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Idle Dunkirk Factory Sold to Cleveland Concern DUNKIRK EVENING OBSERVER "SI ISSUE 18 PAGES 7 DUNKIRK EVENING OBSERVER ESTABLISHED 1882----FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE OF THE UNITED PRESS----Tuesday's Run--6004 The Weather Generally fair and much cooler tonight; fair with moderate temperatures on Thursday. DUNKIRK, N. WEDNESDAY, OCTOB.EK 8, 1941 a Week RUSSIA BEGS BRITAIN FOR HELP PORTLAND MAN KILLED BY FREIGHT TRAIN Death Chalks Up One More Victim Before Trains Go Up Here At i i i Portland Ttti-niay i i Vunum Tubbs, 02, of nt 1'icdt'iml l-'l'mliiets uom- Snvplnut h'Tr i i i i i i i a i i i worked hei'iiusc i iit js in lie got into 'is (lie iii linvo (mil oft'. ltt? i i stopped omewiuHV lii-wiins i i i i i i HIP a Sin.IT i At lie wns i i i i i i i i I It net Stl'tlck On the a urossinj? of the New York niil- rbncl by a a a i Bcl'ore ilie a i could stop, i a readied 'Robin street, wrecked car i on i Tubbs' body a been', out Lark street He was rushed t.o i a of a a a The a i shows I lie car iiiiiiie.liatel.v a the a i stopped a Tubbs was on his way to hospital. VERNONTUBBS, 62 VICTIM OF AT MM.

AVE. Employee of Dunkirk Preserving Company, Drove Onto Central Tracks. i grade crossings of the New Yoi'k Central railroad, scheduled to be eliminated within less than a month, claimed another victim Tuesday evening when Vernon L. Tubbs, 62, of Portland was fatally injured when the light sedan he was driving was struck by a westbound freight train at Central avenue. Mr.

Tubbs, a truck driver lor the Bedford Products company in Dunkirk, was travelling north in Central avenue when the tragedy occurred. The speeding train, being hauled by two locomotives, picked up Ihe light sedan and carried it as far as Robin street before the locomotives could be brought to a slop. The Portland man's body was pitched from the sedan and landed between the two sets of tracks aobut 175 feet west of the Central avenue crossing. The automobile was so badly jammed 1 into the forepart oC the locomotive, it only with great i i a it svas finally, removed. The city ambulance was summoned to the scene and Tubbs was rushed to Brooks hospital where he died of multiple injuries at 8:10 o'clock.

Ml Traffic Hailed A police squad in charge of Chief John J. Warren was at -the BUYS NATIONAL RADIATOR SITE Cleveland Concern Will Employ 60-75 In Near Future. LOCOMOTIVE IS LIFTED WANTS PARTNER CANAL TO JUMP ON BACK OP HITLER'S i Page Two) OF NIIIIY LAW Message Will Be Sent! Qreek Refugees Cross Sea In Rowboats to Tell of Nari Occupation Congress Thursday. a Jftitiutc conference wilil ld C1J tomorrow a to- Kr. rvet W1 1 But 1 1 tiiat elimination of set'- 1 6 i i i enan' a I I 3 I ntroduced mcssa Barkley 1.

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Oct. -( i a London. Delayed)-- Greek of- dfi-5l iiourccs and Greek refugees who had crossed the Mcditerran- curn in rowboats and sailboats told a grim story today of Greece under lite a i a nocupa- tion. tt was a story of hunger and privation, of people going about bare-tooted in pajamas tur lack- of a burning outriotie spirit, of passive resistance and (n-tivc guerrilla i i 'of forced migrations of large sections of the population, and of angry relations between the Germans and their Italian allies. Hundreds oC Greeks have been according to these sources, for guerrilla nevertheless the resistance continues and, it is asserted, service CM! the main line Athens-Salonika railroad been cut by saboteurs.

