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Final Efforts To Avert Pacific Started Wat GOOD MORNING. HAT has happened to Hitler' claims of tome time ago that Leningrad 1 THE WEATHER. I (By O. t. Wattbar Bureau) Wl Ttxai, A'liona, New Ml lea: Clear kin Sandar and Manaay, aaeapt aama eloadlnaia developlnr orer aaathara aar- mm and Moscow would soon be in German hands? Latest advice say that the Haitians have taken the Initiative In those sector.

The Russian Bear may be scratched and scarred but he is proving himself tough. 61st YEAR No. 320 144 PAGES Full Leaned Wire Report of The Auociated Preu (AP The United Press (UP) International New Service Central Press EL PASO, TEXAS, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1941 i mm TRANSPORT TRAPPED Better Southwestern Business Brings Smiles Again ecial Tokyo GermansLose 20 Vessels, Army Officials Meet With FDR To Map Action Last Attempt At Settling Say Russians BT ASSOCIATED PRES8 Destruction of 20 troop-laden German transports attempting a sneak landing along the frozen wastes of the Murmansk coast was announced Sunday by the Russians. The report of this smashing success on the far northern front was accompanied by a Moscow radio announcement of another victory in the south annihilation of 2500 Italians in the Donets basin. In its account of the Arctic victory, the Moscow radio said Russian troops made a forced seven-mile march across frozen tundra Envoy Reaches U.

S. Capital Nippon Reportedly Asks America Approve Claims BT ASSOCIATED PRESS Ottawa, Not. 15. The arrival of a Canadian force in Hong: Kong- was announced tonight by Prime Minister W. L.

MacKenzie King-, five days after Winston Churchill solemnly named Japan if she went to war with the United States a British declaration of war "will follow within the hour." This was the first official announcement that Canadians have been sent to Britain's Far Eastern crown colony. Other empire forces already have strongly reinforced the British garrison there as well as the mighty naval bastion of Singapore. Washington, Nov. 15 (INS). Launching a dramatic, eleventh-hour attempt to preserve peace in the Far East, Japan's special envoy, Saburo Kurusu, conferred tonight with Jap Dispute To Be Made Today Pittsburgh, Nov.

15 (AP). The National Mining Company, a U. S. Sterl Corporation subsidiary, disclosed captivt roal miners were reporting; for the midnight shift tonight despite word from union headquarters at Washington that work stoppage would be effective at that time. Washington, Sunday, Nov.

16 (AP). A spreading wot, stoppage throughout the soft coal industry to reinforce the liW 1 It i to of the Murmansk region to foil the Nazis. The Russians said Red army forces United Mine Workers' demand for a union shop in the captive pits appeared imminent today as a midnight strike deadline passed with the operators and the union still deadlocked. With the dispute still unbroken, President Roosevelt conferred with Secretary of War Stlmson and Army officers, apparently mapping a course of governmental action. The reached the coast a jump ahead of the Germans, who launched the abortive landing from the Rybachi Peninsula, which hits out into the Barents Sea from the Finnish-Rus President has voiced determination! sian border.

Before the Germans had a chance i I that the captive mines, supplying: fuel for vital defense forces, must. anese Ambassador Admiral Klchisaburo Nomura preparatory to an audience with President Roosevelt next week on Nippon's latest proposal for bridging the gulf between his country and the United States. "I still have a fighting chance for success," the smiling, be-spectacled envoy declared as he arrived in Washington to land the Russians said they were operate. destroyed by the point-blank fire A few hours in advance of thai midnight deadline which John L.I FIRST HALF EVEN West Texas Handily Wins Oyer Locals Lewis set and stuck to for ex earlier in the day after a mite tran-Pacifie flight from Tokyo. piration of the truce in the captive mine strike, a lieutenant served notice on the Illinois operators that U-- A J' in the Pacific as the high stakes on the table.

