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PUBLIC UBRASy i 2 0 1341 itav Weather Report Partly cloudy on Wednesday and Thursday; gentle wind (Complete report on Page 17) On Guard for Over a Century Wednesday, August 20, 1941. No. 108 1 111th Year 24 Pages Three Cents A Z3 Roosevelt Indicates U. S. Must Fight to Win War fJBTON KM miSr wl wtminriB mmmmmmmmm fciiiiiwMiiiiiiiiiiiiniii wMMwtMMMfl wmmmmt Full Military Rite Accorded Canine Corporal 1 A.

') If Fight Against CIO Results in Tie-Up Draft Terms to Average 18 Months Plan for Release of 200,000 by Dec. 10to Require More New Inductions in Army Says Public Is Asleep to Hard Facts Parallel Drawn jo Situation Faced by Lincoln; Expects Prolonged Conflict the AMwIalrd Vrr WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 By 1 BritishFlyaLeg to Captive Pilot LONDON, Aug. 19 (AP) A metal leg for Lieut. Douglas Bader was dropped from an RAF fighter plane over France today to replace the one damaged when the legless flight commander was shot down recently, the Daily Express said tonight.

The whole of Bader's squadron swung tightly packed across the Channel and kept together until after the leg, carefully packed to avoid damage, was dropped by parachute. Then the pUines split up and continued on toward their objectives. The Germans notified the RAF through the International Red Cross last week that they would permit a British plane to fly a new leg to Bader, who lost his legs in a peace-time RAF flying accident. Mayor Fears Outbreak of Violence; Bulletin-Board Rights BijI Issue Detroit will awaken Wednesday morning to find it3 transportation system paralyzed. AFL members employed in the DSR voted Tuesday night to strike at 4 a.

m. Wednesday, threatening that every street car and bus in Detroit would be halted. Mayor Jeffries previously had announced that the entire DSR would be shut down in such eventuality. Lawrence BIythe, regional director of the State, County and Municipal Workers of America (CIO), said that members of his union in the DSR would report for work as usual. "We have enough members to keep the system operating if Mayor Jeffries will give us police protection," BIythe said.

He charged that the AFL had imported "goons and hoodlums" from Chicago to prevent operation of street cars and coaches. Announcement of the strike action was made by Thorald Wuori, president of Local 26 of the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric, Railway and Motor Coach Operators of America, which qlaims about 3,500 members in the system. "The membership voted unanimously to strike at 4 a. Wuori said, following a noisy meeting of about 1,500 members in the Labor Temple, Park and Montcalm. "W'c will tie up every form of transportation in the City for the purpose of obtaining snip collective hareainine." -V- 7 '-(.

i-r -i LAST RESPECTS ARE PAID A VETERAN OF TWO MANEUVERS AT FORT CUSTER Cross marks company maxent's grave near barracks City Prepares Big Guns Blast Odessa as Germans Open Siege 4 i i I A'. wide river was now In Geman hands. Soviet losses along the Lower Dnieper were said to have been particularly heavy. The High Command reported that 60,000 prisonres, 84 armored ears and 630 cannon were taken. Leningrad Thrust Set A thousand miles to the north, German divisions which had fought their way northward on both sides of Lake Peiij'iS joined forces at Narva for what they expect to be a final thrust at Leningrad.

(In Helsinki the Finnish High Command acknowledged that Soviet resistance had. become much stronger in the Lake Ladoga area southwest of Sortavala, although it said that encircled Red Army units gradually were being more tightly inclosed. Finnish artillery is shelling Russian transports which are evacuating troops over the lake, a communique stated.) The attacks on Leningrad and Turn to Page 3, Column 7 Airliner Crash Kills 8, Hurts 5 Itr (he Awoclntrd Prni SAO PAULO, Brazil, Aug. 19 Eight persons were killed and two were injured seriously and three slightly in the crash of a Panair do Brazil airliner on a mountain peak 15 miles south of here yesterday, rescue parties reported tonight. The only North Americans aboard the plane, Prof.

Philip C. Jessup, of New York, and Hugh Davies, of Harrisburg, reached a Sao Paulo suburb late today along with David Novak, the plane's steward. The three suffered minor injuries. MRS. F.D.R.

IN COTTON HOSE PrrrSFTELD, Aug. 19 (AP) When Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt visited the Western Hemisphere encampment of the Girl Scouts near here it was observed that she was wearing cotton mesh stockings. Senator Asks Shake-Up in Defense Plans U.S.

