Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1941 — Page 3

MONDAY, AUG. 4, 1041 .

FARM INCOME OF

0%2 BILLION SEEN

Current Earnings $100,000,000 Monthly Above Same |

Period in 1940; Grains and Livestock Accounts For Major Increases; Wheat Sets Record.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—The Agriculture Department reported today that farmers are earning $100,000,000 a month more than a year ago and indicated that their

1941 income may set a 20-year record at $10,500,000,000. The general level of prices received by farmers will average nearly 20 per cent] higher than last year, the] Bureau of Agricultural Economics predicted.

“Income from farm marketings during the first half of this year totaled $4.005,000,000, up $591,000,000 over the same period last year,” the BAE said. “Gains in income | from livestock and livestock | products accounted for all but $20,000,000 of the increase.”

Not All Is Profit

During the last half of this year, income from crops probably will total “much more” than in the last half of 1940 because of favorable production prospects and substantially higher prices, the bureau said. Not all of the increase will be profit, the bureau warned. Off-| Moscow yesterday. ‘ setting the gains to some extent| It is understood that Hopkins will be higher costs of production | found Dictator Josef V. Stalin and and living, and smaller government | O¥ er Russian officials extremely benefit payments. Farm wage rates | optimistic regarding their chances are the highest since 1930. (of staving off Germany's next of“The rate of industrial activity | fensive. is the highest in the history of the | It is also the impression now that country,” the bureau said. “More {the Russians did not sacrifice their people are working at non-agri-| ery finest troops during the early cultural occupations than ever be- stages of the conflict, but sent in

British Say He T He Told Them Russians Believe Their Chances Are Good. By WILLIAM H. STONEMAN Copyright, 1941. by The Indianayolis Times ‘The Chicago Daily News, Inc.

LONDON. Aug. 4—British optim-

{war has increased sharply following the return here of Lease-Lend

HOPKINS BRINGS GHEERING NEWS

ism regarding the Russian-German

Administrator Harry Hopkins from

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Drivers Load Up in Advance, Increase Sales as East Adopts Gasoline Curfew

YORK, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—Gasoline stations in 17 Eastern states Eo Maine to Florida complied generally in the first test of the Governments 7 p. m.-7 a. m. curfew, reports showed today, but dealers doubted if any gasoline had been saved. Night sales were suspended voluntarily by Eastern seaboard deal- | ers for the first time last night, at the request of Secretary of the | Interior Harold L. Ickes, Oil Administrator. The curfew applies only | to Eastern states, where transportation difficulties arising from national defense and British aid threaten to cause an acute shortage of petroleum products. Only scattered stations in the affected area remained open after 7 p. m. yesterday. But motorists bought so heavily before the closing hour that filling stations reported sales increased from 10 to 50 per cent over last Sunday. Few cars were stalled along the highways during the night by a lack of fuel. Dealers pointed out that the first day was not a fair test of the curfew. It was a warm, clear Sunday which brought out thousands of motorists. Dealers said their usual order was “fill ’er up,” instead of the customary request for five galions or $1 worth. As a result, they said, many motorists probably have enough gasoline for the next few days. Some believed the voluntary curfew would be succeeded by compulsory rationing, perhaps after Labor Day. A few service stations remained open to supply commercial | vehicles, taxicabs and automobiles in emergency service. All of which were exempted by Mr. Ickes. Others refused to close “until their

competitors did so and some said the official request for suspending sales had been received too late to make arrangements.

Scouts Move Mountain of Aluminum

HERE was no official enforcement of the curfew. Police pointed out that it had been requested on a voluntary basis and there was no law requiring it. New Jersey came nearest to making the black-out official. There, 300 “emergency” stations were designated, and state police were in-

structed to direct stranded motorists there to buy enough gasoline to take them home. Virtually all the rest of the state’s 13,000 service stations closed their pumps, although some remained open to make repairs. Less than 25 per cent of New York City’s stations, about half of which are owned by large chains,” were selling after the curfew. Dealers handling Shell and Mobil Gas said the companies had told them to continue selling gasoline last night and they would “see what would happen today.” The Oil Well and All's Well Corp., operators of independent stations in the metropolitan district, said they would remain open day and night until a new working schedule is devised. Company officials said official notice of Mr. Ickes’ request had been received only Saturday. At the Manhattan entrance to the Holland Tunnel, where Sunday night traffic usually is heavy, four small stations refused to close. The operators said that because the curfew is not compulsory, none could afford to close while competitors remained open. Traffic to the beaches and seashore resorts all along the coast was normal, police reported. On the Pulaski Skyway, main New Jersey artery into New York, traffic was about 25 per cent below average. Many stations displayed such signs as “I am an American. We are co-operating with the national defense program.”

