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THURSDAY, JULY 31,

BRITISH AID STALIN

* BY RAIDIN

Petsamo. Great Nickel Port Near Murmansk, Attacked

By Big Naval Plane Sq

16 Craft Lost in Operation.

LONDON, July 31 (U. P

Finland for the first time yesterday when naval aircraft attacked Petsamo, Finnish Arctic port, and Kirkenaes, northern Norwegian port, the Admiralty said today. Indicating the great extent of the raid, the Admiralty said 16 British planes were lost.

Three German Messer-schmitt-109 fighter planes were shot down and one German Junkers-87 also was destroyed. (In Berlin the Germans said the attack was launched from an aircraft carrier and was made with torpedo-carrying planes. They claimed that 28 British planes were destroyed while the Germans lost only two planes. The Germans said Russian planes attacked at the same time. The raid was described as a “complete failure.”

“At Petsamo little shipping was found in the port and our attack was concentrated against harbor | works,” the Admiralty communi- | que said. “Anti-aircraft fire and fighter opposition were encountered but jetties were hit, a warehouse and an oil tank were seen to-have been set afire and generally great damage was done to port facilities.

Warship Reported Hit “At Kirkenaes the fast German

{immediately after word of the at-

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FOR CONCERNED OVER FAR EAST

Personally Mapped Course Of Action in Tutuila Bombing Case.

WASHINGTON, July 31 (U. P.).— President Roosevelt was understood today to be increasingly concerned over the Far Eastern situation. He

conferred with Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles by telephone

tack on the U. S. Gunboat Tutuila was received. They agreed upon a course of action. Mr. Roosevelt conferred later with Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall and Chief of Naval Operations Harold R. Stark, but it was conjec-

warship Bremse . . . with an arma- | ment of six 3.5 anti-aircraft guns | and which, before the war, was a gunnery training ship, was hit twice. (Authoritative quarters said the]

Bremse was the fastest Diesel-pow- | ered ship afloat when it was built in 1931.) “Strong opposition from the enemy made it impossible to observe all results but it is believed that at least four supply ships were] hit.” The British were acting in sup-| port of their Russian ally, whose chief Arctic supply port is not far] from Petsamo. Kirkenaes is the next port west, acress the border] in Norway.

Nickel Mines Nearby

At Petsamo, Finland's northernmost port, is

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tural whether this conference related to the Far Eastern crisis. He also talked with Undersecretary of the Treasury Daniel W. Beil,

By JOE COLLIER

For the Obliging Dr. T.

FOUR OR FIVE years ago Dr.

T. T. Swearingen chose a hobby— § collecting data on other peoples’

hobbies.

“I thought it would take less i

time than collecting things myself” he says today with a wry smile. An official of the United Christian Missionary Society, he travels a good deal, and has had many opportunities to talk with people about their hobbies. He made notes. Now he’s just about as enmeshed in hobbies as a man without a hobby could well be, much

more so than if he had picked a quiet little hobby of collecting

things himself. 2

HE KNOWS, for

” ”

instance, a

man who collects canes. He knows

a man who knows a man who col-

lects historic bricks. The daughter :

of a worker in the Mission St. Louis office collects match pads. Leroy H. Gordner, 4460 Park Ave. a friend of his, collects fancy service plates used by some railroads in dining cars. His secretary, Miss Ruth Lowry, collects pictures of hands. He's heard of a professor in Oklahoma who collects odors and, at last report, had 286 of them from all over. The Rev. W. P. Harmon, Nashville, Tenn, a friend of his, collects neckties of famous people. Incidentally, Dr. Harmon wanted a necktie of Dr. Toyohiko Kagawa, the Japanese Christian evangelist recently here, so he wrote Mrs. Kagawa. She wrote back that the doctor had only one tie and that he was wearing it at the time, but that it was getting pretty old and that when he bought a new one she would send the old one along. She did.

of the upper Yangtze River. : boat's stern was dented when a the International bomb exploded only 10 yards away.

and Treasury General

{Counsel Edward Foley, all of whom, (except Mr. Smith, are responsible ‘for the enforcement of economic action taken against Japan.

