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PRICE control old Nelson, federal director of advised enactment of price patrol THE WEATHER Fair, cooler tonight; Saturday fair, highest temperature near 84 degrees. Volume XXVIII, No. 131 COmOLIOATID LAAVmt julv tar. i Mi cAzrrra LAFAYETTE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941 fULL WIRE NKWS inVfCf TUB ASSOCIATED PRESS SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS German Penetration in Russia Nears Last War's Mark Battalions Of Nazi Shock roops Blasted By Mines Enactment Of Price Control Bill Is Asked Federal Director Of Priorities Declares It Will Prevent Inflation CHALLENGE IS ISSUED. PROBE OF PROPAGANDA Senator McFarland Wants Chairman Clark To Submit Question to Senate Soviets Admit German Siege Armies Increase Pressure On Leningrad SHIPS RUSHING TO ASSISTANCE OF DISABLEDCRAFT Hurricane Is Reported To Have Struck Ship Which Radioed For Aid At Once (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept, 26 Donald M.

Nelson, federal director of priorities, told Congress today that the administration price control bill should be enacted at once to prevent an Inflationary period that will completely destroy us. The executive director of the Supply Priorities and Allocations Board told the House Banking committee that he knew of no other method of solving some of the problems created by the defense program. For that reason, he said, the pending price control measure should be enacted as rapidly as possible. Prior to the hearing. Nelson told newsmen that he thought It was too late for adoption of the universal price ceiling-proposed by Bernard M.

Baruch, World War head of the War Industries Board. If we could have put such a plan into operation about March 1, before the sharp Increase started, I would have been In favor of it, Nelson said. But I dont think the public would have stood for It then, and you have to toe guided by what is practically possible. In response to questions. Nelson said he was opposed to controlling wages by legislation because you can't have concentration camps in this country for (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept.

26 Senator McFarland (D-Ariz) challenged Chairman Clark (D-Idaho) today to submit to the Senate the question of continuing ah Investigation by a Senate Interstate Commerce subcommittee of alleged war propaganda in the movies. In a heated exchange, McFarland served notice that he intended to ask the House Committee Investigating un-American activities to look into the source of some charges laid before the Senate group, charges which McFarland declared could only have the result of arousing race prejudice. The Arizona senator said he would object to any further questioning of the type indulged in by Senator Tobey (R-NH) yesterday when Tobey fired charges that the British, purchasing mission here had put a ban on the employment of any person of Irish, German or Jewish descent. McFarland said he was assured by British eftibassy officials that there was no truth In the statement. Clark called James Stahlman, publisher of the Nashville (Tenn) banner to the stand to testify about a letter Stahlman had written Will Hays, president of the Motion Picture Producers-Distrlbu-tors of America, in 1938 complaining about alleged attempts of the movies to censor newspaper comment.

Wendell L. Wilkie, counsel for the plc ture producers, issued a staement charging that the committee investigation was one of the first attempts in America to suggest to the American people what they should read or see. 'Germany has occupied almost as much territory in Russia after three months of war as she did in 3 years of World War 1. Map compares present penetration with occupation limit of last war as Russia faces prospects of being invaded by Bulgarians in west, being aided by British in east. (By The Associated Press) JACKSONVILLE, Sept.

26 At least four ships were ploughing through south Caribbean waters today to the assistance of the disabled freighter Ethel Skakel and her 28-man crew after the vessel radioed last night that it was sinking In a troplical storm of nearhurricane intensity. The Coast Guard cutter Unalga left San Juan. Puerto Rico, to travel 400 miles southwestward to help the Skakel, and three other vessels, the Gargoyle, Sanbenito, and Katrinaluckenbach messaged they also were proceeding to the assistance of the storm-harried freighter. The Costs Guard here said the Skakel radioed that her steering gear was disabled in a hurricane. She asked immediate aid.

