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Reds Report Nazis Thrown Back 8 Miles at Tula THE AMARILLO GLOBE By Aaaociated Officid Sovtet dfepatdws nporivd today Hw GWIMM hod twowii back eight mites by Red Army at Tula, 100 mihn south eTMoscew, and that tht surprised Nans "ran, and ran, and ran through HM bittor coJd thoir unaVwoar hi a "pank-stricktn rout Coincidentally, authoritative London quarters said rnany German soldiers fighting on the snow-bound Russian front were "rigged out with women's fur clothing and other makeshifts." The source said very few Germans were properly equipped fw lighting In the Russian winter. On the Leningrad front, the Russians claimed further successes against Nazi siege armies around the old czarist capital, declaring Soviet troops had captured positions held by the Germans for two months and that they were still advancing along the left bank of theji River the Neva River, just outside Leningrad. Military spokesmen in Berlin asserted (hat bombardments by German siege guns, which have been pounding Leningrad for weeks, had forced the Russians to evacuate the southern part of the metropolis. The spokesmen made no claim, however, that Nazi troops had left their trenches to occupy any of the city. Tass, the Russian news agency, gave graphic description of the Nazi rout at Tula.

Taken by wpriie by a Soviet artillery bombardment at dawn, the acency uld, German infantry houMd In the ontaklrti of the tity threw away ai they fled "but eur eaValry ealfht op with the runnint down ihe frosty treeta In their Tass taitl German officers fired vain troops. In tin attempt to halt their Crimea campaign, Adolf Hitter's field headquarters reported that German combat and dive- bomber planes dealt "devastating blows" to fortifications and port facilities at Sevastopol, Russias great Asphalt Black Sea naval bate, while Nazi Infantrymen were reported fighting before the city's outer defenses. Nazi front-line dispatches said to Russian had been sunk and 6S others damaged in aerial attacks at Sevastopol, Kerch and other Crimean ports. The high command yesterday reported the fall of Kerch, bridgehead to the Caucasus oil fields. On the Ukraine front, a bulletin from Hitler's headquarters said Axis armies driving Into the Donets River industrial basin had occupied additional territory and that "the enemy was trown out of field positions which some planes stubbornly The Red army command said slan planes operating on the southern front destroyed 118 Nazi trucks, five armored vehicles and 500 Infantrymen.

Weather and road conditions in the south were reported Improving. -Tile sold at Newby's. JAP ENVOY HOPEFUL; NEW PARLEY IS HELD WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 CAP)--Japanese Ambassador Kichisa- buro Nomura voiced optimism today over chances for settlement of Japanese-American difficulties. Arriving at the state de- Ernst Udet Is Killed, Trying Out Firearms partment at 10:30 o'clock with Japan's special emissy, Saburo Karitsu, for a conference with Secretary Hull, Nomura asked waiting reporters "Why are the newspapers here all so gloomy? We are very hopeful." With a smile the ambassador added: "You Americans are always in a lighting mood.

Why are you so war minded?" When a reporter suggested that the newspapers In Tokyo today did not. exactly peace-minded Nomura laughed. TOKYO. Nov. 18 -Foreign Minister shigenorl Togo told parliament today that Saburo Kurusu Japan's special envoy to Washing- Ion, "carried no new instructions' but Intimated that the outcome or his mission would determine Japan's interpretation of her obligations un- Axis alliance.

General Hidekl Tojo anc Navy Minister Shlgetaro Bhimadi declared lo the same session thai Japan's army and navy were full ready any evenutallty, but these i statements replied to questions con- I corning relations with Russia rather i than the United States, The foreign minister, replying to ft questioner, said the outcome of the talks which Kurusu began In Washington yesterday with President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull "Is unpredictable." "It Is still too early," he went to state what effect lhe outcome will have on the third clause or the tripartite clause which obligates each signatory to lend al aid. Including military, to its nines if they arc "attacked" by a power not yet involved in the European or China wars. -Teen Agers Better Have Drivers Tags Police revealed today they were receiving complaints about 'teen age car drivers in Amarillo. "Where's your driver's license?" Tlints one of the first questions traffic officers ask in investigating fin accident. Like the registrant and his selective service card, the motorist Is supposed to have his driver's II- cense with him at all times.