The envoy, it was learned on high authority, brought with him a per-(Continued on page 12, Column 1) Japan's last minute effort to effect a rapprochement with the American government will begin Monday morning, with war or peace of the Red Coupled with these reported successes at both ends of the front, the Russians declared that Adolf Hitler's invasion armies, huddling In trenches before Leningrad and Moscow, now have lost their lightning-war tempo for the first time since the fuehrer sent them rampaging into France and the low countries 18 months ago. The British air force, doing its "it may become necessary mo mentarily" to call out all the miners in that state. By W. T. BENTI.EY.

West Texas State's thundering The Illinois operators signed a contract lining up with the Appa herd crushed the Texas Miners. 40 lachian agreement only Oct. 27 to 7. on Kidd Field Saturday afternoon before some 4000 spectators. Lewis, as president of the CIO part to keep the Germans busy in Jap Diet Opens Vital Session United Mine Workers Union pre the west, battered occupied France The Miners made a contest of it through the first half and at the intermission the score against them in day and niiht assaults after weather-enforced idleness for the past several days.

Lashing back, the Germans raided the northeast English coast by day yrrfnpiay, killing several persons. was only 14 to 7, but through most viously had warned the commercial operators under the eight-state Appalachian agreement with major producers that work might be stopped in the commercial mines if the captive mines held out against of the second half that field was I Toyko, Sunday, Nov. 16 (AP). Emperor Hirohito opened a special session of the Japanese Diet the first extraordinary While admitting a critical situa the union shop provision embodied (Continued on page 12, Column I meeting of that body since the beginning of the Chinese War tion in the Crimea, where the Ger- PASSES Sl'DDENLY in 1937 with a brief generalized message today. asserted that the fall of Rus- Isia's big Black Sea naval base of Tokyo, Sunday, Nov.

16 (UP). Informed sources said Sevastopol was -just a question of today as the Diet prepared to hear a message from Emperor ZlLXJr'Lu a scene of horror. The Miners held Ben Collins, West Texas ace in earlier games, nicely in check throughout, but they couldn't do a thing with Larry Sanders except watch him run. Sanders carried the ball from scrim-mtiKe 18 times and clicked off 204 of the 332 yards that the Buffaloes gained by rushing. Sanders scored two touchdowns, one on a 67-yard jaunt early in the third period.

The others were by J. E. Anderson, Walter Word, Louis (Continued on page 29, Column 11 lllrohlto that if the United States sincerely wanted peace in (Continued on pate 13, Column 7) S. P. Railway Chief Dies the Pacific, Washington should recognize Japan's firm determination to surmount any obstacles in order to achieve her SERBIA ALMOST FREE aims.

Spokesmen said the special par' liamentary session which the env 80,000 Slavs In California pcror was opening formally today jf) I was convoked especially to unify 1 1 1'CSS ItCVOl 'SHOT AT BRt'SII It's cotton picking time in the Valley and the farmer's daughter wears a smile again! It's been a long time since the farmer had a dollar for daughter and a dime for son, but national defense has sent cotton to new highs and papa is walking around heavy laden cotton fields without that depressed look. Christmas dinner tables will be crowded this year. There'll be fur coats, permanents and an extra pair of shoes for daughter and mother. And papa will have to wear last year's suit because his share will go for new defense taxes. Shown above amid the Christinas white fleece is Miss Barbara Luettich, Yslcta High School senior, who is football sweetheart of the District Champion Ysleta Indians.

Times Staff Photo. F1BE SPRAYS ROAD Ten Critically Hurt As Truck Tank Explodes Against Nazis me empires ilhj.wu.wu people lor coping with any eventuality. The same sources said that Saburo Kurusu's mission to Washington represented Tokyo's last endeavor to resolve the Pacific crisis, and therefore developments in the next few days in the American capital would be most important. Las Cruces Man Held In Death Of Officer BV ASSOCIATED PKtSS London, Nov. 15.

Despite mass executions, mounting in official Yugoslav announcements to 350,000, a spokesman for the exiled govern- 100 PER CENT MEMBER The newspaper Hochl predicted jTOO MANY REJECTION'S Rechcck ment said today that 80.000 guerril- E. P. Teachers in relentless mountain warfare. have wrested most of Serbia from i Late Pioneer Mentioned In Times Article ISpeclal lo The TimMi Alamognrdo, N. Nov.

