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EATHER Showers, warmer tonight, Tuesday. THE EVENING EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND CENTRAL PRESS DISPATCHES HOME 1 IEDITION NO. ESTABLISHED 1863 MASSILLON, OHIO, MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1941 (TWENTY PAGES) THREE CENTS A CENTS A WEEK BY CARRIES Traffic Crashes Near City Kill 4, Injure 13 NAZIS CAPTURE IMPORTANT 9 12 Killed As Fire Destroys Brooklyn Pier, Cuban Ship OTHER VESSELS HIESET flFIRE Pier Used By British War-Material Ships Also Endangered SPREADS RAPIDLY Morjiing Blaze Follows i Series Of Lightning- fi" Like Explosions By The Associated Press NEW YORK, Aug. Two men were killed, considerable property damage was caused and a number of seamen were feared dead today in a fire which swept a section ol the Brooklyn waterfront. The blaze, touched off by a series of lightning-like explosions, destroyed the Cuba mail line freightei Panuco, and damaged a Cuba mail line pier, an adjoining pier and several craft assisting in the unloading of a highly inflammable cargo from, the Panuco.

Fear Many Others Dead Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine said he feared "manj more 'men or bodies" were aboard flaming into the East river after sh. 'caught fire. He said 25 men were fished out of the river, two of them both 22 were taken to hospitals. E. Sackett, special agent in charge of the Manhattan field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Kings county (Brooklyn) Dis- "trict Attorney William O'- Divyer began investigations of the possibility of sabotage.

Valentine said he believed the fire started on the pier, No. 27, but the fire department was unable immediately to determine the cause of the blaze or estimate the damage. The adjoining pier, No. 26, has been used by ships carrying Carolina Beauty 2 Akron Residents Die In Sunday Collision South Of Navarre Six Of Injured In Route 21 "Death Trap" Crash Confined In City Hospital; Youth And Five Girls Hurt Near Here Two persons were killed and seven others injured at about 1:15 a. Sunday in the fourth multiple death traffic accident this summer on the "death trap" between Massillon and Strasburg on route 21.

Four miles south of Alliance, a Minerva theater owner was killed in a two-car crash, swelling to 59 Stark county's list of traffic fatalities for the year. In Ohio more than a score ofi persons were killed, -nine of the victims being pedestrians. A former Canton priest succumbed to crash injuries. A 16-year-old youth and five young girls were treated at the Massillon city hospital, Sunday afternoon, for injuries sustained hen an auto in which they were ding overturned on a county road ear Forty Corners, north of here. The dead: MRS.

JESSIE ADDLEMAN, 42, of 60 Willard Akron, instantly illed in a three-car collision 1.7 miles south of "Navarre on route 21. RICHARD L. LAWRENCE, 22, Of 24 Castile Akron, died from ractured skull at Massillon city MISS GLORIA MISSEL Representative of South Carolina in the annual "Miss America" contest at. Atlantic, City-will be Miss Gloria Prances Missel of Charleston. SIGHTED (See 13.) SIDS TO BE TAKEN SOON The 300-unit low-cost housing project to be erected at the intersection of Walnut and 16th SE, will be.ready for bids sometime in September.

An announcement to this effect was contained today in "The Building a contractor's trade journal. The government will erect the houses, and the city will extend sewer fa'cilities to the site of the project. The city has applied to the federal government for $160,636 to finance street improvements and other services to the project. Our Weatherman Crewmen Tell Of Experience After Leaving Lisbon MASSILLON AND VICINITY Cloudy with occasional rain and somewhat warmer tonight. Tncs- day showers and local tbunder- Vtorms.

Yesterday's high was 70 lit- 3 p. m. The low for the period was 47 at 4 a. m. to-day.

No precipitation. midily 86, low 32, High hu- JEBSEY CITYW, N. Aug. 13 The American Export lin er Exeter arrived from Lisbon tpda after sighting a submarine near he bow early the mooh-light morning Aug. 9 about 100 miles west of th Portuguese capital and discoverin later the same day an empty, drift ing lifeboat.

Crewmen said the submarine sue denly appeared about' 100 feet of the ship's brilliantly lighted port side, and remained stationarj while apparently inspecting the shi and the American flag emblazone on her side. The submarine was plainly visibl in the light of the moon, but its na tionality was not determined, crew men said. A few hours later, Captain Wen zel Habel said, a Lisbon radio direct ed him to a spot where a Portugues observation plane reported it ha sighted a lifeboat drifting with se eral persons, apparently sailors. Boat Found Empty Twelve hours -later, he said, he reached the boat and found it empty. There was a white cloth affixed to a standard, he said, and all oars Point Pleasant Farmer Slain, Another Held In Shooting losnital, Sunday morning.