Locations of three rescue ships were unknown, but the Coast Guard said it might be tonight or early tomorrow before the Unalga could reach the scene. Referring to the storm as a hurricane, indicating winds of 75 or more miles an hour, the weather bureau here said it was central at 7 a. m. Eastern Standard Time, near Latitude 14 or 15 degress North and Longitude 75 degrees West (almost due north of Baranquilla, Colombia, and southeast of Kingston, Jamaica) moving westward or west northwestward about 17 miles an hour. Caution was advised all vessels In Its path.

The Skakel, an 1,8 11 -ton ship built in 1918, left Los Angeles August 25 with a cargo of steel rails for San Juan. Proposal For Outright Repeal Of Neutrality Act Is Rejected CHURCHILL IN SPEECH BEFORE SCIENCEGROUP Declares All Resources Of Science Will Be Needed To Repair Nazi Havoc ITALIANS AND NAZIS OCCUPYING GREECE CLASH Reports Of Row Made In London By" Refugee Premier Of Greek Government Lieutenants In Congress Ready To Work For Making Vital Revisions GE PLOT ARGENTINA I INSPIRED Was Intended, According To Newspaper, To Prevent American Unity Pickets Are Arrested In N. O. Strike (By The Associated Press) Whole battalions of German shock troops have been blown to pieces by minefields in a strong attack on the Crimea, advices reaching London said today, and the Russians were reported to have the situation well in hand after stemming two Nazi assaults. German parachute troops used in the attack likewise were declared to have been annihilated.

In the sieve of Leningrad, the Russians admitted that German siege armies were steadily increasing their pressure despite colossal losses, declared that a series of battles had hurled the Germans back from several advanced lines. Red Star, the Soviet army newspaper, reported that Russian troops at one point on Leningrads approaches had gained five miles and recaputred four villages. Nazi parachute troops and infantry were reported continuing the assault on the Crimean peninsula, battering fiercely at Soviet lines stretched across the bottleneck Perekop Isthmus, only five to eight miles wide. The terrain was described as advantageous for the Russians, with numerous small lakes and marshlands forming natural defense barriers. To the north, Adolf Hitlers high command reported that the destruction of four Red armies trapped east of Kiev was progressing relentlessly, with the number of Soviet prisoners now standing at 492,000.

This claim followed an official Soviet denial of an earlier Berlin announcement that 380,000 Russian troops had. been captured in the Kiev battle. Calling the Nazi assertion a fresh Hitlerite fake, a Red army communique reported The fierce struggle is continuing on. the Kiev front. The British radio, quoting a Moscow spokesman, said the Germans launched their initial attack on the Crimea Wednesday night, hurling tanks, mechanized infantry and a number of parachute troops into the assault after a heavy artillery bombardment.

The Russians waited behind vast minefields," the acount continued. Whole battalions of Germans are said to have been blown to pieces. The enemy withdrew to re-form, eight hours later. But they were caught in the fire of Russian long-range artillery from the Isthmus and from the bay to the west of the Isthmus. Just before noon yesterday, the German attack was renewed.

One German. Infiltration was made In the Russian lines but it was soon surrounded and annihilated." Strategically important as the site of Russias great Black Sea naval base of Sevastopol, the Crimean peninsula would also provide a stepping-stone for a German thrust Into the Caucasus oil Helds across the narrow mouth of the Sea of Azov. Coincident with this reported blow to Hitlers Invasion forces in the far south, Berlin admitted that the" Russians were attacking with mounting fury on the north central front, apparently in the vicinity of Velizh, 70 miles northwest of Nazi military dispatches said great masses of Russian troops were storming German trenches on the east bank of the Dvina river but had been unable to break through. In the same area, Soviet reports said the Germans had been routed with more than 2,500 Nazis killed. On the bloody Leningrad front, German dispatches pictured the old-time capital of Imperial Russia as being slowly reduced to ruins as, house-to-house ffghting raged without halt in suburban streets.

Dispatches from the Finnish front around Leningrad said British aircraft had suddenly appeared against the Finns on the Karelian Isthmus, with a number of Spitfires already shot down in air fights. Finnish' officers were quoted as saying that so far only Russian airmen had been identified in the wrecked machines. A Soviet communique said British and Russian fliers operating together had bagged 26 German planes on one sector of the front. In London, Premier Emmanuel Tsour-deros of the refugee Greek government said he had received reports of frequent clashes between Germans and Italians occupying Greece and said it had Deeix necessary to send 14 Italian divisions to occupy the southern part of the country. Both Rome and London reported a spurt In activity on the Libyan desert front In North Africa, with Fascist dispatches stating that the British were massing large forces In Egypt for a possible major offensive.

