Brainerd Daily Dispatch, The (Newspaper) - July 8, 1942, Brainerd, Minnesota HAKE EVERY PAYDAY WAR H DAY THE BRAINERD DAILY DISPATCH to fierie as best ue can FOR VICTORY OVER THE TOP FOR VICTORY STATES ww In the Heart of the Lake Region Ho 74 or 75 United Wire BRAINERD MINNESOTA WEDNESDAY JULY 8 1942 and News VOL 285 AXIS HAMM DON FRONT Crow Wing Co Fair to Be Held August The annual Crow Wing ty fair conducted under the supervision of the Crow Wing County Fair Association will be held on the fair grounds in Brainerd August 12 13 14 and 15 Decision to conduct the fair this year was arrived at last night at a meeting of the fair board in the probate court rooms in the courthouse here Action directing the fair was based a spokesman said in the indication that the Crow Wing county fair board can comply with all ments of the Office of Defense Transportation and orders the operation of county fairs The Crow Wing county fair in August will not it was said tax transportation facilities which are available New Features In planning this year's fair the association announced five new features to be added to the tions of this show These 1 An open class dairy cattle di- vision and a trophy cup offered to the winner by the Civic and Com- merce Association of Brainerd 2 A square dance contest Crow Wing county organizations are to oe asked to send dance teams into this event 3 A 4-H club pie baking con- test 4 Extension of the flower its under the direction of Mrs W R Ludlow 5 Appointment of ents division to supervise variou features of the fair In this division the following are Superintendents Named William Frey agricultural teach and John Christensen of Bay Lake township as superintendents of farm exhibits and Mrs L J ander of Brainerd a former large exhibitor in charge of needle work displays Howard Handeland Long Lake township superintendent of 4-H club booths Norman Caughey Daggett Brook superintendent of 4-H club gardens potatoes and corn Miss Gayle ent of 4-H club baking and ning Miss is associated with the AAA office here and has been active in club work six years Transportation facilities will also be arranged for 4-H club campers at Lum park between the park and the fair grounds The board also voted to erect an addition to the present livestock barn on the fair grounds The Directors Present at last night's meeting were Directors Earl Richolson B C Wilkins Andrew Wolford C H Waldeen F P Caughey L B Koering Linn Lougee E A Nel son Joe Cibuzar Advisory Mrs Paul Fortune Mrs E A Nelson Mrs W R Ludlow Fail Assistants Gerald McKay Ruth Lee and Lorraine Discharge from Service Replaces Certificate A measure of relief for service men experiencing in ob- birth certificates as now by many employers is to be found in a law recently passed by congress and now in effect cording to S V Russell state eran's Employment Representative n the United States Employment Service 369 Cedar street St Paul The act provides that no defense contractor shall deny employment on account of failure to produce a certificate to any person who s otherwise qualified and is able to produce an honorable discharge certificate from any of the military establishments of the United States Veterans can obtain a certified copy of their discharge papers from the service officer of any veterans organization ZWEINER RESIGNS POST AS CHIEF OF DEFENSE UNIT ST PAUL A Zweiner tate civilian defense chief of staff today The resignation which Zweiner to Gov Harold E en was effective immediately Stassen disclosed that he was Allen Briggs 49 St Paul as successor I wish to express my ion for the excellent job which Mr Zweiner has done since Pearl Or in whipping the state defense into excellent Stassen However he is under doctor's to slow down and on that I must accept his ion Stassen said Zweiner would re- main in the civilian defense as a consultant Zweiner said he planned to re- urn to full-time duty as department adjutant of the American Legion Minnesota He was appointed civilian defense chief of staff Dec 1941 and took office Dec 15 Jaycee Will Sponsor Miss Brainerd Contest Brainerd's Junior Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a contest to select a Miss for 1942 to represent Brainerd at the Minneapolis contest July It was announced this morning by Len Boeder J C C man The Brainerd contest is open to all Brainerd girls between the ages of 18 and 25 providing they are unmarried and are a legal resident of Minnesota Although plans are in the tive stages it has been that Miss Brainerd will be ed Friday evening July 17 The selectee will be awarded a trip to the for and any chaperone she might lect She will be given an outfit in which to appear for the state con- test SECRET TRIAL OF SABOTEURS GETS UNDERWAY Cornet Trio to Feature Concert by Band Tonight A cornet trio number Dots will feature the weekly con- cert by the Brainerd municipal band to be presented tonight in Gregory park The trio will be played by Robert Martha Ohlson and ett Nelson The concert will be held at 8 o'clock from the park band stand