MICHAEL ALEXANDER, 40 of killed in collision at interaction of route 80 and 113, near alliance. THE REV. ROBERT STEIVIMLE, 1, assistant pastor of St. Edward's Catholic church, Cleveland, and ormer assistant at a Canton hurch, fatsily injured Saturday in plunge of auto into ditch near Hint on, Summit county. The injured: PERRY ADDLEIMAN, 45, husband )f.

Jessie, and a truck operator, in ierious condition in city hospita' with fracture of pelvis, dislocated lip, lacerations of chin, right arm nd and leg and left knee and wdy contusions. ELEANOR ADDLEMAN, 20, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Addleman, fractures of both legs, abrasions and contusions of body, and forehead lacerations. In city BATAVIA, Aug.

18. long-standing quarrel between tw Point Pleasant farmers was climaxe today with the slaying. of Warren Wellington, 54. Deputy Sheriff Joseph Colonel re ported that John T. Browning, 48 Wellington's partner on a share basis, admitted fatally shooting Wellington after the latter threatened to kill him.

Browning was held but no charges were filed immediately. Last June, Wellington was held for grand jury action on a charge of attempting to poison Browning. Wellington was released after his Press Radiophoto Soviet Ammunition Dump Burns A large column of smoke in the distance, above, marks the explosion of a. Soviet ammunition dump somewhere oh the eastern front, according to the Berlin'caption on this radiophoto. Soviets Fight Fiercely To Stem Nazi Drive Toward Odessa Russian Counter-Attacks Reported To Have Driven Germans Back From City Believed To Be Kiev; Fall Of Nikolaev Acknowledged BULLETIN TOKYO, Aug.

18. indications that a Russian Far Eastern army of great strength has been fully mobilized and stationed on the Siberian border and an hours'-long conference between United States Ambassador Joseph C. Grew and Japanese Foreign Minister Teijiro Toyoda stressed the critical situation in the Pacific tonight. Significantly, Domei started off its European and American broadcasts with a discussion of rumored plans of Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek to visit Moscow, interpreting- such plans as evidence of China's weakness and the effectiveness of Japan's blockade. By The Associated Press Fierce Russiaft counter-attacks were reported today to lave saved a Ukraine city identified as Kiev, he 20,000 Germans killed and wounded after hey had advanced within five miles of the town then were hrown back six to eight miles.

Red army troops still were advancing, Soviet dispatches aid, hitting savagely at the northern flank of the long German vedge into the Ukraine. On the central front, Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's de- Anders of the read to Moscow were reported to have repulsed other Nazi columns in large-scale counter-attacks. Near a city identified only as the German losses were put at 5,000 men. Shipyards Blown Up I The Russians acknowledged thatj Nazi troops knifing across the heart! of the southern Ukraine had cap- (See 13.) THREE DEAD IN STAMPEDE (See 2 13) SEVERE TEST FOR OHIOANS LAKE CHARLES, Aug. 18.

37th division is undergoing the most severe feeding, supply and communication tests ever given an infantry division, Maj. Gen. Robert S. Beightler said today. The Ohio division's commander said the troops in current maneuvers are spread over a front extending from 30 miles west of the Texas- Louisiana border to a point 100 miles east of the Texas border, covering the flanks and rear of the entire army corps.

Despite the extent of this area the soldiers are being fed regularly said Gen. Beightler, although supplies for the entire area stem from a single railhead. The commander said he noted a definite upswing in the troops' enthusiasm since they started maneuvers. The officer said the men apparently ivity. had chafed under inact- HOURUY TEMPERATURE REPORT (Furnished by Homer Snyder, Muskingum district weather observer) fi F.

Jf 641 A. IF 47 7 P. Jl. 601 5 A. 48 8 P.

571 6 A. 3 P. no) 7 A. S3 10 P. 511 A.

S7 11 P. 501 A. 6C MIDNIGHT 49110 A. 64 1 A. 49)11 A.

B.1 2 A. 4SiNOOX 6S 3 A. 48 DAILY TEMPERATURE CHART 7:30 a. m. Y'day's City Condition Today Max.

