The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 1

State HisV. Sociely Coap. Wisconsin." Madison, lis. SUM DATA Sets at 7:40 to--day. Rises at 4:23 tomorrow.

WEATHER Partly, cloudy, showers tonight sod tomorrow It HI DAILY JPOSI ESTABLISHED 1881 Prlca Four Cents Twenty-Two Pegs APPLETON, WISCONSIN, MONDAY, JUNE 30, rax uaiid wb.u suvica or THE associated raxss tTMttNQ CM SCENT ESTABLISHED, ISM APPLETOH TTj) hT At Kaukauna; r0-. Autoist Killed fK II TrTi ife' fe)fnl M(o)(o)f LwowAlso liiiiipiMii I am? ililiiMiril i III Resistance to V'ilJ vT Reich Forces Ship Bearing American Marines and Red Cross Moscow -C5 All able-bodied Nurses Reported Sun Navy Confirms Torpedoing but Gives No Details on Lives Lost i-ilililillij ov IVY, PLAQUE FOR ENTRANCE TO CITY HALL--The above" ''picture "was (during Sunday morning ceremonies in which the Fourth Division association of Wisconsin presented a -Boston ivy and bronze plaque to the city of Appleton to be pfoced at the Oneida street entrance of city hall. Shown above (left to right) are Bmno Hummel, president of state chapter of the Fourth division, who acted 6s master of ceremonies; T. F. Tolz-man, Milwaukee, national senior vice president, acting chaplain; Mayor John Goodjand, and Howard Van Ooyen, Appleton, past national president and secretary of state unit, who made the presentation to the mayor.

(Post-Crescent photo.) I 4, Tr I -i Hess 'Flight' Linked To Nazi Peace Effort Columnists Say Germany Wanted Britain to Join Attack on Russia, Double Cross France Seek 7 Pet. Tax On New Autos House Committee In Tentative Accord On Proposed Levies Washington UP) Members said the house ways and means committee agreed tentatively today to recommend a 7 per. cent tax on the sale price of new automobiles, which would produce. about of new revenue, instead of the 15 per cent levy proposed by the treasury. Committee members said a spirited fight preceded agreement on the lower figure and that a compromise 10 per cent tax also was defeated.

Chairman Doughton (D-N. C), while declining to make public the committee's action at the morning session, promised a full statement later in the day and there were indications that the group might complete action in excise taxes the Dispute Ties Up Vote on 2 Bills Argue Over Whether Fund Is Under Farm Or Relief Measure Washington VP) Wording speedily to complete legislative action on a number of appropriation bills before the fiscal year ends at midnight, the senate passed and returned to the house today a deficiency measure. The bill, carrying $482,040,600 for the purchase of 2,236 naval planes and equipment, totalled more than the sum previously approved by the house. Washington lff A dispute over $35,000,000 tied up a pair of bil lion-dollar appropriation bills today, but congressional leaders expressed confidence both measures would go to President Roosevelt before the fiscal year ends at midnight. The bils involved were the relief bill and the $1,340,000, COO agriculture appropriation.

The argument revolved about whether congress should add to the relief bill lor the disposal of surplus commodities, or whether the sum should be included in the farm bill. The senate originally voted the extra $35,000,000 into the farm bill, but it was deleted by a joint sen-ale-house conference committee. Turn to page 5 col. 2 Services Tomorrow For Philip Flanner Madison JPh- Funeral services will be held here tomorrow for Philip D. Flanner, former director of the state department of public welfare and former state WPA administrator, wlio died of heart disease in a hospital at Harvard, 111., Saturday.

He was stricken while driving from Chicago toward Madison to spend the weekend with his family. Washington (ff The navy confirmed today that foreign flag steamer carrying American marines to London had been torpedoed, but for the present gave out no figures on loss of life. The report did not name the ship, but a previous report from an authoritative official said it, was' a Dutch vessel, the Maarsden, now in British service. The same source had said a marine was lost In addition to marines, Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, said American Red Cross nurses were aboard. Neither Welles nor the Red Cross could say how many or whether they were safe.

