Kennebec Journal from Augusta, Maine • 1

By Th" Associated Press Berlin Oct Adolf Hitler ex-pUmmc bln lour Illence br saying Hut fci had bet ben able to ipnk until Hm enemy bed been hie 10 hard that he never again will rise declared today to the derm an gpls in his flret speech since last that the paralysing blow had not alert and prepared to eom-and destroy them? In a speech prepared for delivery before officers of the Knox County IT department and lie reserve of the law enforcement i nor been desltnthe mustang in a 65-minuto address to a hoarsely cheering audience of thou mads the Berlin Bportspalast he announced that a "gigantic new development had occurred on the eastern- front In the last 4g hours but beyond that he offered little i By The Associated Prts Tha United State prime Immedltq interest id the sea wir turned to the South Atlantic yesterday with dlsdosuro that the 7052-ton tanker White ijAmerican-owned but flying the flag of Panama was torpedoed and sunk Sept 27 somewhere off the Brazilian coast i 9 First word of the sinking came nfroxn the American freighter West Nllus which messaged that it had picked up Iff survivors from a lifeboat 450 miles off Recife Brazil but gave no details The White carried a crew of 37 If the tanker wax sunk in the vlclnltjf where the tnen were rescued the attack occurred closer ta the shores of the Americas than any Axis submarine previously had struck For that reason the location attracted particular interest In Washington where the news arrived amid a 'gathering congressional controversy over amendment of the neutrality act 4 alon of the Maine civilian defense setup Weaver said: must pool our resources mental physical and material to oppose this menacing threat to our security Nothing must be permitted to weaken or delay our plana and preparations for effective defense "Nothing must be tolerated that would or could prevent maximum cooperation by and between all our law enforcement agencies whose loyal and patriotic duty to our county requires and demands that LEONARD G1LL1S i His speech for which he came directly from the front to give a Blowing review of Oerman wan sue-omasa opened the Reich's third war winter charity and drive But It appeared to have the wider ob-of revitalising the nation for 1 ahead juTtasks still ready to give of our yea UfeTu need to those who i jrpoae their truat Weaver said the police and sheriff Sheriff Gillis Quits Sheriff Leonard Glllis nounced Friday ha would not again seek the office which he la now serving for a third term A patient at the Augusta General Hospital where he was taken the lint of the week he said he would be because of ill health to indon any plans for running for uther term In the 1942 eleeuo (Continued on Page COL 1) (Continued on Page OoL '1-v I Red Cross Appeals For Cooperation Heulton Me Oct Organ- batton of Mata Defense Council has not lessened the Red re-I sponiiblUty In disaster relief dele-tv cites from northern Maine Red I Crms chapters were told today 1 A Shepard assistant manager the eastern area Shepard addressing approxlma 300 delegates at a regional cc femes said the responsibility of Jhe Red cross "has been Increased 1 by that very reason and the two organizations should work hand 3 In Carrying War tolls -j Senate HU1 (D-Alai declared-11 made "pUln that it Is the determination at he Nazis to carry the war to the western hemisphere as well i to thej rest of the world" There was conjecturf In congw-slonal alerters too over whether Incident (REA Csblephoto) MAKES ICELAND OF A field force of zegular Army troops reported to be the' first soldiers to arrive in Iceland brought to the new S-British northern outpost vast supplies of equipment said to be sufficient to turn the liny island republic into a of the Above some of the infantry artillery engineer signal ordnance and medical units make a landing Their supplies included what their commander Maj Gen Charles Bonesteel called interest-: ing skis snowshoes and Garand rifle for every with their had an important eontrlbu tion to make to national defense "Their apodal responsibilities un der the new he said are of two Unde: (1) They must be active In countring espionage and also to prevent the sabotage of eaaentlal industries (3) They must be prepared to deal with planned disorders and unanticipated disasters "In these troublesome are beginning to realise what a key state Maine is Tour city of Rockland if andi when an emergen occurs will be a potential object attack and you people will be part of a group called upon to defend it Yours Is tremendous Washington OcL (A1) Sup-portere of admlulstration foreign policy quickly seised