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THE ESCANABA DAILY PRESS VOL. XXXIV NO. 117 (U ppfr eninsula eading ewspaper ESCANABA. MICHIGAN. TUESDAY, At Gl ST 4, 1912 (A' sociatfd pf eaded irb ews ervice (12 PAGES) NAZIS PLUG DEFENSES NORWAY JAP INVADERS CREEP CLOSER TO AUSTRALIA CHAIN OF ISLAND BASES EXTENDED BY NIPPONESE New Coast Guard Camp Dedicated BY C.

YATES McDAMEL With 0 ral Headquarters in Australia, Aug. 3, past fortnight's intensified effort in the southwest Pacific has brought the menace of a Japanese invasion of the Australian continent only a few miles nearer. The enemy has crept a little closer in the mountain Jungles of New Guinea. Put increased pressure by the Japanese, and allied counter-pressure, have revealed that the Japanese, after a period of comparative inactivity, are again at work strengthening and lengthening their island chain of bases extending along and just under the Equator from Sumatra 4,000 miles eastward into the Pacific. Sky Menace Increases Japanese acquisitions of recent weeks have nearly completed an arc of armored posts covering the northwestern and northeastern approaches to Australia.

They have provided the enemy with nearly a score of bases from which he can intensify aerial harassment of northern Australian points and increase the submarine and air menace to the commonwealth supply routes. Japanese landings on the north coast of Papua, followed by a rapid advance through the mountains to a point half way to Port Moresby gained the news spotlight, and aroused some apprehension for that strategically placed allied base in New Guinea. Suitable for Airfields But more important, in the opinion of some observers, was the Japanese occupation of Guad- ranal, southernmost large island of the nup. comparatively flat surface makes it more suitable for airfields than other islands northeast of Australia. The island's principal port.

Kakum, provikes nearly as good a base for submarines and small surface craft as Rabaul, 800 miles to the northwest. Southern Guadacanal ithin 800 air miles of New Chi edonia, American-garrisoned base commanding the northeastern approaches to Australia. Observers regarded the Japanese occupation of the Kei islands in Arafura bea west of New Guinea as being less significance as a potential offensive base. But the occupation of the Kei group was important in that it marked the virtual completion of a protective screen of occupied islands between allied bases on northern Australia and the Island of Ambonia, 600 miles north of Darwin. This general region, it was believed would be the hub of any Japanese naval or aerial operations northwest of Australia.

Recruits in training at the newly established Coast Guard tiaining camp near Battle Creek, stand at attention at ceremonies dedicating the camp. On the platform are (left to right) Capt. Thomas Phanlev. district coast guard officer; Miss Mary Ann Mercer, radio entertainer, and Lieut. Jack Dempsey, former world heavyweight, champion, who is in charge of the Coast Guard athletic program.

UNION SLOWUP ANGERS WORKER Muskegon Man Smashes Engine Parts, Says Output Curbed Alarm Puts Canal Zone On Alert For Full Hour Hit Hitler Now, Sen. Pepper Urges In Capital Speech Washington, Aug. 3 Allies should cast caution aside and hit Hitler now. Senator Pepper (D-Fla said tonight in urging the opening of a second front. Tn an address prepared for the Washington Industrial Union council rally in support of a second front.

Pepper said, instinct of America today senses that nothing we can do is so dangerous as to do Criticizing those who use the word Pepper said: genius of America has been its unwillingness to admit that anything was impossible. No mountain was too high to scale. No vein too deep in the bosom of the earth to be inacessible. No stream too wide to span. No continent too difficult to cross.

Americans did not ask whether it could be done. They did Muskegon. Aug. 3 Hubert C. Cox, 4 7-year-old war plant worker accused of wilful iearuction of kpm rnment r- ty, told a U.

S. commissioner today he destroyed some airplane engine parts in anger over a union restriction on the daily output of an individual worker. Cox is a member of Local 63 7, United Automobile Workers (CIO), which holds a contract with the Sealed Power corporation where he is employed. In Chicago for a union convention, Roy Pettit, local president, and James R. Brown, committeeman, denied that the agreement limited production.

In a brief statement, they said: union has set no limit on production in the foundry or the shop. However, they are working to a standard which, overall, increases The union officials said the production line system itself required a more or less uniform rate of speed by individual workers. It would be possible, they added, for molders to turn out molds faster than other departments could handle them but declared that was a matter involving skill and speed rather than any union order. A company spokesman said that employes in the foundry department have held back production in order to protect the piece-work He did not mention the union, nor did he go into detail regarding piece-work rates. BY CHANDLER DIEHL U.