Production Is Failure, Byrd Says By (lie AftMK-iatrd Trtst WASHINGTON. Aug. 19 Senator Harry F. Byrd, Virginia Democrat, today demanded a complete reorganization of the defense production system and told the Senate that "social gains" and "everything else" must yield to the rearmament effort. "America has the capacity in labor add raw materials to outproduce any other nation in the production of mechanized equipment," he said, "In that job for the last two years we have failed and miserably failed, and the sooner we as a nation realize it the better we can remedy our mistakes and go forward." Ask Full Work Week He called for the suspension of the forty-hour work-week and the substitution of a full-week working basis.

Ho charged that not a single Army camp has an adequate supply of military equipment, due' conflicting and overlapping authority exists to such a degree at Washington as virtually to stymie the whole defense program," he said, adding that the Office of Production Management and the Office of Price Administration and Civilian were "engaged in a bitter battle behind the scenes.nnd by executive order they have been given conflicting authority." The entire defense program should', be placed under a single head, he asserted. Judge Making Study Meanwhile, it developed that President Roosevelt had appointed Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, of the New York State Supreme Court, to make a study of differences of opinion that have arisen between OPM and OPACS. Rosenman is an old associate of the President and was generally considered a member of the original. New Deal Brain Trust.

Stephen Early, Mr. Roosevelt's secretary, said that Rosenman had volunteered to help while his court was in its summer recess. "He has been making a study for the President of reported policy differences between OPM and OPACS," Early said. "I don't know whether he's ready to report to the President or just what the status is." Reports of an impending reorganization of the defense production system persisted meanwhile. Turn to Page 3, Column 5 Wuori said that teams of union members had been assigned to automobiles and dispatched at midnight to Inform street car and bus crews of the action, and that the crews would be instructed to drive their vehicles to the barns after completing their last run before 4 a.

m. He expected some cars Rnd busses to. cease operating shortly after 2 a.m. The strike vote came as the climax to a prolonged jurisdictional dispute between the AFL and the CIO, with both groups claiming to represent a majority of DSR employees. Pollt Confer Word dt the DSR strike call was flashed to Police Headquarters a moment after the result of the union's vote was announced.

Superintendent Louis L. Berg and other high police officials immediately were called to draw up the police tactical plan. Pending the outcome of their conference no dispositions were made. The DSR entered a request, however, that police details be assigned to all car houses and garages. A squabble over bulletin-board rights between the two groups was the immediate spark that touched off the strike vote.

Wuori said that in addition to demanding exclusive bargaining privileges, his union had resorted to the strike in an effort to eliminate bulletin-board privileges for the CIO. Exasperated by the turn of events during long conferences Tuesday in the recurrent mterunlon dispute, Mayor Jeffries said, just before the strike was called, "I Buppose if we've got to have trouble sooner or later, we might just as well have it over bulletin boards as anything else. But if there is any trouble, we will close up the works. There won be a wheel turning. Two Hear of Stand He addressed his statement to Samuel T.

Gilbert, president of the Board of Street Railway Commissioners, and Thomas F. Chawke, attorney for the Street Car Men's Union. Gilbert called a special meeting of the DSR Commission shortly after midnight. In view of the Mayor' earlier statement, Gilbert said: "We are simply not going to try to turn a wheel. If the situation has gotten to the point where "the City of Detroit has lost all eon Turn to Page 4, Column By th AsmirlHti'd Prss WASHINGTON, Aug.

19 Selectees and National Guardsmen will be held in service an average of less than 18 months, instead of the thirty-month hitch authorized by law, the Army announced today. Military sources said that the statement, which also asserted that almost 200,000 selectees, Guardsmen and others would be released before Christmas, should give a pionounced "lift" to troop morale. Says More Will Be Called (At South Bend, Ind, Brig. Gen. Lewis B.

Hcrshey, Federal Selective Service director, said that the plan to let drafted men go home after an average of 18 months of service meant that more men would have to be drafted. (Hershey told newspaper men that draft calls would be increased to about 70,000 men a month, near the maximum allowed by law.) The scheduled releases are subject to the condition that "this country does not become more involved in the international situation." However, the hope was expressed that it would not be necessary to hold any Individual now in training for the full term permissible under the service-extension bill signed by President Roosevelt yesterday. Civilian for Morale Chief The Army statement, coupled with the -unusual announcement that a civilian, Frederick H. Os-born, of New York would become chief of the Army morale branch with the rank of brigadier general, was regarded as evidence of an effort by Army leaders to end criticism that morale in many army camps wag a low ebb. Mr.