upon tbs stoking ef- the tanker I Whits tonight as new evidence that the neutrality act be amended Fear ForFreedomofSpeeehr Rotary Turnout At Poland Is 539 Poland Springy Oct Lr-ifffrrOe-pits the inclement weather which cancelled several out of door spent is hud preparing for any situation that BUfifrVarise Red Cross volunteer workers In nal communities were asked by Iwntt Rn another assistant aw te give- the "same full service that pakMrarkers do in the Miss Marguerite McQuaide if general Held representative In 'fiatne said Maine -workers had i over much of the seA route from the United States to i England Soma 1- woe wandering too whether the submarine so for from territory nasht' noM be operating from Dakar Ikench West Africa Rot others pointed (Continued on Pag OOL 6) GooaliWorl Choose AFL Union Sanford Me Oct jU-Main-tenanfcejand production wokeri of the Goodall Worsted Company hero voted 665 to 194 In of the Federation of Woolen- and Wasted Workers America (AID aa their collective bargaining agency a National Labor Relations Board election today -j sx! The chief -said there-were three functions In the operation of any civilian defense Informative procentatt ve aim corrective law enforcement division of the Maine program having cotn-the first part of the first i recently was- requested to compile a list of all potential ob-peeuves of attack such as: public utilities transport centers key industries and other vulnerable spots such as bridges power houses water supplies and aoforth Weaver commended the law foreement agencies of Main far Some of tha president critics bdw-r declared their position Ten unchanged by tha Hidden! The ship was reported torpedoed on SeptTn In the South Atlantic Thlrtjfour of her crew of 27 Americans were picked up today 450 miles east of Recife Brai Through a subsidiary the tanker waa owned by tha Standard OH Company of New Jersey but early In tha war was transferred to Panamanian registry Later she was placed at the disposal of Great Britain under tha lease-lend program and was operating under British orders when she was sunk' -News of the sinking was received short while after a renewed an-( Continued on Fags OoL 2) spent 187000 hours of work In pro-eudng 550000 surgical dressings UOdto Jayettea and other gar I' Two Missing In events at the second day of the Rotary International Ooxxventiab here registration tonight waa the largest In 15 years Jeff Williams Chtckasha Okie chairman of Rotary relief fund of Rotary international spoke oh Out of 169 New England Rotary districts 95 were represented with 539 registered guests A bridge tournament marble tournament dart throwing contest and band concerts were held indoors- I meats Sherman I Bhumway of Bangor Ashman of the Penobscot County chapter asserted In another speech mat "with the army taking about SOS nurses monthly and nurses going- from rural areas- to city hos- pitals an epidemic In Maine would be dUScult to handle" He said 'very hospital In the State lacked inadequate number of their interest splriS and cooperetion Hu mobUleatlon plan Fort Wayne lad Oct' Charles A Lindbergh asserted tonight before a capacity crowd In Gospel Tabernacle here that "the time has come when we must consider" whether there will be say elections nest year IBuch a condition may not- be many steps ahead on the road our Is taking he said Earlier la hie address be expres ed fear fa freedom of speech In this country end charged that President Roosevelt aod his administration been treating our Congress more and more as the German Reichstag has been treated under the Nasi regime" i "Congress like the Reichstag la not consulted" said Lindbergh The temple with a seating capac-Ity of 4O00T was filled 45 minutes before- the scheduled start (1:30 a C8D of the program sponsored by the America First Committee Doom were closed as soon as the (Continued on Page COL 3) MlamL Pla Oct 3 OP) Pan Airways said tonight that 19 of 21 passengers aboard a four-motored pesplanc that mads a crash landing In 8an Juan harbor were safe but that two babies were missing The infants A Pan American Martov and Memphis Man Heads American Bar Sewall Gives Hope to Packers Who Seek Extended Season (By Tho Associated Press) Moscow Saturday Oct Lenin-1 grad's defenders have hurled- the Germans bade ons to two milea In wide counter-attacks still In progress and Red armles' of the south smashed a big German motorised farce thrusting toward Kharkov tha Russians announced officially today The advance against the Germans by the Red armies of the northwest was followed it was asserted fey the establishment of a strong new series of positions for the defense