Jktnarillo pt clfiy PI Atlanta. cle.ir TO S3 Boston clear Buffalo cldy Chicnpo cldy Cincinnati cldy Cleveland pi Columbus Ilenvrr pt cldy Deiroit cldy Duluth clear City rain Vf'OS Angeles cldy flliami pt cMy Paul cldy Orleans pt cldy New York clear Phoenix clear Pittsburgh. pt cldy Portland, Ore. pt cldy Pan Francisco ptcldy Washington in cldy Rl KO 70 73 6.1 SI B2 60 61 73 52 Tfi 7S SI So SO 91 SI SI 100 (See 13.) BREAD GOES UP SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 18.

Springfield's bakeries added one cen to the loaf price of bread today, citing increased production costs as the reason. Officers Run Into 'Lightning Warfare' CAMP POLK, Aug. 18. army officers arrivin from 1893 to 1937, died today in hi fi Washington as observers for the war games of the Third 4t year, after a long illness. He linsr torfav ran riErhh infn an samnlo i was nresident of the American News- NEW YORK, Aug.

18 vomen were trampled to death and 0 other persons were injured yes- erday as 10,000 Negroes stampeded lysterically on a Hudson river pier after many of them learned they had paid $1.25 each for counterfeit xcursion tickets. After 1,400 persons had boarded he boat State of it became apparent to of- "icials of a Harlem lodge sponsoring outing that something was wrong, and as the crowd of ticket holders continued to grow a closer examination of tickets was ordered. Word of the situation swept hrough the gaily-clad basket-carry- ng good-natured jostling gave way to angry and hysterical pushing. Order was restored only after police instructed the boat officials to pull away from the pier. As the crowd dispersed, the bodies of Marion Worrell, 48, Rose Grant 50, and Marha Murraine, 54, were found.

TRAINING OPENS CAMP PERRY, Aug. 18. (API training for 750 Ohio Stati Guard volunteers began today. The guardsmen, members of th first regiment under command Col. Sam Richmond of Cincinnati opened their week in camp by clean ing up their quarters and erectin; tents to house the entire brigade.

All units of the state naval militia also are training here this week. The two other regiments of th first brigade will train here nex week under command of Ad. Gen Whittier S. Bird. TAKEN BY DEATH BOSTON, Aug.

H. Taylor, who served as treasure and a director of the Boston Glob Drum Corps Is Second State Competition 'ails In Attempt For Fourth Consecutive State Title; Low Score In Cadence Responsible For Loss To Elyria By 1.05 Points MassUIon lost one of its state championships Sunday night when th irum corps of Massillon post No. 221, American Legion, placed second in he annual Ohio state American Legion drum corps competition a oungstown; Seeking its fourth consecutive state title after having held the cham jionship the past three years, the corps lost out by 1.05 points. Elyria win ling the crown with a score of 93 points as compared to 91.35 points fo Massillon. One thing was responsible for the allure of the local corps to annex he championship, and that was On two different occasions corps was clocked at a cadence of 136, four steps above the permis- sable 132 per minute, and E(S a re- Runmn- the big port of Nikolaev, 60 miles northeast of Odessa, but declared that the city's shipyards had been blown up in the withdrawal.

Soviet officials also admitted the fall of Krivoi Rog, rich iron ore center, 100 miles northeast of Niko- laev, which the Germans claimed week. With the 1.200-mile battlefront from the Baltic to the Black sea aflame in bitter night-long fighting, authoritative quarters in London said Adolf Hitler's invasion armies apparently had launched a major offensive in the north, driving from Estonia toward Leningrad. London advices said the Leningrad thrust was timed with the withdrawal of MUrshal Semeon Budycnny's Red armies in the south, where they were taking up a new defense line along the mile-wide Dnieper river. These quarters estimated the Gentian attacking force in the Ukraine at more than 1,500,000 troops, including 40 to 50 infantry divisions, four to six armored divisions, and 40 to 50 divisions of Italians, Hungarians, ians and Slovaks. "During the night of Aug.

17-18, our troops continued to fight the enemy along the entire front," a Red army bulletin said tersely. The midnight communique which acknowledged the Russian withdrawal from Nikolaev and Krivoi Rog said defense forces carried out Premier Stalin's scorched earth order before falling back. The vast Nikolaev dockyards where the Bug river empties into the Black sea were reported 'blown up. Red Star, organ of the Red army, said the Germans lost 20,000 dead and wounded in a fierce Russian counter-attack which saved a Ukraine city, identified only as (possibly Kiev). Farther north, on the central front.