Roosevelt sent to the Senate nomination of a executive and social scientist, as successor to Brig. Gen. James A. Ulio. Gen, Ulio, it was stated, will undergo an operation shortly which will keep him from active duty for several months.

Almost 200,000 trainees, Guardsmen and officers of the Reserve and National Guard who were brought into Federal service before the end of 1940 will be "out of the trenches by Christmas." "Dependency and hardship trainees who were 28 or older on July 1 and married men who ask releases will be discharged in that order of priority. Other selectees and Guardsmen will be released "after an aver-Turn to Page Column 2 Professor Says Britain Is Ready to Eat Grass GENEVA PARK, Lake Couchi-ching, Aug. 19 (AP) England is prepared to use grass for food if supplies run low, says Prof. D. B.

Johnstone-Wallace, of Cornell University. He told the Canadian Institute on Public Affairs that large factories are already producing dried grass powder and it is being fed to animals. "It will soon be fed to human beings if they are wise," he added. Johnstone-W a 1 1 a has eaten grass himself, mixed half-and-half with flour and baked into soda biscuits. It tastes "really fine," he said.

the years when many farms lay idle. You couldn't conduct a campaign in just Michigan against rag weed because a good strong south wind could blow in from Ohio enough poolen to lay low half the natives of this state. However, while one golden opportunity seems to have waned on protecting the health of American it was evident at the dis cussion of the key problems at the National Conference of Pharmaceutical Research that major precautions are being taken in the drug industry. Prime among the problems is how to make the United States self-sufficient in crude drugs, defense priorities and chemotherapy research as applied to the war emergency. The pharmaceutical research body was set up 15 years ago, said Dr.

James C. Munch, to col- i lent and distribute problems to prevtnt duplication of work, Today it is making one of iU I major jobs that of collecting or i substituting for the drug materials Turn to Page 2, Column 3 quoting Abraham Lincoln and drawing a parallel, President Roosevelt said indirectly but nonetheless clearly today that the people do not realize this nation has a war to win, and that "hard, tough fighting" will be necessary to win it. Moreover, he said that the wkr would, if necessary, continue through 1943 and he disclosed that a new survey of prospective defense deliveries as contrasted with the needs of England, Russia and China had been ordered. At Press Conference The Chief Executive was holding his first press conference smre his sea-meeting with Winston Churchill, the British prime minister, and the first since the House, by a one-vote margin, approved the idea of keeping draftees and others In the Army beyond the periods for which they were orifinally inducted. Obviously the Lincoln quotation, and what he considered its aptness to the present situation, had impressed him deeply because he had had it copied and made wly for the correspondents.

Excerpt from Sandburg Book It was sn excerpt from Carl Samlbtirg's "Abraham Lincoln The War Years," and told of an interview between Lincoln and a group of women, led by Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, of Chicago. It happened a year after the Civil War began. The excerpt follows: have no word of encouragement to was the Blow, blunt reply (of President Lincoln).

'The military situation is far from bright; and the Country knows it as well as I "The women were silent. They knew it was a heart-to-heart talk, that he was telling them what he could not well tell the Senator Charges F.D.R. Clave nritaln War Pledge Page 8 Country, that, he was frankly relieving the burden of an overweighted mind. It was a silence of a moment, but 'deep and said Mrs, Livermore. "The President went on: The fact is the people have not yet made up their minds that we are st war with the South.

They have not buckled down to the determination to fight this war through; for they have got the idea into their heads that we are going to get out of this fix somehow by strategy! That's the word Btratcgy! Gen. Mc-Clellan thinks he is going to hip the rebels by strategy; and the Army has got the same notion. They have no idea that the war is to be carried on and put through by hard, tough fighting, that it will hurt some-hly; and no, headway is going to be made while this delusion lasts'." Mr. Roosevelt read the excerpt, paused and said it contained a rather interesting parallel with the present situation. Drives Home Point Then, driving home his point (tith a sharp, incisive manner of "Peaking, the President, said that year ftor the Civil War started the people of the North had not likened to the fact that they had a war to win.

In response to question, he said that he had the service extension vote in mind well as other things In making his statement. Refreshed by the voyage which the historic Churchill meeting, Mr. Roosevelt was in obviously high spirits. He had had a conference during he flay wan Lord Beaverbrook, British minister of supply, and discussion turned quickly to Turn to Page 2, Column 6 French Officers of '18 Freed by Germany cHALONS-SUR-MARNE. Francej Aug- 19 AP The Germans released from German prison camps last of the French officers were veterans of the first word War.