S. Army Headquarters. Panama Canal Zone. Aug. 3 vital Panama Canal Zone underwent a one-hour general air raid alarm this afternoon after a friendly plane not immediately identifiable had touched off the trategk: waterway's elaborate defense system.

The plane was first spotted while heading toward Panama across the Gulf of Chiriqui at an estimated speed of 250 M.P.H It was soon identified, but Gen. Frank M. Andrews, commander of the Carribbean defense zone, decided to prolong the alarm for a full test of the defenses. The alarm, the first since shortly alter the United States entered the war, lasted from 2:20 p. m.

to SOVIET ARMY STANDS FIRM ON DON Rie DANGER IN SOITH ACUTE; ENEMY LOSS HIGH BY HENRY CASSIDY Moscow, Tuseday, Aug. 4 Sovlettroops llghtinR tn the Don river elbow SO miles northwest of Stalingrad and in the Halsk-Kush- chevka area of the western Caucasus were reported officially eadly today to have killed more than Germans in a successful 24-hour stand. In the area of northwest of Stalingrad the midnight communique said, two Russian units killed more than 1,300 mans, and added that the Red peasant army still was dealing blows against enemy tanks and motorized lit tie Line Southwest of Kletskava in the Tslml Don mans still were throwing tanks and men across the river, but the communique Indicated the Soviets still were standinr Arm. "On one of these the communique said, Germans threw Into battle several dozen tanks. The Germans lost up to 650 officers and men killed In the critical Salsk-Kuschevka areas.

7 5 and 50 miles respectively below the Don. the lines apparently were swaying back and forth. The communique said 400 Germans were killed in the Salsk region, and another 800 in the Kuschevka sector. Convoy the day one big populated point changed hands three the communique said of Silent Submarine Cargo Ships Are Proposed By Inventor Of The U-Boat Washington, Aug. 3.

(Ar) -81-7 mon l-ake, 75-year-old inventor of undersea torpedo boats, today came up with a counter-invention which he said would take the stinK out of the avis submarine menace to American shipping. I.ake told a senate committee that a secret silencing device he dy is operating undersea freighters. Interest in lake's testimony swung the committee's attention away for a day from the cargo- plane possibilities It had been probing for the past week. The elderly but active inventor had perfected pave Ihe Conn for a fleet of mibmnrtne frelihl- of ers which could elude planes, ships and other undersea craft with ease. Stating that it was "entirely practical to ha'e a submarine which Is silent," Lake expressed the opinion that the enemy alrea- PELLEY DENIES HE'S SEDITIOUS nyansk area of the curving Silver Shirtcr On the Russians said the Ger- it ness Stand At Indianapolis carriers capable of transporting 7.500-ton loads of bulky supplies, oil, tanks, guns, munitions and men to the fighting zones, to supplement those transported by the proposed cargo planes.

Lake declared shipyards could to submarine huildlng the same material, machinery and equipment used In the Liberty and have some steel The yards themselves would require no conversion at all, he said. In response to a question, he said the underseas craft could be built of concrete, but that use of thst material would require siderabto experimentation, and I would prefer SECOND FRONT TALK AROUSES MEN PROPAGANDA DISHED OUT FOR GERMAN PUBLIC 3:23 p. m. E. S.

T. 4 3:20 p. to 4:23 p. E. W.

The sirens shrilled from one side of the isthmus to the other. 1 the Kuschevka fighting and defense crews quickly manned This toll of 3,150 Nazi dead their posts made a total of 9.550 announced The alert had not died away 24 before the men on the Canal nnc bv CBS said Soviet guus and Zone defenses, ranging from giant coant artillery down to individual small arms, were in firing position or on their way to battle stations. In naval district headquarters whistles shrilled in the hallways and officers ordered hands to general Sailors and marines grabbed helmets and gas, tan 3()0 motor vehtcleH sks and raced to their stations Pi ane.s made a successful attack on a German convoy in the Sea of Azov ofT the western Caucasus, sinking one 15.000-ton German transport." Russian airmen were credited with destroying or damaging 50 Weather (Reportad hr O. Weather Barran) LOWER MICHIGAN: Not much change in temperature Tuesday. UPPER MICHIGAN: Not much change in temperature Tuesday.

