Boy, 2 Girls Get Murder Sentence BEL AIR, Md, Dec.

4. (AP) Herbert H. Cox, Jr, lB-yeax-old Alexandria, youth, was sentenced to 12 years in the Maryland penitentiary today for second degree murder in the slaying of Grainger O. Browning. His two Ida May Price, 15, and Leona Ellen Cunningham, 14, were sentenced as accessories after, the fact to be confined In the Montrose school for girls until they reach the age of 21.

Judge Frederick Lee Cobourn said that in the judgment of officials cf that institution they may be released sooner. Defense counsel had entered a plea of guilty for young. Cox on condition that murder charges against the two girls be dropped. The girls pleaded guilty as accessories after the fact. All three had been indicted for slaying the 38-year-old North Carolina carpenter the night of Oct.

to this dispatch, and said he would not send it to battle against British blockade ships. This dispatch said Goering asked for the naval base of Bizerta, in Tunisia, and that Petain refused to cede it, but it did not mention the status of 'other French African ports. The- French censors at Vichy passed a dispatch saying Petain asked Goering Monday to let us re-arm we want to defend our empire but give us the means to defend it." Germany so far, however, has shown no indication cf letting France have more than the 100.000 home troops and the French colonials she was given in the Compeigne armistice terms, the dispatch said. France and Great Siitain now are dickering in East Africa over the fate of French Somaliland, surrounded on three sides by territory the British have wrested from Italy, and blockaded into near-starvation, according to French re-' (Continued of page 15 col. 2) Tells of Attack i i i i Matilda Le Boyer (above), 17-year old brunette, testified at U'hite Plains, N.

that she gave birth to a baby In Baltimore bat that it lived only a short time. She accused Isaac A. Brown, insurance salesman, of seducing her and attempting to kill her. Stern Strike Curb Routed into Sennte Wallace Steers. Bill 'to ModerateXabor ir i-: Committee i WASHINGTON, Dec.

(AP) Vice President Wallace" took a hand today in senatorial controversy-over legislation to strike by routing; jthehpuse-approved SmltbTblll to itie modej-fcte-minded labor committee, instead of the Sterner committee. pAlthough ChairmanVVan Nuys (D-Ind.) of the latter group explained toT reporters it was not seeking to obtain control of the drastic house measure, Wallace announced he 4 was assigning the bill to.the labor afer "most careful' Senator Hill the whip, the Smith measure -wouM-be given'-speedy study the" labor-group and probably would be reported out in some form for consideration of the senate next Monday. -The labor committee already has approved a much milder bill by Senator. Ball setting up (Continued on Page 15, CoL 3) Man Shot in Chest, Coughs Up Bullet FORT WORTH, Dec. 4.

(AP) "I coughed this up," M. Wood," 44, told hospital attendants, exhibiting a 22 caUber bullet ri dldnt like the taste of lead," Wood explained he was investigating a noise at his place '45 miles from Fort Worth and his' pistol dropped to the floor, discharging ence. He drove to Port Worth. -The bullet entered the chest, and ranged upward, 'missing lungs, vital veins and arteries, and lodged in the throat. "This couldn't happen again in a million years," one doctor said, predicting Wood would be out of the hospital; In two or three days.

ft yr- i Mfr the films, lost her footing on the ood and struck her head against explains to a friend how a deep Is keeping her bed. It win be to return to 1 "1 1 3 iese to U. Notes Expected Today Pacific War or Peace May i Hinge on Tokyo Answer By RICHARD L. TURNER WASHINGTON. Dec.

4. (APJ Foreboding statements at Tokyo and significant developments here to night indicated an imminent mayor break In the far-eastern crisis one upon which-, may hang the question of peace or war. An official of the Japanese em bassy announced that its diplomats would carry to the state department tomorrow Tokyo's answer to Presi dent Roosevelt's pointed demand for an explanation of large-scale Japanese troop movements vwhich seemed to threaten an invasion of Thailand (Siam). Perhaps, the same official said, they will -take with them the long awaited reply to toe. memorandum in which Secretary of State Hull re-stated last week America's un alterable opposition to Japanese aggression.

Domel Expects Rejection Meanwhile, Domel, authoritative Japanese agency, circulated a dispatch saying the Hull declaration of principles cannot stand as a basis for continued negotiations Innklnr toward maintenance of Deace in the Pacific, It merely quoted "observers' as its authority for this How ever, its close ties with the Tokyo government are well known and the dispatch was widely regarded as an accurate forecast of what-Japan would say in answer to Domei's dispatch was preceded, moreover, by a series of pessUnistla statements from: government Jead ers and Japane newspapers; The latterwere" saidwJa have expressed "shocked surprise and extreme pes-simtem at -statements' HuOT These statement they thought indicated an unbridgable gap between Washington and Tokyo. Jap Mexican Staff Leaving" gloomy expectation of portentous developments here, was further increased by a dispatch from Mexico City which told of the Japanese diplomatic staff there making hurried preparations for a return to Japan, Their activities were reportedly prompted by the arrival of a courier from Washington bringing confidential reports of the progress of the American-Japanese negotiations. The Japanese minister to Mexico and the legation's second secretary applied at the United States consulate for transit visas which would permit them and their families to board ship at Los Angeles. A number of Japanese, residents of the Mexican'? capital were reported trying to dispose quicJUy of their Mexican properties in the belief, it was said, that Mexico would inevitably be 'drawn into any war between the United States and Japan. Washington has been awaiting a reply to Hull's memorandum for more than a week.

