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News Behind
The News
ByPaulMallon
Washington, Sept. 6 It is
rather widely known here that
the British intend to go in
through Iran to establish a com
mon lighting line with the reds
in front of the Caucasus moun
tain oil fields (famed Baku), in
the expectation that the Nazi
iitlitary machine may yet burn
' jut Its bearings for want of oil.
The Nazis have reached no oil
yet in the Ukraine, will not
come to the rich sources of sup
ply until they have passed the
Caucasus.
If the British couple this
strategy with increased bomb
ing of synthetic oil plants in
Germany, they can do more to
help Russia and themselves
than in any other way now
open.
It is too much to say the Nazi
gtmachine is cracking for want of
fuel. But telltale evidence is be
ginning to come through in the
official dispatches that the pro
longation of the planned 6 or li
weeks campaign has placed a
grave military strain upon the
supply and transportation of
this essential food without which
blitzes cannot blitz.
KEY secret to the whole Nazi
slowdown seems to be gaso
line. The blitx rolled westward
without pause, through Belgium
and France, mainly because the
Germans were able to seize big
filling stations and wholesale
storage tanks, before these could
be destroyed. The high com
mand has since claimed it seized
more gas than it umkI iu the
conquest of the west.
Not so in Russia. There are
no gas stations, retail or whole
sale, because there were no
automobiles. Every gallon must
be hauled from synthetic plants
in Germany, all the way across
Poland to the front.
No new oil sources have yet
been taken by the Germans in
their Russian conquest, except a
few minor wells in Russian Po
land. Earlier they took oil in
Rumania but the problem of
transportation from there to the
central and northern fronts is
extremely difficult.
The private official advices
here suggest this situation has
been desperate for the Nazis at
Continued on Page Eight)
War Bulletins
London. Sept. 8. IIP) The
British submarine P3J was
given up for lost tonight by
the admiralty.
The vessel is "overdue and
must be considered lost," aa
announcement said.
Berlin, Sept. 7 (Sunday) -WP
Ten British planes were
shot down last night during
the course of RAF raids on
western Germany, authorised
sonrcea said today.
By the Associated Press
London. Sept. .F Bri
tain announced today for the
second day In succession a
successful attack on a large
Italian liner in the Mediter
sanaan believed to have been
transporting troops to rein
force axis armies in north
Africa.
An admiralty communique
stated that the 11.398-ton lin
er Esperia was torpedoed by
a British submarine and sunk
ft Tripoli, attacked while in
"aa exceptionally strongly es
corted convoy of destroyers,
torpedo-boats, motor torpedo
boats and flying boats.
"Liners of this type are
used by the enemy as troop
ships," observed the admiral
ty la a comment similar to
that nsed yesterday ia an
nouncing the torpedoing and
"almost certain" sinking of a
liner which the admiralty
thought was the 2 1-6 3 S-ton
Duilio.
No Overtime Charge
Decatur, Ga., Sept. 6. UPt
The mailman exacted no extra
postage from C. R. Broyles when
he received an out-of-town letter
bearing a two-cent stamp. -Maybe.
Broyles figured, 'twas be
cause the letter was mailed In
1931 when two cents would
carry a letter anywhere in the
U. S.
FIRSTJTU-BOAT
Blunt Denial By Navy
F.D.R. And American
Policy Denounced By
Germany Conflicting
Claims.
Washington, Sept 6. UP)
The navy department bluntly
disputed tonight a claim from
Berlin that the destroyer Greer
had been the aggressor in an
engagement with a German sub
marine off Iceland and reiter
ated that "the initial attack was
made by the submarine on the
Greer."
The navy issued the following
statement:
"Notwithstanding German con
tentions appearing in today's
press that the Greer was the
aggressor in its action with the
submarine, the facts are the
same as originally stated by the
navy department namely, that
the initial attack In this engage
ment was made by the subma
rine on the Greer. It was then,
and not until then, that the
Greer counter-attacked."
The navy's original announce
ment Thursday night said that
the Greer, "en route to Iceland
with mail, reported this morn
ing that a submarine attacked
her by firing torpedoes which
missed their mark. The Greer
immediately counter- attacked
with depth charges.'