Damaged Last Year

After Tokyo's apology today,

White House Secretary Stephen T. (Early, without referring directly to

t, told newsmen that “you may

assume Mr. Roosevelt is being in- | formed of every development, of all details.”

The Navy Department said that he gunboat had resumed its patrol The

Nickel Co.'s $7.500,000 nickel mines One of its motor boats was shattered

and smelter, the largest in Europe. The district was ceded to Finland by Russia in the peace pact of 19820. For many months there have] been contradictory reports as to whether Germany or Russia have been obtaining nickel from the] mines. Soviet negotiations for con-! trol of the output of the mines were reported to have failed last; March 15. After that, it was be- |;

lieved, the Germans succeeded in pomp fell off the river bank onto obtaining ore for refining at Kris- |e

tiansand in southern Norway. Helgoland Convoy Hit

“Id i ness to continue limited trade with The British attacks were linked |j,nan as long as she refrains from with an attack yesterday on a Ger-ig, ther overt acts, but the bomb-

man convoy off Helgoland as part of an effort to impede Germany's war against Russia. Petsamoc and Kirkenaes constitute a narrow bottleneck through which German manpower and supplies pass from Norway to the Murmansk sector in Russia. | The attack off Helgoland was de-| signed to aid the Russian Navy and | air force impede German traffic in| the Baltic.

| were injured in that which Japan paid reparations total- | ing $2,214,007. i

apologized at that time.

(ing may persuade them that eco{nomic action already taken should be heightened.

HEFFNER DROPPED FROM STATE BOARD

{by another bomb. None of the 31{man crew was injured.

The bombing recalled the sinking

{of the U. S. S. Panay by the Jap“|anese in the Yangtze River in De|cember, 1937. |men were killed and several others

Two American sea-

incident, for

The Tutuila itself was damaged! ast year when a rock dislodged by a deck. The

Japanese also

Officials have intimated a willing-

Budget Director Harold Smith, As-| sistant Treasury Secretary John tI STEEL AND IRON

(Sullivan,

RATIONING NEAR

Defense Would Get First Call; Civilian Needs Would Wait.

WASHINGTON, July 31 (U. P)). —Office of Production Management officials predicted today the rationing of iron and steel “in early August” to assure defense industries of adequate supplies. OPM priority officials estimated their combined civilian and defense demands will cause a 10,000,000-ton shortage of steel during the current year, with pig iron supplies 5,000,000 tons short of the needs. Government control of the supplies and rationing would give defense industries first call on available steel and pig iron, with civilian needs, such as automobiles, refrigerators, oil burners, and laundry equipment, becoming secondary. Officials said that iron supplies probably will be placed under a “pooling” system, with a specified amount, perhaps 15 per cent for the first month, being set aside by producers for emergency uses. Under terms of the proposed priority order, officials said that all semi-finished and finished steel products such as plates, sheets and strips needed for munitions, tanks and ships will be given priority over civilian demands.

Earl Heffner, a McNutt appointee,

” | was dropped from membership on FINED, NEVER IN NEW YORK |the State Industrial Board today by FT. DODGE. Towa, July 31 (yu. Governor Schricker and replaced by

P.) —Mrs. Grace Kruse

of Ft. Joseph P. Miller, South Bend attor-

Dodge puzzled today over a traffic | Ney. Both are Republicans.

summons from New York City| ordering her to pay a $2 fine for a parking violation last May 27. She

said the summons |

The Governor reappointed the

j three other members of the present {Board. They are August G. Muelcarried her | ler, Indianapolis; William P. Den-

i i r name and license number correct-|nigan, Vincennes and Warren W.

Iv but that neither she nor her car ever had been east of the Mississippi River.

JURY LETS HIM DOWN NEW YORK, July 31 (U. P).— Anthony Hubela, 28, of Brooklyn, faced a 13-year prison term for robbery today. Judge Peter J. Brancato had offered to let him off with a one-year sentence if he pleaded guilty. He said, no, he'd let the jury decide his case. The jury found him guilty, making a 15-year sentence mandatory.

| Martin, Booneville, all Democrats.

