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Watch for PARADE-the Streamlined Picture Magazine-Again in Sunday's Free Press Ti METROPOLITAN FljVAL EDITION Weather Report Ton tin lied cool on Friday; nomewhat warmer Saturday. (Complete report on rage 20) 1 '-4 I On Guard for Over a Century Friday, October 24, 1941. No. 173 in 26 7 Ulth Year 32Pages Three Cents To Wed Scion of Auto Buildei 19 Killed, Bold Venture Workers Start Back at Great Lakes Steel Mm to Jobs Mil After Crew Says Nazis Claim Moscow Is inGunRange Strikers Vote to End Walkout Died Aboard Ship as Torpedo Struck, Survivors Reveal on Landing in Iceland BY PHIL AULT Report Southern Push 33 Miles from Capital; Timoshenko Relieved of Central Command Kj the Awoclalrd Frru The Germans claimed Thursday night to have beaten forward to within 35 miles of Moscow on the south and southwest, and while the Soviet Command disputed this only by implication early Friday, it was quite plain that in any case the hardest and most lethal stretch of the road was still to be traveled. The early morning Russian communique merely reported in general terms that Nazi attacks had been repulsed in the battle areas nearest the city somewhere in the sectors of Mozhaisk and Maloy-Kroslaveta-wlthout saying just where those actions had occurred.

Expert Moscow to Hold Out British experts, who thus far have not often proved wrong in their estimates, took it as a substantial certainty that the capital would hold out all through the winter. Russia announced that Marshal lOOMore in France to Die Today Nazis to Line Up Groups of 50 at Nantes and Bordeaux; 50 Others Doomed -V 1 v. i I f' i AflMciKtcd Trend Wirrphnto EDITH HE LEX BACKUS Engagement announced In New York Semeon, Timoshenko, commander of the central sector guarding Moscow, had been removed, and that Gen. Gregory K. Zhukov had heen given supreme command there.

Timoshenko's whereabouts was undisclosed. A British radio commentator snid that the belief was general in London that the other two marshals Klomenti Voroahilov in the north and Semeon Budyenny in the south had been appointed to posts behind the front. The commentator said that the Russian front appeared to have been divided into two sectors, with Zhukov in command of the north and Timoshenko given control of the south. Within Artillery Range German reports Thursday of advances on Moscow claimed that the break-through was on a wide front south and southwest presumably about Maloyaroslavets and Mozhaisk but conceded that these thrusts were made through relatively lightly defended areas between the heavier outer fortifications. While Berlin stated that the city itself now probably was within range of heavy Nazi artil lery, it was conceded that by far the strongest fortifications still were unbreached.

Of the Donets basin of the far smith, where the Germans are striking in the direction of Rostov on the River Don, at the gateway to the Caucasus, Berlin said little, but reported strong Russian coun- ter-attacKs rar oenind this area and to the west against Nazi-held Turn to Fage 3, Column 1 FROM CONGRESS TO NAVY WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 (AP) -Rep. D. E. Satterflcld, Virginia Democrat, was granted indefinite leave of absence by the House today to go on active duty, riends said that he had been ordered to duty as naval observer st the American Embassy in London.

A naval aviator in the World War, Satterfield holds rank lieutenant commander in the reserve. BERLIN DIARY Hj the Anoelated Preti VICHY. Oct 24 (Friday) The second batch of 50 French hostages will be shot at dawn for the slaying of the Nazi commander of gendarmerie at Nantes, for whose death the Germans thus have assessed the lives of 100 Frenchmen before firing squads. In addition to this 100 at Nantes, 50 hostages will be shot at Bordeaux, probably this morning, and another 50 at Bordeaux later unless the slayers of a German officer there are turned up to occupation authorities by Sunday midnight. Killers Still at Large The failure of the populace at Nantes to capture or surrender the slayers of Lieut.

Col. Paul Fried-erich Hotz there doomed the second 50 on the same conditions as those newly laid down at Bordeaux. Gen. Otto von Stuclpnagel, Nazi commander of the occupation forces, ordered the grim reprisals. which apparently will result In the death of 200 Frenchmen in all because two German officers were killed.