In connection with the complaint' aV 'it 'teen age drivers. Police chief who added there had been only a few such complaints, I said no one under 14 years of age ivcan obtain a driver's license and only upon affidavit from the I county Judge citing specifically the I reason why the license should be Is- Isued. In addition to the sworn state- Vment of the'nidge the driver must I have a parent's written request. 1. Even at 16 years of age, it also was Ypointed out, the driver must have uhe father's signature in applying for license.

Not i the driver attains the of 18 years can he apply for inct be granted a license without I consent from the parents. Highway Workman Crushed by Tractor HILLSBORO. Nov. 18 U.f--E. S.

lanes, BlR Sandy, was killed today I'hen his tractor turned over and rushed him to death. Hanes was working on new hlgh- construction one mile south of lere. Hi wns engaged In making Itches preparatory to sodding when tractor started up a gradi. The was too sleep and the tractor ritrned end over end and fell twenty into a creek bottom. News Tip Prize Is Won By Jack Lloyd Story ERNST UDET By JACK FLEISCHER BERLIN, Nov.

18 U.R--The Luft- a suffered a- revere blow today with announcement of lhe death 'while experimenting wiih firearms" of Col. Gen. Ernst Udet, World War ace and originator of the Nazi parachutist technique. Udet. 45 years old, a head of the technical bureau of lhe air ministry and was responsbile for many of the technical achievements of the Luftwaffe.

Adolf Hitler ordered a state funeral for him In recognition of his achievements, and named Luftwaffe squadron No 3 the Udet squadron in his honor. Udet was Germany's No. 2 ace of Roosevelt (alls Railway Parley WASHINGTON, Nov. IS to.B-- President Roosevelt called a conference today among railroad executives, labor leaders and federal officials In an attempt to stave off a general railroad strike now set to 'olkenwfl Charged HOUSTON, Nov. 18 arold Warren, policeman at Hermann 'ark.

was charged with murder in onnectlon with the fatal shooting i itc yesterday of Hans Nagel. Park ookeeper. Warren told detectives he fired In lelf defense following a quarrel hen he round Nagel in ft clump of 1 rush watching three young people 1 1 a parked car. begin Dec. 7.

Those invited were: Solicitor to the General meeting Charles Fahy, Sen. James M. Mead. David J. Lewis of the National Railway Mediation Board, Chairman Joseph B.

Eastman of the Interstate Commerce Commission, President John J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads; R. V. Fletcher general counsel of the AAR; George Harrison, president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks: and Abe Johnston of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The five operating brotherhoods and 14 non-operating a i a unions recently rejected findings by an emergency fact-finding board set up by the President In an effort to adjust union demands for substantial pay increases and vacations with pay.

The five operating unions have voted to begin a strike on Dec. 5 and If it went into effect it would tie up virtually every major railroad In the country. Christmas Cards Postmaster W. D. DeOrassI suggested today that the postage Item be placed In the Christmas budget "It is all right to use 1 1-2 cent stamps on Christmas cards," he said "but such cards cannot be returned to the sender or forwarded.

If there 's a mistake In the address, the card just lost. Christmas cards mailed first-class that is. with 3 cents postage-are handled as other first- class mail. They can be returned lo the sender, if that becomes necessary, or can be forwarded." Piles of Christmas cards went from the Amarillo post office to the dead letter office last year--because of improper address. Governor Stevenson Has a Caller AUSTIN, Nov.

18 R. fatevenson had a caller today It was former Gov. Pat Nefr now president of Baylor University "I don't want a thing nor'do I want to recommend anybody for an appointment." Neff explained to a secretary. "I Just want lo sake hands and say hello. I once had a visitor'like that during my four years In office and I appreciated It so much I had a photograph made of him." Governor Stevenson was not In town and could not receive Nefr Nog.