The balance of the program in- March Steady wallz The march The selection from H M S march The waltz La overture The Blue march Olympic march of the Battalions and The Star Spangled Banner The concert week will be held either in Northeast or east Brainerd it Is announced WASHINGTON The trial of eight Nazi saboteurs facing almost certain death be- fore a firing squad began day in utmost secrecy in the Justice Department building Shortly after 9 a m two huge vans apparently transporting the saboteurs drove through a gate a one side of the white stone build ingr and disappeared down a ramp The saboteurs were believed t have been taken into an and whisked to a fifth floor Fed eral Bureau of Investigation as sembly room where the trial wil be held Precautions taken by the FB and military police shielded th saboteurs from public view Th corridor was barricaded by heavy wooden doors hastily erected two days ago Shortly after the accused men arrived seven generals who com prise the military commission which will try them entered the building They went into the trial room fol lowed by a parade of prosecutors defense counsel and their aides Witnesses were congregating in an other room off the corridor Rotarians Hear Report on Toronto Convention Brainerd Rotarians in thei luncheon meeting in the Hote Ransford Tuesday heard a repor by E T Sletten secretary of th club on the International Rotar convention held in Toronto recent Mr Sletten represented th Brainerd club the convention Nine Army Nurses Awarded for Bravery WASHINGTON army nurses wore blue and gold citation ibbons today as recognition for their work under fire in the pine Islands Lieut Col Leon L Gardner of the Surgeon General's office pre- sented the citations yesterday at a meeting of the Women's National Press Club Recipients included Del V Stevens Verdigre Neb Ruth M Straub Milwaukee Wis and Mollie A Petersen Cogswell N D WPA Operations In the City Are Nearly Completed WPA operations in the city have been reduced to approximately 30 men engaged in construction work in addition to women employed on sewing projects Robert Campbell city engineer said today In the county only 30 more are being used on road work he said With the completion of a water line project now underway here WPA operations in the city may be suspended during the balance the summer Campbell intimated New projects were planned how ever for the fall he said Elder Leaves for Saint Louis to YMCA Meeting Robert Elder YMCA secretary will leave late today for St Louis Mo to attend a YMCA directors meeting there He will return lat Sunday evening Local sporting activities of the YMCA will be directed by Marv Nutting during Elder's absence TO AID MAIL SERVICE WASHINGTON HouS Ways and Means Committee voted to eliminate from the tax a provision to mak second and supporting Suez Canal Imperiled as Rommel Drives On FALL OF SUEZ WOULD HELD BY AXIS UNITED NATIONS NEUTRAL SUPPLY LINES A Sevastopol Black Sea RUSSIA FACING POSSIBLE ATTACK FROM THE REAR SOVIET RUSSIA TURKEY HELD IN AXIS RING AFGHANISTAN HITLER NEARER OIL HE NEEDS ALLIED EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN FLEET AND CYPRUS ENDANGERED ALLIED MIDDLE EAST FORCES THREATENED GREAT LOSS OF FACE FOR UNITED NATIONS AMONG THE MOSLEMS Mediterranean Sea POSSIBLE MEETING OF GERMAN AND SUPPLY LINES TO RUSSIA CUT OFF OR MENACED SAUDI ARABIA Nearing outskirts of Alexandria Axis armoured forces black arrow are almost within striking distance of the strategic Suez Canal which the British say will be destroyed rather than let fall into Rommel's hands The fall of Alexandria would mean loss of control by the Allies of a large part of the eastern Mediterranean area IOO Expected in 4-H Camp Preservation of Food Subject of Nutrition Meet An appeal to women's tions of Crow Wing county g Ladies Aid organizations and Victory Aides to send tives to the general nutrition con- ference to be held in the court bouse here Wednesday July 15 was issued today by Mrs Edward A Nelson chairman of the Crow Wing county committee The conference is to be attended jointly by representatives of the Brainerd and county committee groups Mrs said The ing will open at 10 a m and con- until 4 p m More than families in the county were expected to be ed through the food preservation program Mr Nelson said Out- standing features of the conference will be discussion on storage ing sulphuring and brining er with canning and other types of food preservation Floodwood Man Suffers Broken Bones in Crash third-class mails self Olai Bolstad Floodwood Minn was brought to St Joseph's tal here last night suffering injuries alleged to have resulted in a car accident in which a car he was ing in was sideswiped near Aitkin Mr Bolstad suffered several 1 broken bones his attending cian said Registration will start Thursday at 10 a m in the main dining hall at Lum park for the annual Crow Wing county 4-H camp The camp will officially get un- derway at 7 Thursday evening with an opening talk of welcome by E G Roth county agent The day