The fifth member of the Board,

Ramon J. Hitch, Evansville, Republican, was appointed in April.

Ogrensurs. who ASKS LOYALIST AID

has been acting as Board secretary,

Delbert Platt,

was named secretary. Mr. Miller, 39, has been active in

Mr. Haffner formerly practiced law at Gary.

Pig iron production now approxi‘mates 58,000,000 tons a year and the {Federal Loan Agency is cohsidering (an OPM plan providing Government financing of facilities to produce an additional 6,500,000 tons. Steel production will total 85,000,000 tons for the current year. The OPM is “exploring the possibility” of increasing production by 15,000,000 tons. A test campaign for the collection of scrap iron and steel, scheduled to start in Ohio in August, will be extended on a nationwide scale, if the trial is successful.

SPAIN CHARGES U. S.

MADRID, July 31 (U. P).—-The | Falangist Organ, Arriba, charged to-

Republican affairs for several years gay that the United States ic conand was for four years a justice of | ferring with the Spanish Loyalist the peace in South Bend. He grad-|jeader, Gen. Jose Miaja, concerning uated from Notre Dame University in 1925 and has practiced law 16| Republicans under his leadership in years.

| possible use of a force of Spanish

event of American action to occupy the Canary Islands.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record) County City Total 34 42 76] . ki 79 —Jualy 30— Accidents . 38 | Injured ..... WEDNESDAY TRAFFIC COURT Cases Convic-Fines tried tions paid

17 16 $201 9 106

Violations

Failure to stop at through street.. 14 Disobeying traffic signals Drunken driving. All others .......

13 280 53

Advertising Club, I. A. Oil Club, Hote! Severin noon. \ Indianapolis Camera Club, 110 E. 9th t.:.8 PD. .m. Beta Theta Pi, Canary Cottage, noon. Indianapolis Moter Transpertaten Club, Fox Steak House, noon. Sigma Nu, Columbia Club, noon Union Printers’ Antegnational Baseball Associatjon, Hotel Lincoln, all dar.

MEETINGS TOMORROW

Exchange Ciub, Hotel Severin, noon. Optimist Club, Columbia Club, noon. Sigma Chi, Board of Trade, noon. Phi Delta Theta, Columbia Club, noon. Delta Tau Delta, Columbia Club, noon. Kappa Sigma, Canary Cottage, noon. Rainbow Division Veterans, War morial, 8 p. m.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

These lists are from official records In the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses,

Fioyd R. Wells, 21, ren Ind; Louise P. Porter, 20, of 558 N. Beviile. | Harold F. Younker, 21, Lafayette, Ind.;! Tlene Richardson, 21, Lafayette, Ind. Rus R. 20, Box 400;

579. 1246 N

7. of . Carmen Ferrer, 4, of 1103

M. Hou ; 3 ot 3) 3 1818 Son}

James Helen L.

{ Kathieen Brown, 21, of 651 | Wood

| ce

Rufas R. Wheeler, 26, 203 N. Pershing; Helen M. Gisler, 28, of 1338 Ewing. Paul J. Gill, 20, of 1217 Kealing; Martha J. Stauffer, 17, of 514 N. Olney.

Robert E. Keiser, 21, of 2943 Annette;

Barbara A. Seigle, 21, of 1106 E. St. Clair.

Jack T. Emery, 22, of 3007 N. Delaware; Anna M. Myers. 2i, of 2249 Carrollton. Robert M. Frank, 20, of 1826 Commerce; E. Drive ruff. Benjamin L. Riche, 20, of 325 Prospect; Mary E Curran, i8, of 1548 Ringgold. Leo L. Halley, 41 f 220 S. Iilinois; Helen Van Horn, 38, of 220 S. Illinois. Richard Thompson, 61, of 761 Eider; Nellie Williams, 33, of 761 Elder. ar 4 ole, 25. of 2344 Sheldon; Essie L. Hayes, 21, of 2205 Sheldon. William L. Price, 22, of 3247 Nicholas: Marion C. White, 24, of 10512 W. 33d. Vane A. Jones, 23, of 728 N. East; Virginia J. Corey, 21, of 1133 Bellefontaine.

