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PAJUS TEITPEKATCJIES SahurcUj-, hlrh low Sunday, 84, low 71. EAST TEXAS Conriderabte vtith showers Monday night and Tuesday In north and coait, lair to Partly In southivest. Moderate southeast and south on coast. OKLAHOMA Mostly cloudy eiccpt partly cloudy In Fanhandle Monday nljrlit and Tuesday. Ijttle change in temjxrattue; fresh triads eicept in Panhandle.

Wire PreM-Hegional and Local News (AND THE DINNER HORN) FINAL EDITION 1941 SEPTEMBER 7 1 8 2 (3 9 10 4 1 HI 141 22) 24 25) 1 1941 5 13 20 26j 27 1 VOL. 73 NO. 60 PARIS, TEXAS, MONDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 15, 1941 PINCERS CLOSE IN AROUND KIEV AS- TEN PAGES ESTABLISHED 1WJ9 Nazis Claim Leningrad "Defense Front" Broken This Day And Time By W. N. f.

I 1 The Lindbergh Talk gPEAKER-FLIER-former hero Charles A. Lindbergh was doing all right for his cause until he branched into a subject on which he would have done well to keep his counsel. This subject he to his speech at Des Moines last Thursday night. It dealt with racial prejudice, and it is hardly necessary to remind that racial prejudice is something in which America doesn't deal. In the Pes Moines speech, declared that "The three most important groups who have been pressing this country toward war are the British, the Jewish and the Roosevelt administration." In this instance, White House Secretary Stephen T.

Early seems to have answered the speaker adequately in three short sentences. Said Early: "You have seen the outpourings of Berlin in the last few days. You saw Lindbergh's statement last night. I think there is a striking similarity between the two." As who Early? In Berlin, when anything goes wrong it is due to the Jews, regardless of the truth that what caused things to go wrong was some bungling party official acting at the behest of Hitler, Racial persecution has been the Nazi forte from the beginning of Nazi power. The story today is no different.

This column does not say Charles A. Lindbergh is a Nazi. But it does say that for an American he gets mighty close to Nazi doctrine in his pronouncements, and this is doubly true of the Des Moines speech. Until he got onto the subject of racial prejudice, Lindbergh was a nuisance. Now he is a menace.

And why is this true? Because Nazi doctrine in other nations jfaas been that of divide and con- Iquer. If Hitler can create disunity in this nation, his task of overrunning it will be vastly simplified. There have been various instances in which Hitler has been quoted as saying conquest of America would be simple because there are so many minorities in this country. Estimated 40 RAF Planes Defending Old Czarist City Help Indicates The Critical Position Of Leningrad BY DEWITT MACKENZIE The appearance if British- manned on the Russian front, presumably to assist the Reds in their defense of the Nazi siege of Leningrad, is a notable demonstration of Allied it seems to me that it must be taken as emphasizing that the position of this great and strategically vital city is critical. These planes are believed in London to have been rushed to the Bolshevist front by way of the Arctic port of Murmansk.

The unit is being described vaguely as a "wing," but this likely means something like forty planes, with full RAF force, including ground personnel. Informed quarters in London say that further strong air reinforcements are to follow, but by the slower route through Persia. So this first comparatively small expeditionary force represents a needle to try to pull Leningrad through a mighty tough situation. May Prove Godsend These British warplanes may prove a godsend to the hard- pressed Reds, for Berlin tells us that the German airforce has, as usual, been a tower of strength in the Nazi offensive. Indeed, the probabilities are that were it not for the Luftwaffe, the invaders would still be far from this ancient capital of the czars, instead of claiming that they have pierced the outer rim of the city's fortifications.

Forty British fighting or whatever the number may be a small force as compared with the total warplanes in action along the Russo-German front, but they can be of big aid in a crisis. For instance, the Muscovites tell us Monday that the atest duel fought over Leningrad involved 100 planes and that the Germans fled after losing 17. Thus wing of forty planes would represent half the number engaged on both sides. Warplanes are the greatest help vhich Britain can give her hard- OLD IRONSIDES TAKES VILLAGE The First Armored Division, nicknamed "01 Ironsides," shows how its troops would capture a village held by enemy troops. The scene was snapped at Castor, during current war maneuvers.

Rolling into the town are new medium tanks while three A-20 attack planes of the Second Air Tank force from Barksdale Field, supporting the land attack, roar overhead. Defending troops are shown at right and left. Nation Of Minorities This is very true. America is a nation of minorities. It also is true that a great many of the people making up these minorities are in this country because they did not like their opportunities Europe.

