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VOLUME 53--NUMBER 193

Nazi Major Slain In F rance; — oe ‘Second. Front’

F.D.R. INVITES WAR

“JOBLESS AID

COMMISSION 15 ABOLISHED

Economy . Move, Welfare Head Says; Counties Assume Duties. By EARL RICHERT

As an economy move, the Unem-| ‘ployment ‘Relief Division of the

State Welfare Department is being abolished and most of its functions

transferred to county welfare de-|

partments, Thurman A. Gottschalk, director, announced today.

Insofar as the new move pertains ;

to the abolition of the Relief Division, it accomplishes exactly what the Republican-dominated 1941 Legislature sought unsuccessfully. to do. Republican legislators passed a bill abolishing the Governor's Commission on Unemployment Relief and after much pressure was | brought to bear, compromised by ‘passing another bill ng jie "duties of the Commission to

Handled Indigent Aid The Unemployment Relief Division was created in the Welfare Department to handle these duties which consisted of certifying appli-|

'No Escape’

EDUCATOR SEES U.S. NEAR WAR

+ Those Thinking We Can tay Out Are Misled, Says College Chief.

e have no chance of escaping ve participation in the present 1d struggle and those people who

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2 22, 1941

150 HOSTAGES FACE DEATH IN NAZI REPRISAL

50 Already Executed for Nantes Killing; Huge Reward Offered.

VICHY, France, Oct. 22 (U. P.).— A German Army major was shot dead at Bordeaux last night 36 hours after the killing of a colonel at Nantes, wkich caused the Ger-

mans to execute 50 French hostages.

and to threaten the execution of 50 more, it was disclosed today. It was announced officially that the Germans had immediately arrested still another 50 Frenchmen in Bordeaux to hold as hostages and execute if the killers were not caught. German occupation authorities announced through Paris newspapers today that three more Frenchmen ‘had been executed for illegal possession of arms, bringing to 134 the number of Frenchmen executed by the Germans since Aug. 13. : Announcing that 50 Frenchmen had been shot this morning at Nantes—hostages executed by the Germans because the killers of Lieut. Col. Karl Friedrich Holtz, commanding the German Nantes base,

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Torpedoed ‘On the Seven Seas’

The freighter Lehigh, sunk by torpedo off coast of Africa.

STRIKES AID TO AXIS, SAYS OPM

‘No Second Front’ London: ‘Germans Halted'—Moscow

LEHIGH

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22

Seas under protection of their

1.0. R. PRATE, GERMANS CLAIM

22 MISSING ON

REACH

AFRICAN PORT

Arming of U. S. Vessels to Go Anywhere Urged on Congress; Hull Says 10 Sinkings Prove Nazi Policy of ‘Piracy.’

(U. P.).—President Rooses

velt’s White House spokesman, Stephen T. Early, today, virtually invited Congress to repeal immediately Section Two of the Neutrality Act along with Section Six to permit American merchant vessels to go anywhere on the Seven

own guns and their own flag.

Mr. Early spoke to reporters a day after announcement of the ninth and 10th sinkings of ‘American-operated ships |during this war, half as many as were sunk before. the United States entered the World War. '

Twenty American ships were sunk between Jan. 28, 1915, and April 6, 1917, when we declared war on Germany, The ninth and 10th sinkings of American-operated ships since

September, 1039, were announced

Jesterday:- Hie Lehigh, an Amer= ican flag ship, and the Bold Vene

Invasion of Continent Would Be ‘Madness,’ Lords Told: ‘British Bomb Naples; 600 Belgians. Arrested.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS . : United Press Foreign News Editor.

cants for WPA assistance, handling | we can are misled, Dr. the stamp plan, free school lunches|James Madison Wood, president of and distribution of surplus com-|Stephens College, Columbia, Mo., modities. said here -today. © Mr. Gottschalk said the Division] Dr. Wood made that statement in

had not been arrested, Petain said: “Under the armistice we laid down our arms and we have not the right to take them up again and strike the Germans in. the

ture, flying the Panamanian flag. . The * Maritime Commission ane | |nounced today that 32 missing sea« men : from the torpedoed freighter Lehigh -had ‘been landed safely at Freetown, British West Africa. All

Nazis Regard Sinking Reports With ‘Skepticism,’ ' Say Spokesmen.