Without saying how many marines were aboard the earlier source had said 10 the navy said 8 had been rescued. Likewise without definite figures on how many nurses were aboard, Miss Mary Beard, director of the Red Cross Nursing Service, said the navy had notified her that "six nurses were safe." But, she said, if it is the Maarsden that was sunk "we had many more than that on 6aid that the marines were traveling to England to help the expanded services of the American embassy including communications and fire prevention. Under the neutrality act Welles explained, the president had the power to make exceptions to permit Americans in certain instances to travel on belligerent ships. The acting secretary" did not mention how many nurses might have been aboard the -ship. Motorcyclist Assessed $50 Youth Pleads Guilty Of Drunken Driving In City Saturday Gordon Rasmusson, 20, 114 E.

At lantic street, pleaded guilty of drunken driving when he appeared before Judge Thomas H. Ryan in i ipal court this morning. The youth was fined $50 and costs under both the county and state laws and the state fine was ordered remitted Upon payment of the county fine and costs 12 Drunken Drivers Since Jan. 1st in both actions. He was given an alternative of 60 days in the county detention camp on each count.

His driving license was revoked for a year. Rasmusson was arrested by coun ty police about 3 o'clock Saturday morning on College avenue. He was riding a motorcycle and was driv ing in an erratic manner, it was charged. American Air Squadron Busy in R.A.F. Raids -London VP) Informed sources in London said today that the American Eagle squadron has been in the vanguard of recent R.

A. F. sweeps over northern France. Declining details, the sources said fighter planes of the squadron had been doing "extremely well" in the thrusts against German bases in the areas across the English Marcel Van Camp, 19, Loses Life jn River; King Man Dies in Crash Ten persons, including one from Outagamie county and another from Waupaca county, met accidental deaths in automobile accidents and drownings in Wisconsin over the weekend. Two other persons critically hurt in accidents in the two counties.

Marcel Van Camp, 19, route 1, Kaukauna, drowned in the Fox river below Kaukauna while swimming about 3:30 Sunday afternoon. William J. Fraser, 63, King, was killed and Sherman Salversoh, 47, Waupaca, was injured critically about 10 o'clock this morning when their automobile collided with a truck on Highway 22 a mile northeast of King. Van Camp, an inexperienced swimmer, either dived or fell into the water from a boat which was tied to a dock at the Peter Feld-kamp farm. The water was about 10 feet deep at that point and the body was recovered in about 45 minutes.

Attempts to revive him were futile. The youth was swimming with a brother, Aloys, 17; Paul Larhers, route 3, Kaukauna; and Ralph and Howard Feldkamp, route 3, Kaukauna! when the drowning occurred. The body was recovered by Earl Luedtke, 906 Lawe street, Kaukauna, who arrived at the scene in a speedboat shortly after the accident, William Glasheen, county traffic policeman, was told. May Call Inquest Sheriff Fred Frank called an inquest jury to view the body, but a complete investigation will be made before an inquest is called, he raid. Members of the jury are Robert Roberts, N.

M. Haupt, Cyril Robe-deaux, Le Roy Schuh, John Ver-beten and Bert Roberts, all.of Kaukauna. VanCamp was born Feb. 24, 1922, In fhe town of Freedom and lived there all his life, attending St, Nicholas school He was a member of St Therese society at Freedom. Surviving are the parents.

Mr. and Frank VanCamp, route 1, Kaukauna; five brothers, Aloys, Glen. Eugene, Gerald, Floyd, at home; a sister, Mary, at home." iunerai services will be conducted at 9 o'clock Wednesday morning at St. Nicholas church, Freedom, by the Rev. A.

W. Van Dyke, the cortege forming at 8:30 at the residence. Burial will be- in the parish cemetery. The body may be viewed after 7 o'clock this eve ning at the residence where the rosary will be recited at 8 o'clock tonight and Tuesday night. Car Hits Culvert Fraser was driving west and at tempted to pass a truck, driven by Ed Reimer, 54, Weyauwega, when the latter began making a left turn.

The Frazer machine hit a fender of the truck and went out of control. It struck a culvert and rolled over before coming to a stop about 70 feet from the roadway. Salver-son, who was riding with Fraser, Turn to page 21 col. 3 O'Daniel Losing In Senate Contest Dallis, Texas VP) It seemed today only a miracle could save Miracle-man W. Lee O'Daniel from his first election defeat.