As In the case of Cot. Hotz, the German commander blamed "das. tardly assassins in the pay of England and Moscow" for the killing of the second German officer at Bordeaux Tuesday, and offered a reward of 15,000,000 francs (about $300,000) for information leading to the arrest of either group of killers. The Germans already have executed a total of 134 and 100 more would raise the total to 234, and if the Bordeaux assassins are not found the grand total would be 284. Late Thursday Marshal Petain's Cabinet met in urgent session to discuss what an authorized source called "the anguishing problem" of the double-edged terror in the occupied zone.

Vice Premier Admiral Jean Darlan, who had hastened to Paris to confer with the Germans after the Nantes assassination, returned today to report on his mission. It was announced also that Fernand de Brinon, Vichy's envoy to the German authorities, conferred somewhere in Germany with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. It was surmised that the terror was discussed. Collaboration Continues Official Vichy circles insisted that the executions had not halted "collaboration" negotiations with the Germans. (From London Gen.

Charles de Gaulle, Free French leader, broadcast an appeal to Frenchmen "in the present circumstances not to kill 'the Germans" because "for the time being it is only too easy for the enemy to Boy, 2, Is Killed in Gun Accident A two-year-old boy, Theodore Formelly, of 46135 Wear, Sumpter Township, was shot and killed accidentally by his stepbrother, Fred Lorenz, at 4:30 p. m. Thurs day with a gun which was thought to nave Been not loaded. The gun exploded as Lorenz was cleaning it. The charge struck the child, narrowly missing his two sisters, Jean Formelly, 4, and Mary Lou, 6.

But Pickets Remain at Plant's Gates Earlier Settlement Had Been Balked; Mass Meeting Finally Accedes Workers began to pass through the gates at the Great Lakes Steel Corp. unmolested at mid night Thursday follpwing a mass meeting at which they had agreed to go back to their jobs. However, pickets remained at the gates despite the pleas of shop stewards and other union leaders that they disperse. The agreement to return to work Thursday night was the second reached during the day. The first was balked when pickets raced workers who sought to enter the plant Thursday after noon.

More Trouble Forecast At the Thursday nicht meeting in the Ecorse High School stadium, Walter Reuther, head of the (CIO) General Motors division de clared that continuation of the strike would result in the closing Monday of GM divisions In Lan sing, Flint and Pontiac and the layoff of 90,000 workers. Keuther said that he had entered the controversy at the request of the automotive unions. Vote to Resume Work Of the 7,000 steel workers who- have been idle for eieht davs. more than 2,000 attended the meeting and voted almost mously to return to their jobs as soon as the company called them. company ofncials have said that the plant never has been closed and that the men could return whenever they desired.

Approximately 1,000 men went back to their jobs Wednesday at the Han-na Furnace a Great Lakes Steel subsidiary on Zug Island. The on-again strike has been called sabotage by James F. Dewey, Federal labor conciliator, and a pro-Axis conspiracy and a violation of contract by officials of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (CIO), of which all of the strikers are members. Announces the 'Peace In' announcing the result of the vote at the stadium, ReuUier stated that the strike was over unless something happened to Turn to Page 2, Column 5 Today's Strikes in Defense Industries WOLVERINE TCBE Detroit Strike of 1,000 members of UAW (CIO) for wage increases ended after nearly seven weeks. Settlement was negotiated through State Labor Mediation Board.

The? company makes condenser tubes for the Navy, bands for projectiles. RAILWAY EXPRESS AGENCY, Detroit Strike continued to tie up defense shipments, but negotiations in Washington promised settlement soon. CHRIS-CRAFT Algonac continued before Federal conciliators to end strike of AFL federal local. Company was working on order for boats for Army use. AIR ASSOCIATES, Bendix, N.

J. Several hundred nonstrikers out-. flank UAW (CIO) picket line in motorized dash at plant making aviation parts and return to work. TACOMA SHIPYARDS Five hundred welders walk out at Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding which has $125,000,000 in ship orders. ALABAMA MINES Coal operators accept NDMB proposal for settling strike hampering steel production while United Mine Workers (CIO) consider stand.