of Len- Intho south coordinated Soviet ground forces and airmen routed the Nasi motorised column attempting to Semeon farces guarding the gateway to Kharkov major manufacturing center of the industrial Donets basin the announcement said Tweniy five Nasi tanks and 80 truck! were reported destroyed and 200 trucks and 100 motorcycles captured The ear It morning iwmmimtomi said violent action stiu erupted from one end of the front to the other and that at sea the Red fleet saru a Oerman submarine in Arctic waters It was the battle Of Leningrad that brought the best news of the day from the Russian standpoint This was but one of a far-spre string of victories claimed in offle reports and military dispatches (Continued on Page TCoL 3) Rightist Terrorists Tour Paris Bomb Six Jewish Synagogues Brlh4''Assarited Press (entire period since the beginning ef Rightist terrorism' burst upon Russian war June 22 indicated ml Russo who boarded the plane with their mother Mrs An-gellna Russo at Fort Au Frina There waa a possibility the babies might have been rescued by a (Continued on Page CoL 3) (Oaritinuod' 'an Page OoL German-Occupied Faria yesterday as six Jewish cynagoguea Wsre wrecked by bombs while in other Nazi-controlled lands of tha continent executions and other repres-slve measures were carried out by the Goftnaa authorities with continuing severity The maya of Prague capital of of Bol the Csech protectorate Gestapo Condemns Prague Mayor Axemen Kill 600 Enemies of State Sewall said he assured the delegation that he would cooperate 'With the packers to the "fullest extent1 in trying to solve their problem but requested detailed figures and additional information showing the "economic Importance of extending the season" before deciding on a special legislative call The group also discussed with the Governor the prospects of amend' a state law if the lawmakers called Into extraordinary session Increasing by 1-16 of an Inch the legal-catching length of lobsters along the Maine coast It was pointed out to the Governor that Massachusetts has Increased Its lobster legal length to that extent and the group said Maine lob-stermen felt the Maine law should be changed to place them on (Continued oh Page OoL 6) By The Associated Press Governor! Sumner Sewall Friday told a Washington County delegation that hg would ean-" sider ceiling a special legislative eatloa to act pn a proposal to extend the sardine packing season If it were shown such a step was "economically important" the packing season under a state law now Is from April 15 to Dec 1 but packers the committee representing them said find It Impossible te pack sufficiently in that period to meet the unprecedented demand during the: current war period The committee told the Governor that the packers desired to have the law changed to permit them to operate their factories during winter "td catah up with the mand i Rainfall Too Small To Ejrgak Drought Lswlslau Me Reports tdithe Uhlan WaterPaw)er Co at six tfclock tonight stowed rate-fall varying from (L33 inches at Rumford and Gilead to 0A2 at Andover aad 065 at Foitooeok JLi Paul KBean river engineer satd the atom probably heavy oyer that tmnfi quate to relieve the water 'shortage At least seven Inches of rain will be required before Dee 1 he said I and MOravla was sentenced to death charged with leading an da-borate sabotage-terrorism espionage-rebellion plot declared In Berlin to have been inspired abroad The Czech territory seemed to be the center of current disturbances although totals made public In both London and Berlin covering the IAV-Wlto election of Walter Armstrong 57 of Memphis as president am selection of Detroit far next year's meeting the American Bar tion dosed its 64th annual convention -this Afternoon on a keynote voiced by its new head of supped for "the decisions of our government" "The forces andnst whidi we are arrayed" Armstrong told the convention After his InatallatUm for the present At least disciplined farces moving- with insensate i Almost Insane fury at the will one wtw "To me It seems self-evident fact that a democracy such as ours cannot combat these forces it imposes upon itself severe seif Which must "loy ally and unanimously support the decisions of our-government after they are made without carping criticism or partisan bickering" Alcoa Wins Five Points in Suit New ToX Oct Federal Judge Francis Caffey today ruled in favor of the Aluminum Company of America and its 48 co-defendants on five more points in the government's anti-trust law case against them He found they had not Used the manufacture of utensils pistons extrusions structural park foil and