A 32-year old friend of the president, Lyndon Johnson, was all but elected Texas' next United States senator. As counting of Saturday's ballots was resumed this morning. Representative Johnson, who campaigned on a "Roosevelt and unity" plat form, had a lead of 4,561 ballots over the 51-year-old O'Daniel who twice became Texas' governor to the tune of Hill-billy music, honey poetry and a smooth radio voice. Totals of the four major candidates when the Texas election bureau shut down at 9 o'clock last night with 116 out of 254 counties complete, and about 96 per cent of the vote in were: Johnson O'Daniel attorney general, Gerald C. Mann 135.075, and Repre sentative Martin Dies 77,382.

The election bureau estimated between 15,000 and 18,000 votes still out. Nobody Dare Blue-Pencil Them At last reporters are getting their due. Japanese government decides to appoint only newspaper men as diplomatic envoys! From leg-man to "Mister Ambassador." From the obituaries stint to "Minster Plenipotentiary." There's a mouth-filling title for you. And are we humble want-ad takers Boys, we're green in the face. Still, even the Japanese State Department, couldn't have bettered the7 result of this li'l want-ad: 2 HOLSTEIN SPRINGERS Elmer Schmalz, R.

1, Mena-sha, i mi. w. of Waverly Beach. Sold. Scheduled ad for 8 times but cancelled after third Insertion, VUWI Wl WVSjr Reich States BrIin(3 Germans said tonight that on ihe northern part of tha Russian front the naxis were in pursuit of the retreating Russians and thai the deterioration of the defense had rone so far that there no longer was a proper front Berhn German troops were reported today to have captured Minsk and to be, almost half-way along the 450-mile road from Minsk to Moscow A "German military spokesman asserted Minsk was in German hands shortly after the high command reported capture of Lwow, on the lower Polish front and LU bau, Latvian port on the Baltic sea.

The spokesman intimated German troops Vfeie in sight of Smolensk, 200 miles east of Minsk. A big pocket was being formed around Russian troops in the Smolensk regionhe said. The high command bulletin on the capture of the Latvian port was preceded by a report that a soviet Russian division near the Baltic coast had been encircled in new German northward push in Lithuania and Latvia. The ring is so narrow and tight around the red army forces on The Baltic front DNB, official German news agency, said, "that destruction of the bolshevist units is certain. Many Tanks Destroyed The agency also said several hundred Russian tanks and 42 cannon were destroyed or captured by German forces- at Rawa Ruska, just inside Poland and 49 miles northwest of Lwow.

The latter fortified city, also known as Lemberg, was the scene of fierce German-Russian fighting in the World war. German occupation of Lwow for the second time in two years was announced by the high command in a special This and the DNB reports from the warfront were the only, new information, however, there being an extraordinary delay In issuance of the daily communique. The nazi fighting forces seized the city from Russian defender! this morning, the high command said, while less than two years ago a considerable portion of the routed Polish army was forced to capitulate in the Lwow region. Report Red Losses The Germans then withdrew from the city and placed, it in the Russian sphere when Poland was partitioned. The 1941 capture of Lwow was reported from the fuehrer's headquarters today in this brief an.

nouncement: "Lwow wa3 taken today. The reich's war flag has been flying from the citadel since 4:20 a. DNB said 24 Russian planes have been destroyed or damaged on the ground at Minsk last night and so far today on the eastern front including 22 bombers shot down in an attempted attack on a German position. German air attack was credited also with having smashed Russian railroad facilities, derailed trains, destroyed tanks and battery positions and sunk a transport of between 3.Q00 and 4,000 tons. (Forces in the battlefront area between Luck and Lwow, where the Russians said a battle of 4,000 tanks had entered its fifth day today, apparently were aiming their drive at the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, 250 miles east of Lwow.