Today's Index Pages Amusements 10-11 Around the Town 19 Clapper, Raymond 5 Classified Ads 28-29-30 Crossword- Puzzle 23 Detroit Diary 13 Editorial 6 Financial 26-27 Howes, Royce 5 Inquiring Reporter McLemore, Henry 5 My Day 5 Radio Proerams 27 Sports Pafres Stat.oUea 2 Weather Rrrt 20 Women's Tiges 1V14-1V 16-17-1 On the Sports Pages Today FOOTBALL One of season's most wide-open games is expected at U. of D. Stadium when the Titans play host Friday night to Arkansas. John N. Sabo, Michigan reporter for the Free Press, answers Bernard Swanson's letter, in which the Minneapolis writer told why he thought Minnesota would defeat Michigan Saturday.

BOXING Eleven bouts are scheduled in second round of International White Hope tournament at' Olympia. Complete details of these and other events will be found on Pages 22, 23, 24 and 25. Cudahy Aska U.S. Offer to Mediate War Ship-Arming Evades Issue, Senators Told' New Tork Iime Servlr WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 A proposal that the United States Government offer itself as a mediator to negotiate peace be tween Germany and the Allies was made to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today by John Cudahy, former ambassador to Belgium.

i Cudahy was one of three wit nesses appearing before the committee in secret session in opposi tion to the House approved amendment to the Neutrality Act to permit the arming of American merchant vessels. The others were John T. Flynn, economist and writer, and John Finerty, New York lawyer. Admits Making I lea Cudahy confirmed reports of senators after the hearing that he had advocated the peace move, He told reporters that he thought Adolf Hitler had no ambitions in these parts of the western world Cudahy also told the committee, he said, that arming of merchant ships was a "subterfuge" and that the real issue is war or peace, which should be submitted to Flynn was reported as charging before the committee that the Government was evading the provisions of the Neutrality Act. Giving his own version of this part or nis remarks, riynn said: "These ship sinkings, of which we have been having so many, are the logical result of the very first evasion." He referred to transfer of American Merchant ships to the registry pt Manama.

'War Only Cause for Chanee' Finerty said that he opposed arming merchant vessels or repeal of any other section of the Neu trality Act as he felt that. any revision was unnecessary" unless we intended to go to war. The Administration meantime, apparently was moving toward a plan for repealing all of the act's restrictions on merchant ships at one stroke. These include prohibitions against arming merchant ships and restrictions against American flag vessels calling at ports of belligerent countries or traversing combat zones. There were indications that be Turn to 'Page Column 6 American Editor Attacked in China SHANGHAI, Oct.

23 (AP)- J. B. Powell, American editor of the China Weekly Review and consistent critic of Japan's program in China, narrowly escaped injury or aeain tonignt wnon a hand grenade thrown by an un identified assailant hit him on the shoulder but failed to explode. Powell was walking from his office to the American Club in the International Settlement followed by his Chineso bodyguard when the attempt was made. Powell has been a resident of Shanghai for 24 years but formerly lived in Columbia, Mo.

READY SALE FOR 23 DINING SUITES Twenty-four persons, in the market for dining suites, responded to this Want Ad: EIGHT-P1KCK mhrtKiuiy dinintr emic; excellent condition; saerifK-e, Private. JVanhoe The furniture was quickly sold for a good price and at a cost of only 97c for advertising. Here is proof beyond question that a ready-made market exists for furniture you are not using, and that it is reached effectively and at low cost with a Want Ad in the Free Tress. rtione Your Want Ad to RANDOLPH 9400 Diver Takes Victim from Sunken Tug Four Inquiries On in Death of 6 Sailors The body of one of the six crew members who lost their lives when the tug America sank early Thursday in 19 feet of water off the east end of Belle Isle was recovered by a diver Thursday night. Following the recovery of the ody that of Harry Lamb, the mate, of Toledo diving operations were discontinued, to be resumed at siayllght Friday.

