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The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 1

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puss 0 TEMPERATURE (For 24-hour period tndlng at ieven a today) MlnMax MlnMax Ogden 62 91 Omaha 66 S7 Albuquerque 6fi 92 Provo 50 93 Atlanta 73 86 Rock Springs 52 85 Chicago 53 Salt Lake 57 90 Denver 57 90 San Antonio 71 93 Grand June 70 93 St Louis 69 85 Minneapolis 64 84 Sheridan 55 87 New Orleans 76 93 Tlntic 46 S9 New York 62 79 Washington 64 71 WEATHER Sontterrd thun derstorms mostly ovf mountains this fcnins FINAL EDITION 16 PAGES Wide World Newt Servlc OGDEN CITY UTAH THURSDAY EVENING AUGUST 6 1942 The Cnttrd Frrm The AociateJ Vt ntv-thinl No 15 He's Convicted Bolster ATH FACED aimgrad DE ooscvelt Vetoes AN AMER1C risis on reedom GW India nciepentleiit Unit AIDING NAZIS Hp peed Rubber 1 RUSSIA Timoshenko's Line Sags Under Weight of German Army Gandhi Prepares Speech Before Masses on Friday Stephan To Be Hanged Creates Committee to I I I 1 1 i 3 1 1 I iv rvl I i 4 ill i Look Into Whole NAZI PINCERS CRIPPS IS STILL FIRM rvi: Azov KusMCHEVKAly astrakhanY Japs Occupy More Isles Soviet Defenses Crumble Under Superior November 13 in Michigan GUILTY OF TREASON Sentence Claime First One of Kind During Past 148 Years Program BARUCH HEADS TRIO Use of Grain Would Hit War Production Says President In Tightening Ring Near Australia 5 NOVOROSSJSK £i3XlV -V-SO BOMBAY Aug 6 (AP) The issue of Indian independence approached a new crisis WM PELLEY Guilty of sedition DETROIT Aug 6 (AP) today as the All-India con- jj ti Manpower MOSCOW Aug 6 (AP) Russia's carefully saved reserves were moving into the battle today as Marshal Sem-eon i o's troops fought back bitterly against a new threat to Stalingrad on the battleground where the fledgling Red army made history in the 1917 revolution Dispatches which indicated for the first time that the reserves uwrp eoinc into action against the WAHHINVTOX Aug fi (AIM Asivrting St hl vir pi- oT the war effort Pr Rooccvclt vo- PELLEY HDPEFUL DF NEW TRIAL TUP KEY -LX 1 t' I iv I tin to err-! to -timuht pvuhhiion of rub- h-r rrrnin and simul- STATVTO MIICS gress committee assemoiea for meeting tomorrow prepared to put teeth in its demand by asking Mohandas Gandhi to lead the masses in a passive struggle for freedom Actually the proposal ready to be put before the committee boiled down to this choice for Britain make India free now and win her 350000000 people as fighting allies or withhold independence and face "a mass struggle on non-violent 1 1 Faces Maximum Term of 220 Years in noo'i-'-'y created a rorruruttrp i l'ok into 1 1 wlio! rub- ia aincy jikau Mr Koosetelt today annoum-nnl ttuit ht had M't up a thr'-mn comnntt' lioadt-d by liernani Harm'ti atove to Mutly th utiro yiithftic rtihrr proyraiu liiruoli was (liairinan of the war industries hoard in World war I The other nwrnhers will be Dr datiMs Ii t'onant president of llarard imiersity and Dr Karl Coinpton presitlent of laa4 hiiM-tts Institute of 1 i NAZIS CRASH THROUGH RED LINES With Russians believed planning to defend a front (broken line) from Sea of Azov south to Caucasus and then north to Kletskaya Germans broke through in Belaya Glina sector (1) and claimed capture of Kropotkin Russians also admitted withdrawals in Tsimlyansk and Kletskaya (3) sectors Prison terrific German offensive said the battle line apparently had been stabilized at both flanks near Kletskaya 80 miles northwest of Stalingrad and Kuschchevka on the Yeya river 50 miles south of Rostov Soviet Line Sags The line still sagged however under the weight of nazi numerical superiority in the Belaya Glina Max Stephan first person in 14S years to be convicted of treason in United States courts was sentenced in federal court today to be hanged District Judge Arthur Tattle directed that Stephan German-born American citizen be hanred on November 13 1942 within the walls of the federal detention prison at Milan Mich Headed Nazi Flier Stephan was convicted in federal court here of aiding: the flight of a nazi flier escaped from a Canadian concentration camp "The life of this traitor Max Stephan is less valuable than the lives of our loyal sons which are being given in the cause of the United States" said Judge Tuttle in pronouncing sentence "We have been too soft to the extent of being mushy There are too many in the sob squad and too few in the fighting squad This is no ordinary war We talk of soldiers and we think of death not in figures of thousands but in figures of millions If the lives of many of our boys are to be taken to help such a cause this (Continue' on Page Tsro) tColumn Eii) lines on the widest possible scale" The working committee sent its I'roHrm rr u-u- hn was I- hi' -ir hoard th li-t chairman of nmuff irusn-d to reoori-j tb- pr'-rtm to produce -vn' i'" in-'tv sary far tr i 'ir srrt iil km -h Bara are Dr -i 4 52 ('! irrt of Har- and Dr Karl Boats Confab