affair will end with a noon meal on Saturday An attendance of around 100 is expected according to a county agent spokesman Miss Juanita Silcox and Clifford E Cairns from the state 4-H office have charge of the various demonstrations that will be held Parker O Anderson from the estry department and William Munch of the conservation ment will present movies dealing with these two subjects july Assembly Junior Leaders and Adult Leaders meeting Swimming Supper ing Movie State Forest Rangers in The Canoe try a colored on north July Flag Raising Breakfast General Assembly Canning tion by Lylah Oberg Kerr Co Boys 4-H Victory Garden and Ex- Boys Dairy Judging You and Your Boys Handicraft Dinner Kittenball tournament outside ming Supper Music and Play Con- July Breakfast Victory Health Boys Summer Care of 4-H Demonstrations Boys New Rooms for Boys Selecting a Good Dairy Swimming Dinner Flag Lowering and Adjournment 3 Army Planes Crash 11 Men Die in Wrecks BY UNITED PRESS Undated Three army plane crashes killed 11 officers and en listed men yesterday Five were killed when a bombei crashed into the side of a mountain rear Renton Ga They were no immediately identified A medium bomber crashed am burned near Sioux City Iowa kill ing four They were Lieut Parke C Everett Sgt Jack Barr Jones Corp Robert W Shores and Corp Joseph H Plew Lieut John J Offut 30 of New Castle Pa and Lieut Robert E Adams 22 of Huron S D were killed near Fort Valley Ga when a plane from Cochran Field ed on a routine flight British Thrust at Rommel Line in Desert Sector BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign Editor Axis offensive blows by massed tanks airplanes and in- antry hammered at the Don river sector of the Russian front vith greater momentum today but on the Egyptian end of the enemy pincers British mobile units were reported stabbing 30 miles southwest of the El Alamein Both the pincers thrusts through south Russia and Egypt ward vital allied communications lines in the near east remained dangerous In Egypt Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was holding iis ground despite heavy air attacks and swift allied stabs that destroyed tanks and took prisoners on his southern flank as far west as El Dabo The axis apparently was getting reinforcements across the Mediterranean in preparation for a new drive toward Alexandria if the British cannot strike a ul blow soon Alleged Bund Leader Makes Suicide Threat MINNEAPOLIS erick Berg awaiting removal to New York on an indictment as a German-American Bund leader today to commit suicide because I'll be shot anyway Police report that Berg made the threat to a in the city jail A 24-hour guard has been placed at the door of his cell detective Fred M Ahr said U S District Attorney Victor E Anderson said Berg could not be shot as part of the punishment should he be convicted on a federal grand jury indictment charging him and other Bund leaders with violating the selective service and the alien registration acts The orders for Berg's removal to New York were expected to arrive here today U S Commissioner H D Irwin probably will conduct the removal Anderson said Berg was arrested at the request of the Federal Bureau of gation Eight Applicants Take Firemen Examinations A group fo eight applicants for positions as fire truck drivers on the Brainerd fire department were writing examinations today at fire department headquarters here The examinations which ued through the day were ed by Chief William Sudeth of the St Paul fire department and ford Herberg Minneapolis Fire Underwriters One vacancy as truck driver is to be filled in the Brainerd ment The examinations are under the Civil Service code FDR Warns Tires May Be Requisitioned WASHINGTON i l ident s warning that the government may have to requisition every automobile tire in the country today was ex- to touch off another campaign for eliminating toring as usual For months officials have been warning the public that extra- ordinary measures should be taken to conserve the tires now on automobiles There may not be enough rubber for military needs they have said let alone civilian needs Government officials were be- to be preparing motorists now for more drastic controls over those precious tires made the first move by telling Ms press conference yesterday what may be ahead for motorists if world conditions get worse than they are now May Requisition The President said the entire nation could not go without tires and if it becomes sary to requisition tires to save the country he will do so He emphasized that he was con- cerned about saving the try rather than saving rubber and gasoline Government officials have eii that if driving were eliminated the present tires in use might last until the tic rubber program is well under- way Some weeks ago they ed nationwide gasoline rationing as a rubber conservation measure but FO much opposition to it was raised that it was deferred until after the current rubber salvage program is completed Mr Still Has Hope said ths and gasoline problems