BIRTHS

Girls

Mary, Edward Lamond, at St. Francis. Lillian, Yost Cunningham, at St. Francis. Audrey,

Sarah, Robert Poul Bertha, William St C Jean, Sherman Castle, at Methodist. Pauline, Kenneth Sloan, at Methodist. Arzilla, Herbert Heffington. at Methodist. Ilena, Meyer Sachs, at Methodist. Lella, Homer Keesling, at Methodist. Helen, Ernest Stigall, at Methodist. Charles, Mary Mount, at 831 Laurel. Thornton, Mamie Anderson, at 1518 Lee. Alonzo, Mary Bach. at 31 N. Keystone. Sam. Johnnie Williams, at 1448 Kappes. Joseph, Elsie Kragoska, at 1115 River. Leo, Thelma Braun, at 1308 E. Kelly. Boys

Ruth, Anton Sohn, at St. Francis. Ruth, .

. . Vincent's. Margaret, Donald, Dennis, at St. Vinnt's, Ruth, Joseph Caserotti, at St. Vincent's. velyn, Paul Nealis, at Methodist. oberta, Eari Sommers, at Methodist.

Isaac, Narciss Haskins, 1548, N. Arsenal. George. Martha Greenlee, 547 Division.

Louis, Dorris Buchanan, 1405 Brookside.

DEATHS

Charity Alice Fleming, 78, at 231 E. 51st, cerebral hemei rhage. Rebeccah Jane Forbes, 81, at 217 BE 18th, chronic myocarditis. Charles Elvin Gwran, 68 at City, peritonitis. ith Lenehan, 53, ey 1634 N. New Jlys> Winninger, 5 mo. at City, bronchopneumoenia,. =

—_—

Velma, Marie Durham, 29 S. Catherwood. | B

Dessie Hurley, 36, at City, pulmonary edema. ; Alma Jones, 63. at City, pulmonary edema. Dora Bennett, City, pneumonia. Berdie Miles, 50, at City, toxic goiter. Alice F. Emerson, 74 E. 11th, pulmonary edema. Louis Hammerman, 68, at 3753 N. Meridian, coronary thrombosis. Herbert H. Torrence, 53, at City, cinoma. Wayman Clark, i. Dana Pribble, 36, at cinoma, Joseph Sauter, 54 coronary occlusion

45, at lobar

to at 908%

car-

at City, otitis media. 22 N. Grant, car-

at 2135 S. East,

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Burean ______

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Partly cloudy this afternoon: temperature about 90; humidity 30 to 35 per cent; partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow: not much change in temperature, but some likelihood of a local thundershower.

(Central Standard Time) 4:12 Sunset ......

TEMPERATURE July 31, 1940— m, ........ 210 Pp M0. cconics 9% BAROMETER TODAY 8:30 2a. m..... 29.82 Precipitation 24 hrs gndme Ta m..

Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1

. Sunrise

6 a.

Indiana—Partly cloudy with a few scattered thundershowers in south portion tonight and tomorrow: not much change in temperature.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Stations Bar. Temp. 20.96 68

Amarillo, , 29.94 29.78 29.97 29.84 29.81 29.78

X Tex. Bismarck, N. D.

Butte

Cincinnati Cleveland

Jacksonville, Fla. Kansas City, Mn. .... Little Rock, Ark. ..... Angel

THE INDIAN POLIS TIMES Helping Hobby Collectors is Hobby Enough

T. Swearingen

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Dr. T. T. Swearingen . . . he’s the hobby horse of hobbyists.

MRS. O. I. SHEPHERD, Canton, O., collects all information she can about salt, including

cellars. Miss Genevieve Brown, who works at the Mission headquarters here, collects pitchers. The Rev. Thurman Morgan, Houston, Tex., also collects canes. A Danbury, Conn, school teacher, collects pictures of old street cars, and even owns an old street car himself. So far, so good. But now Dr. Swearingen finds himself helping all these people. Wherever he goes he picks up match pads for the girl in St. Louis. When the Danbury teacher visited here, he persuaded Indianapolis Railway, Inc. officials to pull out some old items for the teacher to photograph, and even loaned him some

after the war,

them, at least, will have to be cleared up before American aid to Russia is more than a gesture, These include:

1. Will Britain and the United States Army and Navy forego American production priorities in favor of Russia, including ships for delivering the goods? 2. Will Britain and the United States send to Russia immediately American-made bombers now in England and the Middle East?

