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PAGE TWO Phonr 226) POTTSTOWN MERCURY, POTTSTOWN, PA. WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 8, 1942 Federal Agents Launch Attack to Smash Bund NEW YORK, July 7 agents launched a coast-to-eoast drive today to put the German -American bund "out of A legal attack was aimed at 54 of the Bund's highest officers, including Fritz Kuhn, former national Bund leader now in prison and his successor, Wilhelm Kunze, arrested in Mexico and returned to the Death in the Desert United States yesterday. It reached into Hie states of New York, New Jersey. Pennsylvania, Illinois, Minnesota Indiana. Washington and California.

Twenty-six men were named In indictments charging conspiracy to the Selective Service act and conspiracy to counsel Bund members to resist service in the armed forces of the United States, and conspiracy to conceal BuTid aiiilia- tions in out alien registration forms. Three more were accused of only the selective service violation. All 29 were in federal u.sfnriv. p. FoxwnrLh.

assistant OFFICIALS FINISH SABOTAGE TRIAL ARRANGEMENTS FBI chief, said. The them national and sectional officials and principal leaders of the the object of denaturalization proceedings. Societies Organize U. S. Attorney Mathias F.

Correa said that although the Bund was nominally defunct since the outbreak of war, numerous singing societies in the Yorkville section of New York and elsewhere had taken over 3und activities and continued to foster Nazi beliefs, Such organizations would be investigated further, he The U. S. attorney said that under the name of militant organization of free Americans" the Bund sought to advance the poetical and propaganda aims of the German Reich. The Government move struck Kuhn, who is serving a term for larceny through denaturalization proceedings, Kunze, arraigned yesterday on a charge of violating the Selective Service act for failure to report his address, pleaded innocent today and was held in bail of $50,000 by Federal Judge George S. Sweeney.

He is wanted, also, in Hartford, on a Federal charge of violation of the 1917 espionage act. Kunze Objects to Service name appeared in one indictment which charged that on Oct. 1, 1940 a command was issued over his name technically urging Bundists to comply with the Selective Service act but adding: "We represent the standpoint, however, that an induction in the military service is not justified as far as It concerns Bund members and American Germans, for in the Selective Service law the citizenship rights of Bund members and the defenders of Germandom are unconstitutionally severed. man, if he can, will refuse to do military duty until this law and all other laws of the country and of the states which confine the citizenship right of Bund members are Although he declined to say how- many Bundists inducted into the Army had followed the command, Correa asserted that Army officials had arrested a number of men who said they would not fight against the German fatherland. Reveals Other Command The Indictments revealed another command, issued in Kunze's name, advising Bund members not to mention their connection with the Nazi organization when complying with p.Iien registration requirements.

Attorney General Biddle described the indictment of the, 29 men as -simply another phase of the Department's intensified campaign against actual or potential saboteurs of the American war is he said in a statement, we will fight with every weapon at our Today's move appeared to climax an investigation of several months during which two men committed suicide rather than testify befoie a grand jury. The men were George Froebese of Milwaukee who jumped under a railroad train in Indiana and George Schwmdl who ended nis life by gas in New York. Indicted on the Selective Service count alone was Herman Agne of Philadelphia. OPA Power Increased I WASHINGTON, July 7 Price Administrator Leon Henderson to-! day strengthened the rationing enforcement powers of his office by! granting subpoena powers to regional administrators to require any individual to produce books and; records for examination. Meanwhile a Senate appropria-.

tons sub committee still had, reached no decision on the funds to allocated to his office for this fiscal year. Senator McKellar Term.) said action may not be taken i until late this week. WASHINGTON. July 7 arrangements for the military trial of the eight U-boat Nazi saboteurs mitiF todav in stern socrecy behind boarded-up corridors in the Justice big stone building on Pennsylvania avenue. By presidential proclamation the proceedings, which may lead to the gallows or a firing squad, must begin tomorrow as soon thereafter as is So deep was the secrecy in which both Justice and War Department officials shrouded the affair that spokesmen declined to say definitely at what hour the trial would start.