Kefufccs Get Away The refugees are trickling steadily into Egypt and Palestine despite the watchfulness of the Germans and Italians. It is impossible to describe their escapes, because there will be more, but 1 have heard stories which sound like fiction thrillers, from ed Greeks who arrived starved find exhausted but ysked at once where they cniiltl volunteer tor the international army being toi'mcd here. have been told that in Mhens, (Continued on Page five) For Indoor practice, England's parachutists leap from a.dummy. fuselage mounted high above the flnui-. Counterweight cuts speed of the descent.

TODAY'S WAR MOVES (Reg. U. S. Pat, Off.) By LOUIS F. KEEiMLE The renewed German drive in the southern Ukraine, sinking towards Rostov at the mouth of the Don, when considered in conjunction with the Moscow drive, gives a possible club to Hitler's present The capture of Moscow seems to be an important but secondary objective.

Hitler's real aim in risking his fullest possible strength in this drive is to break the power of the Russian army. Responsible Berlin quarters have said much. News Flashes Camden, S. Get. 8--(UP) -Troops of the first army prepared to in wind and rain corps advised- both Red and headquarters' "tropical disturbance" would bring heavy rains i to 45 miles an hour to the maneuver area.

London--A. Russian communi- que heard by the Unfted Press listening post from the Moscow radio reported today that a guerrilla movement was spreading in Norway 'and that the Oslo-Eicls- vol rail line had been cut. was permitted to get of Hitler's intention of making a supreme effort through the center. While Marshal Timos- henko's forces in recent, weeks were making successful counterattacks along the center, the Germans merely were holding. Meanwhile they were marshalling a vast force of men, machines and airplanes back of the lines for the big attack.

To meet it, the Russians had to a a important part of their army along a greatly restricted front, only about 350 miles Ions and about 130 in the central salient, It was essential for the Russians to throw every man and gun they could spare into this sector If they hoped to stem the German tide. (Continued on Page Eleven) Chicago--Marshall Field and Silliman Evans, co-publishers the proposed new Chicago morning newspaper, announced today that Rex Smith, New York, and George Ashley de Witt, Washington, will be editor and managing editor respectively. Stock Market These quotations are furnished through the' courtesy ul. Goudbody i 17 Court Buffalo, Prices at 3:00 Alco Common 12 Allegheny-Ludlum T. T.

Anaconda 26V8 Chrysler Consolidated Aircraft Consolidated Oil General Electrit: 30 General Motors. Mont. Ward 33 Nash Kelv 4v Packard 2V Soc-Vac. 9 ih Steel Weekly payrolls of airplane plants increased rising from $7,851,984 on July 1'to LIKELY TO THIS AFTERNOON (By Staf.C Correspondent) Mayville, Sept. 8--The lengthy ouster hearing against John Forrest Miller, clerk in the motor vehicle bureau of the county clerk's cilice, was expected to be completed late this ai'temoon as several, witnesses were recalled to the stand by both Harry D.

Montgomery, deputy i testified. that it was possible for a deputy in the sheriff's office to watch the door leading to the motor vehicle bureau. He also 'Said'that it was a good mashie-shot, about 150 yards, from the a i to the courthouse and he repeated the testimony that he counted the money in open drawer at midnight of August 14. When Miss Mildred E. Kling, county clerk, was called back, she testified that she did not know, a i about rumors that- Mr.

Miller was working against her in the primary when ran against Josepeh Midgley the Republican nomination. She said, "I don't' believe civil service em- ployes do that sort of thing." Miss Kling asserted that the defendant did not inform her before Jan. 4 that a depository would have to be arranged for the Jamestown and Dunk-irk branches of the motor vehicle bureau. Contradicting Mr. Miller's testimony' that she had visited the Jamestown branch only once while he was working there, she said that she visited the place three times, and always spoke courteously to him.

