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BDT DERNU BONDS EBP TEMFtTWO LOCAL OBSERVATIONS (24-hour report preceding 7 a. m. Thursday) Maximum Temperature 89 Minimum Temperature 77 River Gauge, .4 fall 7180 Greenville Forecast: Little temperature change tonight. VOLUME 46 Associated Press (AP) GREENVILLE, MISSISSIPPI THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1942 Wide World (WW) NUMBER 284 Death Toll Now 15 In Bus, Train Crash At Crystal Springs Over 30 Injured In 1 Wreck At Uptown Intersection CRYSTAL SPRINGS, Aug. 6 (AP) Two more deaths today brought to 15 the toll of a bus-passenger train collision here yesterday.

More than 30 of the in the bus were injured in the wreck at a downtown intersection of this southern Mississippi city. FOUR EN ROUTE HERE At least four of the 15 persons killed in the Crystal Springs bus- train crash were cadets enroute the Greenville Army Flying School from Dorr Field, Arcadia, Florida. Cadet and Mrs. H. M.

Shine- barger of Erin, New York, en- route here, were among the victims. The Shinebargers had been married only five days. Cadets J. M. Landt of Syracuse, New York, and Geddie Roy Smathers of Charlotte, North Carolina, were victims as well as W.

J. Rescoil of Dorr Field. Cadet Morgan Smith of Yankton, South Dakota, who arrived here today by automobile from Dorr Field, Florida, said Cadet Smathers was his roommate at the Florida primary field. We'll Make 'Em, You Break 'Em NEW YORK, Aug. 6.

'(AP) make 'cm if you'll play 'em--and then break "em." That's the only concession the American Federation of Musicians (AFL) has made since its ban on the manufacture of "canned and transcriptions for public use--became effective last Friday at midnight. Union President James C. Petrillo ordered the ban (jn the ground that radio stations, advertising agencies and juke boxes had thrown thousands of musicians out of work by using recordings. But George S. McMillan, secretary of the Association of National Advertisers, announced yesterday the union had assured him it would permit its 138,000 members to make transcriptions for commercial broadcast s--provided the recordings were played only once over a station and then destroyed.

Efforts were continuing today to identify the bodies of two women taken to Jackson, funeral parlors after the crash. Witnesses said the impact was BO terrific that thfe engine'in the rear part of the bus was torn out, (Continued on Page 3) PELLEY SEEKS NEW TRIAL; CONVICTED ON SEDITION COUNTS Two Business Associates Are Found Guilty On Conspiracy Charge INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 6. (AP) --William Dudley Pelley, convicted on 11 counts of criminal sedition and conspiracy and a Epossible maximum sentence of 220 years in prison, based his hopes for freedom today on a new trial. A motion for a new trial will be filed within three days, defense attorney Floyd Christian said, and if it is denied the case will be appealed promptly to the U.

S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. The spruce little man who once headed the Silver Shirts of America was convicted last night by a federal court jury which also convicted two business associates, Lawrence A. Brown and Miss Agnes Marian Henderson. Brown and Miss Henderson were found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit sedition.

The three were officers of the Fellowship Press, a publishing (Continued on Page 3) ELEANOR DISAVOWS LEFT WING SUPPORT Doesn't Want U.S. 1 Controlled By Russia- Dominated Croup NEW YORK, Aug. 6. (AP)-- Disavowing any support of the i Left Wing of the American Labor party and in so doing making one of her rare statements on foreign affairs, Mrs. Franklin D.

Roosevelt says: "I do not wish to be controlled in this country by an American group that, in turn, is controlled bv Russia and Russia's interests." "The President's wife expressed this attitude in a letter rebuking Eugene P. Connolly, ALP left wing leader, tor his alleged use politically of previous statement of hers in which she cn- dorsed tho party as a whole. I Declaring, in her letter marie public yesterday, that her endorsement ol the party as a whole had been used in a leaflet during the current primary figh'. between the ALP right and left wings, she told Connolly: "I do not wish you to use my name or my loiter again in any pubiicutiuu whatsoever." CONVICTED TRAITOR, MAX STEPHAN, GETS DEATH SENTENCE First Person In 159 Years Found Guilty Of Treason In U. S.

