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4, Nazis Claim Kiev' Capture THE LEAD DA CALL 4 FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR LEAD, SOUTH DAKOTA, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1941 ntty ILuimos2 JSecnegeaE JLeaanoDggad SPOTLIGHT- CANADIAN MRDROMK CHAIN RKINO BCII.T OTTAWA, Sept. A chain of modern airdromes is taking shape In the wilderness of Canada's northwest for the joint use of the States and Canadian combat planes in event of a Pacific coast attack. Air Vice Marshal C. O. Johnson, deputy chief of the Canadian, air staff said in a broadcast address last week that the work of building and equipping the airdromes was "well in hand." By reason of close cooperation with the United States for the defense of this hemisphere against attack," he said, "steps are in pi ogress for joint action in the event of an attack on Alaska or the Pacific coast." DAKAR BASK F.l VICHY, Unoccupied France, Sept.

22. tPi- Pierre Bois-son. French governor of Dakar, told the press today that the west African naval base had been reinforced for the "big role" the French colony "may be summoned to play in the near future. Recalling the unsuccessful free French-British attempt to lake Dakar in September, Hois ion said French armed forces were stronger now than then, particularly in equipment. I '-'( i his is orosky street in Kiev, cap! in I of the Russian winch the high command said had liren captured.

v. i 4 Ctiil 1L Ml if It-. Ik, 4 I kraiiie, 12 HOSTAGES ARE SHOT SATURDAY VICHY, Unoccupied France. Sept. 22.

I.V) A vow in the name of the German army deliv- the bier of a captain nuiea ny terrorists in Paris to employ every means so attacks a use indignation in all which honorable men shall not go unpunished" was disclosed in the Paris press. The fact that the slain officer, a Captain Schebe, was given an official funeral yesterday in the REPRISAL KILLINGS IN PARIS REACH 35; ANOTHER GERMAN OFFICER SLAIN lA i f.d press service I NEW G.A.R. CHIEF A. (iay of Nashua, i c-sailor, was ie, led commander-in-chief of the (rand Army of (he Republic at. the organisation's diamond Jiihl-I lee encampment 111 Columbus, O.

jup mm RUSSIA SEEN Japan Apparently Trend In Nazi-Red Conflict the Far Fast ii liable in Manila said Japan had sent at least 1 ioo ooo troops in Man-chuko and Korea in recent weeks mid that events within Japan pointed reliably toward a move against Russia if Germany's invasion of the U. S. S. R. continues successfully.

Virtually all horses in Japan reported 1o have been ship- oed to Mnnchuko. which borders i i soviel Siberia, indicating that the Japanese army means to be ready for posstbl bad weather opera- Relations between the United dispatches said Japanese Premier Prince Fumimnro Konoye had sent a second message to President Roosevelt and Japanese newspapers voiced confidence that a settlement would be reached be- hi jr Xfi0) i 1 I I I GOVERNOR ASKS WIDER CITY ENTRIES Broader Highways Needed To Slave Off Accidents PIERRE, Sept. 22. Death of one patrolman and critical injury to another in a four car collision near Sioux Falls brought comment from Governor Bushfield that "wider highways must tt built with a raised center" at the approaches to large South Dakota cities. The governor paid tribute to Bernard Benson, 29.

Vermillion, the trainee patrolman killed five and a half miles west of Sioux Falls on V. S. 16 Wednesday night, and to Fred Lindekugel, of Madison, and then said "nothing can be done to restore the life of the voting officer nor soft en the grief of his family but tragedy can impress upon all travel our highways the absolut necessity of obeying laws of highway traffic and of passing on information of carelessness and negligence wherever observed immediately to the law enforcement officers." "One other step that can tend to lessen these tragedies can be taken." he said. "I'pon the immediate approaches to the city of Sioux Falls and other large cities wider highways must he built with a raised center that will prevent heavy traffic from crossing to the wrong side of highways." Asked what immediate steps were planned Governor Bushfield said the highway commission has been studying wider roads near cities for sometime and action could be expected as soon as building programs permitted. HURRICANE HEADS FOR TEXAS, LOUISIANA NEW ORLEANS, Sept.

22. KIDNAPER AND VICTIM KILLED IN CAR WRECK KLIZABKTIITOWN. Ky. 22. The kidnaping Sept.

of an CRASH VICTIM lames M. Maxon, (above) of Memphis, was killed in England in a crash during a test flight, the Koval Canadian Air Force announced. He was the son of the Episcopal bishop of Tennessee. I ITALIANS HARBOR RAID Tiny Assault Boats Slip Under Gibraltar Guns ROME. Sept.