Miss Kling denied that she had ever told Mr. Miller that "he had better take orders from Mrs. Doris Easling, deputy clerk in the county clerk's office, or else." Her attorney, James O. Moore, suggested that the attributed to her would be a typical politician's way of expressing himself. To that Miss Kling answered that ''she was not a po- liticia'n." Testifying that she did not know anything about the money left in the drawer, Miss Kling de(Continued on Pass -Four) Sale of the long idle National Radiator corporation plant at the eastern end of the city of Dunkirk to the Cleveland Storage was completed according to at.

announcement made this afternoon by Chamber of Commerce Manager Jay Sullivan, who par- i ticipated in the negotiations lead- ing to the transfer of the proper- ty in Stegelske avenue. I Work of remodelling and reconditioning the buildings and site will be started immediately with a considerable sum of money scheduled to be'spent preliminary to occupancy by the Cleveland concern. Dunkirk contracting firms will be given the jobs, it was indicated. Between 60 and 75 men will be on the payroll when the plant is in operation on the normal schedule now planned. All of these employees will be recruited from the Dunkirk area, it was added.

Bruce Barclay the storage company's Cleverond office will be general manager of the unit in Dunkirk. The negotiations for the Dunkirk plant, which reached a successful conclusion today, were carried on by Guthrie Bicknell, treasurer of Cleveland Storage and by C. Lawrence Evans, vice president of. the National Radiator corporation. To Store Defense While officials of the Cleveland company refuse to divulge the nature of the business which will be conducted at the Dunkirk plant, it was reported reliably this afternoon that the buildings will be used for the storage of huge quantities of crude rubber and other national defense articles.

These same sources also reported the plant probably will be the largest crude rubber storage warehouse in the United States, with slocks likely, on occasion, to reach a value of more than $15,000,000. Financed by RFC It is known the Cleveland Storage is the agent for Rubber Reserve company, which is financed by Reconstruction Finance corporation. Rubber Reserve company is the governmental unit which handles all the crude rubber shipped into the United States and then allocates it, on defense priority, to companies engaged in the manufacture of rubber products oC every description. The Dunkirk plant was offered for sale by the National Radiator corporation in 1931 shortly after operations were halted in -he factory! here following the stock market crash. The buildings were originally constructed by the Continental Heater group of Dunkirk men who sold out their interests to National Radiator.

CAR BURGLARS GET 3-MONTH SENTENCES Jail sentences of three months each were imposed by City Judge Anthony Johnson on two Negroes arrested' early Tuesday morning in'the railroad yards here by New York Central Detective John Green. The men who identified themselves as yaul P. Smith of Columbus, and Benjamin F. Landum of Cincinnati, admitted stealing a quantity of merchandise from a car in a train between Dunkirk and Erie, Pa. The goods were in their possession when they were arrested on suspicion.

Each was allowed to plead guilty to a reduced charge of petit larceny. Sault Ste. Marie, Oct. 8 --(UP)--A locomotive and freight train were removed from the Soo canal by wrecking crews and divers today and army engineers immediately attempted to raise a steel railroad bridge which collapsed over the canal yesterday. With more than 100 vessels carrying urgently needed cargoes of iron ore waiting to pass through the blocked locks, a giant derrick pulled to one side the locomotive and tender in-which two trainmen had plunged to their death.

ONE STATE--SIX FLAGS "Old Glory" is the sixth flag to wave over the plains- of Texas. Flags of France, Spain, Mexico, independent Texas and the Confederacy also flew, over Texas. fiood newi. ASKED TO SWELL LEND-LEASE ACT House Committee Releases "Censored Record of Hearings on the Bill. Washington, Oct.

8--(UP)--The house appropriations committee asked congress today to vote an additional unrestricted for the lend-lease program in response to an appeal by Gen. George C. Marshall for every assistance that will keep Russia fighting and speed the destruction of the German army. "The ruthlessness of the aggressors in this war and the conscienceless tactics they have resorted to will not permit the delay incident to legislative sanction before aid can be extended to any particular nation," the committee said. Arms production will decide the war, it reported, but the countries opposed to the Axis do not yet have sufficient production to win.