DETROIT, Aug. 6 (AP)--Max Stephan, first person in 159 years to be convicted of treascn in the United States, was sentenced in federal court today to hanged. U. S. District Judge Arthur J.

Tuttle directed that Stephan, German-born American citizen, be hanged on Nov. 13. 1942, with in the walls of tha Federal Detention Prison at Milan, Mich. Stephan was convicted in federal court here of aiding the flight of a Nazi flier escape from I a Canadian concentration camp. I 'The life of this traitor, Max Stephan, is less valuable than the lives of our loyal sons which are being given in the cause cf the United States," said Judge Tuttle in pronouncing sentence.

"We have been to soft, to the extent of beiny mushy. There are. in the sob squad and the fighting squad. too many too i This is no ordinary war. We talk of soldiers and we think of death not in figures cf thousands but in figures of millions.

If the lives of many of our boys are to be taken to help such a cause, this co'irt should not hesitate ta take the life of one traitor if it, in turn will heln that same just cause." "The court sees only one answer," the judge said. "It is the af- (Continued on Page 3) BILBO'S ENTRY CALLED "DOXEY'S 2ND FRONT SANDERSVILLE, Aug. 6. (AP)--Sen. Theo G.

Bilbo's entry into the Mississippi senatorial campaign as a speaker on behalf iin his colleague, Sen. Wall Doxey, declared by Candidate James 67 Eastland as "Doxey's second front." But it was launched "without even a hand grenade," he said. ROOSEVELT VETOES BILL TO SET UP RUBBER AGENCY President Simultaneously Creates Committee To Study Whole Problem WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 -(AP) Asserting it block progress of the war effort, President Roosevelt vetoed today legislation to create an independent agency to stimulate production of rubber from grain and simultaneously created a committee to look into the whole rubber problem. Bernard M.

Baruch, who was head of the War Industries Board in the last war, will be chairman of the committee named to recommend the best program to produce the synthetic rubber necessary for the war effort and for essential civilian use. Serving with Baruch are Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard university, and Dr. Karl T.

Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Would Hamper War Mr. Roosevelt said the bill he was vetoing--passed by congress with the backing of the farm bloc--would hamper instead of aid the war effort. The measure, the President said in a message to the senate, would break up an existing logical coordination of centralized control in the War Production Board and override priorities established by WPB for materials necessary to make hundreds of products essential in war. Noting that the board had allocated a certain amount of rubber to be made from both agricultural products and petroleum, Mr.

Roosevelt sale: that both types of plants now are being constructed and that others are planned (Continued on Page 8) CHARGE! BROUGHT OF CONSPIRACY IN RUBBER PROGRAM Texan Asserts Cartels, Patent Pools Are Promoting Control WASHINGTON, Aug. 6. (AP) --Charges of a "conspiracy" to control synthetic rubber production today occupied the attention of the senate patents committee, explorins ihe operations of international cartels and their effects upon the nation's war effort. The committee, suspending its public inquiry for a day, studied the assertion of C. R.

Starnes. independent oil operator of Gladewater, that representatives of the major oil companies, work- Nazis Closing Stranglehold On Caucasus New Pincers Threat Menaces Stalingrad British-Indian Deadlock Fast Developing FDR May Address Last Minute Plea By The Associated Press A deadlock in the crisis arising from India's demand for immediate independence from Great Britain appeared inevitable that today amid conjecture President Roosevelt mg "inside the government and were in control of the synthetic rubber program. Starnes declared yesierday that the "conspiracy" was being promoted by "certain- international cartels and patent pools," and that their "strateBems have included evasions intended to stop I the production efforts of any group not a member of their own patent pools." The husky Texan, who brought together six oil refineries and who estimated that he could produce basic ingredients for synthetic rubber and explosives at costs lower than the estimates of the large companies, declared: "I have been blocked at every turn, blocked by Americans, blocked by Standard of New Jersey and men who arc affiliated with and influenced by the Standard Oil Justice Murphy Rides A Tank might address an eleventh- hour appeal to India not to complicate "the task of those who arc fighting for the preservation of human freedom." The quotation is from Secre- tarry of State Hull's recent broadcast, in which Mr. Hull, without mentioning India by name, emphasized that American sympathy for freedom-seeking peoples was reserved for those who "by their acts show themselves worthy of it." In a session starting tomorrow, barring a last-minute compromise, the All-India congress is expected to authorize Mohandas K. Gandhi to lead India's 390,000,000 In "a mas sstruggle on non-violent lines on the widea'.