Taken Near Ship Yards And Booked On Refusing To Move But Later Paroled (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Sept. 26 All the resources of science will he required to repair the trail of material and moral havoc which the Germans leave behind them, Prime Minister Churchill said today in a message to the opening session of the Inter national Conference on Science and the World Order. Representatives of 22 countries are attending the three-day conference held under the auspices of the British Association for the advancement of science. Churchill said In his message that the presence of representatives of so many different nations was "striking proof of that universal desire for liberty of thought which all the power of the gestapo will never entirely stamp out. He added The freedom that our scientists enjoy Is a valuable weapon to us, for superiority In scientific development Is a vital factor in preparation of victory.

(By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 Administration lieutenants in Congress were reported today to have rejected a proposal for outright repeal of the neutrality act and to be ready to work instead for legislation making vital revisions. The repeal proposal was Introduced yesterday by Senator McKellar (D-Tenn), a consistent administration supporter. McKellar, who told the Senate that the neutrality law established a policy which "no great nation like ours can indulge In, said today he had acted entirely on his own responsibility. He added he did not know whether the aminlstration would approve complete repeal of the neutrality law.

One well-advised leader told reporters that McKellar's measure was not acceptable to the administration. He said the legislation recommended by President Roosevelt probably would follow the lines Indicated Wednesday by Chairman Connally (D-Texas) of the Senate foreign relations committee. Connally suggested that the neutrality law be amended to permit the arming of American ships and to allow them to enter presently-forbidden belligerent ports and combat zones. The Texas senator declared that some provisions of the neutrality law such as that granting the government control over munitions exports should be (By The Associated Press) SANTIAGO, Chile, Sept. 26 An al-ad plot broken up by army action in Tuesday night was declared the Socialist newspaper Crltlca today Save been a Nazi conspiracy to pre-American unity, involving a direct iliiity blow at Chile.

Tie German general staff planned torm of attack, the newspaper arjrd, and selected Wednesday, at 3 morning, as the date most arable for action." i identifying the source of its Critica declared also that a movement in 1 through which to strike nation and neighboring Uruguay and Brazil. 1 Investigating Nazi acti- Seated three clandes- Lual05 transmitters yesterday near JAPS REPORT SMASHING FOUR CHINESE ARMIES Nippon Forces Are Driving Toward Provincial Capital Of Changsha (By The Associated Press) SHANGHAI, Sept. 26 The Japanese drive in Hunan province has smashed four of seven defending Chinese armies and has encircled another, leaving only two now guarding the provincial capital of Changsha, Japanese dispatches said today. Total size of the Chinese forces was not disclosed, but 300,000 Chinese were declared to be retreating along a 180-mile front, suggesting that even larger numbers were originally engaged in the new Japanese campaign against a city where they met disastrous defeat In the Autumn of 1939. Delayed Japanese dispatches said today that the main bodies of the Chinese divisions had been annihilated In hills south of the Milo river by Japanese engaged In a vast drive against the defenders of Changsha.

A Japanese force was declared to be Within 18 miles of Changsha, Hunan province capital of 600,000 population. Chinese sources admitted that Changsha was gravely endangered. (By The Associated Press) NEW ORLEANS. Sept. 26 Police today arrested 25 pickets on duty in the strike of 1400 employes at the Louisiana Shipyards, where work was halted yesterday on contracts to construct 25 liberty ships for defense.

The pickets were arrested near the ship yards and booked on charges or refusing to move on but were released on parole. No disorders accompanied the arrests. Meantime virtually all work was delayed at the plant where the first keel was scheduled to be laid next Monday. Bryce P. Holcombe, commissioner of U.