Tokyo has been formulating its answer in a long and deliberative series of cabinet meetings. While these were coins on re ports of heavy and Increasing Jap anese troop concentrations in French Indo-China were received and believed by the government here. tin fthvintlis threat- tn Thnilariff oe- the next step in tne Japanese ex-. pansioh to the southward. All" indications were, moreover, that if Japan should attack Thailand, the the Chinese and the Dutch were ready to fights Recalling meanwhile that' Jap anese peace consultation here had been interrupted several months ago by the Japanese seizure of Indc China, President Roosevelt on Tuesday asked.

the Japanese gov ernment for an explanation. His inquiry was regarded as an (Continued on Page 13, CoL 3 Convict Kills Guard, Prison Warden's Son MOUNDS VILLE, W. Va Dec. 4. (UP) A convict on a West Vir ginia1 road detachment -tonight shot and killed auard Philip "Ket' chum, 23, son of E.

Ketchum, warden at tiie' Moundsvllle state State police said the convict, whose name was hot disclosed ta, meaiawiy, wrencnea tne gun from the detachment of convicts on a road detail at eight miles soutai.of here, and killed Ketdrim instantly. fiiot Jjies as XNlavy Plane Hits Canyon SAN DIEGO, Dec 4" aP A navy plane plunged to earth with terrific speed, and crashed in flames in Flint canyon. 23 miles northeast today, kiaing the pilot. The navy indicated the craft was a single-seater fighter. The pilot was Albert W.

Jaworski, 22, a marine second lieutenant from Havre, Mont, Japan Kenosha' Manager Backed by Council KENOSHA. Dec. 4. (AP) While striking municipal employes launch-a campaign demanding that the city ouncll "proceed Immediately to settle the strike," the council last night ordered stricken from the union's demands (he section asking removal of City Manager LeRoy Wolfe. By a 4 to 3 vote the council adopt ed the recommendation, offered as a condition- upon which it would negotiate remaining union The labor majority of the body voted for the measure.

The union again declared it would not compromise upon its demands and listed as of major importance for settlement of the strike, now in its ninth day, the dismissal of Wolfe. Other' demands Include usion recognition, seniority: rights; collective bargaining; civu servicer reinstatement 5 discharged employes and no loss of pay during the strike. Wolfe, meanwhile," urged the council to request the "union to permit Issuance of pay checks lor. police and firemen and school teachers. The union refused to 'ccede.

The teachers'i payroll, of $59,000 will be due Friday, but checks, will not be issued because, the -city clerk is amonsrhe strikers. Britain Bombs 1 Axis in Libya Raids Prelude to New Tank Thrust.at Tobruk mv Associated Freest CAIRO. Dec. 4. British bombers hammered Axis troops concentrations Inside Libya tonight as a prelude to another British tank leap toward Tobruk in an effort to split the German and Italian forces, front reports said.

Only sporadic ground fighting In which the British smashed three Italian tanks and attacked other small Axis units southeast of Tobruk were reported by (he British command which told of another 24-hour lull in operations. Rain hampered operations and both sides were assembling their waning tank strength for an imminent clash. The. main battle zone waa south of Tobruk in the Rezegh area held by the Nazis. The British spearhead stretched southward from Rezegh to Blrei Gobi with mobile columns keeping the British supply line open to Sidi Omar near the frontier.

The Axis pocket fortifications cf Salum-Half aya near the Mediterranean coast still were intact, but British artillery and planes continued to blast at them to avert any danger to the British supply line to the south, which is feeding the forces far in the interior. Woman May Get Back Scalp Lost in Mixer TOROTTO, Ont Dec. (UP) Hilda Pettman, 24, lost- her scalp but may get it back again if atwo-and-one-half-hour emergency-: operation, performed today, is successful. The young woman's hair became entangled in a mixing machine last night at the factory where she works. Someone's quick thinking in throwing the belt off a drive shaft saved her life.

Miss Pettman, who was to have been married on Saturday, faced the prospect of disfigurement for life until hospital surgeons decided there was a 50-50 chance of grafting the scalp back in place. Dr. J. Danls performed the-operation. Dr.

Danls said it would be a week before 'It was known whettier the restoration attempt had succeeded. fected by the ruling- end will not be The two newspapers' have" criticized the governor vigorously for his removal of faculty members. iw ii Jin. hii on Strike in Arms Plant Continues Settlement Hinges oh Controversial Union Demands By-Uniied Press Settlement of a strike at the 000,000 Ravenna, O. ordnance project hinged Thursday night, on the; controversial union shop demand by four different unions two indepen dent and two AFL.