15. A coroner's jury which held an inquest into the death of Norris twaa voruiu VWIIVV 41 III JIM IU President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull the attitude the Axis. 11 41 The 80.000. including men. women 1,1 1 1 1 1 I I and youths driven into hiding byjwv 11 1 1" 1 that Japan was reaching the limit Ranger, Texas, Nov.

15 (AP). Ten persons were burned critically and from 20 to 30 others were less seriously hurt when the gasoline tank on a truck exploded after another truck had crashed into it eight miles east of here tonight. Reports to investigating officers said the truck, loaded with lumber, stalled on a hill and put out flares to warn approaching vehicles. Another truck crashed into the machine and both caught fire. of her patience because of Green, deputy game warden, found that he came to his death by gun shot wounds.

Judge George Abbott announced tonight. To Roll Call rin anu-japan en- three armieg jn Montengro, Of Deferments Set By Army Chicago, Nov. 15. INS) Between 200,000 and 300.000 draft registrants isivi Aiiiv, Cal-ii ni4 UnrTaifiitfina ti aa iirl C. C.

Oliver, Las truces, was "T.u' the depends Lnd control" three-fourths on the attitude of the American 0f Serbia. El Paso public school teachers Joined the 100 Per Cent Club In the George Coe, Glenroe, N. who dird last Wednesday, is mentioned several limes in the article on the famous Lincoln County War, which appears on page 2, section I). This article was written and In print before Mr. t'oe's death.

Premier Gen, Dusan Simovic him- (Continued on page 12, Column 8) quoted by officers as saying that he fired the fatal shot, mistaking the officer for a deer. Green, a former jailer, deputy sheriff and city marshal, was running i checking station for the State Game De The driver of a Greyhound bus elJ A stopped his machine and was at- steinhardt Airplane rejected by Selective Service boards jare to be re-examined. Selective that 8100 of his countrymen hadiRcd Cros 11011 Cal1' ltn been executed recently in the cities several business firms Saturday, Delayed By Weather of Belgrade, Sabac. Kragujevac and 'among them Robert E. McKoe Scars Roebuck.

Leavell, Sherman criiooL ISSI'E TARRIES Kralevo after pitched battles be. partment in Grapevine Canyon, Service Director Lewis D. Hershey announced today before the annual conference of secretaries of state medical associations. "We want to discover how many southwest of Alamngordo. Bt Barnes, ianaer bunirxT -o.

Thackcr ti Baca, Ideal Furniture 3. C. Penney and Lerner store. At 8:30 a. m.

he rode his horse tween guerrillas and German occupation troops. Earlier government spokesman said 2.100 persons had been executed Voters Oheh through the brush In the bed of Tehran, Iran (Persia). Nov. 15 (UP). A Russian plane carrying United States Ambassador to Russia Laurence A.

Steinhardt and Maxim M. Litvinov, Soviet ambassador to Washington, was expected to arrive here tomorrow from the north. The pilot of the Steinhardt-Lit- of these boys who have been defer- a small canyon and was killed by tempting to put out the fire on the lumber truck when the gasoline tank exploded, spraying scores of spectators who had alighted from their cars after being attracted to the crash. Both hospitals and all doctors in Ranger were called into service by the accident Because of the confusion and the largt-r number of Injured, names of all those burned were not immediately obtained. The B'nai Zlon Sunday School in one series of killings in Kragu AMits u.

McDonald made into Army maintained. "We want to Jcvac after 26 German soldiers had made Its contribution. Valley SemmcJA arn if many were deferred for many a uu-isu bullet irom a distance or 60 to 75 yards. Oliver told officers they said, that he fired at moving brush. J.

L. Smith, hunting companion San Francisco, Nov. 15 (UP). been killed. From a "secret, direct The increase noted In the first source" and from Serbs who have five days, compared to a similar AtffartAft via Ihm MiHHIj.