"I found Lamb," Schleman said, "halfway through the escape hatch in the forward deck. His shoulder and one arm extended through the hatch. If he had another 10 seconds I believe he might have escaped." Herman Schleman, 55 years old, of 5651 Celeron, a eteran diver of the Candler Dock Dredge reported that mattresses and other equipment was Jammed in the forward cabin where four other bodies were believed to be. Investigations Under Way The tragedy occurred as the tug was aiding in refloating the grounded freighter B. F.

Jones. The tug overturned, it was believed, when the drive shaft and propeller of the America, driving ahead at full speed, fouled the six-inch stud chain anchor line of the Jones. The chaih is believed to have wrapped around the shaft and wheel, causing the tug to overturn. Four separate Investigations were under way late Thursday to determine the cause of the disaster. Five of the victims were trapped below deck, four of the five as they slept in their bunks, when the tug suddenly overturned and sank, police said.

The sixth victim, at the wheel, was believed to have been stunned as the ship lurched. Attempting to Free Anchor From witnesses, police recon structed the scene. The America, together with the tugboat Oregon, was attempting to dislodge the anchor of the Jones which had be-Turn to Page 2, Column 3 TO HAM WITH THE Swing Sounds SourNotefor PrimaDonna MME. ALDA Had a 90-pound advantage tit Ui l.lted Prew NEW YORK, Oct. 23 Mme.

Frances Alda Gatti-Casazza, former star of gVand opera, was strictly comic opera in the kitchen, according to her cook's lawyer, who accused her today of assaulting the cook and demanded $25,000 damages. Pointing out to the jury of 11 men and woman that his client, Louise KazeJ, weighs only 110 pounds to the defendant's "over 200," counsel for the plaintiff said that on Feb. 15, 1940. after "unjustly" accusing the cook of being late with dinner, Mme. Alda struck Mrs.

Blazej and knocked her against the kitchen stove, causing burns on the right arm which left a permanently disfiguring scar. It all started, he said, because Mme. Alda could not make up her mind about dinner. At first, he related, she told the cook that she would not be home for dinner. Then she changed her mind and said that she would, ordering it for 7:30 p.

m. Later, she set the time at 7:45. Then, at 6:30, he continued, she entered the kitchen and demanded: "Where's my dinner?" That was When she got temperamental, he continued. Mme. Alda, the former wife of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, late manager of the Metropolitan Opera, married Ray Vlr Den, New York advertising man, last April 15.

She is 55 years old. Speed Record Claimed for Martin Bomber Br the Auwlated rreu BALTIMORE, Oct. 23 Ellis D. Shannon, Glenn L. Martin Co.

test pilot, today dived a Martin 187-medium bomber at "what is conceded to be a worlds record speed for bombing planes," Joseph T. Hartson, company vice president, announced. The ship's speed was not disclosed. The Martin 187 bomber, christened "The Baltimore," is now being produced in quantity for the British, Hartson said. FATHER AND SON ENLIST DENVER, Oct.

23 (AP)-r-A father and son enlisted in the Navy today. They are Green Per kins, 43 years old, and Eldon, 21, Safety Lesson duck beer and laundry trucks and illegally parked cars on such streets as Third in the morning rush, there wasn't a single truck parked on the Drive Thursday. The Park Police said that there never are any such highway handicaps where traffic is moving fast. However, Chicago has "lane straddlers" just like Detroit. The American Municipal Association started after these road abusers Thursday with a warning to police that "the inattentive or careless driver" usually a lane straddler caused 14,662 accidents out of a Chicago total of 16,983 in 1940.

This careless type of driver killed 423 persons and injured 14.329. In comparison, the drink ing driver killed 25, hurt 1.595 and i was in 1,633 accidents. The association pointed out that a lane straddler takes up twice as much pavement ao he is entitli-d to and reduce the road efficiency as much as 50 per cent. On curves and he "forces better-man-Turn to Tage 3, Column i a I ifh raital Preu Correspondent Iceland, Oct (Delayed) Nineteen members 22 of the crew of the United States Maritime Commission freighter, Bold Venture, operated under Panamanian registry, were killed in their mess quarters when a torpedo struck their ship without warning, survivors reported today1. Seventeen survivors of the Bold Venture landed here.