possible scale" against the British rule. The chances of a solution appeared meager. In Cnpps, Lord Privy Seal and Prime Min istcr Churchill's deputy in parliament, declared firmly that Britain intended to "preserve law and order" in India the war. Change Impossible Now Tlic hard facts of war make a complete change (in India's government) impossible at the moment," Sir Stafford said. In Bombay, the All-India con- (Conlinued on Page 3) INQUIRY LAUNCHED INTO ALLEGATIONS MADEBYHIGGINS Committee Leaves Today To Start Probe Of Contract Cancellation NEW ORLEANS, Aug.

(i A --A congressional sub-committee, investigating cancellation by the maritime commission of a contract to build 200 liberty ships at the Higgins shipyards here, prepared to depart for washms- ton today, but two other government agencies continued their probe into allegations made at ccmmittee hearings. H. J. Dowd, cllif of the investigation section, compliance cf the War Production Board, arrived here last night to launch nn inquiry into charges that sonic steel warehouses have engaged in alleged "black market" operations. The charges were made bcfoie the sub-committee by Frank son of A.

J. Higgins, prcsi- (Continued on Page 3) SJeut. Coi. Frank Murphy (foreground), serving with the army's 1 1 ofvr "rmored force while on leave from post ai attociale Justice ot until ai.er Vnllci gtatcs Supreme Court, nccra from a tank participating in army maneuvers In the Carollnas. The soldier standing above him was not identified.

Late Bulletins WASHINGTON, AUK. fi AP-Secretary of the Navy Knox today requested a senate nava! committee investigation of charges made by Senator Truman Mo.) against the fairness and Impartiality of the Bureau of Ships in dealing with the Hlggins Industries, of New Orleans. MOSCOW, AUK. 6 (API--Thousands in Cossack villages are members of "extermination detachments which arc hunting down German parachutists, some of whom have landed behind the Soviet lines with small tanks for support, a Tass dispatch said today. WASHINGTON, AUR.

6 (AP)-The War Production board has or- domestic heaters which use fuel oil or gas, except tc fill orders for the army, navy, roast (ruard, marl- time commission or War Shipping adminstraton. World's Senior Monarch In Capital PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6 (AP) -District Attorney Russell II. Adams today quoted Lemandria Ford. 16-sear-old Pittsburgh Negro, as saying be and a companion started the Rlnglinir Brothers Circus fire which destroyed 42 animals at Cleveland Tuesday.

GEORGE ASSERTS SOME SENATORS FAVOR SALES TAX Finance Committee Is Searching For Additional Revenue Sources WASHINGTON, AUG. (i (AP) --Chairman George of the nonnlc ft nn nee committee asserted today that good many members (rf the committee arc "very much interested" in a sains tux in their search additional revenue help finance the war. While calling attention to practical difficulties in imposing and enforcing such a levy, George declined to predict that the com- mittv-? would rule out the tux anc added that he had not made his own mind about it. Two Republican senators. Vandenberg of Michigan rtnd Tail of -Ohio, displayed special intcresl yesterday in the testimony of Jny Iglauer.

who on behalf of tho tinna! Retail Dry Goods association urped enactment of a five pel cent levy on all types goods but not on services, wages or rents. (Continued on Page 3) Soviet Reserves Thrown Into Battle In Effort To Save Big Steel Center By Roger D. Greene, Associated Press War Editor Germany's mechanized armies, fast closing an octopus- like stranglehold on the upper Caucasus, reported the fall of Tikhoretsk on ihe Caucasian railway 90 miles south of Rostov today and developed a new pincers threatto the great Volga river steel center of Stalingrad. Tikhoretsk is on the Stalingrad-Novorossisk railway terminating at the Black sea, just below Kerch strait. Soviet advices said Russia's carefully saved reserves were going into action against the terrific Nazi offensive, fighting bitterly to stem the new threat to Stalingrad.