High Low ESCANABA Yesterday Atlanta Marquette 75 Bismarck 76 Memphis 100 Boston SO Miami-------- 91 P. 74 Chicago New Orleans 9 3 Cincinnati 95 New York SS Detroit Pittsburgh Duluth St Gr. S2 fceo. Mich SS Houghton ft 94 SENTENCES SET FOR SABOTEURS President Gets Verdicts; Will Announce Them In Few Days machine-guns and ma with rifles, other arms. At the nearby army post soldiers fully-equipped for Instant action went to their stations, and all traffic ceased.

Commercial trucks from Cana! Zone business with troops and supplies, and five 1 fuel trucks on Sunday. Hundreds of German Infantrymen also were i reported killed in low-level at- tS' The western Caucasus conflict 1 raging some 138 miles miles above the big Rushan oil fields of Indianapolis. Aug. 3 William Dudley Pelley denied from the witness stand today the government's charges that his writings were intended to Interfere with the nation's war effort and promote the success of hern enemies. never had the remotest idea the former silver shirt leader testified In his sedition trail, what I wrote could be interpreted In that The 52 year old Pelley, who has spent two weeks in Jail In lieu of bond in a second sedition case, made a natty app'-aranco as usual.

Immaculately dressed, he occasionally fingered his silver- gray coatee as he testified. The other sedition indictment was votrd recently by a Washington, I) arand Jury and named 2 7 other persons. pelley asserted that if he had felt his writings were he would not have published a magazine whose contents formed the basis for most of charges, would not have been worth he added. He defended his articles as ei- of the right of free speech and I made any mistakes they were mistakes of the head and not of the BV DREW MIDDLETON London, Aug. 3.

accounts of painstaking German defense maneuvers along the of Norway emphasized today, that Adolf generals are taking more and more seriously the threatened second front. While the Nazi government intensified its propaganda to build up public faith in the strength of its western defenses, fire was added to second front talk by the announcement of The Netherlands government information bureau that Prince Bernhard. estimated the cost at each, and said that while husband of Lrown I nncess it fake five or six months Juliana, is making prepara- to build the first carco submarine, I tions a return to The one shipbuilder had informed him that he could turn them out at a two ft day after production got underway. Prince Bernhard, recently lie read a letter from Secretary made a Dutch major general of the Navy Frank Knox to Sena- and rear admiral and given tor Hill (D Alai. In which Knox suggesting a declared construction of i.

500-ton submarines as and they Commando assignment, would he comparatively safe" to have dlSCUSSed hlS from torpedoes and shell fire if new work and his prepara- submerged ioo feet. tions with Queen VVilhelmina With his silencer. I.ake said a sub could run within 50 yards of a surface ship and guarantee nobody on the surface ship could see or hear Iceland Pont Attacked establishments which happened to be in the post run onto a repeated German attempt clearing where it was though secure bridgeheads across afld t0 Don in at Tsimlyansk apparently was for an enclrcle- Old Detroit Ferry Boat Taken Over By Coast Guard Detroit, Aug. 3, (Jp U. S.

coast guard took over the old steam ferry La Salle, tied up at her Windsor. dock since traffic was diverted to the International bridge and Detroit river tunnel in 1929, for war service today. The old riverboat was towed from her moorings by the cutter Marigold for refitting at Toledo. O. The Walkerville, Ont ferry Halcyon was taken over for coast guard duty Saturday and two luxury liners, the Greater Buffalo and the Seeandbee of the Detroit and Cleveland Navigation company, are being refitted us aircraft carriers to be used for training purposes.

Bullet Near Heart, Cadillac Man Gives Himself First Aid Cadillac. Aug 3 Accidentally shot near the heart with a .22 caliber bullet. Amboise Moorhead, 20, of Cadillac, bandaged the wound himself and drove several miles to Mercy hospital before he received medical treatment. Moorhead was injured when the rifle he was carrying discharged as he stumbled The bullet lodged just under his heart. He-pjtal at- Washington.

