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THE ESCANABA DAILY PRESS VOL. XXXIV NO. 120 Upper eninsula eading newspaper ESCANABA, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, At GIS! 7. 1942 A ssociated rfs eased wifh news ervice (16 RUSSIAN DEFENSE LINES STIFFENED GANDHI MAKES NEW PLEA TO GREAT BRITAIN CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE THREATENS AGAIN IN INDIA BY PRESTON GROVER Bombay, wAur. 6, K.

Gannhl declared tonight he would plead with the British onre more for avoidance of conflict before beglnnlne a to drive British rule from India. He said he would address his plea to Viceroy Lord Linlithgow. The Nationalist leader made his statement to American newsmen on the eve of the opening here of the All-India Congress committee session from which he is certain to obtain authorization for any course of disobedience. Stmgle Coining Meanwhile, Maulana Abul Kalan A7.ad, president of the All- India Congress party, was reported to be drafting letters to President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chians Kai-Shek and other allied leaders asking support for the demand for freedom and emphasizing that the congress was prepared to offer armed resistance to aggressors. The working committee charged with drafting a resolution which all sources agreed will undoubtedly be ratified by the congress made it plain that the new will seek India's immediate independence, despite British assertions that and confusion" are bound to follow any attempt to reorganize the government in wartime.

Emphaftis On Peace committee feels that it is no longer justified in holding the nation back from endeavoring to assert its the resolution said. It called upon Mohandus K. Gandhi to lead the campaign the widest possible set. Gandhi also let it bo understood that thero would be au interval between ratification of the resolution and the opening of the civil campaltrn. in any non-violent struggle is always on Gandhi said.

begins oniy when it becomes an absolute necessity. independence Is ushered in with perfect British good will, then I expect the almost spontaneous establishment of a provisional His authority to lead tho nation of 390.000,000 people was vested directly in the resolution which said the committee him to take the lead and guide the nation in the steps to be Nine Lose Lives In Saginaw Bay Boat Tragedy Its bottom smashed by rocks, and cabin torn off by wind and waves, the Miss Arlene, fishing boat which foundered Sunday in Saginaw bay with the loss of nine lives, is shown beached at Point Au Gres. Survivors included Mrs. Dorothy Repkie, 23, who swam seven miles to shore; Abraham LaBean, 32, who spent 73 hours tn the water before coast guards found him Wednesday; and Eugene Sauve, 2 7, and his wife, Fern, 21. who were taken from a lonely island Thursday.

Bodies of the nine others aboard the boat have been recovered from the bay. QUEEN IS BUSY IN WASHINGTON Netherlands Monarch, 61, Declares Her People Surrender MAX STEPHAN TO GET DEATH FOR TREASON HITLER WONT I.KT MB RANG, sa DETROITER IIV I. I IIWill I It Detroit, Aug. German- born Max Stephan mu I die for treason against the Inited Slat's, despite his that will not let mi' ham He will hr within the red brick of the federal cor- Iroctional institution Milan, on the morning of Friday, November 13, 2, Federal Judge Arthur J. Tuttle de.

reed today. His crinu was the a slstancr he gave an escaped Nazi prisoner of war who visited Detroit April IS while trying to from Canada to his fatherland. The prisoner, Lieut. Hans Krug, was captured in Sun Antonio. and testified at Stephan trial fur the government.

Fa I ills never lost his love for Judge Tuttle told a packed courtroom Corregidor Colonel Visits In Escanaba Kawkawlin Pair Among 4 Survivors Of Fishing Cruise; 9 Bodies Found Colonel Milton A. Hill, one of General Douglas MacArthur's aides, who witnessed the fall of Bataan and left Corregldor two days before its fall, is spending a few days visiting in Kscanaba with relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Judd Yel- lend, 528 South Ninth street. In the fall of 1 60-year-old Col.

Hill, then a captain, was assigned to duty in the Philippines, and was made a member of General staff tn January of the next ar. Mac Art bur was then military advisor to tho Philippine Commonwealth, in charge of the building of a Philippine army. When MacArthur was recalled to active servlco and was put in command of the American forces In the Far Fast, Hill was selected for one of tho commander five staff members, and was made Inspector general of the Far Eastern forces. He served under MacArthur as a captain, major, lieutenant-colonel, and was to a full colonel on December 19, 194 1. Food Is Scarce When the Japs ked the Philippines, the U.