Whether they would jump at the opportunity to be placed under the Nazi yoke is a question which can't be answered positively. Off-hand it would seem that if they fled to free America to get freedom of movement they would not help overthrow the government which guarantees this freedom. Likewise in these minorities are a group of sores which infest the American body politic. These are the Nazi organizations. And the Communist cells, too.

Just because Russia is lighting Germany with American and British help does not wash the hands of the Communists who have been hampering American defense, creating strife in the ranks of American labor and otherwise making tof themselves first rate nuisances. It is to one of these minorities, therefore, that Lindbergh appeals. He wants to see a disunited America, if we are to accept his indictment that the Jews are among the groups dividing America to war. The Lindbergh words sounded strangely like some of those previously uttered by Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, usually referred to in a moment of understatement as the world's greatest teller of lies.

Time has brought its changes to the Lindbergh viewpoint Of this there can be no mistaking. There was a time, it will be recalled, when Lindbergh seemed to think Britain the greatest spot on earth. That was when he was busy fleeing from America because Americans bothered him xvith their stares and their questions; because American newspapers bothered him with requests for interviews a'nd pictures. That was not long after his son had been kidnapped and killed. So he fled.to England to get I n-uiAi V-dli gJ.

VtS IlCX JloITCi pressed ally. One assumes that it will be available at any time now. since British Premier Churchill last week anounced that hundreds of planes were being sent to Russia. John Kimbrough Is Sued For $500, Promoter Charges Football Star With Breach Of Contract HACKENSACK, N. Texas' John Kimbrough was sued Monday for $500,000 by Douglas G.

Hertz, owner of the New York Yankees professional footbal team, who charged the 1940 All- America player with breach contract. Hertz, Rockleigh, N. sportsman and promoter, also obtained in Vice Chancellor Vivian Lewis' court in Paterson, N. a temporary order restraining Kimbrough from going through with business activities unless Hertz obtained a partner's share of the profits. The order also called for an accounting of Kimbrough's profits.

The suit in Bergen County Court charged that Kimbrough, now in Hollywood making a motion picture, entered into a 5-year contract under which he would play football and Hertz would handle the fullback's personal activities and share equally in profits over $25,000. The football contract for $12,500 annually was with the Yankees club and separate from a $25,000 personal service contract with Hertz. Kimfarough was supposed to start football play Monday with the New York Yankees. Hertz said Kimbrough refused transportation tickets and expenses. Hertz set forth that he had spent $10,700 in the past 10 months "to make Kimbrough a national figure" and was responsible for a motion picture con- away from Americans, who were tract the hard-hitting back ob- bothering i m.

Now he wants taincd with Twentieth-Century- these same Americans to quit helping the British against the Germans. Are we to assume that change of sentiment is because Lindbergh has found new friends, not in America, land of his birth; wot in England, haven THIS DAY, gtf, Fox. Hertz Century- identified Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones as an adviser of the former Texas A. and M. star.

Hertz said he had retained Everett Crosby, brother of Bing See StfED, Col, ft German Raider Is Reported In U. S. 'Defense Waters' Naval Committee May Be Asked To Cause Greer-Nazi inquiry WASHINGTON, reports that a German raider was operating in the Pacific approaches to the Panama Canal, the Senate Naval Committee will be asked to decide whether there should be an investigation of the North Atlantic shooting clash between the U. S. S.

Greer and a U-boat. Chairman Walsh (D-Mass), who summoned the Committee to meet Wednesday said he would ask it to question Secretary of Navy Knox and Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations, about the Greer one of the recent series which led to President Roosevelt's shoot-in-sight speech Thursday night. "I think the Naval Committee should look into the matter," Walsh told reporters. "It is the Half Million Troops Test Newest US Battle Weapons type of incident which might be used to involve this country in war." Reports Checked Meanwhile, the Navy was believed to be checking reports that a Nazi raider was in the general vicinity of the Galapagos Islands off the coast of 1,000 miles west of the Pacific entrance to the was preying on merchant shipping.

Texas State Fair Will Open Gates On October 4 Million-Dollar Mid- Way Heads List Of Feature Attractions By HUGH WILLIAMSON DALLAS. Tho Texas State Fair, which had its beginning 53 years ago in a few bedraggled tenls, Monday is preening its plant for this year's show. The biggest state fair in the drew more than a million people last open its ponderous gates on Oct. 4 for the annual two-week run. There will be a mile-long midway, a "million dollar" item in itself, fair boosters claim.