Dispatches from Moscow said the Red armies, taking up new positions along a strong line past of the Don river, weH! driving back powerful tank assaults 95 miles southeast of Stalingrad. Upper Claw Stopped A second big-scale battle was In progress In the Kletukeyn BCC- tor, 80 miles northwest of grad, where the Husians said upper clow of a Oermnn plnwr aimed nt Stalingrad was pod dead. The danger In the Caucaiui in- SECRET FORMULA FOR CONCRETE SUBS TOLD TO SENATORS Mysterious Mr, Murray Testifies At Closed Hearing Today WASHINGTON, Aug. 0. (AP) --A mysterious Mr.

Murray told senate military subcommittee today of formula for making concrete so secret that ho didn't want Ihe official stenographer to take down what he said. After Cholrmtm Lee (D-Okln) walled 45 minutes for the man to appear for public hearing, the inventor, chemist jr whatever he was, nskcd for tin executive session, declined to identify himself within the hearing of reporters and told Lee he would prefer that his the the stenographer not record remarks. His request for creased, however, ap the drove new wedges into lines great snurlfice In llvei, front-line sold. A bulletin from Gcrinin field handquarlcru mild Ntzl ipetr- heads, racing nouthward from Vorflahltovsk, had reached the main Irans-Cnucanion rallwaj linking the Block end Caspian BOBS. 'This apparently meant that the Invaders hid seized the nil lies below Armavir, key the route, somewhere In the vl 1 clnlly of NovinnomyMkayo, which lies due south of Voroshitovsk.

would represent an advance of about 835 miles Into the Cau- (Contlnuod on Pago 3) Housing Project Vacant Due To Federal Rules DENVEK, Aug. 0. (AP)--More i be put into than 200 units of four radio said, housing projects remain vacanl in the face of an Increasingly acute housing shortage because of stringent federal housing rcgu- lulions. Applications by thousands of construction otherwise eligible as occupants for the 200 As the crisis mounted, with Red armies hurled bock in two key sectors during Mtior flglClng, Europe's capitals rani with new talk of an Allied second front in western Europe, "Every day brings nearer the time when the agreement sighed between Britain and the U. S.

S. n. on the urgency ot establishing a second front In Europe will i be put into effect," hc In "Tide IN Turning" London, Premier Pleter Addresses Congress WASHINGTON. Aug. 6 (AP) Wilhclmina of the Netherlands, the first queen in her own right to visit the United States, told congress today that "no surrender" remains the motto of her people, suffering though they are under Ihe alien rule of an in Asia and in Europe.

The grandmotherly monarcn addressing a joint session of the house and senate, said: "Imagine what it for a liberty-living country to he in bondage, for a proud country to b-j subject to harsh alien rule. "What would he the American answer if an invader tried to cover his wholesale systematic pillage with the i i squad, thi. concentration camp and the abomination the hostage prac- Rcsistancc Until End The queen, who issued proclamation of "flamini? provost" and sent her armies into (Continued on 3) New Experience By Ruth Cowan WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (AP)-Queen Wilhclmina of the today looked forward to a novel experience in her royal i a press conference. i She hadn't even crossed the White House sill when she urrived yesterday, the first queen runt to visit here, before he mted to know o' Mi Roost It And no i pr i i TAMPA, AUB.