S. forces began a series of withdrawals, according to Col. Hill, and moved all forces to llataan, here he said he Japs were by the It w.is then that the ene- I II til' It (11411 14 Weary, pule, wearing the I my established an air-tight blork- rlnkled gray suit he wore during ade, cutting off all medical and Newspapers Printed Again In Cincinnati Cincinnati, Aug. Residents of this area of 750,000 population in their reading today after settlement of a union pressmen's walkout over wages and vacation schedules that halted publication of three daily newspapers yesterday. The Times-Star and the Post appeared on the streets shortly before noon, the first papers here since the also its Wednesday morning issue.

W. F. Wiley, publisher of the Enquirer and president of the Cincinnati Association, said conferences were still in progress late today on wage and vacation schedules. Son Of President Promoted In Army Dayton, Aug. 6 Elliott Roosevelt, son of the president, took the oath as a lieutenant colonel in the U.

S. Army air force from a hospital bed late today. Colonel Roosevelt came here yesterday with a knee injury which the army only said was at another HY RUTH COWAN Washington, Aug. fi, When Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands finally put her royal head on her pillow at the White House tonight, she could say, what conscious that she followed ihrour.li oh a heavy program that ranged fiom tulip discussions to commissioning a new submarine chaser. The 61-year-old monarch, the world senior ruler, was the first Jdress congress, to hold press conference here.

Aboard the presidential yacht, she went with the President and Mrs. Roosevelt to Mount Vernon where she visited George home. With the Roosevelts she drove to the Arlington National cemetery where she laid a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier of World war I. Later she gave a dinner at the Netherlands embassy and held a reception. She did it on four changes of costume, and two changes of spectacles.

Wilhelmina. who kept the Netherlands out of World war I but wasn't that successful in World war II, told congress that remains the motto of her people, suffering though they are under alien rule. From the capitol the queen drove to thp Washington navy yard. There the president, acting under the lend-lease act, transferred to her a 17 3-foot sub-chaser as a e.xpresssion of our admiration for all that the Netherlands navy has done, and is Twin8 Expected, But Triplets Arrive To Fool The Prophets Lansing, Aug. 6 stork fooled a pair of Prophets with triplets here yesterday.

Three daughters, 17 pounds in all, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward G. Prophet and the former, assistant professor of geography af Michigan State college, frankly admitted: were nominally prepared to name twins of either sex. but now and will have to do until the christening problem is The Prophets have two other children.

Weather hr D. Weather Bor mo Bay City, Aug. ft, Coast Guard rescue of two more survivors today wrote a final amazing chapter to the tragic adventure of 13 persons whose fishing cruiser capsized in Saginaw- bay last Sunday. Eugene Sauve, 27, of Kawkawlin. and his 21-year-old wife.

Fern, were taken from Lone Tree island, four miles off Sebewaing, today, and brought to a Bay City hospital. NEGROES ADMIT BURNING CIRCUS Boys Toss Cigarettes Into Straw Piles At Ringling Tent the trial at which he was convicted by a Jury July 2. the heavyset restaurant owner stared blankly as his sentence was read. His wife, a rose-complexioned woman In a pale dress, crushed her head into her arms and left the Jammed courtroom. Outside she wept bitterly, and then fainted.

Several hundred men and en hpard the verdict in startled silence. It was the first such conviction In federal court in 14R years since tho whiskey insurrection (Continued on Fago Two) RUBBER SUPPLY AGENCY VETOED Pittsburgh, Aug. 6, Attorney Russell H. Adams reported today a 16-year-old Pitts- bureh negro had told him he and a companion started the fire which destroyed 4 2 animals of the Ringling Brothers circus at Cleveland Tuesday. Adams said the boy, whom he identified as Lemandris Ford, explained they tossed light cigarets into hay in the menagerie tent get even with for discharging them as roustabouts.

The two, Adams said, were hired here by the circus July 2fi and were dismissed at Cleveland for being absent from work. Adams said Ford related: puffed on the cigarets until they got a good light. The oth They were the third and fourth persons from the ill-faud cruiser to reach shore safely. Bodies of the other nine aboard the boat have been recovered from the bay. Previously rescued were Abraham LaBean, 32-year-old Bay City welder who spent 73hours in the water before Coast Guards found him yesterday, and Mrs.

