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THE ESCANABA PRESS VOL. XXXIII NO. 100 IU ppek eninsula eading NFwsrAprRj ESCANAKA, MICHIGAN, TlESDAV.Jl I A 15 1911 1 A ssociated rf pacfd ipp 5 vicp I (12 PAGES) DRAFTEES HAY BE HELD OVER YEAR KIEV TO FALL SOON, GERMAN REPORT SAYS SOVIETS TELL HOW WAVES OF NAZIS ARE CUT DOWN (By AMoriattd Berlin, July is under such pressure by air and land that word of Its capture Is expected any time, German tanks on the Moscow side of the Stalin line are Fred J. Fisher, Eldest Of 7 Famous Brothers, Is Stricken By Death Juryman Alleges 'Something Wrong' With McKay Jury Detroit. July 14, today ended the fabulous career of Fred J.

Fisher. 63, who rose from his father's blacksmith shop to become leader of one of largest industrial and financial empires in the country. Eldest of the seven Fisher bro- jthers and co-founder of Fisher Body onp of the early mainstays of Detroit's automotive industry, had been ill for several weeks. At his bedside at Henry ui lur Diwin are Ford hospital wore his wife, his jabbing toward the Russian rapi- brothorB and executives tal, and Leningrad is caught in a Oerman-Finnish vise, informed Germans declared tonight. This was their broad outline of war against Russia, at the end of the second day of its fourth week.

These in the north. Moscow in the center, and Kiev in the constitute the main front. Advance Tho German high command, in another of its uncommunicative moods, said simply that operations" against the Stalin line continued on schedule, that Finnish forces had opened a two-point attack on Lenigrad's northern flank and that two Russian patrol boats had been sunk by German submarines. One break-through was said to have been at Opachka, midway between Polotsk and Pskov and near the Latvian frontier. Finnish forces under Field Marshal Baron Gustav Manner- heim were said to he moving down on Leningrad on both sides of Lake Ladoga where Finland's frontier lies about 75 miles from the Russian industrial center and war base.

Such was the sum of the most official news on the campaign. Authorized spokesmen and DNB, official news agency, filled in other details, saying that German. Hunpariai 1 Rumanian foKen were hammering at the gates of i'W, gateway to the Ukraine's richest industrial and farming1 areas. Air Power fibbing Mannerheim's Finns were represented as a sort of hammer striking down on a Leningrad held on the anvil of German panzer forces advancing in the area east of Peipus. Berlin newspapers reverted to the old czarist name of St.

Petersburg for Leningrad, so named for the founder of the Communist state, Nikolai It is the German conviction that Communism as a world political force is receiving its death blow at the hands of the Germany army and Germans have therefore started erasing Communist terminology. The Germans said that more bombs fell on rail lines radating from Smolensk and Leningrad and that they had been broken in so many places they could be counted out as a means of army transport in extensive regions. The Germans admitted that the Red air force was still in the air but asserted Its power was ebbing hourly. DNB reported 167 Russian planes destroyed yesterday. of his company.

At the age of 14 Fisher began his career as assistant to his father. Fisher, in a Norwalk. blacksmith shop. Later the elder Fisher expanded his business to include the carriage trade, a forerunner of the corporation his sons were to manage. The corporation itself, founded by Fred and Charles Fisher in 1908.

was originally capitalized at $50,000. Four years later it was turning out 105.000 bodies annually. and one day in 1028. when it was a member of the General Motors group, its total output was 7,280 units. Besides his affiliation with his own corporation, Fisher served as a director of the National City Bank of New York and the Big Four and Michigan railroads.

In 1929 he and his hrothers were said to have control or Influence over three and a half billion dollars, through their various financial interests. Fisher was once credited with having told a friend in Norwalk that going to have $50,000 when I'm 50 years old and I'm going to retire. At 50 his fortune was estimated at $50.000,000, and he was still at work. His greatest luxury was his ooo.ooo yacnt, the Nakhoda a J2 1 powered wi.I; Diesel engines IIV TUD PECK Detroit. July 14, Henry G.