A dozen announcements, released at intervals over four and a half hours yesterday from Adolf Hitler's "fuehrer headquarters" told Germans jammed around their radios that their armies had taken Vilna and Kaunas in. Lithuania, Brest-Li t- ovsk and Grodno in Poland, and Dvinsk in Latvia. They told of the destruction of 2,233 Russian tanks, 4,107 Russian planes and 1,297 Russian armored cars 'in the first week and of the capture of 40.000 prisoners, 600 heavy guns and vast quantities of other war materials. Truck Kills Nurse While She Sleeps Near Highway in Indiana Lafayette, Ind. En route home from the University of Wisconsin Nurses Training school, from whigh she was graduated Friday, Miss Sarah Elizabeth Pyle, 24, of Rockport, was killed by a milk truck which struck her as she slept on a blanket beside U.

S. Highway 41 near Boswell yesterday. Miss Pyle was accompanied by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John F.

had stopped to rest The truck, driven by Eugene A. Farrell, 18, Watseka, Dl, veered from the highway and struck the young woman's head. Her father, turning just in time to see the truck, leave the road, ran to warn her and was struck himself. He suffered a fractured; elbow. Both parents, were taken to a Lafayette hospital.

Police arrested Farrell on charges of manslaughter, reckless homteide and reckless driving. He told Coroner Harry Comley that he dozed at the wheel and awakened just as his truck left the road. Be said bm did not see Mlsi Py le, citizens of Leningrad and surround ing towns were conscripted tonight for work on the city's defenses. Moscew 0 Now under attack in strategic sectors of the whole ot a front with Germany and her allies, the red army, reported today a stubborn resistance to the invaders in the areas of Murmansk, Dvinsk, Minsk and Luck, the repulse of two attempted shortcut drives toward Leningrad and aerial entrapment of a panzer force. The last 24 hours orought an extension of the active front through German attack across the extreme north of the Finnish border toward the Russian Arctic pert of Murmansk and repeated assaults on Russia's Karelian isthmus frontier with Finland, north of Leningrad The enemy either or both German and Finnish troops made repeated attacks yesterday to cross the Karelian isthmus border but each time was thrown back by fierce counter -fire and counter-attacks, suffering heavy losses, said today's Russian communique.

In the Kakisalmi 'Keksholm) sector, on Lake Ladoga at the eastern edge of the isthmus there were three attacks Dy two infantry battalions. When the last of these was rolled back, the communique said 300 invaders lay dead. Naval Landing Balked On the eastern edge of the Isth-mus, near Viipuri, the enemy attempted a naval landing but, the red army- reported, the landing force was wiped out in its very disembarkation. Viipuri and Kakisalmi are both about 70 miles from the great war center, Leningrad, Viipuri to the northwest and Kakisalmi north. The Russian report was short on detail of the Dattle for Murmanski.

the Dvinski-pointed Baltic drive toward Riga or Leningrad, and fighting in the Polish-white Russian sector where Minsk and a foothold in old Russia is at stake and in the Luck region of Poland where the Turn to page 2 col. 2 Warrant Issued in Kenosha Slaying Kenosha VP) A warrant was Issued today charging Bernard Oster-berg, 35-year" old former grocery clerk, with first degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting yesterday of Ralph Nappi, 31. Osterberg was expected to be arraigned tomorrow. Detective Sergeant Arthur J. Riley said that Nappi was killed in a street argument.

Riley said Nappi's brother, Romeo, 23, and another companion, Joe Spino, 22, overpowered Osterberg, took a revolver from him and called police. The younger Nappi and Spino told Riley the argument started when Osterberg accosted them on a street and began calling them names. Riley quoted a taxicab driver, Harry Davis, as saying he had seen Osterberg with a gun a short time before the fight. Army to Call 50,000 Trainees Each Month During Rest of Year Washington VP) The arrrky probably will call up about 50,000 selective service trainees a month during the last half of this year, and a big percentage of them will come from the 750,000 men of 21 who must register tomorrow throughout the nation. Selective service headquarters, it was learned today in Washington, has worked out a system of interspersing the newest registrants in the list of those who enrolled last October.

Selectees already in training received official indication that their tour of service would not be extended beyond the year fixed by law. The temporary White House at Hyde park, N. released an executive order by President Roosevelt yesterday which fixed 900,000 as the number of trainees to be inducted into the land forces in the fiscal year which starts tomorrow. The number is the statutory maximum. Lacks Clothing Coupons And Can't Get Trousers London VP) This is the sad saga of Harry Chambers and his plants.