Marshal Semeon Timohenko's defenders of the road to Moscow were reported to have hurled other German troops back in large-scale counter-attacks. Near a city identified only as the Germans were said to have lost 5,000 men. Three Nazi Divisions Knocked Out The Soviet bureau of information (See 13) suit it lost 1.60 points of a possibl 10 points. A perfect cadence score would have more than made up the difference between the corps' total 13) AWAIT ACTION SIX CHILDREN BY ROOSEVELT By The Associated Press President Roosevelt had under consideration today a navy recommendation that he sign an order tor the government to take over the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry dock company yards at Kcamy, N. idle since Aug.

7. DIE IN FIRE PUNXSUTAWNEY, Aug. 18. children, ranging in age from two to 11 years, perished early today as flames destroyed their farmhouse at Grange, near this western Pennsylvania community. Merle Bush, 47, father of the children and a WPA worker, report- A strike there by the CIO indus-jed the started from an explos- trial union of Marine and Ship-jion'of soot in a coal stove which he building Workers has halted pro- i was firing.

Bush, his wife and two auction on $493,000,000 of naval and merchant ship constmction. other children, Elva, 14 and Cloy, 4, escaped from the home. F. D. R.

Speeds Steps To Bring Axis Defeat BULLETIN WASHINGTON', Augf. 18. of State Hull said today that Japan had given no satisfactory explanation for refusing to allow some 100 private American citizens to leave that country. He said the matter was stiil under discussion bnt he declined to disclose the subject of a long talk today between Ambassador Joseph C. Grew and the Japanese foreign minister in Tokyo.

Japan's refusal to permit tbc 100 Americans to leave prevented their evacuation on the S. S. President Coolidge whfch was to have been diverted for that purpose. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON, Aug. Roosevelt resumed personal command in the capital today, with all signs indicating a faster future tempo for United States efforts to hasten the downfall of the axis.

The national mediation board gave The victims, trapped in ait lip- up trying to settle the strike last week and an order under which the government would take control of he yard was drafted immediately. The union, claiming its members numbered 16,000 of the company's 18,000 workers, called the walkout after the management declined to! grant a contract clause for mainten-! ance of union membership, recommended by the mediation board. stairs bedroom, were Leora. 11, Fanny, 10; Curt. Shirley, Nancy, 5.

and Letha. 2. REGISTER FOR CONVENTION First Shell Loaded At Ravenna Arsenal Yesterday's high Phoenix, ion. Today's 40. from opening today ran right into an unexpected sample of fare." En route from a nearby airport by motor, Chief of Staff- Lesley J.

McNair sped into the 48-mile spearhead movement of the second armored division, which took nia.ior honors in opening sorties of the field maneuvers. Lieutenant General McNair and 16 aides saw the division's tanks plunging onward in a strong advance movement of the Eighth army lightning war- president of the American News paper Publishers association from 1901 to 1904 and, with the exception of one year, was a director from i' i ting pot.s today as the signal for pouring high explosives into anil-, when ho landed from his ocean trip With 4,000 Delegates expected, regis-: lery projectiles was given on the first loading line of the Ravenna more money would be sought tration began today for the 38th an-j na nual the National Ru-j Just 3 23 davs ago lhc 2Ij0 oo-acre ral Letter Carriers association and one A LOAN YOU CAN REPAY TRAVEL SETS Your Soldier Boy Needs One Neiman's-Jewelers, 31 Lin. Way, E. "YOUR BOY IN CAIMP" Will enjoy reading "Home Send him the "Evening Independent," three months $155. Phone corps against the larger Fifth armyj out of income is quickly arranged corps.

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SMITH i RAVENNA, AU2. 13. and deliberate hands worked the COLUMBUS, Aug. meUingpotfi t0 ci a The chief executive continued to keep his own counsel on the 'oread; churchili. and the belief was that world strategy worked out in hisn le would use deeds, not words to conference with Winston disclose it when the right time came.

Meets Leaders The president started the New work week with an appointment with congressional leaders to survey the legislative situation, and it was thought likely that one top item of discussion would be a new lease- I lend as high I as $10,000.000,000. Mr. Roosevelt intimated Saturday site was o.tiiet farmland. Today lm are scattered for miles through soon to supplement the original 000.000.000 lease lend fund voted by congress last March. are still busy amid: the bare fields and wood lots inj Upon his return to the Whito trucks, concrete an avea alf nc i ze ol the city I House yesterday after an absence of mills, hammers and tools, rushing'of Cleveland.

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Phone given away. Adm. lOc, free parking She will be pleased to meet her in grounds Stark county fairgrounds, many old friends and patrons sa Canton. Bring the whole family, well as new 1 EAGLES MONDAY NIGHT Membership campaign committee meeting at 7:30 p. m.

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