O'Donnell, who conducted the government's mall fraud case against Republican National Committeeman Frank D. McKay, withdrew today from an Investigation of a jurors charges that there was wrong" I with the deliberations of the Jury that failed to agree upon a verdict after a two tnonths-Iong trial. and Fred B. Barnhart. foreman of the Jury, visited District Attorney J.

D. Lehr today GREAT BRITAIN Dr. George C. Bartley ARMY SERVICE Dies Of Heart Attack TURNS TABLES ON THE REICH TRITE WITH HITLER IS SCORNED BY CHURCHILL (By The rirM) July 14 In two speeches breathing confidence and defiance, Winston Churchill lantly declaimed today to cheer- and O'Donnell explained that ho ine thousands of civilian was turnine the inquiry over to defenders that the tables are I PORTUGAL TOLD II. S.

IS FRIENDLY America Is Not Bound to Keep Hands Off Atlantic Islands Washington. July 14. (A The United States insisted anew today that strategic Atlantic islands must remain in and that American policies were directed toward that end. Discussing the question of the Azores and Cape Verde islands at his press conference. Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, emphasized that the United States F.

Navy no desire to see any change last December for $155.000. nf or iur- Philanthropies of Fisher and his wife, Bertha, were believed to have totaled millions. They contributed $500,000 to a Y.M.C A. expansion drive in Detroit and $750,000 for a home at Providence hospital. Poltically, Fisher was a Republican, and he and his wife contributed $100.000 to President campaicn fund.

In 1931 Mr. Hoover called him to Washington as one of 61 leading citizens for a conference on the unemployment crisis. In 1929 he was decorated by the pope with the Order of Malta, and he was presented honorary degrees from the Universities of of Portuguese sovereignty or jur isdiction over these Atlantic outposts. He Indicated, however, that assurances given to Portugal regarding American intentions were qualified by the policy and in no way bound the United States to keep hands off the islands in all circumstances. Welles referred to President message to congress last week on the occupation of Iceland.

He recalled the assertion that it was vital to American security that Atlantic outposts in friendly and that the United States could not permit their occupation by Germany to be used air or naval bases for eventual attack Lehr on from Washington." His superiors believed Lehr should conduct the Investigation O'Donnell said, because the conduct of a Jury the ndtnin- I 1st rat ion of Justice in the entire I On Vacation Barnhart spent several hours In O'Donnells office before the two visited Lehr. and Lehr first conferred alone, and Barnhart jointed them later, remaining for a halt-hour. Lehr said later he had questioned Barnhart informally as the initial step in his investigation. U. S.

District Judge Arthur F. Lederle, who conducted the McKay trial, departed upon a 10-day vacation trip in the Upper Peninsula without waiting to learn the outcome of the inquiry. Ho said Saturday he had turned the entire matter over to for such action as he deemed advisable. Before leaving, the jtidce con- ferrde with bailiffs who guarded the jury, with Lehr. John Bare.

U. S. marshal, and others and Issued the following statement May Call In FBI "I am advised the jurors had no communication with anybody on the outside after the case was submitted. Prior to that time all communications were in the presence of at least one Lehr said tonight he had not yet decided how to proceed with the investigation. He said he would interrogate members of the jury, and would call in the FBI the evidence Inquiry was precipitated by the statements of Anton Maslan, unemployed waiter who served on the jury, to newspaper reporters after the jury was discharged.

Maslan said the jury stood seven to five for conviction from the first ballot, and insisted that there was with the deliberations. Notre Dame and Detroit. He serv- against the western ed as a trustee of Notre Dame and Sacred Heart seminary in Detroit. Fisher was little known to the public because of his natural shyness. Although wealthy and powerful, he seldom appeared at public functions.