S. conciliation, said he was "diligently attempting to get representatives of the companies and local unions of the American Federation of Labor into negotiations immediately to mediate th-a strike complaints and to arrange for a temporary opening of the yards pending settlement. Union officials requested presence of representatives from the American Shipbuilding Company, Cleveland, Ohio, parent company of the Delta Ship Building Company here, for the conference. Conciliators said the principal disagreement was over a union demand for closed shop in the hiring of additional employes. JAPS OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY OFAXISPACT (By The Associated Press) TOKYO, Sept.

26 A Japanese spokesman opened the empires observance of the first anniversary of Japanese signing of the axis pact by declaring today the alliances primary objective was world peace and that Japan would retain her ties to this end. Nobubumi I to, who was named director of the cabinet Information board by Premier Prince Fumlmaro Konoye a month before the signing last September made the statement in a broadcast. Japan regards the pact as the foundation for creation of a new world order, Ito said, wherein Japan Is to take the leading role for East Asia. Nazi Way Of Life Will Be Taught In Croatia (By The Associated Press) ZAGREB, Croatia, Sept. 26 Children of German parentage will have ample opportunity to learn all about the Nazi way of life In German schools about to be established throughout Croatia by a special decree.

German schools will be erected wherever there are 20 or more German children within a radius of five miles. Auxiliary establishments will provide for others. Children in the German schools, the decree said, will be taught in the spirit of their German birth. KEEPING WIFE WES TO RESCUE her husband press 26 Ry Jar-1 ber he would Join her but she slePt i toe alarm she had set for arrlvaL her 'window -by va "orl; sPied a nearby I lit BeiehvF eihnbed to her room. heart the commotion Uo 5nclusions.

Rocks came 'td Trett until his finally 18 dispersed the nightshirt (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Sept. 26 Premier Emmanuel Tsouderos of the refugee Greek government declared today he had received reports of frequent clashes between Germans and Italians occupying Greece and said it had been necessary to Import 14 Italian divisions to occupy the southern part of the country. Curiously, he added, the Italians are somewhat better disciplined than the Germans. Speaking at a press conference, he said that Greek airmen and naval forces now were operating with the British in the Middle East and that no part of the Greek navy or "merchant fleet fell Into Axis hands. Half the merchantmen and a quarter of the navy were destroyed during the evacuation, he said.

DUKE ARRANGES NEW ROUND OF OFFICIAL CALLS (By The Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 The Duke of Windsor arranged a new round of official calls today before leaving for a vacation on his Canadian ranch with his American-born duchess. The Duke, who called yesterday on President Roosevelt, two cabinet officers and other government officials, also managed to fulfill an arduous social schedule and make a speech at the National Press Club. Washingtonians received the famous pair with enthusiasm. Everywhere they went, peering, cheering crowds gathered.

Government clerks hung precariously from windows and building ledges to see them; pretty girls showered the Duke with confetti; police battled crowds in corridors when the Duke entered government buildings. At the press club, Britains former ruler who now is governor-general of the Bahamas gave assurance that it is the settled policy of the British government to assist the United States to the utmost in providing for the security of their eastern coast line. As the West Indies have formidable, strategic Importance as air bases for attacks on this continent, he said, the effective defense against all aggressors Is important for the safety of the American people. The titled couple planned to leave by train (1:50 p. Eastern Standard Time) for the Duke's ranch near Calgary, Alberta.

Myron C. Taylor Arrives In Britain (By The Associated Press) LONDON, Sept. 26 Myron C. Taylor, President Roosevelts personal envoy to the Vatican, arrived at a British airdrome this afternoon from Lisbon and Immediately flew on to London on a surprise visit. United States embassay sources made no Immediate explanation of Taylors visit but implied he would have conferences with Prime Minister Churchill.

The length of his stay was not stated. Taylor comes to England from Papal conferences and talks with William D. Leahy, United States ambassador to Vichy, and Vichy authorities. The War Today By DeWitt MacKenzie, Associated Press Foreign Analyst Second Third Armies Prepare For Battle Near Shreveport fef TOSjr rw time the American isexmll time the American Civilians Join In Defense In Mock Seriousness In Last Phase Of Games burdens next fRot Tkalf like the Hunch- Ways! 1 wember oI Congress tp Is eans Committee bnie means of driving who would think of -J oniee Dakota un- save Wmself 17 vote pitol top of the 5 dome he us- 1 ieaJ of his own. sieged city of Leningrad, but the soldiers and civilians who side by side are defending this ancient and proud metropolis still hold their ground.