The trainload was PM'-'d by French officials here. VOiroiI IS ENOUGH Pfgine that her husband. Earl V'ers, had held her a 1 -M-r in their home since their 3 year af.o an.) that he burned hf-r with "I Mrs. Lydia Veers f'r divorce Tuesday. She an injunction restraining molesting her.

Sport, Famed Signal Corps Dog, Buried Kprrlal In the Prm FORT CUSTER, Aug. 19-Cor-poral Sport, famed canine mascot of the Fifth Signal Company, was buried today with full military honors. His resting place is under a tree in the shadow of the barracks Where he reigned as --e i MhiWinrniT lyr-iiHi-iw 'i COKPUKAL SPOKT Killed In action i outstanding mascot of the Fifth Division. His end came quickly Monday night When he ran afoul of a motorcycle for which he had acquired a real soldier's dislike. His body lay in state in the company day room in his foot-locker casket covered by ferns provided by his soldier pals.

At 4:30 p. m. the entire company formed in the company street and the "casket" was carried out by two sergeants, with two more acting as an escort. With the company at attention Senator Best's "Tribute to a Dog" was read by Corp. George Bainbirly.

The procession then moved to the near-by grave where Pvt. Richard Melgel read a poem dedicated to Sport and Sergt. J. H. Cunningham read an obituary.

Taps wAs blown by Corp. Fred C. Smith as the footlocker was lowered into the grave. A small white cross marks the burial place. Sport had gained considerable fame as the wire-laying Signal Corps mascot and had been pictured in newspapers, news reels and magazines.

He wore two service stripes, denoting the two ma neuvers he had beejj on with his company. Sport was never a dog to cater to the soft life of home and fireside and fitted the Army perfectly. He was referred to in the obituary as a "rough, tough, yapping soldiers' dog." MIDNIGHT OIL ONLY MIDDLEBURY, Aug. 19 (UP) President Paul D. Moody, of Middlebury College, forbade students today to use autos in an effort to aid in the gasoline conservation program.

to Get Around Best It Can Taxis Await Rush, but Can't Carry AH Taxlcabs will be at a premium Wednesday, officials of Detroit's two major cab companies disclosed early in the morning as they started calling out their com bined fleets of 838 cabs. The Checker Cab when it heard of the DSR strike, augmented its fleet from 150 to 300 cabs and expected to have its remaining 400 cabs ready to take care of regular bus patrons. The Radio Cab with 138 cabs, had only 90 on duty at midnight, but expected to get out the rest of its fleet during the morn ing. "We're going to make hay while the sun shines," Joseph King, Checker supervisor, said. "We naturally expect a big rush and will have our 700 cabs on duty to take care of as many Detroiters as we can." The Radio Cab Co.

disclosed that it will be Just too bad for persons making special, calls for cabs. "The drivers will pick up fares wherever they see them," a Radio official said. "Naturally tha drivers will not be answering their lights from dispatchers calling for cabs to go to such and such an address." a Night workers in automobile plants and other industries faced long walks home after work unless they could find rides with car-owning fellow-workers. Utility officials and superintendents of other groups of workers in outlying districts began making preparations shortly after midnight to provide special transportation facilities to the stranded workers. Blow at Con vov Claimed by RAF NfW York Time SerjlM CAIRO, Egypt, Aug.

19-Following up the heavy damage to Axis shipping inflicted last week, Swordfish torpedo planes of the fleet arm ushered in a new week in the Mediterranean' warfare by sinking a freighter, destroying a tanker and beaching a second freighter in an attack on a convoy late Saturday and early Sunday, it was stated today. The RAF yesterday bom beet Tripoli And Bengasi in Libya and also Italian positions in the Gon-dar area of Ethiopia, it was said. BERLIN, Aug. 19 (AP) German bombers last night attacked port facilities and supply centers on the Gulf of Suez "with success," the DNB agency reported tonight. Foes of Vichv Warned bv Petain I VICHY.

Aug. 19 (UP)-Mar-' shal Henri Philippe Petain today called for a showdown with his political foes, many of whom are under arrest, and announced stern measures to crush opposition to his authoritarian French regime which is moving toward closer collaboration with Germany. "The time for hedging is past. A decision' must be taken. K'fhef nnp n-e or ap'ilnst me." s-tid the aqd chief of sUte r.

a speerh Rt. Rvat mrns; ai of ail public oCnc'als to support hi? poUi ies, Wy the AMifltl Frni BERLIN, Aug. 20 (Wednesday) The vital Black Sea port of Odessa stood under siege today, latest dispatches from the front reporting the massed big guns of ths German southern army assaulting encircled Russian troops there while the Luftwaffe ranged far over the sea approaches and the Dnieper River to prevent escapes. Germans predicted the city's fall within days if not within hours. 8 Troopships Claimed Sunk Eight Russian troop transports were said to have been sunk and 24 damaged in continuous raids to prevent escape by sea.