Dorothy Repkie. 23, who swam seven miles to shore Sunday after the 30-foot cruiser struck a rocky reef. In a Standish, hospital today, La Bean told how' part of President I 1CKS SpeClill torn superstructure of the boat helped him keep afloat and how of my wife and my youngsters kept me When Coast Guards picked him up lie had only a life jacket to sustain him. Ho didn't know' when he lost his plywood raft, he were times when I couldn't dcterminp the difterence between the davg and the niehts La Bean said. doze off and wake up with my mouth and nose full of The body of Mrs.

LaBean had been recovered from the bay before he was rescued. Left motherless are their two children, Peter, 6, and Nancy 4. The Sauves were landed at An Gres by the Coast Guard and broueht to Bay City. From their Committee to Dijr I Facts In Dispute BY RICH L. Tl It NIC It Washington, Aug.

ident Roosevelt today 1 headed by Bernard MI Baruch to on the confused and much-disputed rubber situation. He instructed make a thorough survey and to submit, as quickly as possible, a report which is to the hasis for action on the turo of synthetic and the question of nation-wide gasoline rationing. The chief executive this announcement In a massage to congress vetoing a bill, pushed food supplies, besides reinforcements, The food shortage was becoming dangerous, and on January 6, Hill stated, every soldier and nurse went on half rations. A month later tho ration was rut to three ounces of rlco per man per day, besides a little horse, mule, ox meat, or maybe a little dash of corned beef. All animals with the exception of one park train were killed for food, and the army purchased all available native oxen, or water buffalo.

There was no sugar, or coffee, but salt was obtained by evaporating ocean water, and a few ginger roots that weie found served the purpose of tea, 11 a Col. Hill's belief that it was not tho fighting of the Japs, nor their strategy that caused the ill of Bataan and Corregldor, but the lack of food and other sup- I piles of the American soldiers. There was much disease: beriberi, caused by the lark of vitamins, which causes muscles to swell, making It an effort to even your arm; malaria, dysen- and scurvy were also very DRIVE TOWARD STALINGRAD IS MAIN MENACE GERMANS LANDED FROM PLANES ANNIHILATED HIM, ATHLETE SLAIN BY JILTED GIRL Chicago Blonde McNaughton Tried to Her 1 i common. On March 12, Hill was sent to Corregldor, and on April 9 Bataan was lost. On the Island of Corregl- I dor, which was pounded by con- tlnuous shelling, everyone was quartered In the underground tunnels, previously built as store rooms.

go outside was Hill stated, and the dead were all buried under the cover of darkness. The air underground was heavy with the combined odors of decayed flesh, dried blood, and sweat. To Australia Hill was under almost constant fire, his job as inspector general through by the farm bloc, under for in i (Continued on Pago Two) AERIAL LOSSES EVEN IN EUROPE or fellow shot hi. ciHret into the Brjtish Bombers Operate straw. I hesitated but he persuaa- Over Nazidom 23 Days LOWER MICHIGAN: Scattered thundershowers Friday, no decided change in temperature UPPER Scattered showers east portion Friday.

High Low ESCANABA 72 Tem perat Atlanta -------86 Bismarck 81 76 Buffalo-------71 Chicago ----Cincinnati Detroit Gr. 82 Houghton ..72 80 82 76 Tl High Yesterday Memphis 88 P. 84 New Orleans 93 Now Pittsburgh 73 St. Soo Mich 75 Washington- T6 Boy, 17, Sentenced For Check Forgery Grand Rapids, Aug. 6, Hevnian, 17, of Grand Rapids, today was sentenced by Circuit Judge Cornelius Hoffius to serve from five to 14 years in prison, after he had pleaded guilty to charge of forging a check he bad stolen trom the United States mail The youth confessed to tine several mail thefts, accoiding to detectives who arrested him Tuesday.

ed me to do the same and threatened me with a knife if I When the menagerie tent burst into flames and smoke, the youths fled. Later they returned to the scene, Adams said, adding that Ford told him: felt pretty sorry when I saw- all those dead animals lying The district attorney reported Pennsylvania railroad detectives arrested Ford in nearby for riding a freight train. He was held for Cleveland detectives. His companion was sought by police. Federal Approval Given East Lansing $30,000 Greenhouse Lansing, Aug.