Washington, Sept. 6. OP)
German-American relations en
tered into a new and uglier
phase today with the publica-
tion of diametrically conflicting
claims as to the circumstances
under which the U. S. S. Greer
and a German submarine en
gaged in a torpedo and depth
bomb skirmish on Thursday.
Self-Defense?
Berlin today claimed that the
Greer, a destroyer, attacked
first, and that the U-boat used i
its torpedo tubes in self-defense.
An exactly similar claim was
made for the Greer yesterday
by President Roosevelt. The
submarine fired first, he said,
and the Greer dropped depth
bombs in self-defense.
To its published claim, Ger
many added a strong denun
ciation of President Roosevelt
and American policy, which
occasioned little surprise here,
and for the time being, at
least, elicited no official com
ment. Berlin charged:
That the assertion that the
Greer was acting In self-defense
"can only be to give at
least the appearance of Justi
fication to an attack by an
American destroyer on a Ger
man U-boat."
That it proved President
Roosevelt had, contrary to his
published statements, issued
"general orders to American
destroyers not only to report
positions of German ships and
U-boats but, beyond that, to
attack them."
And that "Mr. Roosevelt In
this way also is trying with all
means at his disposal to pro
voke incidents in order to incite
the American people into war
against Germany."
Nazis Admit Guilt
Although slate department
and navy officials were silent
on the German communique.
Chairman Connelly (D., Tex.)
of the senate foreign relations
committee said "the Nazis might
as well learn now that we are
going to defend our ships and
our citizens.
'The fact that the Nazis ad
mit a German submarine was
Involved." he added, "amounts
to an admission that it was
acting under orders of the Nazi
government in firing on our
destroyer.
"This spirit of assassination,
disregard for the rights of other
nations and arrogant contempt
. . .v , araggea
us Into the last war.
"We do not want to become
involved in the present war, but
If our ships or citizens are at
tacked we are going to defend
them."
(Continued on Pai )
Portland, Ore., Sept. 9.IP
Thrown from his automobile by
a collision with a pole, Theodore
R. Bryant. Portland, was fatally
.injured. His was Portland's 31st
I traffic death of the year.
Russians
Miss America 1941
Rosemary La Plancha
Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 6.
UP) The crown of Miss America
of 1941 was placed tonight on
the pretty blonde locks of
Miss California, Rosemary La
Planche, 19, hazel-eyed Los An
geles resident and a runner-up
in last year's Atlantic City beau
ty pageant.
She broke Into tears as the
award, goal of attractive girls
from coast to coast for many
months, was made in Conven
tion hall as the climax of a
week:long test of 42 beauties for
talent, personality and appear
ance. -
TEAR GAS ROUTS
SOLDIER RUMPUS
Petersburg, Va., Sept. 8. P)
Petersburg police used tear
gas tonight to disperse a crowd
of soldiers who milled around
and in police headquarters pro
testing the arrest of a Camp Lee
soldier.
Police Chief Charles Ryburn
said ''between ISO and 200" men
crowded around headquarters
in a disturbance following the
arrest of a soldier on a charge
of being drunk and resisting ar
rest. "The soldiers were going to
take him away from us," - Ry
burn said, adding that he asked
them several times to "go along
about their business."
"They insisted on coming on
and cursed us. We used two gre
nades of tear gas."
Military police arrived after
a hurried call to Camp Lee and
kept the men on the move away
from the police station. .
FAIR DEAL ASKED
Hyde Park. . Y., Sept. 6. UP)
PraiHorit Riwwlt hot tk-H
! the heads of all government de
partments and agencies to take
"immediate steps" to put into ef
fect a policy of non-discrimination
in federal employment be
cause of race, creed or national
origin.
His action was an outgrowth
of protests that negroes were
being discriminated against in
the defense program, it was in
line with recommendations of a
i committee on fair employment
I practice, which he created last
June 25
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Rout Foe, Free Vital Railway to Leningrad
PRESIDENT WILL
ADDRESS NATION
AT6PI1NDAY
Subject Matter Not Dis
closed But Probably Ice
land Incident H o o v e r
Talks Tuesday.