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, 11 a. at the Blessed Sacrament cathedral and tery. German commentators stressed hu will bp in Mt. Olivet ceme- military reports that all strate-! gically important stretches of the Stalin fortifications had been penetrated and that the extensive interior of Russia now lay open to the German army. WHEELER TELLS OF PEACE MOVE REDS WRECK TANKS (By The AwocUled Press) Moscow, Tuesday.

July Russian forces battling Adolf Hit-, ler's legions by land and sea in- (ioerinff and MuSSOimi flicted heavy losses on Nazi units on the eastern hattlefront and sank two German destroyers and The Azores and Cape Verde islands have been Portuguese possessions since their discovery in the 15th century. The Azores are in the North Atlantic some miles east of New York, 1.100 miles southeast of St. Johns, Newfoundland, and 900 miles west of Lisbon. The Cape Verde archipelago is about 500 miles northwest of Dakar, French West Africa, and about 1.500 miles northeast of Natal. Brazil.

Opponents Of War Win In Paper Poll RULES REVISED TO HELP AGED State Commission Cuts Red Tape to Avoid 50 Percent Slice July 14, welfare commission September when were killed and 10.fi 15 sent to hospitals. Lansing, state social cross-cut the statute books today, seeking to protect federal subsidy for old age assistance, which members said was endangered by the legislature. In emergency session It revised its regulations governing benefits to the needy aged, declaring the action was necessary to avert a 50 per cent cut in allowances to clients. The state and federal governments contribute equally to turned and the time has come for Germany to terror from the she has dealt on Britain. The prime minister spoke first to 6,000 uniformed members of civilian defense services at a great rally In Hyde Park and then again, in even more dynamic tones, at a luncheon of service organizations.

Time For Suffering Fve points stood out in the prime messages: 1. is time Germans should be made to suffer in their own homeland and cities something of the torments they have twice in our lifetime let loose upon their neighbors and upon the world have now Intensified for the past month a systematic, scientific and methodical bombing on a large scale of German cities and indust ies "We believe It to be In our power to keep this process going on a steadily rising tide month after month, year after year, until the Nani regime either extirpated by us or, better still, torn to pieces bv tho German people 2. There can be "no truce or parley with Hitler or the grisly gang who did Hitler worst We shall not turn from our put pose however somber the road, however grevious the cost, because we know that out of this time of trial and tribulation will be born a new freedom and glory for all mankind." Something or Italy 3. the nights grow longer that unhappy province Germany which used to bo called Italy will have its fair 4. admit when the storm broke in September I was for several weeks very anxious about what the results would be.

We were not then preparel, as we are now but there was one thing about which there was never any i doubt- the courage, the unfalter- ing grit and stamina of the Londoners Without that, all would have failed. But upon that rock nil stood 5. the bombing attacks of last autumn and winter come back again? If the storm is to renew Itself, London ill be ready, London will not wince, London can take It The ministry of home security reported that only 399 persons were killed in air raids on Britain last month, the lowest of any since July, 1910. and only a fraction of the peak casualties of last Dr. George Caspar Bartley, 56, life-long resident of Escanaba, and a leading member of the medical profession of the peninsula.

died suddenly of a heart attack Sunday morning at 10:451 at ills home, 1101 Fifth Avenue South. He had been ill suffering from I a heart ailment, but was believed to be regaining his health, and his sudden death came ns a profound shock to his family, and friends throughout Escanaba and neighboring communities. Dr. Bartley was born in Escanaba September 22. the son of the late Captain Caspar Bartley and of Mrs.

Nellie Burke Hartley. Following his graduation from Kseanaba high school. he entered Marquette it in Milwaukee, from which he received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1910. He took post graduate work at Rush Medical school in Chicago and served his interneship at Cook County pital in Chicago. IMiilili'liril Practice In IfMI He started his practice in Floronce, Wis in 1911, as assistant to the late Chambers, and in the fall of that year he returned to Kseanaba, to establish his office in his native city, and to become one of its leading physicians nnd surgeons.

