Chattanooga Daily Times from Chattanooga, Tennessee • 1

"To Give the News Impartially, Without Fear or Favor" TRI-STATE WEATHER TENNESSEE Scattered showers today and Sunday. GEORGIA Warm, showers today and Sunday. ALABAMA Cloudy, showers today, Sunday. Entered at the Postofflc. of Chattanoora.

as Seeond-CUsa Hall Hatter 0JJUII, NO. 294, XVlUJCi THREE CENTS I FIVE CENTS ON TRAINS In Chattanooca I And Ootsid ChatUnoora CHATTANOOGA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1941. londay British mem-i chap. cate-jmians ish. men.

me to the hands encies, ill re-to de-safely wel. dozen onable urning HITLER CLAIMS RED ARMIES' PARALYZED BY NAZI BLOWS; REDS REPORT NEW ADVANCE Vivid Scenes of Cotton Ball Draw Acclaim From 4,000 Curtain Rises On Old South Scene of Wharf With Steamboat Arriving, Bearing Vision of Colorful Hoopskirted Cotton Belles American-Owned Oil Tanker Flying Panama Flag Is Sunk which will go down as another success in the series of Chattanooga Cotton balls, now recognized as among the south's most charming social and community FICE 2 1942 Pro-Jones umber 34 of 37-Man Crew Are Freighters- Vessel Was One Turned Over to Great Britain Under Lease-Lend Act By the Associated Press. rivers' member was 73. AID FOR CHEST DURING CRISIS ASKED BY F.D.R. Says Strong Nation Needed for Adequate Defense in the World of Today Text of President Roosevelt's speech is printed on Page 10.

WASHINGTON. Oct. 3 UP). President Roosevelt broadcast an appeal to every American tonight to help build a "stronger and bet ter" nation by contributing to Community Chest and welfare funds. Starting the annual mobilization for human needs, Mr.

Roosevelt said in a broadcast address that the well-being of the civilian population must be built up for the added reason this year that "adequate national defense definitely needs it." The president spoke during a program in which Wendell L. Willkie and Tom K. Smith, St. Louis banker and head of the mobilization, also participated. Asserting that Americans had a "profound faith in freedom," Willkie, speaking from the CBS studio in New York, said, "But if we take this position, that we are coine to stand for freedom, then we must also see to it that, under our free system, misery and suffering are eliminated, so far as this is human possible.

Giving to Defend Nation gy giving to those who have too little, you will be defend ing America, just as surely as if you were engaged in the manufacture of armaments. For by your giving you will demonstrate that under a free system, men and women are not abandoned to suffering and social neglect or forced to become wards of an all-powerful state. That under a free franchise we are in reality fellow citizens. "So we make democracy real at home. And that is essential to making it strong in the world." The American people have given efief o'usiy in the- past to "Community Chests, Mr.

Roosevelt said, but he hoped this year they would give more than ever before. Values Must Be Secured "That is because," he added, "in a great world threat to our future, we must, for ourselves and our country, preserve and make secure our values and the strength of our institutions. "It is true that more people are at work in our land today than See Page Nine, Column Six M0RGENTHAU AIRPLANE DAMAGED, LANDS SAFELY NEW YORK, Oct. 3 UP). Secrer tary of the Treasury Henry Mor-genthau, narrowly escaped a crash today when his coast guard plane scraped treetops over the New Hackensack (N.

airport, but he calmly began reading a historical book when the ship gained altitude. Lieut. William Sinton, the pilot, brought the plane down safely at the Philadelphia airport despite its damaged wing, rudder and undercarriage while the airport's emergency crew in asbestos suits and a crash wagon stood by in case fire developed. Morgenthau was profuse in his praise of Sinton. "All the instruments went out and I believe he was flying with only the use of a magnetic com pass," the treasury head said.

events. Applause greeted announcement of the king and queen of the ball Edward Norman and Miss Jose-phyne Turner Walton, well-known young Chattanoogans. Miss' Walton was in white hoop skirted dress and her immediate attendants were in white. The king was in black formal as were all the young men who served as escorts to the Cotton belles in the presentation scene. Sixty-five were in the queen's court, all in southern hoop-skirted gowns.