'The attack has been started against Odessa," the High Command announced. It also reported assaults on "small individual bridgeheads on the lower Dnieper" still held by Soviet troops and declared that the entire territory west of the Relief Burden of State Cut Bjr the AasofiBtpd Prm LANSING, Aug. 19-Michigan's direct-relief load is shrinking despite the arrival of late summer which normally produces a seasonal rise, John D. O'Connell, State social welfare director, disclosed today, "He said that although 15,000 workers have been dropped from WPA rolls, the current relief load has dwindled to 28,754 cases, marking the second lowest level of the year. The 1941 low was the July 11 total of 28,562 cases.

Soldier to Need Pull Due to Dentist's Error FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Aug. 19 (AP) From now on, dentists in the 29th Infantry Division will watch their language. A selectee in the 115th Infantry reported to the dental clinic to have his teeth fixed. When the dentist finished with the job, he said to the soldier, "Now you can go home." The soldier did.

Now he's in the doghouse for being absent without leave. Mounlballcn Arrives to Get 'Repaired Ship NEW YORK, Aug. 19 Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of King George VI and commander of two destroyers sunk in action against the Axis, arrived on the Dixie Clipper today to "take command of a warship which you very kindly repaired for us." He declined to elaborate and would not comment on a report from Lisbon that he was en route to China to command a British warship in the Pacific. Bank President Loses Race ivith a Robber BOWIE. Aug.

19 (AP A youth who appeared to be about 17 vears old robbed the First National Bunk of approximately $1,700 today, and then outspnnted the bank president, cashier and I assistant cashier in a three-block i race. NOW IT HAMPERS DEFENSE Pharmacists Told U.S. Missed lis Chance io KO Hay Fever Place in Camp Sought for Boy, Lonely in His Dream World There are but two terms remaining before the Free Press Fresh Air Camp will close for the season. Children who will be sent to camp were selected two weeks ago and every dollar in the camp fund will be needed for their care. And now comes the case of Bud, 12 years old, for whom social workers beg special consideration.

This is his story, taken from his case record, without added emphasis or elaboration. "Bud is the oldest of four children, all of whom live in a shed-like structure on the back of a rooming house. Until a few weeks ago his father was on the WPA. He has just found work. He is away all day and the children must shift for themselves.

They do the best they can, but their faces are dirty and their clothes generally ragged because they have never been really trained to care for themselves. "A year agef their mother deserted them. She comes to see them now and then but docs nothing for them. "Bud lives in a dream world that shows itself in a false bravado. But underneath he is scared and uncertain and lonely.

He needs camp more than anything else except a mother's love, and that he doesn't have. "Couldn't you find a way, somehow, to take him to camp." The Free Press will make room for Bud somehow, somewhere at camp, if some of its readers will supply the $10 that is needed for his expenses. Perhaps thTe are mothers or fathers with children of their own who will help. Small checks or large, they will ail help. Merely send or bring your gift-to Bud to the Free Press and the first of the week will see him at Svlvan Lake.

BY JAMES S. POOLER Vrre Vrt Stuff Wrltrr America has let another golden opportunity slip by. Back in the boom days of the WPA when Republican newspapers were writing nasty pieces about tha boys leaning on their shovel3 we could have wiped out poisonous weeds. Today, when the loss of man-hours is counted as industrial tragedy, hay fever is taking its toll. Each year sees hay fever increasing despite medical research, according to Dr.

Ivor Griffith, president of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, attending the eighty-ninth annual meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Association in the Hotel Statler. "Hay fever could have been eradicated to a large extent by a relentless campaign to destroy the poisonous weeds," he said. The opportunity seems to have passed with the end of cheap labor. It would take a costly national crusade today to wipe out the vvepds, which spread mightily in TODAY'S INDEX Pages Amusements 16 Around the Town 8 Classified Ads 20-21-22 Crossword Puzzle 8 Editorial 6 Financial 18-19 Inquiring Reporter 7 Kilgallen, Dorothy 11 My Day 11 Radio Programs 37 Sports Pages 1.1-14-1.1) State News 17 Vessel Passages 20 Vital Statistics 20 Weather Report 17 Women's Pages 10-11-12.