Commission Meets Meanwhile the military commission headed by Maj. Gen. Frank McCoy, which will determine guilt or innocence and fix the sentence, was understood to have met secretly to work out rules of procedure. Such a commission makes Its cwn rules, but in this case President Roosevelt specified that the verdict should require at least a two-thirds vote. This would mean at least a 5 to 2 vote of the seven-man commission.

The eight German-born defendants, facing the death penalty on any one of four charges of viola ing the law of war, are Ernest Peter Burger, George John Dasch, Herbert Hans Haupt, Henry Harm Heinck, Edward John Kerling, Hermann Otto Neubauer, Richard Quirin and Werner Thiel. Building Closed Typifying the mystery surrounding every move since the Federal Bureau of Investigation began rounding up the saboteurs in mid- June, following their landings in rubber boats on Long Island and Florida beaches, the entire Justice Department building was closed except to accredited persons. A long section of the fifth floor corridor on the west or 10th street side was walled off by carpenters. This section contains rooms which would be suitable for a trial, including an FBI classroom which it was learned would be used. Guards, some in plain clothes, were placed in strategic spots around the building.

WAR NEEDS 20 MILLION PEOPLE i SL South African armored car (right) rolls close to a German dive-bomber which crashed near Knightsbridge, in Libya, in the battle that preceded the Axis drive into Egypt. CONGRESS ACTS TO GIVE FARM AGENCY FUNDS Nine Philippine Nurses Honored for Bravery 10,090 Czechs Die Nazi Police Vi ork All Hours to Quell Hostile Activities Norwegian Sailor Tells Of Spurning Sub Captain ANKRA, Turkey. July 6 Ten thousand Czechs have been killed since Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated in Prague early in June and 25.000 German soldiers assisted by 100,000 police are working night and day to halt sabotage inside Czecho Slovakia, a German arrival told German residents here today. Germany is sending: thousands of workers and establishing many new war factories in Czechoslovakia since the heavy British raids on German industrial towns, he said. Sabotage in Czechoslovakia was reported constantly Increasing as a result of wholesale executions and bands of marauders are operating from forests around Prague, It was stated.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, July 7 -Brigadier General Prank J. McSherry said today nearly 20,000000 persons must be inducted into United States war activities during 1942 and 1943. In an address before the University of Virginia Institute of Public Affairs, the director of operations of the War Manpower Commission reported that it was reliably estimated that least 10,500,000 additional must be added to the war industries this year if the war production program was to be accomplished. In addition, he said 3.400,000 men would be withdrawn from the labor market during 1942 for the military sprvices, making a total of more than 13.900,000 persons to be placed In war activities during the present calendar year. To attain the necessary workers for war activities.

General McSherry said must change many our employment Employers, he said, can no longer afford to set arbitrary age limits; they must appreciate value of women in skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled they no longer afford to discriminate against Negroes and workers of other minority and aliens, where iy is possible under government restrictions, must be considered for war production jobs and as replacements in civilian occupations. France Loses Weight BERN. Switzerland, July 7 France has become a nation of thin men. A Lyon dispatch today doctors estimated the French people since the Armistice of June, 1940, had lost 440.000,000 pounds, or an average of 11 pounds per person. This is due, they said, to lack of meat, cheese, eggs and fats.

Before the war began the average Frenchman ate 66 pounds of bread or flour products monthly as against half of that amount now. WASHINGTON, July 7 an early start of a mighty new phase of anti-submarine warfare in American waters, the Navy announced today the invention of a lightweight, high-speed Diesel engine made especially for use in sub chasers and already in mass production. The new power plant, along with a new variable pitch propellor, was understood to be ready for Installation in quantities of small craft destined soon to join the fight against the U-boats and authorities declared that these would be craft of superior performance. is the best engine any sub chaser ever one expert declared. Developed as the result of more than 20 years' experimentation undertaken after the last war, the new engine has four banks of four cylinders each, centered around a vertical crankshaft.