They said that a submarine torpedoed their ship and that it sank in 10 minutes, First Trip to England The Bold Venture was making its first trip to England, carrying a general cargo and flying a Panamanian flag. No American citizens were aboard. The survivors said the ship went down so fast they were barely able to reach lifeboats. They said the other 19 were drinking tea or coffee in the crew's quarters and that they never reached (The State Department had reported that the ship was sunk last Thursday, 500 miles south of Iceland, 150 miles away from the spot where the United States destroyer Kearney was torpedoed 24 hours later. The ship, formerly Danish-owned, with the name Alssund, was taken over by the United States Maritime Commission and operated under charter to the Waterman Steamship Agency, of Mobile, Ala.

The State Department said that it left Baltimore Sept. 27 with cotton, steel, copper and general cargo; that the crew consisted of 32 men, none American citizens, and that 17 survivors reached Reykjavik.) Swam to Lifeboat Donald MacLeod, of Boston, said: "I was below deck when I felt the hit and rushed to the deck, putting on a life belt and kicking off my I jumped overboard and swam 50 yards until I reached a lifeboat." Another survivor said that he grabbed a loose rope, thinking it was stationary, and fell overboard, directly into a lifeboat. The survivors drifted In two boats for two hours before a Ca nadian corvette picked them up "Aboard the rescue boat we saw a wonderful emergency operation on another survivor by a Nor-wegian student doctor, who was Turn to Page 2, Column 6 t.S. Removes Restriction on OilinEast By the Aoeltd PrM WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 All gasoline restrictions in the populous East, Including the rationing program and the filling-station curfew, were, lifted tonight after Secretary of the Interior Harold L.

Ickes, petroleum coordinator, announced that the British were turning back 40 oil tankers bor rowed from America. 'The bad outlook of the summer has been overcome," the co-ordr nator said as he declared an end to the petroleum emergency. Fewer Sinkings Help The British were able to release the tankers, he reported, because of the greatly diminished sinkings in the Battle of the Atlantic. Ickes withdrew the curfew as of tonieht and recommended to Priorities Director Donald M. Nel son that his rationing order be lifted forthwith.

Nelson subse quently said that he would revoke the rationing program "as soon as an order can be drawn. The East Coast oil emergency was created, officiate said, by Turn to Page 2, Column 7 FIRST LADIES? an excellent miniature on ivory and the familiar painting by Beale." Rachel was a divorced woman In 1791, shortly after she obtained a Virginia divorce from capt Louis Robards, she was married to Andy Jackson. Two years later Robards sued for divorce in Kentucky. Insults led to duels. Rachel died soon after Jackson won the presidential election of 1828 and never actually presided as first lady.

Apparently she never wanted to, because she told a friend: "I assure you I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to live 4n that palace in Washington." The Christy painting struck no snags until critics on the Commission of Fine Arts let it be known that some thought it was over-glamourized. Finally a letter from Chairman Gilmore D. Clarke, of the Arts Commission, said: "If, as an historical record this portrait satisfies the donors, the Commission of Fine Arts has no objection to its acceptance bv the Federal Govern- imenL'' Jack Ch rysler Betrothed to N.Y. Model By lh Amorlitfd Vm NEW YORK, Oct. 23 The en-gsgement of Edith Helen Backus to Jack Forker Chrysler, second son of the late Mr: and Mrs.

Walter P. was announced today at a reception given by Mrs. Helen C. Backus. Miss Backus, (laughter of Mrs.

Backus and the late Frederick Charles Backus, former executive secretary of the National Jewelers Board of Trade, attended Horace Mann School and the former Ray-son School here and is a model for magazine and advertising illustrators. Jack Chrysler attended Taft School and is a director of the Chrysler Building Corp. here. Wedding plans were not announced. Tilled Britons War in Courts on Poaching CAMPBELLTON, Scotland, Oct.

23 (UP) There may be a war on, but poaching still is pretty serious stuff among the titled gentry of Britain. That was made apparent today when the Duke Of Argyll charged Lord Teynham, a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy, with poaching on his estate. When the Duke's lawyer told the court that no invitation had been issued to the defendant to shoot on the ducal estate, Lord Teynham pleaded guilty and was fined 1 and costs. By William L. Shirer idea that it was suicide to swoop tered.