22. Tiny. i secret "assault craft" of the Ital- Ian navy slipping under the muz- zles of Gibraltar's great guns last I night sank three supply ships and damaged a fourth so badly it probably was lost, the Italian high command reported today. Authoritative sources Indicated that these small craft arc virtually nothing but a human projectile being manned by men who know there would be little chance of returning. Such boats previously had been used to raid harbors on the islands of Crete and Malta.

The special communique gave no word of the fate of the attacking crews. The tiny assault boats, each with a torpedo in its nose, are manned by one or two men who know that death Is the likely outcome. They must get tneir guns close onougn uic i iiiigeis to me wun ten- ing aim. MISSING PIONEER RANCHER IS GIVEN UP AS DROWNED i ONIDA. S.

Sept. 22. -A floral wreath lay at the bottom of the swirling, muddy Missouri liver today, ft tribute to H. P. Knx from j00 county Sully county 4 A LAki I I I center of the occupied capital indicated that the Germans attach- ed considerable importance to the WORKERS ARE CALLED FROr.1 JOBS TO HELP MOSCOW IS TIGHTENING BARRIERS MOSCOW.

Sept. il () The fiercest fighting on the whole Russian battle front flamed arnimd Leningrad and armament workers called upon the threat port city's defenders to "win or die." As In bealeged Odessa to the south, Leningrad's defense line of red troops and militia called from their sho.w and factories were reported hold-lug their attackers to a standstill close to the city limits. Wlth Kiev fallen as the war entered its fourth month, Moscow tightened Its own precautions behind its harrier of fighting men. The capital's city council prohibited the return of all who lift the city since the war began. Those who do come back will not be given permits by militia or issued food cards.

An early morning administrative center of the Ukraine was yielded to the Germans "after many days of fierce fighting." It is the first major capture for the Germans since they invaded Russia and a serious blow to the Kovict but the city of 846.000 population was given up in accord with the Russian plan of keeping the red army on a fighting basis even at the expense of territory. Russia said stubborn rear guard fighting was believed to have saved a large part of the city's defenders who were reported falling back to the east to prepare for a German thrust at the industrial Donets basin. Balancing the Kiev setback in tome measure was a report that the red army In the central sector had recaptured 32 villages and driven the Germans from a Hlrongly fortified line. The fighting in Leningrad became even more furious as Germans increased their pressure. Newspaper reports said nazi dive Kara urpm httttnfr Russia's second city with such ferocity It seems the earth itself will split." NAVAL ACTION BERLIN, Sept.

Russian warships have been beaten back by German shore guns in nn attempt to flee the Baltic waters off Leningrad, authorized German sources declared today. Although this action was not mentioned by the high command It reported heavy air blows on Russian sea forces in the Baltic ana ciacK bc.s inciuuiug umn- age to a battleship and seven other warships apparently still standing by the besieged defenders of Leningrad. (Continued on Page 4) FOUND GUILTY Albert B. I.uknes, S8, Is shown hcre as he heard the verdict of a him first "derreo murder A tropical hurricane in States and Japan, meanwhile, ap-the middle of the Gulf of Mexico peared to have taken slight which has caused strong tides and turn for the better. Far East POLICE ASSIGNED TO AMERICA FIRST RALLY NEW YORK, Sept.

22. lVt Former Magistrate Joseph Goldstein sent a telegram to Mayor LaGuatdia today asking that Senator Gerald P. Nye (R-ND he arrested if lie endorses at an American First rally in Brooklyn tonight sentiments expressed hy Charles A. Lindbergh. Many persons of Jewish faith might be expected to attend the rally, Gold- i stein said and any such endorse ment by Senator Nve would be "inciting a riot." Lindbergh's recent speech in Dcs Moines has been attacked in many quarters as anti-Semitic.

A police detail of more than 400 men has been assigned to the rally. ROAD TRANSPORTATION SURVEY IS PLANNED PIERRE. Sept. 22. -Gov- ernor Bushfield appealed to South Dakota truck and bus owners to-i day to supply" as a patriotic duty" information that will be r.f thnni in a it Ml' i rle inventory of highway transportation facilities this week.

He suggested that questions asked by highway traffic advisory torn-mitec of the war department be answered "carefully, accurately, and Immediately In this inventory of vital importance to national defense." NEW REVENUE MEASURE Will Hit Insurance Companies WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (P) The ink of President Roosevelt's sicnaturc on the record 400,000 tax bill was still fresh today as legislative leaders started work on another revenue measure. The chief executive signed tnc biggest in history tax bill at ihi!) Hvde home Saturday. His final penstroke meant much higher taxes on 1041 incomes botn perBonai both personal and corporative and put on the law books ef fective October 1 a lot of new or increased excise levies. But treasury and congressional experts did not decide to mark time.