proposal to the main body with an Secret Concrete Figure in Steel expression of hopelessness in ap pealing again to Britain and the united nations and all sources here PROFITS agreed that the program virtually was certain to be ratified of issaehu- WASHINGTON Aug 6 A mysterious Mr Mur Cripps Repeats Stand (Britain's stand was reiterated U' ray told a senate military subcommittee today of a formula miiM lltnii" nr LIMIT URGED Senator Favors Junking Of Present System On Contracts last night in London by Sir Stafford Cripps who headed an unsuccessful mission to India last spring Britain he declared in a for making concrete submarines so secret that he didn want the official stenographer to take down what he said ft by congress it h- of thf farm After Chairman Lee (D-Okla) of a the newspaper statement intended to "preserve law and order" in India waited 45 minutes for the man to GANDHI'S MOVE until after the war then give the appear lor a puonc nearing me inventor chemist or whatever he Indian people an opportunity to INDIANAPOLIS Aug 6 William Dudley Pelley convicted on 11 counts of criminal sedition and conspiracy and facing a possible maximum sentence of 220 years in prison based his hopes for freedom today on a new trial A motion for a new trial will be filed within three days Defense Attorney Floyd Christian said and if it is denied the case will be appealed promptly to the circuit court of appeals in Chicago The spruce little man who once headed the silver shirts of America was convicted last night by a federal court jury which also convicted two business associates Lawrence A Brown and Miss Agnes Marian Henderson Brown and Miss Henderson were found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit sedition The three were officers of the Fellowship Press a publishing house at Noblesville Ind where magazine The Galilean was printed once a week The government charged statements in the Galilean were made "wilfully to cause or attempt to cause insubordination disloyalty mutiny and refusal of duty (in military forces) and also to obstruct attain self-government Itl to (Britain he said was as deter was asKea ror an executive session declined to identify himself 't Tt 5111 'i ISO WQ'liJ "1 (V -1 i'all co- i li i'-i vc r-v by Wi'U i to rrik? trrtiil in NOTED BY US mined as the Indians themselves WASHINGTON Au-r 6 (AD Chairman George ID-Gv) of the fnaiKe committee ex-prr-scd th2 opinion today that to junk the present of renegotiating military sector 100 miles southeast or uos-lov and near Kotelnikovski south of the Don 95 miles southeast of Stalingrad Thus Stalingrad the Pittsburgh of Russia was threatened today by a German pincer from two sides Hnd nazi forces penetrated deeper into the Caucasus against what appeared to be a weaker soviet resistance said the United Press Successive Russian defense lines gave way before the weight of the Germans' superiority in manpower and weapons and there was nothing in official advices from Moscow to indicate that Red army reserves were available for an offensive at any key point Superiority of the German air masses of dive bomber3 level bombers and which is cooperating closely with German tank and infantry forces was said by a Red air force commander to be a major factor in breaking the Russian lines At Belaya Glina the threat to the north Caucasus was greatest continued the A At Kotelnikovski the menace to Stalingrad was sharpened by the danger of a by-passing drive toward Astrakhan on the Caspian sea 240 miles to the east or by the possibility of a within the hearing of reporters and to see the vast sub-continent self-governing but asked them to be told Lee he would prefer that the DUTCH QUEEN SPURNS NAZIS WASHINGTON Aug 6 (AP) patient "not because we want to stenographer not record his re delay but because the hard facts establish an over- eo-rtraots marks His request for the closed of war make a complete change all limitation on war pro hearing was granted The state department watched closely today the ominous turn of events in India where a campaign of mass civil disobedience threat impossible at the Before the man appeared Lee 1 i I hi 1 rf rubfr i i Mr I'' cf p'irts i an! thit 1 f-r British Denounced Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru former ens unless nationalist demands for immediate independence are granted -1 it the iti' WASHINGTON Aug 8 (AD Wilhelmina of the Netherlands the first queen in her own right to visit the told congress today that "no surrender" remains the motto of her people suffering though they are under the alien rule of an invader in Asia and in "officials avoided comment either WASHINGTON Aug 6 (UP) War Production Chairman Donald Nelson said today that he believed plans for turning out big cargo planes would "be worked out in a short time" in a manner favorable to the new mass production methods proposed by Henry Kaiser west coast shipbuilder on the All-India congress working president of the