U. A. W, PLEDGES

But Thomas Urges That Auto Industry Not Be ‘Dislocated.’

BUFFALO, N. Y.,, Aug. 4 (U. PJ). —The sixth annual convention of the United Automobile Workers (C. I. 0.), pledged to support national defense and to “secure improved wage and working conditions” for its half-million members,

opened today with more than 1000 delegates expecting one of the stormiest meetings in the union’s history.

T0 AID DEFENSE

fore, and defense expenditures are increasing—all of which points to a continued good domestic demand for farm products.”

Wheat Crop Is Record

In addition to domestic consumption, the United States is expected to ship between $250,000,000 and $300,000,000 worth of agricultural products to Great Britain this year. | Farmers have begun the harvest! of one of the largest wheat crops on record — estimated by the Agricultural Department at nearly 950,000,000 bushels. The Government wheat loan program will assure farmers a

second-string divisions with the result that they have large forces of crack units ready to meet the next onslaught. Of course Mr. Hopkins did not go to the front and neither have British observers, but that is at least the consensus of opinion.

Two Months May Tell

August and September, it is felt, |will decide the issue on the Eastern Front. It is conceivable that the Germans may take Kiev, but expert opinion is that the Russians may even manage to hold that city. If things go well for the Russians, the

price of approximately $1 a bushel | German armies may easily be drawn despite a huge surplus. Income! Into a winter campaign in White from wheat this year will be more | Russia and the Ukraine where the than 50 per cent larger than from | Russians will have the tremendous any wheat crop since 1937, the BAE advantage of being accustomed to said. | the climate and the snow will make Cotton prices are currently the|it heavy going for the Nazi panzer highest since 1930. | units. i “Feed grains and hay supplies are| The present push in the Ukraine expected to be much larger than Suggests the possibility that the] average this year—perhaps the larg- Germans may have cecided to con- | est in 20 vears.” the BAE said. |centrate on seizing Russian cil fields | Farmers and ranchers sent g rec- in the Caucasus. This, in turn, sug-| ord supply of fat cattle to market gests that the Allies might best as-| in May and June, and at prices sist Russia by throwing all avail- |

These Boy Scouts did their good turn today—for national defense. had been deposited in the Plaza into 10 City dump trucks and the metal was hauled to the Fair Grounds to be accumulated with aluminum from 11 other counties. Then it will be shipped to the smelters.

They loaded all the aluminum that

averaging substantially higher than 2ble forces through Syria and Ara year ago. |menia into the Southern Ay RD i

Hog Decline Ends Doubt Attack in North

The downward trend in hog pro-| It is impossible to substantiate the duction that began last vear seems Story that the British are planning to have been halted. The spring|t® OPen up the Arctic against Gerpig crop was about the same as Jast/many and Finland but circumyear, despite Government predic- stances make such a development tions of a 10 to 15 per cent decrease, (Seem doubtful. In the first place, as and the fall crop is expected to be One old-time military man suggested substantially larger than last year. today, “when a fellow has been

FARMERS ORGANIZE | FOR AAA BATTLE

George M. Musgrave of Martinsville today was elected president of

the newly incorporated FarmersAmericans Guide, an organization formed “to free the farmer from a

Prices, too, will be higher. | thrown out of a barroom three times he is not likely to dash right back in.” Experience has told the British and their Allies that diversions in the form of small-scale landings do not pay. It is a further fact, which is known to everybody, that any landing in the north would require not only troops and good equipment but a very large amount of shippe which the Allies simply do not! seem to have.

The 1941 lamb crop, according to | department estimates, is the largsst on record. Wool prices are the highest in 10 years.

Milk production in recent months |!

has been at record levels, but the department is encouraging still further expansion to meet increased | domestic demand as well as British! needs. Egg and poultry production likewise has increased.