3. Will Britain, with American encouragement, open new fighting fronts in Norway, or on the Channel coast, or in the Middle East of Africa, to counter the “one-at-a-time” strategy by which Hitler has defeated other countries and hopes to defeat Russia? 4 If Russia transfers needed reinforcements from Siberia to the German front and Japan then attacks Siberia, will the United States and Britain come to the rescue in the Pacific? Those questions, which are presumably uppermost in Stalin's mind, are matched by ©&thers troubling Washington—such as: 1. What assurance is there that Stalin will not pull a Petain and surrender, if and when the Nazis reach Moscow and Hitler launches the general peace offensive pre-| dicted by Foreign Minister Eden? | 2. Will Russia bomb Tokyo from! Vladivostok if Japan attacks Singa- | pore, Manila, of the Dutch East Indies—or if a Pacific war starts over Thailand, or because Japan succeeds in closing the Burma Road supply line to China? 3. Can Russia continue its aid to China? 4. If Washington gives Moscow full co-operation and thereby helps to save the Communist state, what assurance is there that the Communist International will not interfere in the internal affairs of the United States, Latin America and the British Empire? Obviously some of these questions, reflecting basic conflicts, cannot be “settled” in any satisfactory sense in the Hopkins conversations or others. The ideological overtones are the chief barrier to full cooperation. Anti-Communist sentiment was deeper and wider in this country than in England before the war. On the eve of the war Britain sought Russia as an ally, and even when Hitler outbid her, Britain continued to hope for the AngloRussian alliance which has now come. If there is an American-Japanese war, presumably the popular

negatives he (Dr. Swearingen) had taken of horse-drawn cars in Smyrna. He is constantly on the watch for fancy Pullman service plates for Mr. Gordner. When he is in Mexico this summer he intends to pick up a cane for the Rev. Mr, Morgan. For the Rev. J, H, Stidham, 502 E, Maple Rd, he is on the lookout for arrow heads and for his own brother he gives a second look at all Indian head pennies, In fact, Mw» Swearingen is so thoroughly enmeshed with the collection problems of scores of hobbyists, that he has almost no time to add to his library collection about Gen. Robert E. Lee. So far as Dr. Swearingen is concerned, he's the utility outfielder of the hobby game.

Said Hopkins to Stalin—

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 31.—President Roosevelt, through his alter ego, is talking directly to Stalin on secret policy. sent Harry Hopkins on the sudden dangerous flight to Moscow. What commitments are made probably will not be known fully until But there is not much mystery about the questions that are troubling Stalin, or others that concern the President.

That is why he personally

Some of

American-Russian alliance will match present British feeling. Meanwhile, however, Hitler's attack on Russia apparently has left more

Americans with a curse-on-both-houses feeling than with a desire for Soviet victory.

Anti-Communist sentiment is still so dominant in this country and

in Congress that President Roosevelt can only with the greatest caution.

co-operate with Russia

If the Hopkins mission results

in any such thing as a Moscow agreement, that probably will have

to be denied by ail concerned for

obvious reasons, and its scope revealed only through action step-by-step.

CITY RECEIVING GRADE A MILK

Changes Already Made for New Law by Producers, Says Morgan.

Although preparation for the enforcement of the new City Milk

| Ordinance have not yet been com-

pleted, consumers are now getting the equivalent of Grade A milk as defined in the ordinance, Dr. Herman G. Morgan, City Health officer, said today. Dr. Morgan said that during the last four months, Health Department milk inspectors, anticipating passage of the ordinance, have urged milk producers to put mlik houses and other equipment in condtion to meet the new requirements. With nearly all of the major producers co-operating, milk has reached a Grade A level with its requirement of a maximum bacteria count of 30,000 per cubic centimeter, Dr. Morgan said. Distributors, however, have not completed their preparations for capping and labeling th& bottles for which they have been granted at least 90 days before enforcement begins, Dr. Morgan said. The check-off feature of the new law, which provides for the payment of 1 cent by the producer and 1 cent by the distributor on each 100 pounds of milk, will be indus-try-wide in a few weeks, he said. Dr. Morgan said that the 1-cent increase in the price of milk which becomes effective tomorrow will have no effect on the new milk in-

American demand for an all-out

spection set-up.