6 war production board has approved construction of a $30 00U and 18 Nights London, Friday. Aug. 7, aerial offensive against the axis during July showed practically an even score despite bomber losses over Germany and occupied territory, the announced today in a review of operations for the month. In all theaters of Europe, the Middle East and the far-flung shippinc lanes the RAF in Germany and the occupied countries cost the RAF 432 planes, while In defending Britain, the RAF destroyed 420 Nazi of them over this country and 68 over the continent. The review said weather conditions July were unfavorable.

but the bomber Euro- 6 which an independent rubber supply agency would have been ere- ated and directed to provide an adequate supply of rubber, usinif svnthetlcs with alcohol produced from farm and forestry' products. Establishing such an agencv, the president said, would have Infringed the principle of unifled control of the war production program, and would have used up critical In building synthetic rubber plants, regardiez of the needs of the army and navy, until civilian motorists, Including had received an quato supply of tires. In naming Baruch to the chalr- manshlp of the committee. Mr. I Roosevelt drafted tho services of an old friend and intimate advisor.

as well as who is versed in war-time industrial Baruch was chairman of the war Industries board in the World war The other members of the committee were announced as Dr James Connatit, president of i Harvard University, and Dr. Karl Compton, president of Massa- 1 ebuaetts Institute of Technology. all allot him to keep on the move time, from one sector to and he wa.s exposed to greenhouse project at Michigan! command operated against State college to help increase pean targets on u.i\s and 1 Michigan sugar beet production. ni-bU, the RAF as Secretary Karl H. McDonel report- and 1 r.

ghts. The TOKYO HAIDKR WEDS Battle Creek. Aug 6 Hero Lieut. Jack A Sims, winner of the distinguished service cross for his part in the bombing rsid on Tokvo, wag married in ths post chapel MacDill fund Fitid. Fla today to Jana delayed ed today.

The includes tw'o units each 125 teet. C. Rathei. college crops partment head, said the new greenhouse facilities would permit over-winter production of sugar beet seeds. The process usually requires two growing seasons outdoors.

Rather said. The state administrative board granted money for the project from Michigan's 15.000 000 but federal re6tric- Markey of Battle Cresk. tions. McDonel Ger mans Britain on IS nights and w'as a slight increase in their daylight activity with 19 raids. The review the special feature of the month was Increased attack on rail transport in northern France and Belgium and addled that nine froaht trains were 1 destroyed in Belgium on July 25.

In RAF attacks on shipping during July, review said, 19 were either sunk or damaged in northern waters and 36 in I the Mediterranean. Curtiss Commando In Belly Landing; Occupants Unhurt Buffalo, N. Aug 6, a whole 23 After circling Buffalo airport for eight hours while crew strug- werc reported Btr a damaged Unding gtar a giant Curt Commando tr insport (C Hi ade a iy landing alrorny before p. m. tonight without Injury to seven occupants.

Curtiss Test Pilot Robert Fishier was at the controls with First Lieut. John P. Begley of the air as co-pilot. The plane circled airport when its landing gear would not lock in position. Clyde Mitchell L.

S. air corpt, said tms afternoon (Contlnue.1 on Page Two) DUTCH WARNED TO WATCH STEP Assistance to Allies Will Mean Death, Nazis Announce BY DREW MIDDLI ION London, Aug. 6 A urgent warning" that those Dutch who aid landing parties or as much as show themselves on the streets in event of an allied invasion will be given a blood bath was sounded by German military authorities in the Netherlands today. The stern proclamation of Gen. Friedrich Christiansen, Nazi commander, is read over the Netherlands radio as informed British sources, deeply Impressed by the gravity of the situation In southern Russia, asserted they were with the United States on preparations for an ultimate continental front while seeking means to Increase army.

Tho German counter-prepara- atiens to the second front threat came less than 12 hoars after Premier Gerbrady of the Dutch government here, in a to his homeland, had urged the ople to wait patiently until the 11 came from London to take active part in the destruction the It also a few after it announced that Prinre Bernard. husband of crown prin- was preparing tn to the ir hi- as an army and navy i officer. Chicago. Aug. 6 McNaughton.

tall, ath- who onre pitched for the Boston TIM Sox. shot to death today nnd. Captain Thomas Connelly said, a platinum blondo girl confessed she killed him because fried to dust me officer reported Mrs. Eleanor Williams, a dice girl in a tavern, told him she slew McNaughton after finding him In the room of another attractive blonde. Mi Dorothy 27, In the New Lawrence hotel.

lb- related Mrs. Williams disclosed, also, that sho stole revolver used In slaying from a detective during a recent intr party. Williams, a divorcee and former professional dancer, stated had known tho 32-year-old victim for three years. Suspecting his were waning, she went to the hotel for a showdown. took out my gun and flred at him was quoted as saying Moos over and took the jrun from and put It In the washroom.