congress party took the stump himself last night to explain the "quit India" resolution and to denounce again the British government's disclosure of material seized in a police raid on congress headquarters at 0er-AU Knoledie i s-iil that to take cut cf the ha:" Is of f-i ro Two) o-r- statenient was prompted bv on appeal by Henry li For-raii cf Montdair for repeal cf provisions of the law which permit the army and navy to renegotiate contracts to scale down prof: At Mine Conclave Speaking for the American Mining the witness said this provision create-J confusion and interfered with operations of the execs prcfts levies of the tax laws George interrupted to say htat he behoved that the renegotiation provision was "entirely unworkable" adding that the committee was gong to have to deal with His audience of 10000 seated on a grass parK in uie cotton mm section of Bombay applauded when he said he wanted the people's Europe The grandmotherly monarch addressing a joint session of the house and senate said: "Imagine what it means for a liberty-loving country to be in bondage for a proud country to be subject to martial alien rule "What would be the American answer if an invader tried to cover said he understood he had not so much plans for a submarine itself but a formula for water-proofing concrete for use in making a submarine He was the only one rRrlNCI' GERMANS BOMB ICELAND AGAIN committee's resolution pledging India's whole-hearted cooperation with the united nations if independence is granted or on the British government's charge that most members of the committee as well as Mohandas Gandhi himself were appeasers of Japan Some Washington observers speculated on the possibility that Secretary of State Hull or President Roosevelt might address an eleventh-hour appeal to Gandhi and his colleagues not to venture on any course likely to" "render more difficult the task of those who are fighting for the preservation of human freedom" heard today in the sub-committee's repeal inquiry into war cargo-carrying Senator TafC (K-(ho suggested possibilities One-Fifth of Steel be taken in the reenue bill After Mr Murray had testified mg Lee told reporters he was con moral support for the united nations The new draft of the working committee proposal to be voted upon by the main committee renewed the appeal to Britain and the united nations to heed India's call so that she can "assure success to the united nations by throwing all her great resources into the struggle for freedom" In preparation for the 10000 ticket-holders expected at tomorrow's meeting a huge canvas enclosure already has been erected There is a platform complete with vinced concrete could be used for the manufacture of cargo-carrying submarines He said a concrete sub could be built with one-fifth his wholesale systematic pillage I with the firing squad the concentration camp and the abomination of the hostage practice? The 61-year-old queen who issued a proclamation of "flaming protest" and sent her armies into battle when the German forces in- jvaded Holland in May 1940 continued: "I doubt not that your answer would be: resistance resistance until the end resistance 'in every practicable shape or form REYKJAVIK Iceland Aug 6 (UP) The Germans have opened a co-ordinated sub and bomber campaign around Iceland perhaps because of increasingly effective anti-U-boat measures off the Atlantic coast of Thus far the total damage the Germans have done is negligible Twice this week German bombers attacked military installations Kk fn: i N'-v York Cy after of a fow 1 1 hx a1 OiIor-te th f-t i of ti'e tn rt) r-lous ta be-: i the h1 cf Yo thry are i fotr cf an at- the steel used in an all-steel sub Murray Lee added wanted to build a pilot plant for the construction IVfore the committee met George had sail a gonl many members were "very much interested" in a files tax in their search for additional reverrao While calling attention to practical faculties in imposing and enforcing su a levy George declined to predict that the committee wo ill 1 rule out the tax and rjjcd that he had not nude up his own mind about it Interested in Tax a KepuVhcan senators Van-dcrberg of Michigan and Taft of Ohio displayed special interest GREEN PLANS AID TO BRITIS of the first concrete sub explain modern loudspeakers from which Gandhi and others will address the ing that once the forms were built subs could be turned out as fast in Iceland The first time on audience "This is exactly the answer my neoole have eiven and are savinz Sunday a small military installa (Continued nn Page Two) (Column Seven) The convention site looked somewhat like a grange picnic scene in tion in the southeast corner of Ti expert the to be tfrcd ard nre rnakir ten- eparatu-r ta meet the America Soda water popcorn the Island was lightly bombed and machine-gunned The second time every day Inside occupied terri-: tory and outside the fight goes I on" The Netherlands government forced