Belles were presented from twenty-seven cities. The big key scene was not all that made last evening's ball noteworthy. Susan Hayward, young motion See Page Four, Column Two STATE BLAMED IN POWER PINCH Georgia Official Says Cities of Tennessee Have Not Helped 'One lota' ATLANTA, Oct. '3 UP). Tennessee cities should contribute to the power requirements of the Tennessee Valley Authority, Chairman Walter R.

McDonald, of the state public, service commission said today, before Georgia and other southern states blackout their lights or slow down their industry to conserve electricity. He asserted that Tennessee cities are the principal customers of the TVA and charged they had not helped "one iota" in reducing the power load on the federal agency during last June's drought when Georgians were forced to undergo "undue hardship," partly because of the Georgia Power company's division of energy to the TVA. I Accuses Olds In his statement, McDonald accused Leland Olds, chairman of the federal power commission, of a gross lack of fairness and frankness" in saying that "a power shortage exists in the south as a whole." At Montgomery, however, I. F. McDonnell, chief engineer of the Alabama public service commission, predicted the southeast would have to start curtailing power consumption before Nov.

1 unless unusually heavy rains fall before then. He said a survey by Commonwealth and Southern, one of the major private utilities in the south, showed that without rain by the first of next month hydro-electric storage basins would See Page Nine, Column Six CONDITION OF BRANDEIS REPORTED VERY GRAVE WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 UP). The condition of Louis D. Bran-deis, 84-year-old retired justice of the supreme court, was reported very grave Brandeis suffered a heart attack Wednesday.

Rescued by 2 American take her eighteen survivors to Recife. Those aboard 'the Mormacrey will be taken to Rio de Janeiro, arriving there possibly tomorrow. Sinking of the I. C. White, owned by the Standard Oil com pany (New Jersey) through a sub sidiary, the Panama Transport company, was the seventh occur ring to an American-owned ship since the outbreak of the war.

It apparently occurred in the same general area, but slightly to the west of the spot where the American flag freighter Robin Moor was torpedoed May 21. The Egyptian flag liner Zamzam was destroyed farther south by a Ger man raider on April 17. The Standard Oil company (New Jersey), declaring the tanker was en route to Capetown, South Af rica, from Curacao, said the tanker was one turned over to Great Brit ain under the lend-lease act. Al though she operated under British orders, she was of Panama regis try and had an American crew. Built at Chester, in 1920, she had an oil cargo capacity of 78,000 barrels.

She left Curacao Sept 14. GERMAN PURGE STRIKES PARIS Six Jewish Synagogues Are Bombed- Prague's Mayor Is Sentenced to Die By the Associated Press. Rightist terrorism burst upon German-occupied Paris yesterday as six Jewish synagogues were wrecked by bombs, while in other nazi-controlled lands of the conti nent executions and other repressive measures were carried out by the German authorities with con tinuing severity. Otakar Klapka, mayor of Prague, capital of the Czech pro tectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was sentenced to death, charged witn leading an elaborate sabo' tage terrorism-espionage-rebellion plot declared in Berlin to have been inspired abroad. The Czech territory seemed to be the center of current disturb ances, although totals made public in both London and Berlin cover ing the entire period since the be ginning of the Russian war June 22 indicated that former Yugo slavia had seen the most executions for acts against the occupy ing authorities.

A report, carried by Dienst aus Deutschland, indicated that the Prague municipal administration from the mayor downward may have been honeycombed by plotting. Klapka was alleged to have headed an organization which gave financial aid to the families of fugitive Czechs and arranged the escape of others. A DNB dispatch from Prague said that several persons, including a colonel in the former Czechoslovak army, all sentenced to See Page Two, Column Five HP'S SINKING PURS EFFORT TO REVISE ACT foier I.C. White Torpedoed Off Brazil Act May Speed Neutrality Law Repeal F.O.R. REAFFIRMS STAND decision on Particulars to follow a Conference With i Leaders on Tuesday it the Associated Press.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. Sup- I sorters of administration, foreign soiicy quickly seized upon the sink- lug of the tanker C. White to-jiight as new evidence that the neutrality act should be amended. Some of the president's critics, however, declared their positions -ere unchanged by the incident.