Because of its unusual shape it. has come to be known to the navy as A CARIBBEAN PORT. July 7 chief engineer of a sized Norwegian cargo ship torpedoed Ln the Caribbean the afternoon of June 15 told here of thrice spurning the effort of a submarine commander to shake hands wth him. (The incident followed the sinking of his ship, which was announced today by the Navy at Washington. The Navy also released a story of the shelling of a small British tanker in the Caribbean the night of June 17.

Twenty of the 21 men aboard the tanker were rescued although two submarines poured some 60 shells uito their ship, survivors said. The chief engineer was one of 13 members of the 25-man crew announced by Naval authorities as rescued from two life rafts. The 12 others are believed to have gone down with the ship, which sank in 30 seconds after having been almost broken in half by a torpedo explosion. Ship Sank Quickly There was no previous warning of a presence, related the engineer, and the ship sank so rapidly that those of the crew who could simply jumped overboard. Thirteen finally were assembled on the two rafts, The chief told this story: About five minutes after the ship went down, approximately 1 p.

a submarine surfaced about 300 Canadian Official Tells Of Troops in Alaska Russian Officers HIKF RATIONING POSTPONED NEWARK, N. July 7 Bicycle rationing will not start in New Jersey until July 13 because rationing boards will be too busy meanwhile with gasoline cards, James Kerney state office of Price Administration Director, said today. OPEN ALL DAY (Wednesday) 9 A. M. fco 5 M.

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33 YEARS IN POTTSTOWN Escape Sevastopol MOSCOW. July 7 -Vice Admiral E. S. Qktyabrsky, Soviet Black sea fleet commander charged with defending Sevastopol, and his associate, Major General Petrov of the Red army, escaped from Khersones Peninsula ouLslde the fallen city rifle already were whizzing around the newspaper Izvestia reported tonight. The versatile Admiral was said to have piloted both bomber and pursuit planes over the Sevastopol front during the thickest fighting.

As an example of the severity of the Nazi assault, Izvestia said 1000 German plane flights a day against Sevastopol were ordinary, that on June 13, 2700 Nazi plane flights occurred, and in one day the Germans dropped 9000 bombs on the Soviet positions. CALL0USE5 To rilieve painful eallouaes, burning or tenderness on bottom of feet remove thew thin, toothing, cushioning pada, D- Scholls lino pads VICTORIA, B. July 7 Canadian Army units and RCAF squadrons both are stationed in Alaska to aid U. S. forces, Air Minister C.

G. Power disclosed today upon his arrival here from that territory. He said the Canadians he visited in Alaska were keen at having an opportunity of meeting the Jap wherever and whenever he can be found.1' The Air Minister, accompanied by Air Marshal L. S. Breadne, also inspected U.

bases in Alaska, being impressed with the United States appreciation of the situation, which was mast yards away and its commander, who spoke broken English, asked for the captain of the ship. Told that the officers were killed, he asked the chief engineer aboard the submarine. There the sub commander, a dark complexioned, sunburned, unshaven, and stockily built man of about 25. wearing shorts, no shirt and a blue cap with yellow insignia, talked to the survivor on the after deck. think this is a surprise to said the submarine mander.

can happen in war," was the reply. Sorry It Happened am sorry this had to happen to you, continued the submarine of- i ficer, give you two loaves of Here followed the presentation of two loaves of dark brown, hard bread, three meat cans full of water and the submarine attempt to wish his victims a He extended his hand but the chief did not take it, merely saying. thank you for your bread, and The commander appeared to become quite angry and walked toward the conning tower but came back again and asked the chief to shake hands, with the same result. A third try likewise was rebuffed. The chief believes it probably was the commander purpose, for propaganda reasons, to have a handshaking photographed by one of three other men on the conning The chief asked the commander how far away they were from the coast and the commander replied, west to the The submarine then went away in an easterly direction.