What the British can do and are doing to help the Russians is to bomb German cities night after night with all their available force of heavy bombers. For the time be-

ILL WITH INFECTION ing. at least. Russia can be saved

Capt. Leo Troutman. head of the only by police traffic division, was reported [fact wh in serious condition today at St. | Vincent's Hospital where he was | taken a week ago when a scratched | finger became infected. Hospital attaches said he spent | a restless night.

TROUTMAN SERIOUSLY

ich the Russians appear to! ize.

STATE FIREMEN MEET DAO, Ind, Aug. 4 Delegates registered today for the

In the same hospital, but in fair 25th annual convention of the In-| was a permanent organization and condition was Inspector Jesse Mc- |diana Firemen’s Association and its would not conflict with any of the Los Governor | temporary organizations formed to ed to speak at fight “some specific evil, { vheat quota penalties.”

Murtry, who has been in the in- womens auxiliary. stitution several days with a3 minor |Schricker was schedul heart condition. 'a banquet tomorrow.

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guardianship placed over him by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.” Others elected at the meeting, which was held at the Indiana Trust Building, were Robert I. Marsh of Indianapolis, vice president and general counsel; Ben Cones of Frariklin, secretary. and Gordon M. Amos of Greensburg, | | treasurer. Incorporation papers for the F.! G. were filed Saturday. The organization will maintain headquar- |

{ters here but will be active in other |states throughout the Middle West,

Mr. Musgrave said. the Russians themselves, a

(U. P.) — working out their mutual problems.”

The purpose of the F. A. G., he said, “is to acquaint the farmers with their constitutional rights and to bring about a closer understanding between the businessman and farmer so they may co-operate in

Mr. Musgrave said the F. A. G.

such as

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Edward F. Bo 1 ke 8, of 2 t Here Is the Traffic Record! Chores. Jones. 6. Ty BT BL otal)

Durbin L. ves, 40, of 903 Colle; County Cliy Total | reciia K. Longmire, 26, of :114 S. Wal.

76 deme 36 v9! Hany M. Runington, 50, Alexandria; | Opal L. Florkey, 49, Alexandria, William FP. Tudor, 21. of 433 N. Walcott; throp, “a. of 433 N. Walcott. leman, 27, of 1358 S. Bel0 h M. Greene, 19, of 1460 S. | Belmont.

| Stanley W. Dunn, 28 of %23 N. DearSATURDAY of rib ey | Mary F. Arderv. 24, of 2111 N. Delaases Convic- Fines ware x s : John Sullivan. 44, of 320 W. Wifth. Anwe nie paid | gerson: Ivah O. Hendren. 38. Pendieton. |

William P. Alexander, 19. of 1727 N. | 2 1 11 New Jersev: Mildred L. Spencer, 19, of 729 |

Sanders. ond R. Moon, 44 of 918 Chadwick; Dolson hr adwick.

34 IH ..oceee. . 83

—Aug. 2 and 3—

Accidents ... 66 ' Injured mont;

Violations Ss i Lesian Reckless driving Failure to stop at through street . Disobeying traffic signals . 3 Drunken driving. . 5 AH others ...... .. 14

238 MEETINGS TODAY

Raym ° 0 Dorothy A Te

f 1210 Brown

37, Columbia |

21) futerson: Lois C. Martin, | 1

OR sro Weaklin, 34 of 406 Tolege: Rose | M. Welch, 19, of 314 W. Vermo

Walter A. Guillaume, 24, of 0s Middle Ei Wy ruff Place: Olga E. “pieker. 21, {0 3

xX om Te. m Enights of Columbus, Raym 22. of 532 W.

1305 N Delaware | |apnor; Te Markorie 3 18. of 1022 | adwic Scientech Club, Board of Trade, noon. wy K. Zeller, 3, of 2049 Parker; Marrtd Clad, Claypool Hotel, noon. Xk. 28 Alani of Kappa Delta Rbo. |

Hotel Rite, 1:30 [Je Irvington Repu! Club, 5446 E | eastern.

Washington St, 8 p Ww, North Side Realtors, Canary Cottage, Roy hae

py oa M. Notre Dame Club, Board of Trade, noon. = International Association of Retired RailEe ate Pa Railway Postal Clerks, Big Fou - 2D. « Sua of ivade, Board eof Trade Bidg.,

sts)

dus, Brown.