were almost hopelessly interwoven but that he and was still clinging to the hope that a method would be found to arate them Before the President's press con- ference two other officials ced driving as usual in reference to the gasoline rationing program on the east coast Undersecretary of War Robert P Patterson Deputy Petroleum Co-ordinator Ralph K Davies charged that driving as usual was exhausting valuable gasoline supplies in the east and was preventing war ers from obtaining the fuel to travel to and work Appeal lo Motorists They appealed to every motorist to curtail driving as much as possible of personal inconvenience Other 1 Mr Roosevelt reported that ths yield of the scrap rubber campaign was than the lowest estimates not yet near the mates In a report released from the White House Monday up to last week end were 293 2 Registration for the es permanent coupon gasoline rationing will begin tomorrow in some 30.000 schools with more teachers and volunteers on hand than for the sugar registration of every civilian in the 17 Atlantic seaboard rationing states 3 Oil I announced that he hati the Wai Production to prove pipeline ation project which would br an 200.000 of into the eastern ment area 4 Secretary of Commerce Jones said that the defense plant had t move an pipeline from Texas Florida to move across the northern part of that state REVIEW INDICATES EXCELLENT GRAIN CROP CONDITIONS MINNEAPOLIS Cargill Grain Crop review issued today re- ported crops in Minnesota North and South Dakota and Montana in excellent condition and crops in uniformly good condition out the rest of the country The review indicated that an un- usually large crop of flax ally over the main areas of Iowa the Dakotas and tana is expected Corn in some northwest areas late and may suffer from an frost the review said hut the re- port arided that in spite of weather the crop is de- steadily A late frost also blamed for retarding the rye crop in som states Ful effects k n o v n said of this frost will not be for some time the review Weather quite so cool north and east portions day and Thursday forenoon Scattered showers or storms southwest tonight and south and west portions day forenoon SHOWERS ing r u ry il Bra iner I a ml Ui were ing back to run inal today with r ist ration of 7 decrees this nooi and a in the past 2 hours of 79 de prows M minium i ear and the mei 1 m registered 61 de no precipitation Danger in Russia But the greatest danger to the Hies was on the flaming Don river ront where the Red army battled round Stary and the key city of Voronezh The Germans claiming capture f Voronezh said they had pushed he Russians southeastward in the Don basin in what appeared to be long-range offensive aimed vard Astrakhan some 550 miles way at the mouth of the Volga iver They made no specific claims if positions however and said that the gaps torn in the Russian lines were being widened Battlefields Cemetery Dispatches from Moscow knowledged that these gaps were as a result of relentless attacks by masses of enemy tanks backed by infantry but he Russians reported that the were a cemetery of man men and machines A total of en train loads of wrecked Nazi anks was reported moving to the rear for repairs in addition to dreds knocked out on the Don Air power was being thrown into the battle on a greater scale by both sides The latest Russian dispatches failed to knowledge German claims that Voronezh had fallen instead that were slashing at both enemy flanks with unknown results Heavy fighting reported by both Berlin and Moscow on the sector northwest of Voronezh in- that the Russians might be making their main diversion at- tempt in that area but the dominated Vichy radio also d that a strong Soviet counter- blow had been aimed at the axis the Taganrog area near the coast of the Sea of Azov That at- tack on the southern front might be designed to throw the enemy off balance and prevent a new drive toward Rostov The axis offensive it now seemed certain was designed to cut the railroad line and if possible break through the hinge between the Russian southern and central armies That objective has not yet been attained although the railroad may have been severed at some points Doubtful in Egypt Authoritative sources emphasized that the British had not yet turned the tide in the battle for although they have at least halted and ed It was pointed out that mel has not given up any tant ground except a ridge south of El Alamein and that if he can bring up reinforcements he may yet be able to strike a strong new blow toward Alexandria 60 miles away That the axis is moving up re- seemed almost tain despite heavy losses due to British and American ment Axis planes made heavy attack on the British island of Malta where nine axis craft were shot down and probably eight British planes were lost This regarded as meaning that con- voys were crossing the to Rommel Rome and Berlin repenting Sf: British tanks destroyed in desert again claimed that msl merely was halted for and that he would soon eastward