The ship was reported torpedoed on Sept 27 in the South Atlantic. Thirty-four of her crew of thirty-seven Americans were picked up today 450 miles east of Recife, Brazil, Through a subsidiary, the tanker was owned by the Stand-trd Oil Company of New Jersey, but early in the war was trans ferred to Panamanian registry. (Later she was placed at the disposal of Great Britain, under the lease-lend program and was op-' sating under British orders when fee was sunk. News of the sinking was received i short while after a renewed by President Roosevelt fiat he would ask congress to revue the neutrality law, and would decide in exactly what particulars after a conference on Tuesday with republican and democratic leaders of the senate. Already Favored Arming The president has already declared himself in favor of placing guns on American flag cargo vessels, now forbidden by the law, and some administration supporters nave imsa, as well, of lifting the w.w fiuvu euwu ainjpa irom tarrying -supplies to England.

CISere is no statutory provi- con forbidding a vessel like the TTrt.21.. to v. wmie, wnicn was unaer Panamanian registry, from being armed, but it was not immediately known whether she actually tad guns.) Th incident, said Senator Hill item, made it "plain that Kilthe determination of the nazis a carry the war to the Western Hemisphere as well as to the rest the world." He added: "This is at another link In the chain. It just another signal to us that I should take every possible step tour own defense. Representative Luther A.

John-l a (dem, Tex.) took a similar the C. White incident frought no change in the view joint nf (rep, Mich.) "I am' opposed to arming of our mercnant vessels," he said, "and a against letting them go into war zones Representative Vorys See Page Two, Column Three SMALL STEEL PRODUCTS TO GET PRICE CEILING WASHINGTON, Oct 3 UP). -on Henderson, price administrate, said tonight that all iron and wel products sold through job-dealers and distributors ould be placed under a price ceil- SOOn "tn hoTt- i 1ui members of the trade." The products will include wire, strip steel, nails and almost products which are sold mall amounts. I a Today's Times sements News ...3 News 18 Obituary News 9 xa itadio .5 Society ..4, 5, 6 ...,17: Sports 11, 12 Tri-State News 9 17 iWeather 17 Jm Washington seeking houses Olfic a jy, 3 Kti to test flood protection 3o Ivins inrflnt a cavalry to come home from wuay 3 Htr wana moves into new district 9 'e making plans to con- reproof; -auun tenter j1 Shoals loses court effort 1 nation of TVA offices .9 r- rnin. tJ Georgia Tech in Atlan- 11 Tennesseo m.i.

s- waoil ill a I1CL- HINTS OF NEW THRUST Reviews War Successes in 65-Minute Speech for Charity Drive SAYS WAR FOLLOWS PLAN Asserts Russia's Complete Preparation for Combat Was Only Surprise By the Associated Press. BERLIN, Oct. 3. Adolf Hitler, explaining his long silence by saying that he had not been able to speak until "the enemy had been hit so hard that he never again will rise up," declared today to the German people in his first speech since last May that the paralyzing blow had now been dealt the Russians. In a sixty-five-minute address to a hoarsely cheering audience of thousands in the Berlin Sportspal-ast he announced that a "gigantic new development" had occurred on the eastern front in the last forty-eight hours, but beyond this- offered little new.

His speech, for which he came directly from the front to give a glowing review of German war successes, opened the reich's third war winter charity aid drive. But it appeared to have the wider ob jective of revitalizing the nation for the tasks still ahead. Erred on Red Power Everything in the Russian campaign, he asserted, had gone according to plan, but he added: "We were not mistaken about anything except that we did not know how awfully big were the preparations against us and how closely Europe escaped bolshe-vism," There was no direct mention whatever of the United States, but the fuehrer made an oblique and sarcastic reference by declaring that Germany did not talk much about building armaments, and had no need to depend on capitalism to create national defense. He declared triumphantly that contrary to the situation In the World war Germany now had unlimited arms and supplies and said that the only present problem was one of transport Such vast stores had been accumulated, he added, that In the beginning of thewar "I was able to lay idle the production of many materials. I kno-v there is no longer any enemy which we could not overpower with the munitions on hand.