John Maynard Lbr. Co. The Weather Forecast for Amarillo and vicinity partly cloudy today becoming cloudy with intermittent rain and colder tonight and Wednesday; high today about 69, low tonight about 36. West Texas: Increasing cloudiness today. Intermittent rain tonight and Wednesday except clear- ng El Paso area Wednesday: colder 'anhandle.

South Plains and El 'aso area tonight and remainder of Wednesday, New Mexico: Intermittent rain In- night except snow over Sangre de 3risto and Jemez mountains and southern portion of divide, clearing Wednesday; decided drop In temperature tonight. Temperature extremes 24 hours Jack Lloyd. Union the winner of the $5 first prize In the week's News Tip contest with his tip about the accident near Shamrock In which an Amariilo man was killed and another fatally injured. CIRCULATION NOVEMBER 11, 1M1. The AmaiLllo Dally 23643 Amjrlllo olobc 1255V Combined 34900 (AP) iMficrtw.

Associated Prm CUP) TW Uiltwd TEENTH YEAR. NO. 199. VKICF, FIVE CENTS. PAGES AMAHILLO, TEXAS.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1ML VIOLENCE IN COAL STRIKE FDR CALLS FOR WORK en--with 62 planes lo his credit. His record nas since born exceeded by some of the voung fliers of the Luftwaffe to which ho Nazi regime. His tip save vis valuable In this Ud -t haa no chance tion and an early start on story. Second prize of $3 goes to Ina Morcau. 903 North Buchanan Street, who called in the tip about the explosion of the heating stove at the Highland Park School.

the ct a combat" He was tied to nis desk by a mass of details. But ie still spent-hls spare lime in the DETROIT, Nov. 18 (AP)-President Roosevelt called upon the CIO today to cooperate in the production of arms "without a and without interruption." ANOTHER NAZI PEACE FEELER possible and he had ognizmg the imperative needs of the American people in the interest of American defense will cooperate with all other American groups in the common and the patriotic tnei-- suicide he re erest Americans will demand such a contribution from toutJceived a United Press co-respondenti labor and from a other groups for the preservation of ilnea "is fic in the Reich air min-i family, religion and nation." I a i ralAtn QJ 'U J1 HHQ retained his trim youllitul figure and appearance. Last July when rumors circulated in foreign countries that he had Mrs. Lonnie Vaughn.

311 North a Into disfavor with the regime Taylor street, is the winner of the ans na committed suicide he re- fa third prize with her tip ab Jctlv-ri the burning to death of 200 gull pigs In a bam fire. Several other really food tips were culled in during the week, tips that would have been prize winners In average competition but were not quite good enough to buck the competition of last week. Tipsters included J. O. Cathey 1620-B Ong Street; BUly Joe Dunlap, 600 Parker Street; Sylvia Caldwell, 1310 Jackson Street- Mrs Frederick.

Pleasant Valley; M. Roberts, sn Cleveland Street; Mrs: In a message to Hie CIO'S annual convention, the chief executive said: We need guns, tanks, planes and ships diand we must produce guns, tanks, planes and ships without delay and without interruption, and the American people and their government are determined that we shall have them." I have every confidence that your members, rec- demed tiie ru- Disorders, including the Ridings, 516 Monroe Street- Edgar Adams, 1744 East Eighth Avenue: Mrs. Lankford, 11514 West Ninth Avenue; Mrs. E. B.