Hyde Park, N. Y., Sept. .
(IP) President Roosevelt ig
nored for tonight a nazi declar
ation that he had given the
navy shooting orders and want
ed to incite the American peo
ple to war. but he will broad
cast an address of "major 1m
porance" Monday night to the
American people and to the
world. He will speak at 6 p. m.
Pacific time.
The subject matter was not
disclosed when the temporary
White House announced ar
rangements for the speech
But there was no reason to
doubt that it would deal with
the explosive International sit
uation, if not in some of its
more troublesome aspects, at
least In a general way.
That could be ascertained
from the advance announce
ment that the president's words
would be of major significance
and would be heard not only
by the American people but also
by the entire world in rebroad
casts In 14 languages.
A matter of immediate spec
ulation was the possibility that
Mr. Roosevelt would discuss the
full implications of a naval ac
tion in the north Atlantic
Thursday between a German
submarine and the United
States destroyer Greer. While
neither vessel was hit, appar
ently, the incident brought
strong repercussions both in
Germany and the United States.
New York, Sept. 6.-
Former President Herbert Hoo
ver will discuss the interna
tional suituatlon Tuesday, Sep
tember 18, in a CBS broadcast
from Chit-ago from 6:19 to 6:43
p. m. (PST).
AIR STRENGTH OF
LAND INCREASES
San Francisco, Sept. .6 IIP)
A congressional leader declared
today that the United States has
developed aircraft production
and outlying air bases until It
is well able to care for itself In
time of war.
Rcd. Dow W. Harter (D.-Ohio)
said in an Interview he had come
to this conclusion after he and
the aviation subcommittee, of
which he is chairman, had visit
ed armv air bases.
"We have a very potent air
force right now; we outstrip
every other nation in the world
In heavy bomber equipment,"
Rep. Harter asserted.
He said construction was pro
ceeding rapidly on island bases
in the Caribbean and virtually
all of these already can handle
all types of army aircraft
BULLETIN
Portland, Ore., Sept. 6. OP)
The San Francisco Seals won
their first game of the Coast
league series here tonight with
Tom Seats setting the Portland
Beavers down In a four-hit per
formance, 4 to 2.
San Francisco 4 8 0
Portland . . 2 4 1
Seats and Ogrodowskl;
Speeca, Callahan and Hawk
ins. San Diego
. S
.6
11
14
Hollywood
Hebert, Dilbeck and Salkeld;
Da iso, Osborne and Dapper.
First night game:
Los Angeles ... . ., I II 2
Seattle 0 2 4
Prim and Campbell; Cole,
Brown and F alios
WILLKIE FAVORS
USE OF FORCE TO
KEEP JEAS FREE
Policy Challenged Again He
Declares, And Hopes
America Stands Firm.
New York, Sept. 6. P1
Wendell L. Willkie today called
on the United States to use "de
termination and force" to meet
Germany's challenge to its pol
icy of freedom of the seas.
Speaking on a CBS radio pro
gram celebrating the 18th birth
day of the exiled King Peter of
Yugoslavia, the 1940 republican
presidential nominee declared
"once again, savage and bestial
might has challenged the right
of America to freedom of the
seas."
"I know I speak the over
whelming sentiment of my fel
low Americans in urging the
president to meet the challenge
with determination and force,"
Willkie said. "I hope, and I
know you hope, that the presi
dent of the United States serves
notice on nazi Germany that the
United States expects its ships
to go unmolested in their pass
age across the North Atlantic,
and those interfering with them
will receive the result they are
entitled to. ,
TTiere are certain things a
nation cannot yield without los
ing stre'gth, and certain things
a people cannot yield without
losing soul. I hope America will
lose neither her strength nor her
soul."
Addressing himself to the ex
iled king and the people of
Yugoslavia as "a nation that did
not lose its soul," Willkie paid
tribute to their moral courage
in meeting the nazi challenge.