mtoiim eous fabricated nroducta The government originally broil 12 counts of alleged manopollxatl Including today's opinions the Judge has ruled In favor of the defendants on 10 points with no decisions for the government Two more counts Involving Sheet aluminum and aluminum cable remained to be night ition By The Auoclated Press Berlin -Oct 3 German dispatches reported tonight that the Maya of Prague Otakar Klapka had been snared fey the gestapo and sentenced to die as one of the leaders of an elaborate foreign-backed plot of sabotage terrorism espionage and rebellion against the protection With scant elaboration of the charge of foreign backing advices from Prague capital of the stud that the plot i i i- i I Brewster Advises Against Revival Of Quoddy Tidal Power Project This total was compiled from official announcements- and did not include executions In Bohemia-Mob via fa the past two days and could not be viewed as up-to-date fa the remainder of the occupied nations Even so Croatia formerly part of yugoelavta was credited with 226 executions to lead the list A report carried by Dient Aus Deutschland Indicated that the Prague municipal administration from the maya downward may have been honeycombed by plot- tiapka'Wss alleged to have headed an organisation which gave financial aid to the families of fugitive Csechs and arranged the ewane others LDNB dispatch from Prague said that several persons Including a colonel In the former Czechoslovak army all sentenced to death by courts martial at Prague and Brno had been executed on charges of (Continued on Page CoL 7) Drought May Bring Rationing Iower to New England Mills Managers Praise Norridgewock Man Portland Me Oct 3 Maine town and city managers heard today of the achievements- of Bernal Allen ow-time sella and chicken farmer during his first year as town manager of Norridgewock Allen who also Is town manager of New Portland and Mercer told the Managers' State Association that during hls first year debti of $90000 nad been sliced In half and the tax rate cut from 77 mills to 64 mills on the dollar Iked Farnsworth of Bangor association president observed after speech that the Norridgewock record will make us All feel like resuming" Woodbury Brackett of Houlton said that in Aroostook county the suspended Quoddy project Tidal Water Power tensive foreign support These dispatches were punctuated by the announcement that "several" more Czechs had been executed' With unofficial reports running far ahead of official figures It was known that nearly 800 persons had been executed fa military and poll-tlcal offenses In Germany ana the conquered areas since June 22 when the war with Russia started State 8 Senator Ralph Brewster (R-Me) of Dexter said Friday he would report to the Maine congres-oal delegation in Wlshnnon next week that "it It not opportune to press immediately" a revival of Washington Oct The possibility of rationing of electricity to aome NewBigland Industries developed today amid the continuing controversy over government re-v strlction of gasoline sales on the stern seaboard Officials of the Federal Power Commission said the extended -draught had resulted In a critical situation i with respect to hydro- electric power to Maine and western Massachusetts and that a shortage of electricity might become general throughout New TO meet possible eventualities they said commission engineers are working on a rationing plan to assure adequate energy for essential Industries This an official added may require some industries producing non-defense goods "to-ger along with less power for a lev weeks" It was Indicated that the plan did electricity retail not Include rationing to household THE WEATHER where you get the feel of the frontier spirit" 16 towns with more than 50 cent of the town men tion hve some form of Renewed Bombing of Britain Seen As Buildup for Pep Talk port- if Brewster made the statement after conference with a committee from the chamber of commerce in Washington County site of the proposed Quoddy project He said the group Instructed him to advise others of the Maine eon gresslaual group that they believed the present move should be to educational campaign as to the eqonanic advantages of the Quoddy Power particularly In na- pect to drought periods" -President Oscar Brown of -th' Washington chamber one of those et the Conference recently said the drought effect on Mates power conditions the past few weeks pointed to the "growing need fa a substantial increase" to state power facilities independent of rainfall or fueL 4 I '-expressed 'belief that' the answer" was in tha revival completion of suspended Quoddy