REDS WIPE OUT HITLER SS UNIT

Pure ‘Aryans’ Beaten, Says Communique; Fighting Is Far From Leningrad.

MOSCOW, July 31 (U. P.) —Official reports today said that fighting has resumed in the Porkhov

area, 145 miles south of Leningrad, which was taken to indicate here that Nazi drives on Leningrad are making no progress. ; It was the first mention this week of fighting in the Porkhov sector. The official communique revealed that heavy fighting still is in progress in the vital Smolensk sector, in Novorzhev, about 40 miles due south of Porkhov and in the Zhitomir sector of the front where defends Kiev. Indications here are that Russians are holding firmly to their lines in all these regions and that action on other fronts is limited to minor engagements.

Picked Regiment Wiped Out

One of Hitler's picked regiments of Berlin bodyguards, the elite “Great Germany” regiment, was said to have been wiped out with more than 2000 killed and wounded and several hundred prisoners taken on the central front. The victory was won on the bitterly contested Smolensk sector of the Moscow front, where for two weeks the Germans hat driven vainly into the Russian lines and where the Russians themselves were now counter-attacking heavily and, it was asserted, with great success. The regiment was said to have been formed by Hitler in 1940 of picked men of Berlin storm troopers who had been guarding the most important Government and Nazi Party buildings, that the Russians smashed, the communique said. The storm troopers had been formed into a motorized regiment.

Aryans Lose to Mixed Races

The Russian troops, drawn from the 60 races which make up the Soviet Union; won their victory over a unit of Hitler's ideal “Aryans,” selected as typical German Nordics racially undefiled by admixture with “inferior” blood. Each man was required to be politically as well as racially pure, and to be of a standtard height. In their victory, the communique said, the Russians captured 11 field guns, 14 anti-tank guns, 12 heavy machine guns, 30 sub-machine guns, many trucks and quantities of ammunition, the communique asserted.

0il Wells Bombed

Russian planes yesterday bombed Ploesti, center of the Rumanian oil fields, and the oil port of Sulina and started large fires in both areas, the communique said. (A special Moscow hroadcast, picked up in New York by the United Press listening post, said that for four weeks the Russians had been bombing the Ploesti region daily and great quantities of oil had been destroyed. The efficacy of the Ploesti wells had been considerably reduced, the broadcast said, In addition, it was asserted, Russian planes had heavily bombed the oil reserves at Constanza, the Rumanian naval base. It was noted that the Rumanian supplies are the only foreign sources of oil now available to the Germans.)

Reveal Anti-Mine

Device Inventor

CANBERRA, Australia, July 31 (U. P.) —The Patents Office Journal revealed today that an Australian mining engineer, Franklin G. Barnes, developed the device which defeated the German magnetic mine menace to British shipping early in the war. The Journal said Mr. Barnes was in England in November, 1939, when the first magnetic mine was recovered. At that time, many British ships were being sunk by that method. Six days later, the Journal said, Mr. Barnes filed specifications for a device whereby the mines could be neutralized by placing electric cables around ships.

ASK U. S. TO MEDIATE RAIL RULES DISPUTE

CHICAGO, July 31 (U. P).—The nation’s railroads, already seeking

Federal mediation on one phase of negotiations with operating brotherhoods, reply today to 14 nonoperating crafts who have rejected a management proposal for changes in work rules. ; The five operating brotherhoods also have refused management demands for modification of working regulations. Their action caused the carriers’ conference committee late yesterday to ask the three-man Fed« eral mediation board to intervene.