Likewise In the Ukraine the Nazis continue to fling themselves against hard-bitten Marshal Budyennys army In their effort to smash through into the Caucasus. Hitlers headquarters claims that the Nazis are continuing to destroy the four Red armies which the German high command announced several days ago had been surrounded each of Kiev, capital of the Ukraine. The number of prisoners is said to have swelled to the colossal total of 492,000. However, reports from Berlin say that even the Nazi press was in the doldrums through lack of news. Up until the announcement from the fuehrers headquarters the newspapers hadnt even been able to tell a waiting public what had happened to those four armies which were being annihilated.

By the way, the constant German use of that word "annihilated finally drove me to appeal to an American newspaper and east of Shreveport, from Center, Texas, to Arcadia, La. The 100-mile line bristled with artillery and machine-gun nests. Anti-tank guns protected vital roadways and antiaircraft weapons were posted at important bridgeheads to ward off bombing attacks and keep troop and supply lines open to the front. Secrecy shrouded main troop movements on both sides but the Third Army was known to be massing huge infantry reserves about 50 miles behind the front, supposedly ready to pour through any breach in the line torn by combined armored and mechanized infantry divisions. Whereabouts of General Lears potent armored force was unknown but It seemed certain it was headed southward toward the front, to smash head-on with the mechanized forces of the attacking Third army.

Lively skirmishes flared up all along the line, with horse and mechanized troopers of scout and cavalry units patrolling both sides of the heavily-wooded front. Geeral Kruegers army Is expected to try for the knockout blow at any hour, somewhere in Louisiana. The most Important news from the Russo-German war front Is the Moscow claim that the Bolshevists have thrown back a heavy Nazi attack on the strategic Crimean peninsula, inflicting severe losses on the enemy. This assault by the Nazis represents an attempt to gain control of the Black Sea for an attack on the lower Caucasus In conjunction with the German drive through the Ukraine toward the northern gateway to the Caucasus. The loss of the Crimea, on which lies the chief Soviet naval base of Sevastopol, would represent a major disaster for the Reds.

Beyond-this, while literally millions of tired, grimy soldiers continue the bloody thousand-mile battle at close grips, the Russian theatre hasnt produced a report from either side which on the face of it would greatly alter the position during the past 24 hours. Maybe there has been an invisible change. Perhaps a hard-pressed line somewhere has grown brittle and will snap before long, letting all hell roll through the gap. War is like that. We do know that the Germans have unleashed more power against the be MAY REMOVE U.

S. CITIZENS NOW IN JAPAN (By The Associated Press) TOKYO, Sept. 26 Americans stranded in Ja Jan may be taken home soon on a Japanese ship which would bring back Japanese citizens now in the United States, Koh Ishli, government spokesman said today. The ship, if finally arranged, also would carry mall which has piled up in Tokyo and Yokohama post offices since service was suspended several weeks ago. Meanwhile, British nationals went aboard the evacuation ship Anhwei, which docked this morning at a pier in Yokohama.

They wUl go to Singapore, (By The Associated Press) The trappings of war were added to beselged Shreveport today as fierce fighting between the Second and Third Armies converged' on this Northwestern Louisiana city of 100.000, situated in the center of the gigantic war games final round. Civilians Joined in the Second Armys defense of Shreveport in mock seriousness, donning red arm bands and placing red Vs for victory on automobile windshields. Machine guns and artillery were set up at approaches to the city and steel-helmeted infantrymen tramped the streets In full battle kit. Meantime to the south, Ben Lears outnumbered defending forces fought a rear guard action, delaying the slow, steady advance of Walter Kruegers huge Third Army. Second Army defenses were -drawn In a semi-circle 50 miles south today does not in on nations laws so by aPProPrlations.

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