He served as Division surgeon for the Chicago North Western Railway from 1914, when he succeeded tha lata I hr, H. B. jri olds, until the time of his death. He also was physician for the United States Public Health Service and examining physician for the Knights of Columbus, the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Catholic Order of Foresters. Dr.

Bartley was a member of the Michigan Stale Medical Society, the American Medical Association and Delta-Schoolcraft Medical social, and was affiliated with Phi Beta Pi. national medical fraternity. Ho mum a communicant of St. Catholic church, and was a member of Es( ntiaba Council, Knu Ins of bus and of the Ancient Order of Hibernians. His prominence in medical clr- I mm was equalled by his outstanding civic service.

Vr as a member of the Kseanaba Board of Education for sixteen years, and as president of tho Board dedicated the Kseanaba Athletic Field. His deep Interest In sports of ail kinds dates from his early school years. He was a leading EXTENSION UP TO CONGRESS LEADERS DOUBTFUL OVER PROSPECTS OF PROPOSAL nii. immiv BOOM IS OVER, NATION VVARNED Price Administrator Is Gloomy Over Future Business Outlook (Continued on Pago Two) MILITARY COOP NEAR IN JAPAN Port of Kobe losed to Foreigners; Reserve Troops Called Atlantic City, N. July 14, The American public was warned today by Federal Price Administrator Leon Henderson to brace Itself for a tomorrow of industrial dislocation and harsh Is a dark picture I Henderson told 1.200 attending New York Manufacturing association convention he predicted an end shortly of the recent boom in of automobiles, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, radios, electric stoves.

Washington. July 14. Congressional leaders decided at a conference with President i Roosevelt today to press for mediate enactment of legislation to hold national guardsmen and reservists In service for more than one year. The decision was made despite some doubts in administration quarters on Capitol Hill that congress would be willing to take the step. After White House conference, however.

Senator Barkley of Kentucky, majority leader, predicted to reporters that congress facts and realizes its responsibility ir will react Speaker Rayburn (D- Tex.) of the house had said last week he doubted the proposal could win approval from congress at present. Trained Men Needed Chairman Reynolds announced that the senate military committee would hold hearings on the legislation starting Thursday. He added, however, that he was still opposed to the bill as an individual member. Arguments In support, of the legislation were submitted to the congressional lieutenants by Gen. George C.

Marshall, chief of staff. who recommended that all men now in the army he kept in service beyond their scheduled periods of duty. Barkley he was convinced that the action was nepded to prevent the army from because of the withdrawal of large numbers of trained Leaders made It clear that Immediate program did not in- ONVOY llOMItl (By AMociatrd Premn) London. July 14 The RAF went hunting today for German shipping and German (Continued on Page Two) Weather by S. Weather Boreas) LOWER MICHIGAN: Partly cloudy, widely scattered showers Wednesday and in north portion Tuesday; not much change in temperature.

MICHIGAN: Showers and slightly cooler Tuesday fair. At High Last 0:30 P. M. 24 Hours ESCANABA 74 Yesterday Alpena 7 5 86 88 Milwaukee vi 73 P. 78 Cincinnati 90 New Orleans 94 Cleveland 85 New York 8 0 Denver 4 Omaha 6 1 Phoenix Pittsburgh 2 El Paso 9 ii St.

Louis fir. Rapids Sait Lake95 Bav SI Houghton 2Seattle 94 fi Soo Lookout 71 to Washington. Reported Willing to Visit Washington Washington. July 14. Senator Wheeler (D-Mont.) said late today that William R.

Davis, an oil operator, had advised the administration after a trip to Germany in 1940 that Field Marshall Hermann Goering of Germany and Premier Mussolini of Italy were willing to visit Washington to a in the European war. Wheeler told reporters that on one occasion, Davis had written him Goering and Mussolini were willing to call on President Roosevelt and try to work out a was shortly after Poland had been he added. and Belgium and other countries might have been saved if the president had followed up that New York, July 14, The New York Daily News said tonight the final result of its statewide poll on whether the United States should enter war to old a -r ce prints help Great Britain defeat Hitler j'. Fauri, supervisor of so- showed 122,802 persons opposed rial security, said federal entry and 51,507 favored It. bureau of public assistance had Returns indicated.