Perdue 3 . Mayes, 18, of 914 South-

23, of 1536 Brookside: | mbridge. 21, of §19 Main,

re W. Bockbrader, 19, of 1924 Belleeppard, 17, of 1105

ican

Edwin W. fontaine; Juanita P. riW. 33d. BIRTHS Girls Raymond, Frances Woe er, at 1 mpn

a Davis, at St. Francis.

MEETINGS TOMORROW . Phalanx Fraternity, ¥Y. M. C. A.

Reber Stan, Claypool Hotel, Lo Bo Gyre

St.

Club, Columbia Club, noon. Michigan University Club, Board of noon.

Trade, n Lutheran Service Club, Hotel Lincoln, noon. Fine Paper Credit Group, Wm. H. Block Co. auditorium. noon xchanfe Club Board, Hotel Severin, m. Smoke Control Association,

it Hotel

erode, Dorothy Bowman, at St. Vin-

hiiip, Helen Thompson, at St. Vin-

cent’s. Justin, Irene Seery, at St. Vincent's. Joseph, Alice Smit at St. Vincent's. Lorraine, Wilma at St. Vincent's. Charles, Tena Biltimier Jr., at St. Vincent Joh, Stella Collins, at St. Vincent's.

nono and 1 p

apois. Hotel Severin, ¥ Farm Security Severin, 10 a. m.

MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times,

therefore, is mot responsible for errors in fmames and addresses.

Administration,

TEQeTICK. >All olland

Edith Dorothy Woodrum, at Methanchon Moon. at Methodist.

Leonard. Grace Fck, at 1047 Bevs

. Mary Davis, at St. Francs. Johnson, at _St. Francis.

3, a Gript. ®t St. Francis.

aaadse E. Young Jr. Ritiman, O.; L. Searries. 23. of 1302 Hoyt 34 2055 N

John. Viola O

! UDOr EA TOuS meningitis. |

yond, Marjorie Gibbs, at St. VinCe osriS. Sally Gold, at St. Robert, Frances Edwards,

cent’ : E. hscphite Bauer, at St. Vincent's Ha oo 1ired Cooper, at Methodist. Chaties. Alberta Weisenauer, at Meth-

Carl. Vera Zimmerman, at Methodist. Thomas. Viola Burling, at Methodist. Paul, Jean Hartley, at Methodist. Carson, Wilma Combs, at Methodist. Robert, Helen Cline, at Methodist. Harold, Ora Hansmeyer, at 608 Washington William. Mary Anderson. at 1549 Richland Edm ond. Marjorie Shearn. at 1052 Belle Vie Fred. Helen Highee. at 3262 Hovey.

DEATHS

Susie Burford, 89. at 444 Bright. chronic myocarditis. Mary T. Collins, 84, at 148 W. 26th, chronic myocarditis Rachel Whiteman, 84, at 1523 Broadway, chronic nephrit Benjamin oepaarden. 67. at City, cere-

bral embolism. George P. McKay, 69, at City, tuberculosis. 3315 Ruckie, coro-

Viola Brown. 79, at nary thrombosis. 2. at 2341 Carrollton,

nald Gosney.

Vincent's. at St. Vin

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Arthur W. Bowen, 73, at City, cerebral | hegriorth Anna odin, §7. at 1802 WwW. Minne- | sota, myocarditis. Josephine Gardner. 79. at 3245 WN. Ilinois, cerebral hemorrhage. oriohn B. Niggl, 75, at City, cerebral hem-

hg 1 Stein, 58, at Methodist, cerebral a rn Haase, 85, at 1140 E. Market, PRCHAORIS EN a at 2229 Pleasant,

rn LCN Grant Bink} ie 0 t City, uremia. sl at 1141 W. 37th,

John A. LeFeber, 78. at 1339 N. Meridian,

chronic rdi Albert a urphy, at 958 W. 32d, chronic

cerebral melt Tyler, 71, | ary Ca C. Arthur. 77, at 1913 tuckle, arteri

Harry Hurley, 1. at City, diarrhea. Rose at 6107 Carroliton, cerebral sl

Barney Stewart, 79, at 2306 E. WashingDany. Clark, 5 at 1 3%. . endocarditis. Ae mas George, 49, at Long. bronchoneumonia. ry Dorman, 62, at City, broncho-

ton, chronic rditis. eu! N" Shephe a sl N. appendic My Carrollton, Nettie C. South, 85, pneumonia. rge T. 5a fonete, 68, at Central, acute mpyocardit Fox, 59. at Long, diabetes meilihy pneumonia.