Campbell, 413 Monroe Street; and Nelleen zls- chang, Orphans Home. -Amarillo Big Ben Will Be Back in Place By popular demand a landmark almost as famous to Amarllto as Big Ben is to London is going to be restored. Officials of Ihe Amarillo National BanX said today the big clock, at the corner of the old building now razed by workers, will be replaced although It had been alloted no part in or on the. modernistic structure that will go up at the southeast under Of the force An announcement by the otlicUl news agency today saJd Udet idled Monday "of Injuries suffered from "cident while experimenting Udet was well known In the i i i III United states, having appeared A ly stunt ier reglmc he beci IeMerS ln the develop- wa Three yean regme Was established hT t0 Ule nlci section ot 'he air He pioneered many of the tech fe 1 Ib SlftiS great battle successes lnrf 5 garded the brains be- first displayed His specific innovations in the use iavS roops vm ethod? lm of technical shooting of two men, broke out at sirike-affected Captive Coal Mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania. The United Mine Workers called out its membership in the captive mines, owned by steel companies which use.

the coa. yesterday. About 53,000 miners In Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, Tennessee and Illinois work in captive mines, and the UMW claims 95 per cent are members. Mr. Roosevelt also called for the reestabiishment of peace in the ranks of organized labor a patriotic step of great Importance In creating national unity.

The President's message was read to the delegates by CIO President Philip Murray and evoked applause, Murray promised that an "appropriate reply" would be forthcoming later. The President's words were relayed to the convention at a time when the CIO's largest unit, the United Mine Workers, was engaged in a strike in the defense vital captive coal mines. Earlier, the delegates cheered a call for formal endorsement of President Roosevelt's foreign policy, a denunciation of Charles A. Lind- promoted by Hitler from lieutenant to Pn i nnal a corner of Fourth Avenue and Polk seneral for his work In para- Street. chutist developments 'I miss that clock more lhan I do the old building," patron after patron has told the bank officials "You ought to put that clock or I'll never get to work on time," said another.

Bank officials went to warehouse where the clock had been stored, found the frame In excellent condition and decided It would be "All it needs Is a new dial," jaid Bill Baker, an assistant vice president. fTor a quarter of a century or more lhe clock, operated by batteries off master timepiece Inside the bank has tolled the hour tot Polk Street, The clock is seven feet in height and weighs uproxlmatel? 3,000 pounds. On Meat America Is the land of opportunity. says YOUR IDEAS EDITOR. Where else in the world does one have the opportunity of earning an honest dollnr Just by writing a good idea and sending it to YOUR IDEAS EDITOR, It's an opportunity you can not afford to ignore-- go on Ignoring It much longer and Ihe opportunity may be withdrawn.

AH you have to do Is write a idea in 150 words or less it doesn't even have to be your own Idea and send it to YOUR IDEAS EDITOR, Globe-News. One. dollar Is paid every day for the best Idea. Isn't that an opportunity? Toy Matinee Slated Friday Male Theatres, i the San to Clay cltck lhe will Am IH One toy will the nil cin(1 Bui fime. Ch ren Chrirtnu, Recruiter ending at 6:30 A.

maximum 74. Temperature at noon today: Flourescent desk lamps. Russell Stationery Company. Minimum i i a Amarillo. went to Borger today lo interview young men Interested in Joining the navy.

Neely-Oreenhlll-Lowndes Insurance. $2,500,000 in of tt IS the Tnre, a i iree other nermlUs were to F. E. Atkinson, amor and Ray Wicker all for Ml rxx homes in the MOO block on Hayden Street. bergh and a plea for extension of all possible aid and cooperation to Hitler's enemies.

These sentiments were embodied In a resolution supported by eight union leaders in speeches from the floor and rostrum but final action on the resolution was deferred until late in the day. "The CIO declares it to be of paramount importance to the security of this nation that we immediately furnish all possible aid lo and completely cooperate wilK Great Britain, Ihe Soviet Union and China, which are nations now carrying on the struggle to rid the world of Nazism." the resolutions committee's proposal read. "The CIO commends President Roosevelt for his forthright foreign policy and In the point action of the President and Cnnfress in the recent amendments lo the neutrality law which will permit this nation to immediately arm and protect Amrrkan ships and American seamen carrying vfUlly needed supplies to Ihe heroic people of Great Britain, the Soviet Union and China and (hereby assure the qnlrker defeat of Nail Cie rmany." "The American people," the rcso- lulion asserted, "demand that, nil ftide.l ot Hitler this country, be thpy our home grown quislings or the representatives of his puppet states, such AS Vichy. France, must not be permitted to cause diss or sow their seeds of riisui this nation." "American workers cannot and will not tolerate any appeasement of any elements or forces which seek to i or compromise American Democracy." jected a proposal that most of them grt a T.4 per cent raise and have set a strike for Dec. 7.