Six weeks ago, Harry sent the pants to the cleaner, who lost 'em. The cleaner reimbursed him but Harry can't buy a new pair because be lacks the necessary clothing coupons. So he wrote the customs and excise people of his plight and asked for emergency coupons. He's just heard from them: "Kindly show how many pairs of trousers you still possess on the reverse of the enclosed form." They'll get his answer right soon now: 1 am sittirigxhere looking half like nudist You know which halt Pkasa burrjr jrtth, thpsa coupons. BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S.

ALLEN (Authors of the Washington Merry-Go-Round) Washington Following the outbreak of the Na2i-Russian war, European capitals buzzed with reports of a German offer to Britain to make peace, then turn their united forces against Soviet Russia. These reports were not empty rumors; they were absolutely true. Behind them is a story of the most audacious and astounding nazi intrigue of the. war to date. Its opening scene was the sensational Hess "flight', to Britain; Its closing paragraph the surprise' nazi declaration of war on thtir ally.

Red Russia. The inner details of this brain-reeling plot are not yet unraveled Bnd all of them won't leak'out until the history books are written. But authorities have pieced it together and it is now possible to get the main outlines. Following the victorious Balkan campaign whicn made Germany master of Europe, powerful mili-tary-nazl elements, always hating the communists, began urging peace with Britain in exchange for a British-German coalition against Russia. After a bitter struggle inside the nazi party.

Hitler sided with the anti-Red group and the wheels were set in motion to line up the British. Chosen for Mission It was realized that they would have to be approached in such a manner that they could not doubt the authenticity of the nazi plan. So Hess was chosen for this mission. Not only was he the one man in Germany" closest to Hitler, but he was also known for his hatred of Turn to page 5 col. 5 of 26 men and three women on espionage charges.

Agents of the federal bureau of investigation entered homes and taverns in four states to seize 24 suspects, FBI Chief J. Edgar-Hoover announced yesterday, while five others already were in custody on other charges. Caught In "Fly-Trap' Hoover said the G-men shadowed the suspects for two years and finally "led them into a fly-trap." Warrants issued here charged the prisoners with transmitting information to foreign nations concerning cargoes on Britain-bound ships, new developments in United States naval, army and aircraft products especially the latter and transportation by courier of samples of latest armaments. The alleged spy ring used secret inks for couriers traveling across the Atlantic by clipper planes. Hoover declared a short-wave radio with ocean-spanning range was found in the room of one suspect.

Besides the 18 taken in the metropolitan area and the five already in federal custody, four were arrested in New Jersey and one. each in Michigan and Wisconsin, Hoover said he was confident that the speedy arraignment of the New York prisoners would be followed shortly, by that of the others, who will be brought to Brooklyn for triaL Maximum penalty for conviction of espionage or conspiracy to commit espionage under the 1917 fed- Tun to pasi coL I 7 of 29 Espionage Suspects Plead Guilty as 25 Face Brooklyn Court Ignace Paderewski Paderevski Dies Of Pneumonia Famed Pianist Also Was First President Jf Polish Republic New York vT Ignace Jan Pa derewski, 80, who ruled a p'ano for 60 years and a nation for one, died last night Pneumonia struck the firs president of the Polish republic and one of the greatest musicians of all time after a two-day illness, By his side in Hotel Buckingham were his sister, Mme. Anton-ina" Wilkonska; his doctor, Dr. Asa L. Lincoln, and his aid, Sylvian Starckacz.

The white-haired patriot was. stricken with a cold last week and, ignoring his doctor's orders, made made one of bis many recent public appearances to help raise funds for his starving countrymen. Three days ago he became gravely ill and yesterday afternoon he was placed in an oxygen tent only to breathe his last just before midnight In keeping with an old Polish tradition requiring the heart of a great artist to be separated from the body after death, the heart of Paderewski wil be removed here Turn to page 5 col. 1 Roosevelt Dedicates Library at Hyde Park Hyde Park, N. Y.