The men on the two rafts were rescued by a naval vessel the following afternoon. WASHINGTON, July 7 -TV-C gress belatedly passed and sent to the White House today stop-gap legislation giving the Agriculture Department about $56,000.000 for July operations and permitting the sale of government-controlled grain at sub-parity prices this month pending the enactment of a fixed policy on this controversial issue in the regular appropriation bill. Without Funds The Department technically had been without funds since the new fiscal year started last Wednesday but quick presidential approval of the stop-gap was expected in time t3 enable the Department to meet payrolls due tomorrow for 9000 odd employeshefe: The House passed the legislation first and the Senate, before acting on It, passed another measure to authorize government loans on six major farm crops at full parity. If the loan bill becomes law, farmers could borrow 38 cents more on a bushel of wheat than the present market price of about 95.7 cents, and 15 cents more on com. which averaged 81.9 cents June 15.

The Senate's vote on this bill was 28 to 24. Predict Veto House farm bloc spokesmen predicted it would be vetoed if finally passed by the House. In any event, they said it would not affect the departmental supply bill. Senate passage of the stop-gap resolution on House terms came after Senator Russell had commented that it had virtually the same purpose as one which passed the Senate earlier, our friends in the other chamber are so jealous of their prerogatives, they had to make some revision of our Argentine Issues Rule BUENOS AIRES. July 7 Argentine Naval Ministry has ordered all ships of the State merchant fleet to avoid the eastern coast of the United States in order to avoid the danger of being torpedoed by Axis submarines, it was learned on reliable authority tonight.

Assassination Reported LONDON. Wednesday. July 8 stated in a dispatch from Bern dated Tuesday that rumors were circulated in Switzerland that the Swedish Prime Minister, Per Albin Hansson, had been assassinated. There was no confirmation here whatever of this rumor. WASHINGTON, July 7 army nurses wearing hurriedly purchased Summer frocks were decorated today for bravery under fire in the Philippines.

Army tradition is inflexible, so the heroines who left their war-torn uniforms in the battle area had to take their royal blue ribbons set in a wreath of gold laurel leaves in high school diploma fashion. The army uniforms, no pin-t ning ceremony. The nurses, only recently exchanged overalls, which they wore back to the United States, for the new frocks. The girls reached New York from Australia Friday and come here to be guests of the National Press Club along with six fellow- nurses at Bataan and Corregidor, cited last week in a service at Red Cross headquarters. First Women Honored These 13 are the first Atweriean women decorated in this war by the United States, and the first to receive the new decoration ordered by President Roosevelt for outstanding service in defense of the Philippines.

The decoration was a climax on a program during which it was announced that several of the girls had been prorated from second to First Lieutenants. Miss Mary Beard, director of the Red Cross nursing service, appealed for recruits. Need Nurses Is a terrible need for 3000 nurses 2500 for the army and 500 for the navy a month. A month she emphasized. Col.

Carlas P. Romula. an aide to General Douglas MacArthur, praised the work of the nurses whom he had seen in action. He spoke of the men, too, fighting and only once a day at 5 p. m.

for two monbhs a handful of rice scanning the skies, hoping that help w'ould come, which never Col. Julia Flicke, commander of the Army nurses corps, called the roll of the nine heroines: Roll Called Helen Loretta Summers, 25, of Brooklyn, N. Leona Gastinger, 28, born In Marion, and listing Montgomery, as home, Lucy Iris Wilson, 25. of Big Sandy, Beth A. Veley.

29, of San Jose. Mabel V. Stevens, 29, of Verdigre, Ruth M. Straub, 2b, of Milwaukee; Mary Lucy Moultrie, 28, of Columbus. Mollie A.

Peterson, of Cogswell, N. who trained at Hot Springs, Ark.t and Grace D. Hallman, of Ashburn, Ga. The second lieutenants decorated last week who can now wear silver bars include Harriet G. Lee of Great Barrington, Juniata Redmond of Swansea, S.

Dorothea Daley of Hamilton, and Eunice Hatchitt of Lockhart, Tenn. The other two previously decorated were First Lieutenants Florence MacDonald of Brockton, and Mary G. Lohr of Greensburg, Pa. Fire Breaks Out Al Goodyear Plant AKRON. Ohio.

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