| quite | cloudv with showers in north

- {the Office of Production Manage- . {ment and Administrator Leon Hen-

"istration and Civilian Supply in-

O'Donnell, City White, 38. of 2% Imogene McClelland, at Cole

ore - A erbangh. parry nr

leurissa rd, Sherman Dalve poncho rT ss Pant, acute Helen Beckner. 35. = Lions Frank Lee, at 37 W. 21st, chronic myocarditis. Nash, s months, at City, hypoArthur Morris. 47, at Veterans, ecarciCharles Claffey, 83. at 520 EB. Vermont, arteriosclerosis.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair this afternoon, tonight and tomorrow. Little change in temperature. Highest about 92 today.

(Central Standard Time) Sunrise

TEMPERATURE —Aug. 4, 1940— Leeehhni AER RT

BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m...... 30.07

Precipitation 24 hrs ending 7 a. m Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1

MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow; no decided change in temperature. Mlinois—Generally fair tonight and tomorrow. except scattered thundershowers in northwest portion early tonight; slight- | ly cooler in extreme north portion tomorrow, Lower Michigan—Fair tonight morrow; cooler in north tonight Ohio—Increasing

6a m.

and to-

cloudiness and not so cool tonight: tomorrow partly portion.

WEATHER IN OTHIR CITIES, Stations Weather Amarillo, Tex. ...... Dray Bismarck, N. D, ...... n

Cincinnati Cleveland nver Dodge City, Kas. Kansas City, Mo. Little Rock, Ark.

Pittsbut

Portland, Ore.

San Francisco

00 St. Louis 30.07

INDUSTRIAL EXPERTS FOR DEFENSE SOUGHT

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U. P) — The Government today issued a call for trained industrial specialists to fill important defense jobs. Director William S. Knudsen of

derson of the Office of Price Admin-

dorsed a civil service examination to qualify specialists for several hundred available jobs. They said that the development of the defense program has shown the need for more experts on industrial problems in Government service. They explained, however. that they did not wish to “cripple” any defense industry by taking its key | administrative or technical person-

|lensk, .|munique, now are 66 |lution.”

nel.

BERLIN REPEATS SMOLENSK ‘WIN’

Once More Reports Most of Encircled Russians ‘Destroyed.’

BERLIN, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—The

+3 Nazi High Command claimed today

that German-Hungarian formations have slashed deep into the Ukraine to sever Russian communications and that the main Red forces in the Smolensk region have been “destroyed.” The remainder of the Soviet troops in the region east of Smoit was claimed by the com“nearing disso-

German - Hungarian formations. the communique said, have carried out a sweeping encircling movement which has cut Soviet rail communications. The High Command's communique was issued as other Nazi reports cited the intensifcation of Soviet counter-attacks all along the front but said that in every instance they have been repulsed with the result that Soviet forces have been brought closer to destruction.

Upper Dvina Attacked

German planes, said the High Command, carried out another heavy attack on Moscow during the night, centering their attack on supply centers and food and arms storehouses. Other air attacks were made on communications lines in the upper Dvina region between Smolensk and Moscow. Military dispatches said the Germans were advancing slowly against steady resistance and that all was well because the main purpose was to destroy<the Russian forces rather than to gain territory. There dispatches said the Russian counterattacks were most valuable because all were being repulsed with heavy losses. Propaganda company reporters said Russian units counter-attacked again and again, some as many as eight times, before their losses forced them to give up.

R. J. Thomas, U. A. W. president, in a pre-convention radio broadcast last night, urged a joint conference of automobile management, labor and Government experts to “work out a program to prevent a threatened dislocation of the automotive industry through -curtailment of more than 50 per cent in automobile production because of national defense needs.”

Seek Ban on Communists

Mr. Thomas outlined a convention program calling for measures to protect the right to strike, to obtain a voice for labor in the Government's defense policy administration, to establish a longrange post-war program, to further organizational activity and to develop a comprehensive and uniform wage policy. A program signed by eight members of the union’s international executive hoard was circulated among the delegates. It sought a constitutional amendment which would prevent “Communists, Nazis and Fascists from holding an elective or appointive office in the Union.” Virtually all U. A. W. officials agreed that the Communist issue was “dead,” and that a few “labeled Reds” would be ousted at the convention with all factions uniting in to do it. Mr. Thomas, in his radio speech, sai dhe had been informed in Washington that the proposed 50 per cent production curtailment would not be enforced merely to further national defense production. He was told also, he said, that if the curtailment is enforced, automobile workers will not be transferred to defense projects but that “plants would shut down and that some large automobile producing centers like Flint, Pontiac and Saginaw might become ghost towns.”