In Alabama, Governor Prank Dixon ordered home guard units mobilized, due to the situation created by the strike of 8,000 miners and threatened strike In the Fairfield plant of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. About men were moved into the Birmingham area, center of Uie state's steel Industry, order was a fight at the No. 10 mine The first serious coal strike of Uie U. S. Coal and Coke Company at Gary, W.

in which a negro stableman. William Hariston, and a "egro motorman, William Lawson. were shot and wounded. An official an Independent union opposing the United Mine Workers walkout said UMW pickets fired 15 or Ki shots. A foreman said 163 men out of a normal force of 220 went to work in the mine.

Pickets closed No. 6 mine al Gary, By DANA ADAMS SCHMIDT A A A Nov. 18 (U.fi)--Germany, it was revealed today, has lifted another "peace" trial baloon while hinting that "certain transit facilities" in Turkey and Spain may be required in the new Mediterranean-Middle Eastern phase of the war expected to get under way this winter. The hint was given by Franz Von Papen, ambassador to Turkey and ace Nazi diplomat, in an interview with, the Spanish Falangist newspaper, La Vanguardia of Madrid. Von Papen at the moment is busy ushering the German press chief, Dr.

Paul Schmidt, through ceremonies and calls upon Turkish officials which aie expeated to culminate in the issuance of a new communique "reaffirming" the amity of the German and Turkish press; Von Papen's statement was that once Russia is crushed by Germany, Europe will be so exhausted that general armistice "must follow In which Turkey, in her chosen rola as a peace power, may play s. great Drivers Go on 'Binge' Today For Science KANSAS CITY. Nov. 18 W-Fifty-seven human guinea pigs with a taste for submitted themselves to science today to give police authentic information on alcohol's effect on The volunteers, all men. will drink highballs, or beer (the police supply the Intoxicants) at half-hour intervals while undergoing rigid examinations of their driving ability.

Just to make sure each subject drains his glass, a policeman will te his constant companion. Each volunteer will drink and largest of six which operated yester-i frlve until he gets day despite the to lo lake lhe whMl I The Dolice. leaininz manv nf There was a brief but bloodless light at a U. S. steel mine in Fayette County, when 50 non-strikers started through 100 pickets The dispersed atter arrival of state police.

The mine operated yesterday company officials said, with about 200 of a normal crew of 700 at work, In Northern Cambria County Pa a union official said about 7500 of 1 an estimated 10.000 membership in commercial coal pits had voted a sympathy walkout. Three hundred miners at a Tcrre Haute. mine which supplies coal for a public service company of Indiana power Ei1P lso were out in sympathy with the Captive miners. John L. Lewis, president of the UMW, and his policy committee met today here to consider the strike situation as the CIO In annual convention in Detroit considered an all-out endorsement of Prc--- Went Roosevelt's foreign policy.

The CIO voted yesterday to approve the strike in captive mines. The President Is losimr pa- Hence," one reliable Informant St- Is ready lo crark rlown-and hard--on John I- Lewis prfslHfnf) anjhody else who Is holdlnr defense production." Pre wcrc Im 'ndlcjillon'. a specific course Mr. Roosevelt contemplating, but the bellel was wldcpreart lhat the moment for action had been rer.ched. UMW.

meanwhile. The police, learning many of their subjects plnnne-! to fortify themselves with huge steak dinners as cushions against the effects of the alcohol, ordered the volunteers to report at 8 A. hours before the tests begin. The explained Henry W. Johnson, head of lhe police traffic and safely division, wr-rc designed as a fair aild impartial examination of alcohol's effect on drivers --not the effects of alcoholic antidotes and remeoics.