project (Continued on Page CoL l) ager or town or town agent Dex- govemmenl snager of declared that there were ter vsntages to having the town manager serve as tax collector among them economyln combining the offices knowledge of the needs 1 1 WANTED Used Cars Anv Make Aar Coalition -Highest Prices as first CLIFF-SHAW CO ear City Hall stores At the Capitol meantime members of a special Senate committee Investigating the gasoline situation said they would await a new report from Secretary of the Interior lekes before taking any further action (Continued on Page OoL 6) I tactical rather than of strategic Importance As fa the northern front Lop-don heard rumors that besieged Leningrad had been at least partially relieved and that communication with Moscow had been restored That Is calculated to prolong the Leningrad battle Indefinitely If true Reinforcements of men arms and supplies fa the Leningrad garrison could be i brought up Red counter attacks on the Neva river sector are reported and It is possible these onslaughts achieved the break in Nazi siege RAIN Rain In east and north and mostly cloudy preceded by occasional rain In southwest portion taring and slightly night Sunday increasing doudlneas and co Vermont and New Ram' Mostly cloudy preceded rain wanner Saturday: fair and slightly cooler Saturday night: Sunday Increasing cloudiness and slightly cooler Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut Considerable cloudiness with occasional showers-and wanner Saturday clearing and slightly comer Saturday -night Sunday mostly cloudy and cooler followed by occasional light rains Tides aft Augusta OcL 4: 154 A LIS Lew: 9J6 A MT956 OcL 5: L35 A L53 16J4 A 1955 High tide at Augusta Is four hours later than at Portland Low tide Is 5 hours later Tide time at Portland can be figured by subtracting these differences from times given time Is Eastern Augusta AU decided Judge Caffey waa In the fourth day of dictating his opinion The full decision was expected completed next week Will Borrow Billion Dollars Washington Oct Secretary Morgenthau today announced plana to borrow $1000000000 or more next week In what may be the largest cash financing of the Treasury since the Wald War era Morgenthau said he Intended to sell between ILOOOfiOOfiOO and $1- 250000000 worth of treasury securities barring unforeseen disturbance of financial markets by international -events over the weekend If the sales reach the latter figure the transaction will top all post-Wald WAr financing surpassing the (1- 106000000 borrowed In 1936 to pay the adlers' bonus The borrowing -will supplement new taxes in paying fa rising defense costs ana will foreshadow additional levies to come BT SIMPSON It is obvious that the Nasut sought to provide an impressive propaganda back-ground tar Hitler's latest speech to his people Fa example the speech was preceded bv stepped-up harvest moon bombing of England However his announcement of a new development" on the Russian front Initiated by the Germans within the last 48 hours can not be classified as mere propaganda It has ample supporting evidence from Russian sources -It has seemed dear that the elements of a new crisis fa the Russians were taking shape close in toe wake of the Kiev disaster Against what ife happening from the south flank of the Kiev bulge to the Black Sea under a screen of rigid censorship on both sides Russian successes to tha north are at best and full knowledge of the uses which the taxes will be put Southern Maine Gets Most Rain Portland Me Oct 3 (A) A steady downpour drenched parched forestlands In southwestern Maine alleviating the threat of continued forest fires and the damper on those still burning Federal Weather Bureau Meteorologist Robert Dole predicting nearly an inch of rain fa the Patland area that the rainfall was general In the lower half of the State where most of the serious fires have been raging Only light rain has fsllep ern sector he said i raging In tne-northplfor McIntosh apples We find that part of the applm sold first ef the week were not ptoperly graded '-V Anyone that beeght McIntosh apples that were not satisfied we will appreciate them coming back for an adjustment Apples on sale dally and evening nntU entire crop la sold Apples raised at Noreroos Orchards sold at NORCROSS MOTOR SALES i INft FORD DEALERS 1IAIN8J I WINTHROP lines That sector running east and id to the shores Is obviously the south of Leningrad of Lake Ladoga weakest link of the German siege lines it la moat difficult to supply and reinforce And In View of Hitler's hint of gigantic new German attacks de- Continued on Page CoL 3) Studgrd Time 1 i a i i.