Defense Agency Issues Plea ‘To Labor and Industry

back, For Co-operation. *

was being abolished in an effort to keep “somewhat near” the reducedf appropriations which the Legisla-

ture made for this work. He said he felt that the present State and county wellare we could do most of this that would.

‘only a few.

be added in|,

{i Slashed (The Governor's Commission un Unemployment Relief last year spent ,000 in. carrying out its ind the a appro-|

pr Gottschalk said it would y take a year to complete

the Rt of duties to county wel=} qo 11 akes us readier.”

fare departments and that for the resent the duties would be handled y the Welfare Department district supervisors and that district offices would be set u Many of the. "county welfare department budgets have already been finally approved and they have no means by which ey could pay for this additional work.

State Pays Personnel

‘Commenting on .the possibility that some of the county welfare de-

partments may object to taking on|many

tional duties, Mr, Gott

ei said: “We are ‘hoping they will do it.” He added that the State Department ‘would continue to 8,10 Beak all Perachinel costs during ‘the period hich the transfer of duties are

The only function of the Division which is to be retained by the Welfare Department is the distribution of surplus commodities. The Department, of course, will supervise the work of -the country departments in handling WPA certification, school lunches and the stamp plan, in counties using the Federal food stamps.

Smith Gets New Job

Dudley. Smith, head of the Unemployment Relief Division, has been named acting public relations director of the Welfare Department, and the 125 employees of the Division have been notified by letter that the department is being abolished. They ave Dees toa lo lake examinations for other Welfare Department jobs.

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an interview before he talked briefly before the Lions Club at noen, and ‘addressed the County Superintendents’ Association, meeting pre-

tomorrow. . “that. there is no foree that war, and that it will be largely up to us to rescue the world from the destructive forces of the totalitarian governments.

Favors Looking Ahead

“If we can’t, nobody can. We are the only hope for stemming that tide,” he. said. I think the President and his advisers are ‘wise to delay our entry into-the war as long as possible, because a ocracy is never ready for war and every day’s

Dr. Wood said, however, that he thinks it would fo very foolish for persons interested in the preservation of the democracies not to look ahead, past the next few years of strife, and strengthen the two forces that are the only antidote for a Frankenstein civilization found today. in Germany. “These two fundamentals, he said, are homes where the mother intelligently presides, and religion. He said that the -only ‘place a feat persons ever gan be taught what .a democracy is:is at home from their mothers, and that the / {Conus on Page Four) i

EE/9210,730 NEEDED AS FUND NEARS. CLOSE

Report Due Today; 69.4% Of - Goal -Reached.

FUND FACTS Goal ii.vuieoiinsinase. $688,500.00 Raised to date sessness $477,769.83 Per cent of goal co eeeeice.s. Amount needed ......$210,730.17 Drive ends tomorrow night. As the 22d annual community fund campaign’ neared its close, the

3000 volunteer “workers were to meet again today to report addiBon pledges ' expected to exceed 00,000 Before tomorrow night a total of $210,730.17 must be raised to reach the goal of $688,500. The amount|th pledged to date is $477,769, or. 04 per cent of the goal.

1939 SHOOTING CASE

After kee keeping ‘the case under aden, for two. years, Judge 8 ro

“intelligent

Ask Nazis for Limit” “If the assassing are

to the annual convention orn hire Sct Teachers’ Asso~ | stand a

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Darlan ‘had Tn” to the Ger- fo i mans to “limit” their reprisals. for}

the two killings. Petain arranged to make four speeches in all during the day, ap-

pealing for an end of attacks on

Germans.

Killed in Daylight

The German major killed at Bordeaux was shot in the Boule

St. George by daylight at 7:45 p.

yesterday. Two youths of 18 or 20 stalked him and attacked him, shooting him in the back according to the Vichy version... Two others held four bicycles ‘nearby, and all escaped through the crowded boulevard. As Petain and Darlan made their radio appeals, prefectural and municipal authorities at Nantes issued proclanmtations praising ‘the German

commander Holtz as a “just, good

and kind man” who, had shown comprehension”. and

with whom’ Vichy authorities were

on “the best of terms.”

The promised to do all they could

to (arrest “the killers and appealed to the French to help them.

Gen. Joachim .Stuelpnagel, commanding German’ forces in Occu= pied France, offered a reward of 15,000,000 francs (perhaps $300,000) for information which would aid] the Germans in drresuing the killers.

OVERNIGHT JUMP IN DEBT TOPS BILLION

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 . P).