The News not to scrutinize the com- said, that if each of the mission's power to adopt the new 110 registered voters in New York Intended to make im- state voted, opponents of United 1 States participation in the war would win a margin of 2,853,000 votes. The poll, which President Roosevelt mentioned at a press conference, was made of one- tenth of the New York state voters registered in the last presidential election. (Continued on Page Two) Upholstery Strike Ends; Chrysler Back In Full Production Detroit, July 14. production returned today at the Chrysler Corp. and Briggs Manufacturing Co.

plants following the settlement of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) strike at statement! the National Automotive Fibres mediatelv effective a revision required by the federal government. The legislature, by takinc a three- recess instead of adjourning, had delayed indefinitely the effective date of an act which would have made the same revision by law, federal authorities M. Clyde Stout, chairman of the commission, said Michigan grant from Washington for July had been held up by federal order hs a result of the recess, hui that he ttj nn commission's resolution would bring release of the money Thursday. allocation for July. August and September will total 12.493.000, he said, payable In three monthlj Installments ARMISTICE ENDS SYRIAN CONFLICT English Strengthen Hand In Middle East After Five-Weeks War Traffic Toll to- tack Russia in Siberia either on day Moscow falls or on Aug.

Cairo, Egypt, July 14. OT British and French officials as demanded by the) day formally signed the Armistice th. ending the five-week-old middle i IS. east war in which Frenchman i Foreign military men. however, fought Frenchman and were convinced that this was a ly battled former ally.

ral Shanghai, July 14. Clos-; ing of the Japanese port of Kobe i to foreigners for ten days from tomorrow was reported today and word rati through the Far Kant that a new Japanese move was pending, probably against French I ndo-China. Word filtering out of Japan said also that a number of reservists had been called to active duty in the Japanese army. Kobe Is a likely point of embarkation from Japan for any troop movement to the south. (London sources predicted a Japanese attack on Indo-China and Thailand as preparation for a drive against the oil and rubber- producing Islands of The Netherlands Indies.

They expected Japan to try to catch Britain and the United States involved in the Atlantic and establish sea and air bases at Saigon and Bangkok from which to threaten British Singapore i Ann Arbor. July 14. Japanese military and naval Zigler, 7. of Cement quarters in Shanghai appeared tnjcity, today at University hospital of Injuries received July 7 Adrian, Mich July 14, Ray Sharp, 30, of Adrian, died today of injuries received when his automobile overturned on M-52 near Tecumseh. (Continued on Page Two) furniture and other hard goods.

becomes my disagreeable another recommendation by said Henderson, tell. Genera! Marshall that an existing you that the party is over restriction against of selecteefl Before long now, there will bo I more purchasing power running around bunting something to buy than there are goods available wish I could tell you that we had an easy solution, that everything Is going to be all right. I can't promise yon any such hope. All I can tell you Is that only by sweating blood and tears can the dislocations be held to a minimum. exactly similar pardox ever confronted American business.

Customers eager and ahle to buy will be crowding the market places and stores, but manufacturers will be unable to get enough raw materials to satisfy demands it Is a dark picture I paint. It is a picture of factories made bile by lack of raw materials to turn out civilian goods, of men made Idle by lack of materials to work with, of single Industry towns blighted by spurious prosperity based on production of goods which we can't wear, or eat. or live Saginaw. Mich, July II, Arnold McDowell, 29, of Flint, was killed today at a county road intersection miles west of here when his automobile failed to round a curve. Whittled Dollars Suggested To Help Public Meet Debts Washington, July 14.