to flee has set up headquar nuts and other such items were being hawked to curious visitors FEDERAL SALES was early Tuesday A bomber flew over western Iceland just west of iiv i-i I1'' testinoriv of Jav thr ths1 Kysoraprrs I a vector: Meantime Japan claimed today oeetination of strategic points in Heykjavik and machine-gunned a rt it A mmfi s- a topple when Mcc k-i lighthouse east of Holmavik in three more islands north of Aus TAX BACKED northwest Iceland tralia tightening the ring of out- I 1 a en a 1 of the National Retail Pry Gooas association urged enactment of a 5 per eert sales levy or all types of good but rot on services wages or rents squeeze irom tne nouiiwwi ou southwest simultaneously The necessity for blows in return was emphasized by Red Star the army newspaper which said "in order to halt the enemy it is necessary to reply to every attack with counter-attacks" Stalin Drive Recalled Stalingrad's ers were spurred by the memories of the heroic and successful defense of the city in 1917 by troops under Joseph Stalin who organized supply services there for the newly-created Red army Before the revolution the city was known as Tsar-it syn and later was renamed in honor of the soviet premier The hard-put Russians were bolstered further by the arrival in Moscow of Major General Follett Bradley of air forces to facilitate American aid to the Red army The mid-day soviet communique said that during last night Red forces in the Belaya Glina sector made a fighting withdrawal to new positions and that in the Kush-chevka area soviet anti-tank gunners and "tank busters" destroyed eight nazi tanks and 25 other vehicles Night-riding Cossacks charged into a recently lost Caucasus village slaughtered more than 600 Germans and disappeared swiftly into the darkness the communique reported Fighting has erupted on the long-dormant Bryansk front 210 miles southwest of Moscow and the soviet announcement said Red army forces recaptured a village there killing 100 Germans in street fighting A bulletin from German field headquarters said nazi spearheads racing southward from Voroshil-ovsk had reached the main trans-Caucasian railway linking the Black and Caspian seas This apparently meant that the invaders had seized the rail line below Armavir key junction on the route somewhere in the vicinity of Nevinnomysskaya which lies due south of Voroshilovsk It would represent an advance of about 235 miles into the Caucasus nosts around the south Pacific Army communiques disclose that German bombers are coming in ters in London The queen came from London in mid-June by bomber her first transatlantic crossing She landed in Ottawa With her daughter Crown Princess Juliana and two granddaughters she hs been staying at Lee Mass She arrived here yesterday for an official White House visit continent Tokyo's imperial head in on tiie phth floor skyscraper sn said the Orucnite W'c a 4'-t i Ci singly along the coast and making quarters said Japanese naval units CHICAGO Ausr 6 Offi sorties into shore usually in cloudy occupied strategic points in the Kei cials of state chambers of com "arid of a bombing kc nic ner BASEBALL Am and Tanimbar islands in the Arafnra sea between Timor and weather Twice bombers have passed almost over Reykjavik but dropped nothing These tactics apparently are designed for nuisance and reconnaissance in addition to New Guinea merce today announced that they will seek a federal sales tax to finance the war "without endangering the American economic structure" They also said they The islands are 375 to 500 miles north and northwest of Darwin Australia NATIONAL LEAGUE II BrooUn 000 00 xvv-x New York OOHh xt-x nattrrie: Allen and Owen Schumacher and Mancuo occasional attacks on small trawlers along the coast WPB SCDRES OWN EFFORTS 5 "i ihre rne of thc-e bu-'d o- fa'lfC aiain-: its neighbor to tno detru -i t'on of an tire res hat an I a mailing ericre that wiu'd 1 i "Get us er we will be I nlmost without ser ire" Tlrat a pre i over the I telephone from Unort station General Douglas MacArthur'i headquarters reported quiet on the New Guinea front where the Japs have started a menacing drive toward the key allied outpost at Port Moresby Chinese troops continued on the offensive Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's headquarters announced NEGRO ADMITS CIRCUS BLAZE will support a rate of 35 per cent of corporation normal income tax and surtax as the maximum which can be imposed on business without "permanent impairment of its ability to employ labor" and that they will ask congress for a deduction of up to 20 per cent from taxable income invested in a proposed special issue of treasury bonds Arnold Barr chairman of the Illinois chamber's federal taxation committee will present the recommendations to the senate finance committee next yeek CHICAGO Aug 6 William Green president of the American Federation of Labor said today that he expects to appoint only A members to a committee