The esplanade will be flanked by hundreds of carnival attractions. But that's only part of the fam- Classes Begin On Monday For PHS Early Figures Show Decline Of Nearly TOO Under 1940 Classes began Monday at Paris High with 986 students enrolled The high school's early enrollment figures show a decline of almost 100 students from the corresponding pcvicd last year. D'ur- ng the 'irst three days in 1940 the school enrolled 1,085 students. Additional students were not allowed to register Monday morn- ng as first classes met. Regis- ration was resumed Monday afternoon, however.

Principal Thomas S. Justiss requests students who have not enrolled to do so as soon as possible order not to get too far behind their work. Likewise, first classes of the ''all semester met Monday at 'aris Junior College. Some 20 tudents either enrolled or completed enrollment Monday morn- ng, while 375 had registered Saturday night. Additional students who rcgis- during the next two week? v'tll be classified as full-time stu- ents.

A $1 Jate enrollment fee wilt be charged, however. Classes slso began Monday af vard and Negro schools. Supt, A. H. Chamness ed Texas exposition.

Take the livestock show, for example. Says Frank P. Holland, chairman of the livestock committee: "It will be actually a series of shows, offering an aggregate of $100,000 in premium money, at which Texas' and and the nation's foremost breeders will exhibit prize cattle, sheep, hogs, goats, horses, mules, jacks and The National Hereford Exhibit will appear at the Fair for the third consecutive year, an unprecedented occurrence, and will attract at least a thousand head of white-faced beef animals. The National Aberdeen-Angus Breeders Association will present its first national show. Initial Air Corps Activity Stalled By Bad Weather ALEXANDRIA, La.

Half a million troops of the Second and Third Armies, trained to razor edge in preliminary maneuvers, advanced on each other through rain and mist Monday to test themselves and the nation's newest battle weapons in climaxing two-week war games. Tliis Louisiana city lay on' a 100-mile front in Southeast Louisiana as America's greatest field training maneuvers opened. The Third Army of 330,000 men under Lieut. Gen. Walter Kreuger, which theoretically had established beach heads on the Gulf of Mexico coast, advanced northeastward toward the second army of 150,000 commanded by Lieut- Gen.

Ben Lear. The outnumbered Second Army has greater mobility and a powerful armored corps, two divisions with fearful shock power in 700 tanks as its principal threats. The Third Army, driving up from the south, must find this armored striking force, and 400 planes of a new air task force were alert to spring into overcast skies. Bad Flyins Conditions Forecasts of scattered rain and aerial visibility of 1,000 to 1,500 feet as a result of a dissipating Gulf storm led to curtailment of initial air activity. The Second Army has an equal force of bombers and fighters, but much of it.

authoritative strategists, would be committed to protection of the armored divisions as they probed for an opening in the pinelands southeast of the Red River. I "General mud" might swing the decision should hard rains cause the highly mechanized armored units to bog down. 5. Mission To Moscow Arrives In Britain Group Commissioned To Study Means Of Speeding Up Aid By The Associated Press a wing of the RAF reported already in action against Germany on the eastern front, the entire U. S.

mission to Moscow has arrived in Britain for stop-over talks before continuing on to the Russian capital for consultation with the British and Russians on how to beat Adolf Hitler. The RAF units now in Russia were only the advance guard of greater forces to go, informed quarters indicated, and the Brit- ish press carried reports Hi at American-made planes already were in the service of the Red Air Force. Junior members of the American mission reached London Sunday with the Russian ambassador to Washington, Constantin Oumansky, after a transatlantic plane flight, and the American embassy announced Monday that Averell Harriman, head of the mission, and the remainder of the delegation had arrived "somewhere in the United Kingdom." Harriman arrived in London late Monday. The delegation has. been commissioned, with its British counterpart, to study with the Russians all means of speeding supplies and weapons of war to the Russian front.

Arrival of the first British fliers in Russia was disclosec Sunday in a brief announcement that a wing of the Cargo Protection Will Begin This Week, Knox Says Report Indicates How PR's Policy Will Be Followed MILWAUKEE, Knox told the American Legion's Convention Monday that, beginning Tuesday, the United States Navy would protect all lease-lend cargoes traversing the sea "between the American continent and the waters adjacent to Iceland." The navy chief described the Atlantic fleet's orders in unequivocal "to capture or destroy" every Axis surface or subsurface raider encountered. Although Knox avoided the particular word "convoy," his announcement recalled the inter- pretion given President Roosevelt's shoot-on-sight speech of Thursday night in London, particularly by the British press which broke such jubilant headlines as: S. To Guard Our Ships." U. S. Not To Walt The Knox announcement contained unit with full fjying and ground personnel ha reached the Soviet.