Speaking from London, King
Peter said: "At this moment all
our efforts must be directed to
one aim; to deliver our country
as soon as possible, with the
assistance of our mighty allies
and the Great American demo
cracy." GO ONJAf AGE
Topeka, Kas., Sept. 6. (JP)
Fed by heavy late summer rains
Kansas streams were on another
rampage today, flooding farm
fields and cities and causing
high property damage.
The Smoky Hill and Solomon
Rivers, which have been out of
their banks all week because of
torrential Labor day rains, sent
their crests downstream from
Salina and Beloit, the Smoky
after breaking through hastily
erected dikes to Inundate part
of the Salina residential area.
Heavy Friday night and Sat
urday rains sent central Kansas
creeks roaring out of their
Banks and threatened serious
floods along the Cottonwood
Neosho and Verdigris rivers.
Between five and six Inches
of rain fell in the Iola vicinity.
putting Rock, Elm and Deer
creeks out of their banks. Water
from rampaging Elm and Rock
creek flooded the eastern part
of town, forcing evacuation of
at least 75 families.
LEW WALLACE IN
Portland, Sept. .6 0P Lew
Wallace, state senator from
Multnomah county, announced
today that he would seek the
democratic nomination for gov
ernor in the 1942 primary elec
tion. Wallace was a member of the
State Game commission from
1834 to 1838 and was elected
state representative in 1034. His
position in the legislature was
vacated In 1039 because he also
held an appointive office.
He was appointed to the state
senate in 1838 to fill a vacancy
and was elected In 1040.
On the Eastern Front
4laNDVB feel COUNTERATTACKS
muM& MAKING HEADWAY
RUMANIA ySjjS
Shading Indicates mala aones of action oa the liussa-Cer-maa
front. Principal sectors were the Leningrad area (1). the
central front (2), and the Kiev area 3), where terrific fighting
was reported to have started en the approaches to the city.
Further south, Odessa 4) was still under siege, and Germans re
ported repulsing a Russian attempt to cross the lower Dnieper
river (5).
SLIM CHANCE FOR
CONQUERED LANDS
IF HITLER WINS
By Louis P. Lochner
Berlin, Sept. 6. (IP) Dr.
Hans Keller, president of the
Academy for the Rights of Peo
ples, In an article distributed by
the German high command, to
day blasted away any hopes
that "Germany after defeating
her opponents" will "resurrect
all those states which the storm
of war has swept away."
The new order In Eurooe can
only be a German orr.er, he
said.
Dr. Keller said Germany does
not deny In principle the right
of a people to its own state.
but he argued:
"The essence of a state Is
might Either one has might,
or one hasn't In the latter case
It la small consolation to have
a well-founded right to might"
"A whole series of powers
has proven too weak to oppose
British imperialism on the one
hand, or Soviet Imperialism on
the other," he continues. "They
fell to Germany. It is solely up
to the fuehrer to determine
what measure of power he will
give back to the peoples with
in the German relch.
"He alone is responsible for
this decision before his con
science as a German and there-
by as a European. Whether his
gift to these peoples will be a
'state' or perhaps an 'order is
secondary In Importance once
there is clarity concerning the
nature of state and Its rela
tionship to the peoples."
Tokyo Says
Tokyo, Sept. 8 (IP) The
newspaper Hochl dismissed the
Greer Incident today aa "noth
ing but that a belligerent de
stroyer was attacked by a sub
marine in belligerent waters."
Nasi Meanness
Berlin, Sept. 6. IIP) German
police today ordered that all
Jews over 18 years of age must
wear yellow, six-pointed star
of David on the left side of
the coat whenever appearing in
public
4 YANKEE AIRMEN
, 11 SAVED,
WHEN SHIP SUNK
Glasgow, Sept 6. (IP) Tout
American airmen en route to
England for service with the
RAF perished in the torpedoing
of their ship by a submarine
whose commander, one Irish
survivor said, came' to the sur
face and shame-facedly asked
"what caused the explosion."
Seven others among the 11
American flying recruits aboard
were landed at a British port
yesterday. Two of them were
injured.