6 (AP) The MacDill Field public relations office today reported three fliers, the crew of a medium bomber, missliiK on a routine tralnlne flit-Ill. UAW To Demand Overtime Unless Policy Is Universal Bolivar Couple Receive Injuries In Auto Crash Two Bolivar i i i are in (he Kind's Daughters hospital to- I day receiving treatment for pnin- fill i i suffered yesterday af- Denvcr Housing Authority, sold today, because their employers are not on a certified list of 50 Denver defense firms approved by Washington officials. "At present, federal regulations permit us lo rent units to defense workers making less than annually in the employ of these 50 Denver firms," Lute said. "For some reason, we arc not allowed to rent the units to construction workers employed on defense construction." Gcrbrandy of the Netherlands fiovernment-in-oxib broadcast to his countrymen in Nazi-occupied Holland, declaring that tho tide of. war was turning.

"Await with wise patience the moment when the cull comes from here not only to take a passive but also an active part" in the opening of new Allied front, hn said. Simultaneously, a fresh flood of Nazi-inspired propaganda emphasized the asserted strength of German defenses to combat a cross-channel invasion, attempt One dispatch told of "mighty fortifications of concrete and iron" extending deep inland from the English Channel (Continued on page 5) Wartime Maneuvers Are Serious Business, Plus Dirty, Hard Work The injured are Rufurd received a i cuts and un.v.-s when ihe-ir A. Ford CHICAGO A 0 A aiitomobrb collided head-on i Airo-aft, A i a V-8 Ford. urn I Implement W- At th? hospital i i i threatens to revoke its Mr. who icy of i i i overtime pwy a i i across fo'r war labor on Saturdays r.n.t i a county fi Sundays unless the policy is an- C'itv.

said he and Mrs Ity William F. Bonl WITH SIXTH ARMY CORPS, Aug. 6 (AJ 1 Make no mistake ternoon in a collision of automo- "bout it, friend, these wartime bik-s MI the New i a No. maneuvers in the Carohnas I in front of the Bridges stoic, are serious business and dirty near i i work. 1 Then: ai them which many things about the in plied i a i i i i 30 days.

Although onirwrt i many delegates, a resolution slarled ho car oceup ran inti of t.he hi i AVIMIELMIXA do we Uml'-d A i Mrs. Roo.v- velt a i explained th-it I a was a part of her next day's i program, wrld's monarch- she came to the throne when was ten years old ami now is fil--has heard about Roosevelt's press conferences from ner i MI Princess sat in on one when she i visited Washington in December, 1940. Surprise To Both Partita It is not unlikely that Juliana the heart. Hanna received (CtMinuccl on I'age 3) for such work in the AFL. puts and bruises.

river harl ofi the a wln-ii "i dilrh and then i effect was adopted by the over i tho i a UAW convention ye.slerd.iv aft.T I and crashed head-on with his a some delegates complained a K.moihK In thr; impact Mr. a fo-rinetini' American Federation rf i na, who was drivinp, was thrown Labor unions capitalized on the- from the car. He suffered a badly policy nf i i inern- hriit.vd left, leg nnd cuts about scorn childish to an outsider. Yet each a its specific tartical pmpo.se. and valuo.

When a lone i a a i a fl.ig can blow out two hours a pm- bridge into which an entire battalion of engineers has put 12 hours of sweat, cures and mnpheJ inner. 1 it may too inuc-h sham and too i battle. Yot in the. tactical b' ok a waving flai; ineuns a enemy artillery, not vet knocked out by the i cros.sing force, actually has I i it.s guns on the bridge nnd a from 11 corresponding po.siti an actual battlefield, the be shelling it to hell and pone. Tactical Triumph You might laugh if you saw a tank ruled out of coin- mis: ion by a burst of, blanks from a 50-calibre machine gun.

But that machine gun represents a 77-mm. Howitzer and its victory is a tactical triumph for the' gun crew arid a lesson to the tank crew not to go plunging blindly into may Ire a trap, Flour sacks dropped from bombers are not meant ta be deadly missiles. But they do pack enough punch to tench the troops th-it the i to do when a bomber's coming overhead is to duck for "A-cr, not stand open and admire it. Tims our citizen army learns the Ihe i ami some, of the science of warfare. The troops go days without except for the cat-naps they grab wherever they happen lo ball: days without ft kitehen-cook- or any tooked meal; days, sometimes even weeks, when they have no chnnce to wash off thcr- the caked accumulation ol 1 dust and sweat..