Urges ‘Equitable’ Diversion

“The Government and industry must take steps to divert steel and other defense materials from nondefense industries on an equitable basis so that the automobile industry shall not bear the brunt of the shortage while such shortages still exist,” Mr. Thomas said. “Enforced unemployment of 200,000 or more automobile workers would constitute a serious threat to our national economy, which, in turn, might seriously impair our defense morale and our defense program.”

TUCKER APPOINTS 11 LICENSE MANAGERS

Eleven more Republican managers of auto license branches were named today by Secretary of State James Tucker. They are: HENRY COUNTY—Mrs. Harold E. Ratliff, Knightstown; Sheldon Moore, Middletown. MADISON COUNTY—Herbert R. Nash, Elwood; Mrs. Leo Gerringer, Alexandria, and Bonnie Jones, Pendleton, SHELBY COUNTY—Mrs. Ruby Bassett, county vice chairman, Shelbyville. | LAWRENCE COUNTY — Mrs. | Femma Neptune, Mitchell; Mrs. Emma Wagner, county vice chairman, Bedford. DEARBORN COUNTY—William Funck, Aurora, and P. C. Braun, Lawrenceburg. VANDERBURG COUNTY — Edgar Durre, county chairman, Evansville. Branch managers are yet to be named in Blackford, Dubois, How- { ard, Spencer and Tipton counties.

Reds’ 99th Division, Reported Annihilated, Takes a Rest After 40 Days of Fighting

MOSCOW, Aug. 4 (U. P)—A Russian infantry division has reached a rest area, almost intact,

after 40 days of continuous fighting on the Kiev Front, it was disclosed today. The division is the crack 99th, one of those which bore the first shock of the German attack and since then, according to various Nazi pronouncements, have been variously encircied, broken or annihilated. A single sentence in a long Russian communique June 26, when the German armored divisions were driving eastward, said laconically: “Our troops by a swift counterattack recaptured Przemsyl.” The statement was a puzzling one at the time because it was known that Przemsyl, in Poland, was already far behind the fighting front.

It was disclosed today that Przemysl was taken by the 99th, when it had been “encircled,” and,

in the German view, broken or annihilated. That was on the fifth day of the war. Articles by divisional officers in today’s Red Star, the Army, newspaper, revealed that for 35 days, up to last Thursday, the 99th had been fighting the Germans day and night with the aid of guerrillas and had been in touch every hour with the Russian High Command. It was asserted that the 99th had smashed at least six German regiments or something like 150 per cent of its own strength. It used the tactics regarded as standard against blitzkrieg but which no army previously hag been able to use— defense in depth.

the 99th, when the Germans first attacked, drew back slowly to positions where the terrain was most favorable,” leaving light covering forces to absorb the first shock. The entire country through which the Germans moved was alive with Russian soldiers, men of the 99th and guerrillas, hidden in woods and wheat fields. When the divisional command figured the German spearhead had advanced far enough, the Russians began counter-attacking, frontally and from both flanks, day and night. Guerrillas far in the German rear co-operated with the regulars of the 99th and by radio and scouts, the division kept in constant communication with Corps Headquarters. Ordered out to rest, the division emerged, it was asserted, with astonishingly small losses. It had been

Like many other Russian divisions,

relieved by another unit,

ORKMEN at these stations were optimistic about the curfew, They said the 12-hour closing would ‘give us a break” on work= ing hours. Many operators said that if the volume of sales continued as they did today, there would be no necessity for lay-offs, and the stations would save from $50 tc $200 monthly in night-time operating costs Here and there, in the midst of the heavy night traffic leading into the Eastern seaboard’s major cities automobiles sputtered and stalled. The stranded motorists could only park their cars. where they had stopped over night. New York state police operated emergency trucks on the express highways. They sold one gallon of gaso=line to stalled light automobiles and two gallons to heavier machines —enough to enable them to get into side roads and out of traffic. New England stations in particular had a last-minute rush just before 7 p. m. At Raleigh, N. C., hotel operators welcomed the curfew. They hoped long-distance tourists who ordinarily drive late into the night would stop over. Bus terminals at Albany, N. Y., reported unusually heavy business from motorists who preferred not to risk driving long distances. Automobile clubs in the Washington area said service stations were “doing a swell job” of complying with the closing request. The clubs had extended the area of their towing service to aid stranded motorists, but received few requests for hauling. In most parts of Georgia and Florida, service stations confined their business to fixing flat tires and making other repairs. Some

Georgia stations displayed placards reading: “Sure, Secretary Ickes,

Cor Nie Bomber CLAIM STALLING OF KIEV PINGERS

Russians Say Fighting Has Cost Nazis Two Full Regiments.