They went to work Immediately on a new revenue measure. Chairman George (D-Ga) of the senate finance committee said today the new legislation would be of minor proportions compared with the bill just enactod and pos- slbly would raise only $200,000,000 companies and from some change the present community propcr- ty system. George said that mutual insurance companies now escape many taxes levied on stock companies. He reported that the treasury was working on legislation to remedy this condition. Third army by a blitz movement before the war officially commenced.

At the present time the mechanized units of the Second army arc retreating while the Blues (constituting the Third Army) under the command of General Krucger are moving forward on the offensive. The Blues have captured 5000 gallons of gasoline that had been stored by the Reds near the front lines at the time that the blitz movement began. The 10'Jth Engineers (C) as a Combat Unit of the 34th Di- vision are now part of the Third Army Blues. Monday, the Blues advanced into the vicinity of Alexandria, Louisiana, and later In the day occupied the city itself. Part of Company 100th Engineers, were bivouaced along Jackson Street, Alexandria, but most of the regiment was bivouaced about (Continued on page i) forced lowland residents on the Louisiana coast to seek safety swung westward today and picked up speed heading for the direction of the lower Texas coast.

The weather bureau reported BRITISH FACTORY WRECKED BY BLAST LONDON, Sept. 22. JPi The British Press association reported today "many people" were injured in an explosion in a factory in northwestern K'ngland this afternoon. The Press asso-j ciation also reported another ex- plosion which caused a large fire in a factory in Middlesex out me lai-'e staff there escaped without injury. The blast west was said to in the north have shaken many liuiKlings in me area and able sent debris flyins for conside distances.

TEACHERS INSTITUTE WILL OPEN TUESDAY The Lawrence county normal teacher's institute will open in Deadwood Tuesday, and continue through Wednesday, Mrs. Laura N. Bentz. county of schools, announced today. H.

S. Berccr. superintendent of the Public schools, will be the institute conductor, and school teachers from over the county are expected to attend the two-day sessions. PUBLIC BID TO SHOWING OF PICTURES Garden Club Announces Open Meeting Colored moving pictures 11 slides will be the feature of an open meeting of the Garden club of Lead, to be held at the Highland hotel on Friday, September 26, at 8 o'clock. The public is cordially invited to attend and I the club extends a special Invi tation to the men of the community to see these Interesting pictures.

Thirty-five colored slides selected from the library of the Massachusetts Horticultural society on how to build rock gardens and terraces will be shown. With the many slopes, different hillsides and rocky spots that gardeners in this vicinity have to contend, this feature should be of great interest. The pictures will show where and how to construct rock gardens and what to plant for continuous bloom. Terraces and slopes will be treated in the same comprehensive manner. The Black Hills Studios has consented to show the moving pictures their representatives took at the recent Flower Show In addition to the above mentioned slides.

Joe Fassbonder, of Spear-fish, will show these colored pictures, which include scenes of the I I the storm was attended probably tween Tokyo and Washington, by hurricane winds near the cen-j Shanghai sources said Konoye's ter and said precautions should new message contained counter be taken immediately on the proposals to suggestions made by Texas and Louiaiana coasts Roosevelt in his reply to the Japn-against gale winds tonight and nesc premier's first message on Tuesday. Approximately .100,000 A ugust '2H. The Japanese Chron-troops in western central Louis- icle of Kobe controlled by the iana are in the area affected by Japanese foreign office said there the storm but were believed in no was reason to hope that "even at danger unless the storm swings this late hour a satisfactory to the north, (Continued on Page 2 ENGINEERS SWING ALONG soldier son at i. n.nox enoeu in hrr "n(1 her abductor and a young civilian as the result of a head-on automobile collision near here. State Patrolman G.

C. Ray listed the dead as Mrs. Ruth M. Bentz. 40: E.

J. Bean, recently of Broken Bow, her abductor, and Eugene Myers, 21, of Eliza bcthtown at Ft. Knox. RAY WALKER RITES NOT YET ARRANGED Funeral services for the late Ray Walker of Deadwood. victim of a fatal accident Saturday when his car left the highway and turned over in the ditch just be-! yond Hill City, had not been made today.

Mrs. Walker and her daughter. Mrs. Edward Kurtti. both of whom receiver slight Injuries in the accident, have been kept under hospital observation until this afternoon when they were released.

Mrs. Walker is at her home in Deadwood and Mrs. Kurtti was bi ought to her home here. ACCIDENT A car driven by Alfred Schlor-cdl, of Lead, ran off the highway and into the guard railing at a point near the bottom of Aztec' lull on Highway X.I about 10:30 1 o'clock last night, according to the sheriff's office. Schloredt was not injured but the car was badly damaged.