Each driver will undergo A thorough physical examination. At 1:30 p. M. he will be handed two ounces of whiskey and given ten to dilnk it Then he must drive a car forward and Mckward a distance of 200 feet, keeping the wheels within a 12-Inch strip He must drive a figure eight cuurse marked by 16 posts set nine leet apart. This maneuver must be completed satisfactorily within three minutes.

At half-hour intervals each driver will down two more ounces of whiskey and ripea-, the drrrtng performances. Frequent examinations will be made with a drunkomcter and art." However, he added, should Britain refuse' an armistice, the war must continue for a "very long" time and Germany will proceed to drive Britain from ttie Mediterranean. Turkey and Spain, he noted, remain outside the war as strong nations guarding the east and western ends of the Mediterranean. Therefore, he said Turkey and Spain may be called upon eventually to provide "certain transit facilities" and cooperation in exploitation of resources in return for their non-involvement in the war. Germany, Von Papen indicated, proposes to unite Europe and overwhelm Russia, "pacifying" any dissident sections by starvation and extermination of opposition.

He was said to have admitted that Oer. many can expect no more than a 2ft per cent grain harvest from the Ukraine next year and little In the way of industrial or economic benefits from Russia for two or three years. Six Elderly Perish In Early Fire AMITYVILLB, N. Nov. 18 ISIx elderly patients--three men and I three women--lost their lives eart" today in a fire which destroyed a building of a private sanitarium here.

Thirty other persons, most them bed-ridden, were rescued. roncenlratot i. I I I I liucci Its energies on a i the Captive Coal Mine strike 100 per cent effective, and already Ihe miners In some, commercial pits were quilting worlci In sympathy walkouts to demon-' 'ITl?" M)1irt Captive Mines i from ihe commercial are owned by i Dr. Convas L. Markham, superln- or upon tne subjecls' eye'; blood, re- tendcnt of the Institution, the up i ilex action, blood pressure and of I Brunswick home for the care of his farllilizuss observation and co-ordination.

Part of the tests will be for beer drinkerr only. The will be closed to the public. A it's nil over an olficcr will escort each river to his home and explain, if necessary, to the little lady. The PretUent moved In another field lo avert a threatened strike of railroad by Inviting leaders of both manaffemrnl and labor to a White House conference toriay. Railroad workers, demanding per cent increase, have re- lhat clf i i i uv "'''eh use i i put for the sled mills instead of marketing It rommfrclally.

A sympathy strike of nnv a i in the commercial mines would affect not only many fields' of i a i but railroad operation as well. The commercials employ approximately 330.000 miners, as compared with Ihe Captives' 54,000, and all arc UMW members for the CIO contract ivlth the commercials provides for a union shop --the bone of contention In the present Captive Mine dispute. Union officials expressed sallsfac- llon with lhe first full day of work stoppage In the Captive pits yester- Stc STRIKES Fur Amerkan Minister Arrested in Rome ROME, Nov. 18 (U.Rt--Italian po- llre today arrested the Rev. Hiram Woolf of Elmlra, N.

reclor of the American Episcopal Church in Rome, on suspicion nf Intelligence activity. diabetic and nervous cases, said that, while a majority of the patients were Incurably Incapacitated, so far as he could determine those rescued hart suffered no ill effect! other a shock. Ships Serving British Will Get Arms First WASHINGTON. Nov. 18 (M-Secretary of Navy Fr.ink Knox announced today a American merchant ships destined to serve British Isles and northern Europe.

v-ill be the first to be armed under the Amended neutrality law. Seeond preference on arms will be pivrn to ships operating to and from the Red Sea, Knox said. U. S. Straps On Her Guns STORY ON PAGC 4.