Then Gordon me. I ran Into the washroom and tho gun. Mrs Moos shouted: Gordon stood there and said- srrve you do to So I and I shot. him. loved him hut tried to dust me off, the way they do in basehall Mrs.

Wiliams, held without charge, said she had left her husband and daughter after she met McNaughton. Mrx. fold Investigators had been separated from for several weeks. RY HENRY C. CASSIDY Moscow, Friday, Auk.

7. Russians officially reported today their capture of an defense in the Don bend battle for Stalingrad but simultaneously acknowledged that their hard pressed soldiers had withdrawn to new defense positions in the Caucasus. The Soviet midnight munique reported that a German attempt to land soldiers from planes the Russian lines in the Belaya Glina sector 100 miles southeast of Rostov was defeated by Russian troops, who annihilated or captured the flying invaders. (The Berlin radio reported early Friday that a German column had reached Kursav- ka, indicating an advance of 230 miles from Rostov in ten Kursavka is on the Ros- tov-Baku railroad.) The communique told of fierce battles in the Kletskaya sector some 75 miles northwest of Stalingrad. Reserves Halt Invader of Kletskaya one of our units in cooperation with, tanks pressed back the enemy; and captured an advantageous defense the que declared.

were The of the battered Russian soldiers were in several sectors of the Belaya Glina battle and in the Kotelnikovski fighting. In each instance, it was ported, the Russians fell back btfon IbI 11 man ised infantry and massed troops. The Russians reported that a edge was driven by the Germans I the Kotelnikovski some 95 miles southwest of Stalingrad on the Stalingrad-North Caucasus I rail line. Soviet soldiers bolstered with reserves were reported holding the Germans in the western Caucasus south of Kushchevka. which is some 50 miles below Rostov.

Front Unbroken Here the Russians said they beat off enemy attacks and several times penetrated the German lines and inflicted severe losses on them. With all the Russian setbacks, however, still-urbroken defense lines reported hardening with infusion of new Soviet reserves in the bloody fighting. The Russian mid-day que and frontline dispatches yesterday declared the Soviet troops inflicting heavy casualties on the Germans attacking toward Stalingrad. Thwarted in their massive ef- (Continued on Two) Crump Candidates Trail In Tennessee Nashville. nn Aug I States F' Toa wart and Governor Prentice Cooper.

seeking renomination with the all-important barking of E. H. Crump political organization of Memphis, trailed opponents to- night on the basis of early, unofficial returns In the state Demo-1 cratlc primary. Returns tabulated by Asso-! elated from 1.279 out of ap- i 2.:500 precincts In the Tennessee Democratic primary election tonight gave: i 71 1 4 Ridley Mitchell Bailey Wray 1,176. For senator: Edward Ward Carmack 72 61 S.

Dr. John R. Neal I 4.465. Stewart 53,440. at production headquarters depicted by Marion Strahl.

Daily Press photographer. Page 5. NEW Underwood resigns as Maniatique fire chief to head Fort Brady department. Page 13. SCANDAL? Brewing industry outbids war plants for aged tin, says Drew Pearson.

Page 4. Trafile Toll MARINE i Escanaba yachtsmen to pose for amateur photo hers Sunday morning. Page 9. Vincennes. Ind Aug.

6 Injuries suffered in an automobile collision today killed Henry Datt- mr, of Detroit, chairman of the Michigan unemployment compensation commission. Dattner an occupant of a car driven by Russell Olsen, 43. of Muskegon, which collid- vesterday with cne driven by A W. Sparks of Lawrenceville. 4 111 HOME TOWN BOY Gunnar Back is subject of biographical article in radio publication.

Page 16. FOR GOLFERS Denny Shute will perform at Escanaba two golf courses this afternoon and evening. Page 14. BACK FROM Milton Hill, who fought with General MacArtnur in the Philippines, visits at Yelland home hare. Pages 1 and 2..