Aug. 3 Roosevelt received from his special military commission today a verdict in the case of the eight alleged Nazi saboteurs who landed in this country from German U-boats. Although the president is not expected to announce the findings for several days, the wording of a communique Issued by tho commission seemed to indicate that some, if not all, of the men had been convicted commission reconvened at 11:05 a the communique said commission announced that the findings and sentence will not be announced by it. The commission adjourned at 11:07 to meet at the call of the The fact that the word was included in the munique indicated convictions. This afternoon the findings were delivered to the White House in four thick manila envelopes which, if stacked up on top of one another, probably would reach a height of two feet.

It is now President Roosevelt's task to review the findings, and he Ls expected to go into the case thoroughly before making public his decision. There was believed to be a possibility that the sentences, which might be a maximum penalty of death by hanging or shooting might be carried out before the verdict is announced publicly test Civil defense organizations also went into action. (Continued on Page Two) STAGED BY RAF Holiday Crowds In Resort Area ambler Is Booked As Killer Of Tuo At Broadway Club BOAT CAPSIZES WITH 13AB0ARD Woman Only One Found of Party In Saginaw Bay Tragedy defenses. 1 Out in the dense Panama jungle the coast artillery had their anti-aircraft guns ready for any event. General headquarters announced officially that the plane was first sighted by an alert aircratf warning station heading toward Panama across the Gulf of Cririqui at an estimated speed of I ol aa4 4 4 offi' qunt.

i LDdfft! it was tracked by other lierman Airmen ill; HK when he i i himself aircraft war stations across Vera- guas province, it was quickly identified as a friendly the announcement said. was then decided to carry on tho alert to Standlsh, Aug. 4. Searching parties returned today from a four-hour quest for 12 men and women who have been missing since their 30- foot cruiser overturned in Saginaw Hay at 2 p. m.

Sunday, ty-handed save for a coat Identified as belonging to a member of the fishing party. A aearch hy air and w'ater which began Moitdftj mornlnf was Max spurred by 11 of Mrs. Fox, 48, a ruddy-faced Repke, of Hay City. while in the States. His return to England was innounced today.

Coincident wtth the dispatches from Stockholm telling of recent maneuvers by Gorman air, sea and land forces along the fjord- indented coast, the United States garrisoned outpost of Reykjavik, only 600 distant, disclosed a bombing and machine-gunninc of a remote military installation in southeastern Iceland by a German Focke-Walf plane. There were no casualties and only negligible damage was done In the attack yesterday, the fifth time in two weeks that German planes have appeared in the Iceland area. Show Concrete Other Stockholm dispatches told of German showing the arrival of fresh troops in Norway, and a broadcast of DNB. official German news agency, said Lieut. Gen.

Jacob, of fortifications' had Just returned to Berlin from an exhaustive survey of the defense system from Biarriti, In soufhern to Kerkenes in northern Norway. The general was said to bo personally convinced of the strength of the defenses. Berlin newsreels and convict, was booked on a The 23-year-old woman, exhausted said to homicide charge early tonight as incoherent, said ten members first time these the masked slayer who less than Gf party still clinging to 1 lnTaaion strongholds, into 2 4 hours before walked Into a Broadway bridge club and coolly second woman in the hope of of shot to death two card players. never felt better In niy District Attorney Frank Hogan's the overturned yacht when she of thousands struck out with her husband and haVe Coast Guards May Operate Tugboats In Milwaukee Port London. Aug.

3 and Germany sparred by air today with a series of sharp daylight raids. Fnr Britain RAF Spitfires attacked freight trains and barges in the German occupied Nether- iip to police hours after the killings. Victims of the slx-bullet fusillade were Robert B. Greene, 40, a big-time betting commissioner, and Morris Woletiskl, 44. his bodyguard and business aid They were shot without warning as they were playing at the White House bridge clubrooms In mid-Manhattan.

Milwaukee, Aug. 3 (Jp If federal authorities deem it nec- cessary the U. S. coast guard will operate a tugboat service for the port of Milwaukee, Lt. Commander Anthony Glaza, head of the Stadium Kills Two a secona wom.u BrUish mthtary expert, are in.

llnwl to es- timate today that there are now about 2 6 German divisions in France and the low countries. Canadian Vessels Carrying V. S. Ore They shot up locomotives of Panic In Montreal several freight trains and hit three barges off the Dutch coast with cannon and machine-gun fire, Montreal. Aug.