And if you sometime! See Page Two, Column Two Sentence of Colette Commuted by Petain VICHY, France, Oct 3 UP). Marshal Petain, French chief of state, spared the life of Paul Colette, youthful De Gaullist who was condemned to die by the guillotine for the most spectacular act of oppostion so far to French collaboration with the conquerors the shooting of Pierre Laval and Marcel Deat Petain commuted Colette's sentence to life imprisonment, but warned that the act' of clemency "will not be Both Laval and Deat, leading collaborationists, had asked that Colette's life be spared. They are recuperating from wounds received at Colette's hand during a Versailles ceremony last Aug. 28. Cost of Defense Morgenthau said yesterday the new taxes were just a "good start," and that next year's tax bill would have to be an "all out" imposition on the public.

Next week's borrowing is scheduled from banks and other large investors. It is an addition to the regular sales of defense savings bonds to small investors and borrowing from the old-age reserve and other government trust funds. It will boost the federal debt to about $52,600,000,000 about double the peak in World war days. Along with the financing plans, the treasury disclosed that sales of defense bonds in September slumped to $232,327,000, the smallest month since the program was inaugurated on May 1. They have been averaging about $300,000,000 a month.

NEW POSITIONS GAINED Say Germans Are Driven Back 1 to 2 Miles on Front at Leningrad CLAIM NAZI LINE IS BENT Declare Counter-Attacks at Odessa, Near Smolensk, Push Back Invaders By the Associated Press. The Russians declared last night that their counter-offensive in the northwest had driven the Germans back from one to two miles on a broad front at Leningrad and that a powerful series of new defensive positions had been established about the city. Berlin emphasized the progress of the southern nazi offensive against Kharkov in the Ukraine and the Donets river basin generally, acknowledging red counterattacks by tanks and even armored trains, but describing them all a3 broken and reporting that German bombers were bringing chaos to Russian communications far to the rear. Czar's Palace Taken Soviet counter attacks about Leningrad against two German divisions were also admitted, but it was stated that these, too, were beaten off. The capture of the palace of the old czars at Krasnoje Sejo, eighteen miles southeast of Leningrad, was claimed.

Moscow's accounts of yesterday were uniformly cheerful from the Russian viewpoint Aside from tremendously im portant successes before Lenin grad, the red armies claimed vie tories extending over the central front and to the Far South. At. the center, said soviet mili tary dispatches and" bther of fcial accounts, nazi motorized columns attempting to break through some where about Gomel were routed by red tanks. Moreover, offensive-laden aerial and guerilla action spread through a great area of the central front, extending 100 miles northwest of Smolensk and 300 miles southwest of that town, was declared to have destroyed seven teen German transport columns. A German attempt to encircle Russian infantry somewhere in the central theater was said to have been smashed.

About Odessa in the south, as at Leningrad in the north, red counter-attacks were general, Mos cow said. I Such thrusts were pictured as bending the German line back all along the front and as having cost the nazis many thousands of casu alties. in the far north, well above Leningrad, the Russians claimed to have broken Finnish attempts to storm several small islands near Hangoe, the soviet naval base at the northern approach to the Gulf of Finland, and to have defeated long and repeated nazi efforts to take the fortified islands of Oesel and Dagoe. In this latter action, which had been in progress for weeks, Mos cow announced that a total of more than eighty German trans ports had been damaged, destroyed or driven off, Rainy Weather Delays Third Game of Series NEW YORK, Oct. 3 UP).

The third game of the world series between the National league's Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees, of the American league, was postponed by rain today. A light rain which started falling early in the morning and grew heavier as game time neared, forced Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, high commissioner of baseball, to call off the game. The teams, standing all-square, go back in action today With Fred Fitzsimmons or Kirby Higbe slated to hurl for the Dodgers. Manager Joe McCarthy, of the Yankees, has indicated he will start either Marius Russo or Atley Donald. Baseball writers term the delay as a boost to the Dodgers' chances, since the Brooklyn club lacks' the starting pitcher strength of the Yankees.