The names of the dead were
not available immediately.
William Beattie, Belfast sea
man aboard the torpedoed ship,
said that after the attack the
submarine came to the surface
amidst the survivor-laden life
boats and rafts.
In a conversation with the
U-boat commander, described
by Beattie as a German in his
early twenties, the Irish sea
man related the latter disclaim
ed that his craft had fired
torpedo.
"He seemed ashamed of what
he had done and asked us what
caused the explosion," Beattie
related.
Beattie said he asked the tub
marine commander for water
and that he replied he had none
to spare but did hand over four
tins of meat and two bottles of
rum.
Upon moving off Beattie said
t h submarine accidentally
struck a lifeboat and caused
the wobbly craft to dip, bring
ing an apology from th sub-
mersible's commander.
Eugene Pioneer Passe
Eugene. Sept. 8 (IP) Francis
Marion Wllkins, S3, Eugene pio
neer and leading citizen, died
at his home late Friday after
noon following a short Illness
Federal Manna
Portland, Sept 8. (JP) Th
farm security administration an
nounced $1,050,000 worth of aid
for new settlers In th Black
Canyon Idaho and Vale-Owyhee,
Oregon, project.
i'RFn ARMY HI AIMS i
Gains Also At Kiev And
Odessa Soviet Air Forcai
In 'Mass Blows.'
By the Associated Press
Moscow, Sunday, Sept 7.
The Red army claimed today to
have driven the Germans out
of vital approaches to Lenin
grad with fierce counter-attack
while the Red air force gave,
full backing with "massed
blows" upon Invading Panzer
troops, infantry and artillery.
The Soviet midnight commun
lque again declared the battla
raged on all fronts yesterday.
But the fight in the Leningrad
sector was the greatest and tha
most vital of tha Russian-German
war which entered Its 12th
week today.
Tha slant rival armies fought
In the northwest over battle
fields darkened by rain and fog.
Dispatches to the army news
paper Red Star declared tha
troops of Marshal Klementt
Voroshilov, defending Russia's
second city, mopped up one oc
cupied zone south of Leningrad,
pinched off another German
armored wedge, penetrated tha
German lines at several point
and crushed one major nazi at
base in never-ceasing counter
thrusts.
Tha Russians also- were em
ploying the counter-attacks at
Kiev and Odessa, the other
great cities to which the Ger
mans have approached closely.
They were said to be repulsing
or holding tha besiegers.
The communique did not
elaborate on the deeda of tha
air force yesterday but the ter
rific role the Red artillery is)
playing was seen in the official
report that "thousands of Ger
man soldiers, hundreds of tanks.
armored cars and lorries, score
of artillery mine throwers and
machine gun batteries have)
been annihilated by tha accur
ate fir of our guns."
The communique said that on,
on single day, last Thursday,
tn soviet artillery killed at
least 13,000 German officer
and men and destroyed over
100 guns of various caliber, and
much other material.
A German war correspondent
reported that German units had
nenetrated "a soft spot" in tha
Leningrad defenses, but did not
specify its location. - He cited
many obstacles created by th
Russians, highways pitted with.
traps and mine fields and fort-
German dispatch, however.
said a long-rang bombardment
of Leningrad continued, with)
electric power plant ' and a
munitions factory effectively
hit Strong luftwaff units also
were declared to have scattered!
strong troop concentration 1st
th area.
SEATTLE CLOSES
IT AREA
Seattle, Sept 6. UP) Th
lights of Seattle's "red light dux
trict" have been blacked out
Police Chief Herbert Kimsep
said patrolmen were assigned to
keep every known brothel clos
ed to comply with an army and
navy request in their fight
against venereal disease. Aa in
vestigation late Friday night
showed that th lights had beest
flicked out
Asked if th shutdown would
be followed by similar actio!
against gambling establish
ments, th new chief said:
"W must accomplish on)
thing at a tun. Our first pro
gram was to revitalize th traf
fic detail. Now w are closing
th houses of prostitution."
From outward indication,
however, torn of th larger
gambling house also closed
their doors, at least temporarily.