An occasional Dutch pillbox showed signs of having been hit bv machine-gun fire, but noth ing heavier. Apparently the Dutch made no attempt to slow up the Germans by blowing up the road to Maastricht. One bridge over a creek had been damaged. That was all. We crossed over, the Maas (Meuse) at Maastricht.

The river is broad here and was a natural line of defense, though the Dutch did not take much advantage of it. They had done a half-hearted job of blowing up the bridges. Blown up one out of seven or eight spans on the two bridges I saw. The Germans evidently had substitute spans, made of steel frames, waiting in the rear, and within a few hours of bringing them up had the bridges good as i new. German supply columns were thundering over both tirtdges when we arrived.

Arrived at the Albert Canal. Turn to Page 4, Column 3 The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent A Visit to the Frontier TWELFTH INSTALLMENT AACHEN, May 19, 1940 Most amazing thing about this Ruhr district, the industrial heart' of Germany, which Allied planes wert to have (and could have, we thought) knocked out In a few days, is that, so far as I can see, the night bombings of the British have done very little damage. Today, we drove through many of the Ruhr centers which the Allies were supposed to have bombed so heavily the last few nights. The greflt networks of railroad tracks and bridges around Essen and Duishnrg were Intact. The Rhine bridges at Cologne were up.

The factories throughout the Ruhr were smoking away as usual. 'An example of the German Army's terrific attention to detail: for 300 miles along the Autohahn from Berlin to Cologne, broken-down farm implements made to look like antiaircraft guns from any altitude all were placed every 200 yards. Ploughs with the shaft pointed to the sky to look like a gun; rakes, harrows, wheelbarrows, sewing-machines every conceivable old implement had been carefully arranged to look like a niece of flak antiaircraft gun so that an Allied pilot ISOLATING SLOW DRIVERS 'Glamour Girl' Portrait of Wife of Andrew Jackson Stirs Row Chicago Curb on Mixed Traffic Offers Detroit a BY OWEN DEATRICK Free Frew Staff Writer CHICAGO, Oct 23 One thing Detroit could learn from Chicago is not to mix traffic. Over here they don't let busses, street cars, trucks and automobiles clutter up the same main streets during the rush hours and then wonder why traffic doesn't move very much. They've also solved the downtown parking problem.

There isn't any because Chicago doesn't let automobiles park in the Loop district. Even though the ban has been on for about 11 years, motorists still try it once in a while. Last Saturday the police ticketed 350 Loop parkers. The tickets cost each of the drivers S2. On the Outer Drive there are no trucks or street cars.

Busses on this route make about as good time as the elevated from the Nnrth Siiie, Park officials say. They don't have to weave in and out around trucks and parked cars. Strange as it may seem to thousands of Detroiters who have to BY SAM LOVE I nltrd Prfii Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 Capital social circles are at odds over the hanging of what has been described as a "glamour girl" portrait among the sedate White House "gallery of first ladies." After the honor had been denied her these many years, a painting of Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of "Old Hickory" who win many a scar in duels over her, is scheduled shortly to join the gallery of female immortals. That part is all right The painting itself is brewing trouble.

The few privileged to preview it say it is stunning; that, apparently, Rachel makes most of the others look a bit on the drab side like a group of middle-aged housewives calling on Hedy La-marr. Artist Howard Chandler Christy, who did the portrait, declines to become involved in any argument. "I haven't anything to do with all this talk." he said. "I was commissioned to paint her por trait and I painted it. from, fiying along the road would get the oown on that Except for a few German bomb-rs starting out from near Hann-over, we saw not a single plane the sky all day.

We passed the wlngne airdrome. It was packed w'th planes, but the hangars had not been touched. Obviously these attacks of the British have failed nH only to put 'he Ruhr out of Emission, but to damage' he German fly-i toff fields. AACHEN, 20 We off short-'y after dawn frnr" Aachen th of Linihurp in irht. Lit- the Dutch fight- The Murer whole, ihe windows unshat-.