By MARSHALL McNEIL Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, July 31.—Senator Tom Connally (D. Tex.), after 26 years in Congress, can still see the funny side of the pomposities that sometimes attach to that institution. Yesterday this tall Texan was designated chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, becoming thus a sort of No. 2 Secretary of State. “I reckon,” he said, “I'll have to buy some spats now, and maybe a cane and a swallow-tail coat.” But behind this joke is a firm conviction, long held, that this country must do its utmost to maintain here and in this hemisphere the freedoms and privileges of democracy. He supports enthusiastically our help to Britain. As the world crisis becomes more grave, and our stake in it increasingly important, the Senate will have as chairman of its Foreign Relations Committee a man who appreciates this importance and delicacy of his job but who won't let its seriousness impair his good humor. Senator Connally’s tongue is quick, but he seldom shoots from the hip; his tongue is sometimes sharp, but he is no name-caller. Neither is he a New Deal “rub-

ber stamp.” He has oftén differed with the Administration's domestic

Senator Connally . . . no “rubber stamp.”

policies. Yet Le is an all-out supporter of its foreign policy. He helped draft the arms-em-bargo repeal; he helped put through the Lend-Lease Bill; he worked effectively for the draft law. And yet he was a leader in the fight on the so-called Supreme Court “packing” bill, He has dif-

Sen. Connally, New Foreign Affairs Chief, Is All-Out Supporter of Aid-Britain Policy

on tax policies. He has opposed grants of power to the President. He is the author of a bill to impose extraordinary taxes in wartime to take the profits out of war. The Connally “Hot Oil” Act prohibits the interstate shipment of petroleum produced in violation of state conservation statutes. He investigated the Huey Long regime in inquiring into the election of Louisiana’s Senator Overton. He led a successful “filibuster against the anti-lynching bill. In September of 1939 he said: “The first and most important thing to my mind is that the United States must not get into this frightful and brutal war. We should stay out. We must stay out.” In April of 1940 he said: “I am willing to rely upon the patriotism, wisdom and judgment of Secretary of State Hull and the President of the United States in this critical time when the slightest spark may ignite a train of dangers which would bring tragedy to the people of the United States.” Two months ago he said: “The American people have pledged aid to Britain, and Congress has translated their desires into legislation. We have pledged military and naval equipment, shipping and supplies to Great Britain. We must, we shall, keep that pledge. We must Specd supplies the sea.

We m speed more and more and more

United Mine Workers’ President

John L. Lewis growled an emphatic negative when asked at House Rivers and Harbors Committee hearing if he favors the St. Lawrence waterway project.

RUSSIA, POLAND KISS, MAKE UP

Pact Shows World United Against ‘Gangster,’ Says Churchill.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK Copyright, 1941, by The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News, Inc. LONDON, July 31.—Agreement by Poland and Russia to end their technical state of war and join in the fight against Germany is hailed by Prime. Minister Winston Churchill as proof of a united world march “against that filthy gangster power which must be effectively and finally destroyed.” The agreement was signed yesterday by Gen. Wladislaw Sikorski, Premier of the Polish Government in Exile, and Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky in the British Foreign Office in the presence of Churchill and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. After Germany's assault on Russia on June 22, the Polish Government here opened negotiations with the Soviet Embassy. The good offices of both the British and American Governments were offered to assist the negotiations to a speedy and successful conclusion. Guided by U. S. The United States Government informed the Kremlin that an agreement important to satisfactory post-war reconstruction of Europe could be obtained from the Poles who are willing to wipe out their declaration of war against Russia, made when the latter divided the former Poland with Germany. Washington also sought immediate establishment of religious freedom throughout Russia and indicated that the release of all the Poles held prisoners by the Russians must be a primary basis for the agreement. The Russians denounced the Soviet-German treaties of 1939, agreed on the resumption of’ diplomatic relations, promised the immediate release of all Polish citizens held in Russia, and consented to the formation of a Polish army on Soviet territory, The Polish Government declared that Poland is not bound by any agreements directed against the Soviet Union. The ticklish question of frontiers which had been discussed both here and in Moscow was left until after the war but the British have assured the Polish Government that the partition of Poland by Russia and Germany is not recognized here.