Wage gain issues reportedly were dissolved in agreement, between labor and management representatives. The Atlas Power company, operator of the ordnance base, has declined to sign general contracts with the unions, however i Negotiations continued in an ef fort to speed lull operations at the huge plant. Some 11,000 construc tion workers (AFL didvnot Join the strike and building work continued apace. The strikers werer members of the Arsenal Workers of Amer ica, the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen, both independent, and the AFL firemen's and AFL machinists unions. Management spokesmen said fewer than 200 men were striking.

At Washington, the senate labor committee prepared for considera- Continued on page 2 col. 8) Actress Anne Nagel, Army Flyer Married BOSTON. Dec. 4. (UP)-Screen Actress Anne Nagel and fieut.

James H. Keenan of the U. SjArmy Air corps were married in s-sur-prise ceremony here today after a brief courtship. Girl Freed in Death of Texas Cattleman HOUSTON. Dec.

4. (APj Lucyle Richards was freed by a Jury to day from charges of shooting -to death Frank Dew, cattleman, in his apartment last April 27. The case went to the jury late yester day. entin, south of Paris, on Monday, German Air 'Hermann Goering obtained permission from French Marshal Philippe Petain for the Germans to occupTSll naval and air bases in French North. Africa.

In return, Germany agreed, according to these reports, not to touch the French fleet, to liberate some French war prisoners and to reduce the "occupation costs." which have drained from 300,000,000 to 400,000,000 francs a day from the French treasury since the armistice and left finances in chaos. Another dispatch to the United Press from a thoroughly informed source said Goering asked Petain to use the French fleet to break the, British Mediterranean blockade and to escort ships loaded with minerals and rubber from North Africa to France, for use by "the German war machine. Petain flatly refused to use the fleet for anything except to protect French according Reinforcements from Crimea Called Up, Reds Claim By the Associated Press LONDON, Dec. 4. Stiffened German resistance on the Rostov Mariupol front, where the retreating main Nazi armies were understood to be urgently -up reinforcements from the Crimea Jn an effort to break the most powerful Russians; jeounter-offensive of the war, wait reported, tonight in advices.

This was accompanied by Indications that German pressure on the great Black sea naval base, hi the Crimea and far the most important of Hitler's objectives on that peninsula, had been in consequence mucn weakened, by the diversion of these substantial Germans Lose Tanks," Trucks On the Moscow front, the midnight Soviet, communique announced. 4,400 Germans had been wiped out, and tfoo more "annihilated" in the southwest. Coordinated land and air attacks to the latter sector were said to have taken a heavy toll of German tanks and trucks. While a correlated sta-engthening of Field Marshal Ewald von Kleist's (Continued on Page 15-. Col.

2 War Analysis By KIRKE L. SIMPSON Wide World War Analyst Striking -at their foes all" along the eastern front from Leningrad to Sevastopol, Russian, armies are making a mockery of recent Nazi statements that the morale of the Red army has been shattered and Its staff utterly disorganized. i y. The. fight that Hitler and his spokesmen at home have been telling the people was already won has back-fired in their faces.

A German retreat from Rostov-on-Don, still unchecked, could go dewn in history as a repetition of Napoleon's tragic with irawal from Moscow, It might be the turning point of the European war. Russian staff strategists outguessed their Nazi rivals at a critical moment. They lured their foe deliberately into the Rostov trap, only to turn on him in a double or triple envelopment drive. Russian reports of a panic -flight of Nazis along the coastal road toward Mariupol, 100 miles west of Rostov, may be overdrawn; in fact, the' latest word is that the German resistance has somewhat stiffened. The Nazi commander probably realized his danger in time as Russian columns to the north, forging toward his successive communication lines, broke through lnadeqate (Continued on Page 15.

Coi; 2 Mother, 3 Children -Die inxStove Blast fcDMORE, Mich. Defer 4. (UP) A few charred timbers today stood as a grim 'cenotaph a mother and her three small children who perished oil stove exploded and sent their home up in flames. Mrs. Lucille Wrlsley, 26, died of burns in an Bdmore hospital not far from their Vestaburgi home.

Her children. Alice. 5. Wilma. 3and Stanley, six months old, were burned to death in the tiny tarpaper shack that served the family for a home.

The father Lester Wrisley, was at work in Edmore when the explosion and fire occurred. He said the stove had been defective for some time. Young Actress Hurt in Fall Demand French African Naval and Air Bases Report (By Waited Presa) -Germany, had made the long-expected demand for French naval and air bases In Africa, arguing that they must be protected against possible American or British invasion, according to reliable reports from Europe Thursday night. There were conflicting view as-to whether France complied, but the best indications wore: that she had rejected another demand for tjhe use of her powerful fleet. The crisis has been brought to a head by the British Imperials' campaigi in Libya.

German and Italian armies there are cut off from all but air-borne supplies, due to the British blockade of the Mediterranean. France could possibly save the day far the Axis powers by turning over Tunisian, ports for supply bases and using her fleet to break the blockade. The question of whether France will do so is the key to the whole African situation, Reports circulated in London that at the conference in St. Flor- t'y Jane Withers, young actress of set of "Not for Children" In Iloolyw the sharp -edge of a door. Her she scarp wound and slight concussion several days before she will be able.