Whitlow Wyatt, who evened the series yesterday with a 3-to-2 victory over the Yanks, will have an additional day of rest and is a possible choice to start the' fourth game. Details are printed on page 11. Cotton ball pictures are printed on Pages 6 and 7.. BY JESSIE E. TURNER "In the evening by the moon light, You can hear the darkies singing." And steamboat 'round the bend! Singing of the old-time southern favorites by a group backstage ceased with the call of the steam boat's arrival and the curtain was drawn last evening at the Memorial auditorium to reveal an old-time cotton wharf scene as the setting of the ninth annual Chattanooga Cotton ball.

Applause rang for minutes as the audience, estimated by the auditorium box office at 4,000, cheered the vision of brilliant color, red, white and blue, of the sixty-five hoop-skirted members of the Cotton ball queen's court Cheers of the assembly paid tribute to the beauty of the scene PILOT IS KILLED INPLANECRASH Fighter Plane Hits Rugged Side of the Cumberland Mountain Near Here Pictures are printed on Page IS. By Timet Staff Writer. WHITWELL, Oct. 3. Milton J.

McGarrah, 28, died on the rugged side of Cumberland mountain six miles north of here today when his speedy Brewster fighter plane crashed. McGarrah, an enlisted man with ten years' service in ihe navy, was ferrying the new airplane from the Brewster factory at Long Island, N. to the United States naval base at San Diego, CaU at the time he was killed. He had left Lovell field at Chattanooga at 11:30 a.m. after checking weather.

His next stop was Little Rock, where he was due at 1:29 p.m. Those who reached the scattered wreckage said they found a clock with the hands stopped at 12 :02 pan. and an air speed indicator with its hands smashed at about 200 m.p.h. Farmer Spots Plane Claude Turner, a farmer in the nearby Cartwright community, said he first noticed the plane about noon. Smoke was streaming from the craft as it spiraled Into the mountain, Turner related.

The wreckage of the plane was badly named and McGarrah was muti tMed beyond recognition. Lester Condra, about 15, whose home is at the foot of the moun tain where McGarrah died, was the first to reach the wreckage. Sam Witt, Whitwell undertaker, said he was called by Miss Edna Condra, who lives near the scene of the crash, and went immediately to the Cartwright community He said it took him about forty- five minutes to climb to the scene of the wreck. McGarrah's body was brought out by a group of men, including Witt who wrapped it in a tarpaulin and carried it down the mountain. It was 2:30 p.m.

before the men were able to get the body back to Whitwell. Miss Condra said she heard the plane before it crashed and that it sounded like it might be in trouble. She said she did not see it, but that she heard the crash when the ship hit the mountain. She said there was a terrific explosion and that smoke shot up from among the trees. Despite See Page Thirteen, Column Two FLORENCE GETS PATROL TO 'PROTECT' WORKERS MONTGOMERY, Oct 3 CP).

Gov. Frank M. Dixon ordered a contingent of state highway patrolmen to Florence today "to give protection to those who want to work" on construction jobs which he said had been halted by Dixon's action was taken on re quest of the Florence board of commissioners that "you send state law enforcement officials to prevent further violence." The governor said he had been informed Sept 30 that two Florence policemen were disarmed by pickets who had "run the men off the job." In Birmingham, William H. Ivey, state labor commissioner. said the construction jobs involved several houses being built by two contractors.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3. The tanker I. C. White, owned by American interests and flying the flag of Panama, was torpedoed in the south Atlantic on Sept.

27, but two freighters, reporting separately today, said they had rescued thirty-four of the thirty-seven-man crew. All were believed Americans. First report of the torpedoing was contained in a message from the American freighter West Nilus stating briefly that it had rescued eighteen of the tanker's crew from a single lifeboat 450 miles east of Recife, Brazil. Later, the Standard Oil company (New Jersey) announced that the Moore-McCormick line freighter Mormacrey had picked up sixteen of the crew of the I. C.

White, which was under the command of William Mello, of Everett, Mass. Both freighters were en route to Rio de Janeiro. The brief messages did not give any details about the sinking or identify the rescued and the three missing. The International Freighting corporation, operators of the West Nilus, said the freighter would RELIGIOUS VIEW ASKED OF REDS F.D. R.