Before the war a wing normally contained three squadrons, but the present strength of such a well as the number of planes in a a military secret. It was presumed, however, that the newly-arrived unit consisted of fighter aircraft, probably speedy Hurricanes and Spitfires such as have formed the first line of defense in Britain. See CLASSES, Cat Sen. Hill Claims Bill Has Joker Finds No Mention Of Farm-to-Market Road Fund Appropriations AUSTIN, Tex. Senator Joe Hill of Henderson declared Monday the highway bond financing bill passed by the Senate last week contained a joker which would prevent allocation of $2,000,000 from the gasoline tax for a farm-to-market road program.

Taking issue with Hill, Senator Allan Shivers of Port Arthur sasd the bill had been approved by the Attorney General's department and was "okeh." speech, Hiil asserted the bill "does not appropriate a thin dime for lateral roads." Language of the measure, he declared, appropriated on 6- fourth of the four-cent gasoline tax to service certain county road bonds on which the state long has been paying principal and and turned the remainder of the the revenue over 2 Army Officers Visit In Paris Conferring With CQM Regarding Proposed Ordnance Facilities Two Army oficers from Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, visited in Paris Monday regarding the proposed Lamar County Army camp, with one leaving after a few hours and the other expected to remain for several days. Major G. H. Leavitt, from the office of the ordnance officer at Fort Sam Houston, was here for a short conferring with Capt. John T.

Massingale, CQM, regarding ordnance facilities dealing with the layout plan of the proposed camp. Major C. T. Bear, utilities officer from the office of the CQM. Eighth Construction Zone, is here to assist the architect engineer with the layout of utilities at the proposed camp.

This is Maj. Bear's second visit to Paris since the start of preliminary work on the Jury Charged To Conduct Inquiry Panel Will Hold An Investigation Of County Felonies Twelve Lamar County men, including one Negro, went to work shortly after 10:30 a. m. Monday, charged with the investigation of felonies committed in the County recently as well as any other matters which may be brought before them. Judge A.

S. Broadfoot opened the September term of 6th District Court by briefly explaining to the grand jurors their duties and responsibilities and then released them in the custody of the sheriff. R. L. (Bob) Johnson, former Justice of the Peace, was chosen by the jurors as their door bailiff, while Lamar County constables were sworn in as riding bailiffs.

Judge Broadfoot did not charge the jury regarding any particular case, but merely reminded them at the unlimited power they possess, urged them to use care in cases involving youths who might be under 17 years of age and asked they heed the recommendations of the County Attorney. E. N. Weaver of Pattonville was named foreman of the grand jury by Judge Broadfoot. W.

M. Bludworth of Roxton, Richard Blyth, W. J. Brown of Direct and Roger Kelsey of Deport were excused from jury service. In ad- constituted the first official disclosure of how the navy was preparing to carry out the new; policy enunciated by Mr.

Roosevelt that henceforth Axis war vessels entering United States "defensive waters" would do so at their own peril and that American naval vessels would not wait, for them to shoot first. In a speech prepared for the Legion Knox said: "Beginning tomorrow, the American navy will provide protection as adequate as we can make it for ships of eveuy flag carrying lend-aid supplies between the American continent and the waters adjacent to Iceland. "These ships are ordered to capture or destroy by every means at their disposal, Axis-controlled submarines or surface raiders encountered in these waters. "That is our answer to Mr. Hitler's declaration that he will try to sink every ship his vessels encounter on the routes leading from the United States to British ports." Special Arrangements Whether "protection as adequate as we can make it" meant that U.

S. warships would begin escorting convoys of British and other cargo vessels Tuesday was a matter of conjecture, but the fact that an interim of four days was necessary between President Roosevelt's statement and protection camp. Eight employes in the CQM's office who had been on voluntary leave for two weeks are scheduled to return Tuesday, it was said. The CQM emphasized that no new personnel is being added and that the personnel of his office now is at peak until strch time as ac- tuat totatfuetton may fee started. dition to Weaver, those serving as grand jurors are: W.

A. Aden, O. Enloe, Jack Glass of Chicota, Mace Parson of Sumner, Rt. 2, Lem Prock, V. R.

Trulock, E. Record of Arthur City, J. W. Alexander of Paris, Rt. 1, Jesse Gunn of Biardstown, Rt 1, W.