to discuss war effort cooperation with British labor despite the protests of I President Philip Murray Green referred to a committee which will meet with representatives of the British trade union congress in discussions on labor cooperation in the war effort The meeting was arranged by Green and Sir Walter Citrine executive secretary of the and will be held at Washington Sept 23 Milk Producers Face Indictment PORTLAND Ore Aug 6 (AP) Federal indictment of the Dairy Co-operative Association of Portland and 10 of its officers and representatives on charges of monopolizing milk production and distribution in the Portland area was revealed today Federal Judge Leon Yank-wich of Los Angeles sitting here in the absence of local judges set arraignment for next Thursday The association has 3200 producer members in the area RECORD RAIL LOADINGS WASHINGTON Aug 6 (UP) Revenue freight loadings on the nation's railroads in the week ended August 1 set a new high for the year at 863528 cars 8n increase of 8006 over the previous week the Association of American Railroads disclosed today WASHINGTON Aug 6 A confidential report prepared by the war production board severely criticizes the WPB's own efforts to convert civilian industries to war production branding them as -largely piecemeal and negative" (Only game scheduled) AMERICAN LEAGUE 11 II Philadelphia 0o 000 Boston 000 Batteries: Christopher and Swift Uutland and Peacock Detroit 0x xxx I'hiratro 4xx xxx Uatteries Benton and Parsons Smith and Trrsh Cleveland at St Louis both Karnes postponed New York at Washington night came it was learned today The report covered operations up to June 15 and that at that time plant conversion was "far Restaurant? tro in help and many of are operating to short-haniied th proprietors are al Waitresses rv ht be brought In if they could fnd p'aoes to lodge This prohni of hou-ins people from the outi-ie hn bi oome serious pooe of ir do-: tors te'ephones ty-t three siok pat'erts from re unable to find beds from actually accomplished" Main points criticized were WPB's liberality in granting ap (Continued on Pag Two) (Column Four) IDAHO DOG NURSES FAMILY OF KITTENS SUN VALLEY Idaho Aug 6 Timmy Sun Valley's giant St Bernard dog has kittens The secret came out today when it was discovered that the 160-pound dog has been suckling Salt and Pep two kittens for the past two months Timmy whelped five pups six months ago and hadn't been nursing for over two months when she took up with the kittens The strange relationship was discovered when the kittens were found haughtily passing up the milk placed in their tin saucers each night PITTSBURGH Aug 6 (UP) County Detective Chief Charles Leith reported today that a negro circus roustabout discharged because he didn't "work fast enough" has confessed setting fire to the menagerie tent of Ringling Brothers Barnum Bailey circus in Cleveland Tuesday Leith said the suspect identified as Lemmardris Ford of Pittsburgh implicated a second Pittsburgh negro The fire caused the death of 39 animals from burns or gunshot and did damage estimated at more than $200000 The destroyed animals included elephants giraffes camels lions and tigers Ford according to the detective chief was picked up by a Pennsylvania railroad detective while riding a freight train last night Ogdenite to Aid Farm Scrap Drive SALT LAKE CITY Aug 6 (AP) Utah implement dealers today completed plans for a drive to reclaim scrap metal from farms of the state and named an executive committee to conduct the campaign Among those appointed to the committee was Eccles of Ogden representing the Mountain States Implement company i a'-o reports four men from couM find no accommodations peals rrom manufacturers to continue civilian production and its policy of following the recommendations of the armed services in continuing production of certain commodities The report said that of some 3-000 appeals made to WPB about 20D0 were granted to allow the manufacture of 900000 radio sets i 3000 domestic laundry machines 100 000 vacuum cleaners and 40-000 sewing machines above the production originally allowed On African Front CAIRO Aug 6 Artillery activity is steadily intensifying along the battle front west of El Alamein a middle astern communique said today and British patrols are active on all sectors British artillery shelled enemy positions in the central and southern sectors yesterday and German guns retorted with a bombardment in the center PHONE LEADER DEAD FVERETT Wash Aug 6 (AP) Hannibal native Salt Laker vice president and general manager cf the West Coast Telephone company here died last night at Palo Alto Calif after a lingering illness He leaves his widow one daughter and two sons Funeral services will be held Saturday in Salt Lake City Employes cf Continental Bakery ho go to work at an early hour tstaU that thry find many strangers Ojou- on Tf Two (C- ua-a Two).

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