Reveals Question of Relfgfous Freedom Taken Up With the Soviet WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 UP). President Roosevelt revealed today that this government had raised the question of freedom of religion in Russia in discussing with Mos cow officials the problems of supplying military equipment for the Soviet's war with Germany. He declined to disclose any de tails and left open to speculation the possibility that guarantees of religious freedom may have been demanded in return for American assistance. W.

Averell Harriman, the head of a mission now in Moscow, was given instructions to take up the question of freedom of religion, Mr. Roosevelt told a press confer' ence, but had not as yet made a report. Other efforts in this direc tion had been made previously, he said without elaboration. Presum ably, these were through Lawrence Steinhardt, the American ambas sador. Thus the president added a new chapter to the controversy on Rus sian religious freedom which be gan earlier in the week with his statement that the soviet consti tution provided for freedom of worship and freedom to oppose re ligion as welL This, he said, was similar to the system in effect in this country.

Numerous Protests Numerous protests followed, based upon charges that while the Russian constitution might contain a freedom of religion clause, in ac tual practice, the situation was quite the opposite. Yesterday, the White House took the unusual step of making public a stenographic transcript of what Mr. Roosevelt had said. Mr. Roosevelt's original remarks were prompted by questions on a statement by the Polish ambassa dor here that a church for Polish Catholics and a synagogue for Polish Jews were being opened in Moscow.

Yesterday's White House statement said, in this connection: "Since the soviet constitution declares that freedom of religion is granted, it is hoped that in the light of the report of the Polish ambassador an entering wedge for the practice of complete freedom See Page Two, Column One GUERRILLAS IN NORWAY ENGAGE GERMAN FORCES LONDON, Oct. 4 (Saturday) UP). Norwegian guerrillas have had several brisk clashes with German occupation forces near Trondheim, the Norwegian tele graph agency reported today. Two Babies Missing After Crash Of Pan-American Airways Plane By thAssociated Press. board announced that an U.

S. to Borrow $1,000,000,000 To Help Defray By the Associated Press. MIAMI, Oct 3. American Airways said tonight that nineteen of twenty-one passenger aboard a four-motored seaplane that made a crash landing in San Juan harbor were safe but that two babies were missing. The infants, a Pan-American spokesman said, were Marie and Zuzzie Russo.

who boarded the plane with their mother, Mrs. An gelina Russo, at Port au Prince, Haiti. There was a possibility the babies might have been rescued by a small boat that had not yet reported to the authorities. All six crew members of the clipper, which water looped but did not sink, were saved. Pan-American said the plane apparently swung around on hitting the water.

Pan-American said there were no serious injuries among the rescued passengers. Mrs. Russo suffered from nervous shock and a third son, Fred, received a slight head injury. In Washington, the civil aero- investigator would leave for San Juan tomorrow morning. The plane, a four-motored S-42 clipper, made an apparently clean landing, started to taxi toward the landing, then one pontoon plowed into the water, the plane about and first, A.

officials said. The force of the water loop was believed here to have crushed the fore part of the hull, causing the big silver flying boat to nose over in the water. A swarm of small craft from all sides of the land-locked harbor of San Juan, including one coast guard craft, rushed to the rescue. The rescued passengers were taken to such widely-separated landing places that officials expressed the hope, as hours passed, that the two missing babies had been saved by one of the small rescue craft. Division Traffic Manager Herbert Dobbs, of Miami, said that, if the babies were not found, it would be the third incident of pas- See Page Nine, Column Seven WASHINGTON, Oct.

3. Secre tary Morgenthau today announced plans to borrow $1,000,000,000 or more next week. in what may be the largest cash financing of the treasury since the World war era. Morgenthau said he intended to sell between $1,000,000,000 and $1,250,000,000 worth of treasury securities, barring unforeseen disturbance of financial markets by international events over the week end. If the sales reach the latter figure, the transaction will top all post-World-war financing, surpassing the $1,106,000,000 borrowed in 1936 pay the soldiers' bonus.

The borrowing will supplement new taxes in paying for rising defense costs and will foreshadow additional levies to come. neadliner 11 ..12 3 7.