M. "Bud" Gantt of Blossom and George W. Hardiman, Negro. County Attorney A. M.

Harrison previously had said he expected the grand jury to be in session most of this week. Sixth District Court attaches Monday said Tuesday probably will be day for civil in ttes tostv indicated that some special arrangements requiring time to complete had been made. Moreover, the fact that the pro- cction will be extended into wa- ers adjacent to Iceland was aken as an indication that the United States probably had agreed assume sole responsibility for uarding supply ships up to that point with the British to take ver from there on. Knox's announcement came near the end of his address to the Legion gathering, and after he had declared that since United States occupation of Iceland on July 7 "Hitler and the Nazis were losing the battle of the Atlantic" and therefore were forced to attempt to break down the bridge of ships carrying supplies to Britain." Axis Strike Af i i i British In Libya Report Says That British Have Lost Hill Positions ROME, (ff) Italian-German detachments, striking out from their semi-circular siege lines at British-held Tobruk, Libya, wrested hill positions from the defenders near Sidi Belgasem, east of Tobruk, in a "lightning attack" Saturday night, it was officially announced Monday. The British were declared ta have lost an unspecified number in dead and prisoners after a fierce fight The announcement that the pressure on Tobrok, for most part by aviation and artillery, now and then BftBsh Germans Reported Massing Troops For Rear Attack Russian Sea Base Of Sebastopol Said To Be Chief Objective By The Associated Press German tanks, artillery and troops were reported storming Leningrad's main outer defense bulwarks Monday, with Nazi high-velocity shells smashing into a ring of six-foot concrete bunkers in a climatic assault' on the old Czarist capital.

The Germans, acknowledging bitter Soviet resistance, said the Bunker system was equal io any-, thing they encountered in the blitzkrieg sweeps through France or Belgium, but declared the attack was progressing successfully. They said 4,500,000 were trapped in the Leningrad area. Nazi military observers asserted, that the eastern front, aflame from the Karelian Isthmus to the Black Sea, was "ripening for successes which the High Command were unfolding." German troops were by the High Command to have cracked Leningrad's "defensw one point, while on the Southern front, the Russians admitted that a Nazi pincers movement was tightening the trap around Kiev. Simultaneously, observers at Ankara forecast a sea-borne German drive against the Russian Crimea, site of the big Soviet Black Sea naval base.of Sebastopol. There were reports that the Germans had Rumari- ian and Bulgarian Black Sea ports closed to commercial shipping; Nazi order capped repeated rumors that both and Italian troops were being massed in Bulgarian ports" for an attempt to land forces behind Russia's Dnieper River defense line in' the Ukraine.

Dispatches from Sofia said partial mobilization of the Bulgarian army had been ordered for Monday. Advices reaching London' said the Germans had already -thrust into the Perekop area, on the thin neck of land connecting the Crimea with the USSR mainland. Previously, the Germans ''had- claimed the capture of Zhaporoze, on the main railway line connecting Sebastopol with northern sources of supply. Americans Stirred Americans were -'Stirred, meanwhile, by reports that a German sea raider was operating in the Pacific approaches to the Panama Canal. The Navy believed checking on reports that the raider was preying on merchant the general vicinity of the Galapagos Islands off the -coast of Ecuador, some miles west to the ca- would fall within the sphere of defense waters noted by President Roosevelt in his warning to Axis raiders.

1 Informed circles in Washington, said it was probably a surface- raider, discounting the possibility that one or more U-boats might be operating with a mother ship or from a secret base. shipping circles have been hearing for days of a raider in the Galapagos area where a Dutch freighter was sunk and others': were chased. RAF Aids Russia While spectacular mass air battles raged over Leningrad, the British reported they were rusli- ing RAF pilots into the 86-day old struggle on the eastern front. London newspapers said the 'first British fliers to arrive in Russia several squadrons strong, already had gone into action, presumably in defense of Leningrad. The Daily Telegraph said it was reasonable to assume that'the newly-arrived RAF unit was only "the advance- guard of a-large fighter contingent destined for the eastern front." Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced last week that hundreds of RAF er planes were being sent to USSR.

With the battle of Leningrad flaming toward a climax the Germans quoted Soviet prisoners as saying that defenders of the old Czarist capital were dynamiting huge blocks of buildings in the city to clear the line for artillery and machine gun fire in a street- by-street defense. In the skies, the Russians reported 100 planes engaged latest duel, with the fleeing after losing aircraft Adolf declared Leningrad tler's High the encirclemenM had been tightened, in stubborn possession of moflernly ed fortifications." Soviet dispatches owic loss of several, aetttenwntr bank" of the Ktvtf ,1.