Boundaries Unsettled While it is understood that the British are prepared to assist in securing a fair adjustment of frontiers after the war, they have made no promises that Poland will get back exactly the same territory lost. The British think map-drawing will be a job for the experts. The agreement has laid the basis for Russian-Polish collaboration, the details of which remain to be worked out. It is probable that Gen, Bochusz will go to Moscow to handle the release of Polish prisoners and take command of the Polish Army to be formed there. The Poles estimate that there are approximately 300,000 Polish prisoners including 10,000 officers. ‘The only Russian estimate known is that published in the Communist Party organ, Pravda, in March which stated that there were 181,000. Gen. Bochusz led a Pplish force in last year’s Norwegian campaign and has the reputation of being a brilliant general.

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NAZIS THREATEN LENINGRAD RUIN

City of Three Million to Be ‘Wiped Out’ if Russians Resist.

BERLIN, July 31 (U.P. .—Gers man informants intimated that the fall of Leningrad was near today and the Nazi High Command claimed further encirclement of Soviet forces east of Smolensk and unremitting “pursuit of the beaten enemy” on the Ukraine front. There had been rumors that the High Command would make an exter.sive report on operations on the Leningrad front where informants claimed remnants of seven Russian divisions had been encircled and destroyed. However, the High Command’s only statement on operations in this sector was that German forces had thrown back Russian troops in Estonia. \ (This was the first mention in more than two weeks of fighting in Estonia where German sources had claimed Soviet resistance to be vire tually wiped out.) ; The High Command said German troops in the Ukraine had thrust deep into the Russian lines of ree treat, apparently indicating movee ments of Nazi panzer divisions in advance of the main bodies of troops, Moscow, Orel Bombed

To the east of Smolensk, said the High Command, encircled Russian forces were “further compressed.” The Luftwaffe was said to have bombarded military objectives in Moscow during. the night and ate tacked the railroad junction of Orel, on the Oka River, about 200 miles southwest of Moscow. In the “neighborhood of Lenine grad,” the Germans took “thoue sands” of prisoners, informants said, and captured 50 field guns, 23 antie tank guns, seven anti-aircraft bate teries, 62 machine guns, 72 motor trucks and “several” tanks. German troops had been “paving the way” for the encirculement of the seven divisions for several days, it was said, and completed it yese terday. New Thrust From South Rumors had circulated for days that a German tank spearhead had pushed near Leningrad. Today ine formants said that it was threatened imminently by a new thrust from the south. It was indicated that strong German forces had driven east of Lake Ilmen, 120 miles south of Leningrad, against strong resistance while another force attacked from the Lake Peipus area to the southwest of Leningrad. » Informants said it was not clear whether the Russian forces defending Leningrad faced the prospect of encirclement. They added that the defenders were “numerically very considerable.” In Leningrad, at the eastern end of the Gulf of Finland, the Ger= mans would take the Czarist capital, when it was St. Petersburg, a city with a population now estimated at 3,191,000.

FORTUNE FINDS 53% FAVOR INTERVENTION

NEW YORK, July 31 (U. P.).— Fortune Magazine said today that its latest survey of public opinion indicated that the American people “have abandoned isolationism and by a small plurality now favor taking the risk of a shooting war if that is necessary to beat Hitler.” The survey also indicated, the magazine said, that most of the people would willingly accept such sacrifices as consumer taxes, cure tailed pleasures and longer working’ hours. Fortune placed 53.7 per cent of those it interviewed in the “militant interventionist camp” but die vided them into two groups. Tha following statement was said to represent most nearly the attitude of 41.3 per cent: “While at first it looked as though this was not our war, it now looks as though we should bacle England until Hitler is beaten.” In the other interventionist group, the magazine said, were those who believe “it is our war as well as England's, and we should have been BB there fighting with her before his.”

PROFESSOR DIES

WOLFEBORO, N. H, July 31 (0, P.).—Dr. Robert Franz Foerster, 58, former economics professor ag Harvard and Princeton Universie ties, died at his summer home here yesterday. He was a native of Pittsburgh, Pa.

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