Futl nrinj4 Inul vaar aft 9ftQ twr rfnt Angus D. McDonald. 63, president insufficient cause, how many 10-tooth rejectees, fur example, can he made Into 12-tooth selectees." of the Southern Pacific Comoan vinov plane telegraphed that his arrival In Tehran today was delayed by cloudy skies. Wtilcr Project 1 I General Hershey blamed the Army Two out of three Issues before tor the high percentage of Two out of three Issues bcfi 1 saia, me uvt-rniw-ni uni'w inaiiin casn ana 10 per cenv in iih iii-more than 350.000 persons had been bershlp were reporU'd. executed since Yugoslavia's dii-1 Red Cross chapter also said that memberment by Axis countries.

The i the dally increase scored thus fur valley resmcms suiuraay carried, 'draftee deferments, saying: incjr iuii; in umnee neiurmunis. saying: of Oliver, also of Las Cruces and 'and one of the nation's foremost with Oliver at the time, was held, railroad executives, died today In as a material witness. Oliver was the company hospital, in the Alamogordo Jail tonight. McDonald was operated on Tucs-Martin Threat, I-ns Cruces district (day for a recurring abdominal ail-attorney, came here to conduct) ment, and he failed to rally. Death the case.

came suddenly this afternoon. government had the names of (Continued on page 5. Column 0 with Iwer Vnl Icy resWer.U author-1 Army, upon which izing a $1,000,000 bond Issue for undcr'the law the r.n of Times' Weekly final fjna UMMARY sewage and water project ana rejection rests, thought this was grand opportunity to build the Canutillo-Anthony voters approving a bond issue for school build- ln nj5tnrv, (KK) of these victims, he declared. The spokesman said that bands of Serbian guerrillas ranged an area stretching from 20 miles west of Belgrade almost to the Italian garrisons on the Adriatic coart of Dalmatia. menacing and smashing Axis communications.

Of World News Events By ttH-n. l.L tl BASKS. The vol. in the Lower Valley! 000 men ava liable issue, sponsored by El I'aso County 11 a. lot of Water Improvement District No.

"I'1! 1 TKh was 202 to 179 in favor of tht ranki If tht-r. is any fresh pr)jcc-t mu re-check our re- The project provide fur issuance of revenue bonds to finance a water! 1 lh and sewage system between El Paso' (Continued on page 5. olumn and Ysleta. Balloting was held in Cooky School, Cadwallader School Americans Captured and Ysleta Grammar School, a iii can.itiii.. school -ii-t' In Europe Air Battles (Continued on page 12, Column 61 Berlin, Nov 15 LT Two American resident were among GOOII ENOI'till.

prisoners taken from British planes Perry. Nov 15 A I' shut down nver Germmiy Inst week. DONT MISS TODAY'S WANT AD SECTION See the many Used Cars. Real Estate, Beauty Work, Jewelry, etc. Offered today by firms serving the great Southwest.

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On Price Control Bill The House, voting closely, wiped away the last vestiges i House consideration of price con- of a legal neutrality on the part of the United States. When tro, nidation, tentatively sched- the final count was announced late Thursday, this country ulcd for next week, was postponed at Inst aligned ltelf perma- today in order to give adrninistra- tly on the side of Great Britain, the foes of the Axis powers with tion leaders a chance to seek voting out of the heart of a token AEF or a contingent of vision of the bill approved by the 1' Neutrality Art coincided with Its Army Air Force, was being dls- Banking Committee two weeks ntn. i relations In the cussed in Washington unofficial Well-Informed Congressional and with a bettering of circle. It was felt that the coun- cle said that Speaker Rayburn and ltu.isia's position on Uie Eastern try now had cast its lot definitely Democratic Leader McCormack on the side of Britain. Russia and would appeal to the Banking Corn-That the United Stales might fol- China to eliminate a danger to niltte to make fverl revisions Lw up iU latest step in helping (I oiuinueu tn Fme lot.

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