MOSCOW, Aug. 4 (U. P.).—The Southern Soviet Army of Marshal Semyon Budenny was reported in a Russian war communique today to be checking a German pincer offen sive aimed at Kiev. The fighting at Zhitomir, 90 miles southwest of Kiev, was said to have cos; the Nazis two regiments. : The day’s second war communique reported that German forces, drive ing in full fury against Kiev mn the hope of showing some specifie gain for the terrific losses sufe fered in 44 days of fighting, had been unable to make important ade vances in the past 24 hours. Heaviest fighting, the communie que said, was in the Somlensk area - of the Moscow front, the Estonian sector of the Leningrad front and an unidentified northwest sector where more than 1000 Germans were reported killed and 200 tanks, armored cars and lorries destroyed, The northern prong of the Gere of the Ukraine, was said to be stalled at Korosten, 90 miles westnorthwest, and the southern prong was reported being held at Belaya

Gregory A. Daymond

LONDON, Aug. 4 (U. P)— Gregory Augustus Daymond, 20, of Los Angeles, youngest member of the American Eagle Squadron, was credited today with shooting down the squad's first bomber. The Air Ministry said Daymond shot down a Dornier 17 while on convoy patrol over the English Channel. It was the sixth plane credited to the squadron — the others were fighter planes — and the third destroyed by Daymond. He said he “chased it into the

clouds” and when he finally got it “it settled on the sea for about a second and then vanished. No one got out. All that was left was a small patch of oil.”

MONOPOLY IN SCRAP METAL IS CHARGED

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (U.P.).— Price Control Administrator Leon Henderson announced today that the Justice Department is investigatting alleged monopolistic practices in the scrap iron and steel industry that tend to raise prices. Henderson said he had been informed that approximately 15 scrap iron and steel dealers purportedly had gained contro] of approximately 90 per cent of the scrap purchased by steel mills and have “secretly maintained subsidies and control” in an effort to control prices, selection of grades and supply of scrap. He said that, at his request, acting Attorney General Francis Biddle had authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Justice Department anti-trust division to investigate the charges and take grand jury action if it were found necessary.

FRENCH SHORT OF MEDICINE VICHY, Aug. 4 (U. P.)~The French Academy of Medicine was informed today by a committee of experts that, as result of the blockade, the nation’s public health is menaced by a shortage of medicines. The most acute shortage is in insulin.

Strauss Says:

Tserkov, 50 miles south-southwest, In the Zhitomir area, on the road to Belaya Iserkov, Russian forces, in a surprise drive, were reported to have encircled and annihilated one German regiment of 300 men and crushed another regiment which suffered more than 1500 dead and wounded. It developed that Tallinn, capital of Estonia, is definitely and apparently strongly in Russian hands and it was indicated that the formidable Russian army in that area, 200 miles west of Leningrad is not “encircled” but is holding that corner of the Baltic-Gulf of Fine land coast. . A special dispatch to the newse . paper Pravda reported that war factories were working day and night in Tallinn and that troupes of local actors were touring the tront entertaining soldiers. German planes again raided Moscow during the night. The air raid alarm period was the shortest in two weeks—from 11 o'clock last night until 1:30 this morning. A communique said that only scattered single planes succeeded in breaking through the night ° fighter-anti-aircraft gun defense ring and that they, dropping their bombs from high altitudes, set fire only to dwellings. All fires were put out rapidly, it was said. A special dispatch from the frong reported that the commanding gene eral of the German 16th division had been killed during a Russian counter-attack in which a German occupied village and the 156th Gers man regiment, 3000 men, were dee stroyed.

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and others)

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fitting trouser— It means a

to the eyes (yours,

$9 to §25—

less 15—

to 16.66

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