I BULGARIA IS PLACED UNDER MARTIAL LAW Communists In Parliament Executed Switzerland, flcpt. Advices from Sofia said today an unstated number of communist deputies In the parliament had been executed and legislators of the former peasant party interned. The executions apparently preceded invocation of martial law decrees over the week-end. The report coincided with warlike' preparations in nazi-aligned Bulgaria which were interpreted by some neutral observers as part of a German plan to high pressure garia were causing keen anxiety among the Turks. Belief Germany might be using Bulgaria hj a lever against Turkey was intensified by the fact that advices from Sofia failed to give specific reason for the adoption of meas-j tires which virtually put the conn-1 try under martial law duiing the! week-end.

civilian employe i friends who gave up for dead the or $250,000,000. pioneer rancher who has been Most of that expected revenue, missing since September 8. A ho added, would come from a rc-memorial service for Knox, whose definition of taxes on insurance rw ajv wife said he disappeared about two weeks ago today after 1 attack. The press account of the funeral disclosing that the captain was shot last Tuesday was th-first disclosure that a commissioned officer had been killed in disorders about that time. It had been known that a noncommissioned officer was fatallv jshot Monday and it was previously presumed that it was for th death of the non-commissioned officer that the Germans had shot 12 hostages in Paris last Saturday.

The shooting of the captain was the latest of a series of attacks against occupying forces. A blunt threat to use German guns and troops swiftly and foicr-fully against any organized attempt at a revolution was madr known. This fateful word came fiom (Continued on page 2) 414 DEADWOOD CHILDREN TREATED INOCULATION CLINIC Four hunched and fourteen lu1-dren from Deadwood and nearb" towns, were treated at a cluil': held at the Deadwood high school building Saturday. Dipbthera in-nocnlations were administered ti 2S4 children and 130 were given smallpox vaccinations. Miss I.or-etta Kopen.

Lawrence county public health nurse, under whose direction the clinic was conducted, said last night. The in-noculations and va -( inations were administered by Dr. W. L. Matlock and Dr.

Huge of Deadwood. They were assist by members of the Deadwood nursing advisory committee and group of Gill Scouts. The Weather Considerable cloudiness with heavy rain tonight and Tuesday, little ch.mge In temprratuie. (7 H. tn.

Lead 45, cloudy. Fourche .18. clear. Chamberlain .10. cloudy.

Custer 38. cloudy. Deadwood 42. cloudy. Hill City 40.

cloudy. Hot Springs .1.1. cloudv. Newcastle 40, cloudy. Philip 52.

partly cloudy. T'resho 47, cloudy. Rapid City 40, cloudy. Spearfish 42. cloudy.

Sturgis 4.1. cloudv. Last night's minimum yesterday's maximum Precipitation ovjr the week-end 1.23 of an inch. out in a small boat to repair some fish nets, was held yesterday where his boat and outboard motor were found. County officials and volunteers gave up efforts to locate Knox' body.

109tli Engineers In Southern War Games 01 UNIT IS PART OF THIRD ARMY BLUES By LARKY l. McDONAI.I) WITH THE 109TH ENGINEERS ON WAR GAMES IN LOUISIANA Sept. 22 The 109th Engineer Regiment is set up at the McNutt Bivouac Area. There are tall Black Walnuts and oaks for shade and camouflage. All we need is Indiana's senator to make it complete.

After 32 days of maneuvers, the army of the United States is going strong in central Louisiana. on land and in the air, the Scc- ond and Third armies arc fighting an al1 ollt war alonS line stretch- eral Ben C. Lear to surprise the Homcstakc band, the Bjorgc non-belligerent Turkey into mak-grounds. visitors, and flower spe- ing concessions which would aid cimens and arrangements. the nazi cause in the west.

The third Interesting feature Dispatches from Ankara indi-planned at this meeting is the 1 catcd that the German east push showing of a group of still life as well as developments In Bul- -4" dim wild flower pictures taken by James A. Noble. He has spent much time an deffort and has a complete collection of Black Hills wild flower prints showing them in their native and realistic state, The club especially urges the public to take advantage of the opportunity of seeing these fine pictures. with recommendation for mercy lug from the Sabine River border-In the slaying of Ruth Zwlcker, Ing Texas through the Kisatchie J4. and the creniutlon of her body National Forest in Louisiana.

The last Kanter moraine In the furn- h. w. Secontl commanded by Gen- Loaded down with full packs and rifles, four rnglnoers swung across a ditch horizontal ladders one of the IS obstac les on the new cross country course opened up hy the Army at Its Fort Itelvoir, engineer training center to toughen up assault troops. janitor..