—The Federal debt rose more than

$1,300,000,000 overnight to a new record high of $52,959,142,361, the Treasury disclosed today. The sudden increase represented the final r So0un0 = ew men bonds wee money for the steadily-increasing cost of na-, tional defense which: Oct. , Smounsd io to Jaman for

heraet def A Soin a, to. run|

and on Oct. 20 totaled ,1 391 So far this fiscal year. " 10,

00| The Office of Production Manag

-of about:$1;300,-|"

By UNITED PRESS

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ment. could not be. reached immediately. Four days ‘ago, the ‘OPM listed 29 strikes . in: defense - industries, - describing seven as: serious. One, Jat Pennsylvania plants of the Shenango Furnace :Co., was settled today, and 1500 of 8000 of - the workers involved in the second at the -1Great Lakes Steel Corp. Ecorse, Mich., returned to work. Co-operation Is Asked “Let us have all the co-operation and help possible,” said the OPM statement, signed ‘by Co-directors William 8S. Knudson and Sidney Hillman and by Navy and War Secretaries Frank Knox and Henry L. Stimson. “The Shenango strike had halted pig iron production, and. the Great Lakes walkout affected, manufacture ‘of high tensile steel used in armament plants. The Hanna Furnace Corp., sub sidiary plant of Great: Lakes, was opened on- the day shift, hut the parent plant and the Michigan Steel plant, another subsidiary, remained closed, and 6500 workers still were idle. Union Warns Members

“Those returning to work at Great Lakes had voted action last night after leaders of the Steel Workers Committee (C.' I. 0.)

doesn’t reopen this. plant the Army Coal uroduction was menaced by captive .mines in the Birmingham, Ala., area and the threatened walkout "of 44,000 C. I. O. United Mine Workers. in

Threat of a-second and more im(Continued on Page Four)

“ADMIT FALSE ALARMS

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Organizing warned ‘that “if the 8. W. O. C.| wildcat ‘strikes - which closed nine|

three other states at : Ho!

Red Army counter-attacks held back Hitler's offensives against

Moscow and Rostov

and new terrorist outbreaks menaced the

Germans in Western Es but Great Britain Officially blasted any|

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"WEST COAST AREA

Minor Damage: Is: Reported, But No Injuries.

LOS ANGELES, ‘Oct. 22 «. P).— Two of the strongest earth tremors since the 1933 disaster. in Long Beach shook a portion of southern California last night, causing scattered minor damage but no injuries. The quakes were felt a few seconds apart between 10:58 and 10:59 p. m,, Pacific Standard Time. They were ‘of about the: same intensity. A lighter tremor was noted: at 2:35 a. m. in Los Angeles and Long Beach.

The temblors- were sharpest In Los Angeles, diminishing in intensity toward the fringe of an area rig 5 miles long and 20 miles wide. . .. =» Santa Ana, about 40 miles south of Los Angeles, : reported” a slight Jar. The San Fernando valley towns north ‘of Hollywood were shaken noticeably, as was: Long Beach, scene of the March, 1933, . quake which killed more than 100 persons. In downtown Los Angeles the|Santa Fe-Burlington bus depot reported: the' quakes‘ cracked ‘the building and ro the lobby with plaster but none was injured. Burglar alarms ‘in. Los Angeles and Hollywood clamored when strained buildings shorted the wires.

STATE HOUSE NOT ISSUING DIRECTORY

no such directory had been authorHe said that according to his information the were : first asking $15 for ‘advertisement and that when nat was refused they would try to get 93, He said

Bureau, directory.

Police May Revive 9 o'Clock Curfew Law

To Curb Halloween Vandalism by Children |

a 1 hi Government pokesman' Tr 8 that $$ would be “madness

Pw seid ad Sapediiion to Coupled Eun

Ba The failure of British demands for an attack in the .west now came at a ttme when<the Russians were reported stabbing - back at. Hitler's

snow=-swept Moscow front. ald’ ‘southward before Rostov in the Ukraine, ' Both Berlin and Moscow were vague as to details /of fighting on the 350-mile; arc befqre. the Soviet capital, except to uSknowiedge heavy

" Dispatches from ‘both. sides) however, indicated’ that Hitler's use of huge reinforcements had failed to make important progress, possibly due to deep mud and slush, and that the battle lines still were wavering “back and forth over ground stained .with the blood of a week’s attacks ’and counter-attacks.