A group of senators interested in stiver suggested today that the size and weight of the silver dollar might have to be reduced regulate the value of the dollar to that point where the people can mounting debts and raxes. our national debt reach the sum now prophesied by some of our they said a statement, the burden of such debt, together with the state, county, city and district debts, coupled with taxes and the existing private debts, may mean that the present size and weight of the standard silver dollar may have to reduced in order to regulate the value of the dollar to that point where the people can meet such taxes, interest and debts. thu eventuality should happen. then our large accumulation of gold and silver monetary metals will go a long way toward liquidating our national This view was not amplified but the contention apparently was that a moderate inflation would tend to make the debt less burdensome. The statement was made public by Senator Thomas is ch.t:> nan of the special silver committee.

up some years ago and originally headed by the latrj Senator Pittman (D- Nev.) be deliberately letting reports pread that Japan Intended to at- when he was struck mobile. by an auto- war of nerves on Claude Auchlnlerk, British and smoke screen. They mander in the middle east, an- said Indo-China would be the ob- nounced here. i ject of the next Japanese move. The document was suned at i pa a Resident Is Killed In Mine Commenting on a made by Mayor LaGuardia In New factory.

York today that German peace I IAW-CIO members, who went proposals had been laid before re- strike lust during a cun presentatives of a peace Prison Farm Trusty Missina At Jackson Ne Ge of a movement in this country. Wheeler asserted he had heard of no proposals beyond those which he said had hern presented hv Davis Wheeler identified Davis an man vaned in New Yet always ha- had clete con- tract dispute, approved a new contract Sunday which union officials would increase hourly pay rates from 8 to 1 cents. Present were not revealed. The automotive supplied the Chrysier acd Bricts for Tht Prcr oyg ap- proiimateiy 1,000 workers. Jackson Mich William Nicholl July 14 41.

Southern Michigan prison farm trusty, was I sought here today after guards re- I parted him missing from thr root farm f-hortly idmght Sun- dav He ed from 1ns- ham county 21. l'MO, to serve a 1n year sentence for i aotault with urent to rape. tual cessation of hostilities Negotiations leading to the fin al signature were carried on a I Acre by General Sir Henry Wait Wilson, commander of Brit-j ish forces in Palestine and Trans- Jordan, and General Henri year the French commander in Syria I Neg; The armistice had been initialed there Saturday. i he Terms of the armistice were I not disclosed immediately, hut jubilant Britons declared It ly strensthened their hand in the against any axis de- Mich, July 14 (Jp) Newman, 3S, an em- at the Maas mine for and a former member of the police force, was in- killed early tonight when is caught under a fall of1 ground working in a scope, i Coroner James T. Hod the accident happened 6:30 p.

rn Men working not in Lapeer, July 14 i Jack Fox. 21. and his brother, of Foatoria. died to- I day of injuries received when their automobile collided vvith au- other driven by Jack Stoneburg, 21. of North Branch, 12 miles northwest of Lapeer.

Stoneburg suffered a shoulder I fra ltire and Junior Robinson, lt5 of Fostoria, a passenger lu the Fox automobile, was seriously in- Ijured. Public Pocket ash Takes Jump In June Today's News ON THE HE COI! Thompson comments on Iceland developments. Page STVMP PI Gilbert addresses Kseanaba Kotary club. 5. I ROQIKT Tour nament planned by city recreation department.

Page 11. MOPPED Munlslug uine halts Kscanaba inning Page II. middle ea-t any de-j stope with Newman were on rich oil and the jured. Hodge said, but he did not Suez Canal They said, too, that it greatly bolstered position of dent Turkey, Syria i door neighbor. Washington.

July 14 (JP said public cash in pocket book took about! another jump last month, i the The treasury today said there was 3 of coin and currency in circulation on June to de 11 of ne -1 3 0. or an avei of i 3 3 per Tue-day hen he his peThe month before, the the aver.i<e was and a year i ago it NEW UTILITY PROMOTION to arrange for time payments on electrical appliances. Page 12. VII.ING Exciting race staged bs Escanaba yachtsmer Si.nd.-v, 10. ne.it- an Tpo 'unity to question iv.ctims companions Rl HAL SCHOOLS Educa tional standards have improv ed.

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