The committee urged immediate passage and debate was scheduled in the house at once. The committee released for publication with its report the censored record of hearings on the bill-testimony by ranking army and navy officers, lend-lease agency officials and state department representatives. Those hearings revealed that: 1. United States will be devoting 50 per cent of its factory production to war material by June 30, 1943. OPM Director William S.

Knudsen is "not satisfied" with the present war production which is using between Id and 20 per cent of factory facilities. 2. By the end of this month, 135 American flag ships will be in service on the Red sea run. Chairman Emory S. Land of the maritime commission said there was an "acute shortage" of commercial shipping throughout the western hemisphere, but that American shipyards were jammed to capacity.

3. The United States is using lend-lease funds as bargaining agents to woo, Latin American trade from Germany, Italy and Japan. Assistant Secretary of State Dean Acheson testified that lend- lease agreements have been made with Haiti, Dominican: republic and Paraguay, and that others are being negotiated with. 12 other American nations. Since this testimony was given such' an agreement was signed with Brazil.

4. American farm production will reach an "all; time high" in 1942. Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard warned, how- evev, that the $1.000.000,000 in the bill for food may not be sufficient to meet Great Britain's "imperative" need. 5.

None of the-first lend-lease appropriation has been used for champagne, rum, or "wine, women and song," according to Philip Young, acting executive officer of the division of defense aid reports. Young told the committee that press reports to that effect were not true. (Continued on Page Seventeen) In order to be of hurricane proportions, a wind must attain -a velocity of 75 miles an hour or more. Nazis are Reported to Have Broken Through Red Line In One or Two Places. By JOE ALEX MORRIS Hitler's all out offensive broke through the eastern front in a great battle of "encirclement" against elite Red armies defending Moscow today and brought new Russian proposals that Great Britain strike decisively at the Axis in western Europe.

The Germans claimed that destruction of the bulk of Russian central front armies was assured, while Moscow admitted that some Panzer forces had broken through bat said they were meeting savage resistance that had forced Hitler to throw in his reserves because of huge losses. The seriousness of the German threat was emphasized, however, by renewal of suggestions in Moscow's Red Fleet wsu ripe for the British to undertake military action against the Axis in western Europe, which was reported weakened by the mustering of some 3,. 000,000 troops and "virtually the entire luftwaffe" on the eastern front. Swift panzer assault forces leading Hitlers all-out offensive broke through the central front and claimed the encirclement and "certain destruction'' of elite armies defending Moscow. The Russians, while admitting break-through operations, reported that they were fighting back in savage battles, that the Germans had been repulsed at many points and that Hitler already had been forced to throw reserves into the offensive because of tremendous loss of men and material.

Hand-fo-Hand Fffrhtlnir Both Moscow and Berlin reported the most intense hand-to- hand fighting in the Vyazma sector, only 130" miles from the-Russian capital, and around Bryansk, some 210 miles to the southwest. But the Red army also claimed important gains on the Leningrad front and the Germans said their push into the Donets war industrial basin continued after "destruction" of the Russian defenders. On the basis of reports from, both capitals it appeared that the Vyazma battle might go far toward decided success or failure of Hitler's bid to the Red army and reach Moscow before winter. German Reports The Nazi high command said that "several" Russian armies had been encircled in this sector due west of Moscow on the Smolensk railroad. This indicated a gain of 70 or 75 miles in the six-day offensive.

The Berlin press farther, apparently on official instructions, and said that the greater part of the best armies of Marshal Sernyon Timoshenko had been trapped and faced swift annihilation: If these Berlin reports are confirmed the position of the Red army generally, with the possible exception of Leningrad, would become desperate and the abandonment of Moscow would seem certain. It was obvious, how- 'ever, that the Russians still were fighting furiously as an organized army and that the encirclement either was comparatively weak or riot yet complete. Everything Thown in Mpscgvp war dispatches left no the-Red army, was flowing everything into the battle. Tanks and artillery smashed against the German spearheads. Hand-to-hand lighting raged along (Continued en Page Fourteen)..