Repression Continuous

“On the north, the Russians claimed further gains in counterattacks ' around Leningrad and in the South, they . said -the Axis drive into the Ukraine industrial

Donets Basin‘ already was lost to Russia; In Western Europe, terrorist t ac-

| tivities continued to bring drastic

German retalial measures, At Nantes, the Germans executed 50 French hostages for the shooting by uncaptured assassins of Nazi Lieut. Col. Karl Priedrich Holtz. Fifty more were threatened with execution if the assassins are not captured by Thursday midnight. Almost at the same hour, however, another German officer was killed at _Bordeaux by four assail‘ants who escaped. Fifty hostages were seized there and faced the Yreat of execution. news agency

dispaten from Bucharest said that (Continued on Page Four).

, WANT CANAL RESTORED

_ Times Special VILLE, Ind. Oct. 22.—

tion, whose objectives will be’ the restoration of the canal aqueduct at Metamora and the flow of water-in the canal, was formed here last night. John, P.» Goodwin, Brookville, was

a|Slested: Bresjdents A ‘Alfred C. Brown, O’Brien, Tamers, sane ue

HORSEPOWER RACE ‘Are America’s aircraft on-

; ines kee ine ce with, Tand's'and Germany's?" W

Yenin- | Lehigh and Bold Venture had been

- | Secretary of State Hull have in-

War News Inside Details of Pighting . aoa Page 3 British ‘Black Market’ ....... 3 . “eee wore diny 12:

BERLIN, Oct. 22 (U. P.).—Authorized German quarters expressed the “deepest skepticism” today over res | ports of the American-owned ships

sunk, énd-the Nazi press: asserted that President Roosevelt, not Germany, was “the pirate.” The German press attacks on Mr. Roosevelt followed a statement by an authorized spokesman that “all recent allegations’ of United States! spokesmen regarding ship sinkings have proved t6 have ee fakes and inventions.”

Germany was prosecuting against merchant shipping “consist ent with international law. The Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung ‘said “President Roosevelt and his

sulted the German ' nation with] filthy expressions and attempts in the most loathesome fashion to degrade the honor of German war prosecution.” . It accused Mr. Roosevelt of “running after: war” to create .incidents and charged ‘that “therefore this swindler of the (American) people, who - prosecutes his lawless war, is the international pirate.” “When. this policy then leads to the incident desired by him, this war criminal assumes a pose, takes the word ‘right’ into his mouth with|. loathesome self-righteousness' and insults the honor of soldiers honorably fighting the enemy.in a war declared by England.”

OPPOSES 10 PCT. PAY. INCREASE FOR ARMY

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 (U. P.).— Chairman Andrew J. May’ (D. Ky.) of the House Military Affairs Committee, today" Mdinaiey | that a bill introduced yesterday for a 10 per cent increase in the ie pay. rate of officers and enlisted men. in the Army, Navy and: Marine 1 little chance of passing the ‘House

country’s already going broke, we ought to cut down pur presi tures rather than try to increase them at: evety! turn” in ‘the’ road.”

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The newspapers asserted that ¥ her war|

Rep. May said that since “the )

44 men who: were. aboard the ship. now are known to have been Fescued, ::: ;

African port, where the ‘ship was scheduled to pick up a cargo of ore for, return to the Jailed States. 4 22 men had been landed ‘at Bate hurst, British. Gambia. Today. Sonsissiot was notified that the others, including five stowaways,

had been landed safely at Freee. international town.

: Two of the men were injuréds: Joseph Brady, 42, third assistant engineer, of Brooklyn, N. Y, who is’ suffering ‘from serious ‘leg in= Juries, and Joseph Bartlett, ordinary seaman, ; 24 Yeats cold, ‘of : Oakland, Cal, , Who lost, three toes. y Sina

The maritime commission said if did a Xnow 2% the seamen reac Free Arrangements were being made by. the opera of the vessel to return the Lehigh crew to the United States. Lo Secretary of State Cordell: Hull said at his ‘press conference : that the sinking of the American flag freighter Lehigh was a perfect - example of “Nazi policy. of ate | temptin~ to create a reign of frightfuiness and absolute lawioss: ness on the high seas.” J The Secretary

‘Clarifies F. D. R. Stand

Adopting the strategy of emphasis’ on certain portion placing Rooosevelt’s neutrality revision

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