VP President Roosevelt dedicated today a library which bears his name as a symbol of America's undimmed faith in the democratic way of life. Standing before the impressive Dutch colonial building in which his papers and collections will be preserved, the chief executive said this latest addition to the nation's archives was dedicated at a time when "government of the people by themselves is everywhere attack ed." It is. therefore, proof if Any proof is needed," he "that our confidence in the future of ae-mocracy has not diminished in this nation and will not diminish." The exercises were simple and brief. The break in Russian-French relations followed weekend negotiations between Petain and Soviet Ambassador A. E.

Bogomolov. A communique said France had taken the initiative in breaking off relations because it was "learned with certitude soviet diplomatic and consular agents in France were carrying out activities against the public order and security of the was the first time France had taken such a step against any dx the series of Germany's It had been reported at first that soviet piplomats would be allowed to remain in Vichy without diplomatic standing but the communique said measures would be taken so diplomatic representatives of the two. countries would be exchanged "under too best only unfinished phase of the new $3,500,000,000 tax program. In addition to the automobile tax, some members reported the group had agreed on a 10 per cent on jewelry and others said they were near agreement on a number of other items, including levies on passenger transportation, telephone bills, refrigerators and possibly a dozen other commodities. The group apparently still was considerably short of raising the $917,000,000 which would be required from new and higher excise taxes if the $3,500,000,000 goal is to be attained.

Clintonville Man Dies at Fort Bragg Clintonville Fred Ullery, 22, route 2, Clintonville, one of three brothers serving with the armed forces of the United States, was killed in an accident at Fort Bragg, N. where he was stationed, Friday afternoon. It was reported that Ullery was riding a motorcycle and was involved in a collision with an automobile, the driver of which is beihg held pending an investigation He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Chad Ullery.

The other two sons are Jack, who is in the army, and Richard, who is in the navy. The body is expected to arrive Wednesday at Heuer Funeral home. Clintonville. Pope Envisions New Era of 'Peace and Hope' Vatican City In a Sunday message broadcast to the world, Pope Pius XII attributed the sufferings of war to divine providence punishing the sins of mankind, but said the "fierce intensity of the trial would be followed by a new era of peace and hope. The holy father made no specific mention of-the Russian-German conflict but spoke of the sufferings from war at the fighting front and behind the lines from bombs, machine-gun bullets, blockade and counter-blockade, and from persecutions endured because of religious faltb.

France Breaks Relations With Soviet; 200 Russians Seized New York (ff) Seven of the 29 persnos arrested in the government's big weekend spy hunt pleaded guilty today to espionage against the United States. Innocent pleas were made by 18 others, including two technicians described as having been associated closely with the manufacture of secret army bombsights. Twenty-five of the suspects. were arraigned in Brooklyn federal court and were held for trial July 15 under bail totaling $425,000. Two suspects who pleaded innocent were Herman Lang, 40, German-born draftsman who was said to have worked since 1934 as a factory Inspector of the Modern bomb-sight, and Everett Minster Roeder, 47, New York city native reliably reported to have been a draftsman since 1927 at the perry gyroscope plant in Brooklyn where the perry bombsights are made.

Swiftly and secretly the nation wound up the greatest spy suspect hunt in its history with the arrest State General Fund Highest in 10 Years Madison QPy State Treasurer John M. Smith announced today the state general fund, with the close of the fiscal year, had reached its highest level since 1931 with a total of $17,493,486. Smith said increased income and gasoline tax collections were responsible. Motor vehicle revenues amounted to $23,548,260. The general fund showed an in crease of approximately $10,000,000 over 1940 wnen it showed In 1939 the total was and In 1938 it was $14,815,644.

Tht balance la 1333 was 43417.081. Vichy, France (ff France severed relations with soviet Russia today and it was learned that at least 200 persons accredited to Russian diplomatic and consular cervices have been held for questioning. Russian men and women who were held were concentrated in the stadium outside Vichy where only yesterday Chief of State Marshal Petain gave a flag to the French youth labor i For 24 hours before the decision to break relations with Moscow, all roads leading to and from Vichy were heavily guarded. As soon as the break became known, the Russians informed the United States It was not yet known who will take over Russian Interests In Franco but It was expected to bo Svedon,.