3, certain it was the rnHsing cruiser. In addition the British fliers pep- pj-rsons were killed and score Three rescue boats manned by The three became when darkness feU, she told Sher IfT John Johannes, hut, buoyed up by a life jacket as all three wore, she reached shore safely after hours tn the water. Mrs. Repke said she broke Into an unoccupied hunting cabin and spent Sunday, night there, trunking three miles Washington, Aug. 3.

tho nearest farmhouse on Mon- ident Roosevelt signed today leg- day. Islatlon authorizing vessels of Allan Hoffman. Bay City pilot, Canadian registry to transport flew out over the bay before dusk ore on the Great Lakes for Monday night, following Mrs. the duration of the war. This Repke vague directions.

He re- authority previously had been ported sighting what appeared to granted by congress on a yearly be a wrecked vessel resting on the basts during the current emergen- bottom, but said he could not pered coastal gunposts and Ger- injured in panic resulting from a volunteers put out from here for man army camps small fire tonight tn the Ontario I the spot, and found a blue coat hit For Germany airmen mad- stadiuoi. opposite th- Montreal which relatives identified as that of-the district, said bombing Rnfl Royals ball park in the east end. worn by John Zametzer of Lin- today chine-gunning scattered towns in The dead were ld-ntifled by po- wood h. Mich one of the His statement followed an Malhndm peal for coast guard intervention an'! and Denise Wuston. a young girl, crew continued the search.

coast and causing crushed in a rush at an exttiB among crowds gathered at resorts for the annual bank holidays. At one seaside town in south- Today's News Highlights by Krnest Ward, commander officer of the port of Milwaukee detail. The harbor has been with-, out tug service since the 70-year- old Milwaukee tug boat line ceased operaiton Thursday German Airmen Set British Corn Afire London. Tuesday, Aug. 4.

Legionnaires Vote To Open Up Ranks To New Veterans west England six persons were killed and others Injured when ten German Focke-Wulf planea bombed and machine- gunned the streets This latest- type German fighter-bomber only recently has ventured over Police believed all the injured would recover. The dead were in an audience of 2,000 persons watching an amateur night variety show in the semi-opt'U stadium when a small fire broke out under the south wooden stands. Traffic At Straits Dou 43 Per Cent Page 4. SPONGE may revolutionize Iron and steel industry. Drew Pearson says.

Traffic Toll Aug. 3. across tin Straits of Mackinac durinw July fell 4 3 per 5 cent below that of the satne month last year, the state highway department reported today. As a result, the department ordered the dismissal of crews aboard the steamer Straits of Mackinac. which has been kept In rsadmess to assist the three state- owned fernes traffic became heavy.

FARM of workers is feared in Michigan. During the first months they Fond du Lac. Wis. Aug. 3 UP) were in operation these craft nev- Wisconsin department of Pr even went over the channel the American Legion voted today the apparently wanting to open its organization to veter- t0 keep the British from getting Ka'1 'ncn a aos ot the present ar.

I possession of one. man and, hii al8te' Delegates to the annual con- Weighing the power of their the result uf an automobue-tr uck The Dally Express air correspond-! vention also voted to ask congress 0wn aerial blows at the Reich, volasu-i- 1 ent reported today that the Ger-; to pass legislation providing for British announced that reconnals- highway M-o ana me amg mans have attempted to burn compulsory military training of sance photographs taken after the 1 road. Britain record harvest by show- one year for all youths between IT heavy raid on Duesseldorf the Clarence SHvins: that ering incendiaries on ripening and 21 This would be a perma- night of July 31 showed 12 acres in a Bad Axe hospital and Tageblatt tonight as saying that corn during raids in the last few nent plan. of buildings along the waterfront They also urged high demolished, terrific damage caused tnstsnHy. and to institute important industrial and cDouaid Bal Axe, ON THE Thompson returns from month's vacation and ccmments on the world crisis.

Page 8. HOSPIT US JAMMED New York, Aiu. 3. British radio quoted the GOLF Shuts and Elmer Swanson Jr. will play Cotton Leonard and Cooney Hogan In exhibition Friday here.

Page The Neue Bertha Abend. 13 killed 100.000 German soldiers YACHT RACE Escanaba yachtsmen win several honors during Green Bay race week. Pago 10. added fa'tne's tscdantf- said his condition was band ng together to combat o' 'untee; militarv burning 12 hours a good. in fields.

training nhe bombing are passed each month through BIG county I--fa re hospitals for the selectees ill leave for Mar- fter driver of the truck, was not ser- wourded CBS heard quette induction center tonight, iiouiiy injured. the broadcast. i.