Joplin News Herald (Newspaper) - August 5, 1941, Joplin, Missouri Atlanta Elks Will Assist in Recruiting Aviation Cadets but It Is Suggested That It Might Be a Better Job for the Eagles THE WEATHER except fair In southwest portion Wednesday partly afternoon thundershowers and locally cooler in widely separated Wednesday clear to partly afternoon thundershowers and locally cooler in widely separated cloudy tonight and scattered afternoon thundershowers and locally cooler cloudy to fair tonight and except scattered thundershowers in southwest JOPLIN NEWS HERALD SIXTY-NINTH 129. AUGUST 5, 1941.- EIGHT PRICE THREE Germans Break Through Red Lines in a Surprise Berlin Reports ANNIHILATION OF RED ARMY IS ANNOUNCED Thousands of Prisoners and Huge Amount of War Material Captured as Soviets Are Encircled in New Aug. 5.-UP)-The bitterly contested towns of Kholm and Bel are now in German the official news announced Kholm is on the Lovat river 250 miles northwest of was mentioned in the Russian communique for the first time indicating an advance of about 70 miles from the previous battle Bel is 50 miles south of Kiev and the German forces which fought their way there apparently form the southern ' arm of a great pincers closing in on the Ukraine Aug. 5.-UP)-The German high command today reported a widening in the Russian lines thrust 60 miles southeast of and the repulse and annihilation of encircled red army forces grouped in the Ukraine for the defense A communique from Adolf Hitler's Headquarters said attempts of soviet troops encircled in a small area in the Ukraine where a powerful twin drive has been launched to isolate the were repulsed and some of the units 6,000 Reported official news said 6,000 Russian prisoners were along with 50 cannon and 368 trucks in the although the high command did not detail its successes To the where the command has been comparatively silent concerning its drive toward the communique said a surprise offensive was opened in a new direction southeast of Smolensk and new enemy power group was partly annihilated and partly DNB said German troops broke extensive Russian field positions south of Kiev seizing 43 Thousands of prisoners and a great amount of war material were taken after hard agency and described the Russian losses as very with the number of dead twice as great as the number of Almost complete occupation of the last of the was indicated by the which reported the capture of small railroad town 45 miles southeast of the Estonian one of the few definite points mentioned in recent German is but 25 miles south of the Gulf of aid about 80 miles west of the soviet DNB told of an incident in sector in which German engineers and shock troops made a sudden attack long soviet troop transport train engaged in on page 5) HOURLY TEMPERATURES The mercury rose to 94 degrees at 1 p. m. but fell to 91 at 2 p. as skies became partly This morning's minimum was 74 High and low readings a year ago today were 91 and 76. Hourly temperatures a. a. a. a. a. 9 a. a. 1 p. 2 p. 3 p. Jurors Unwilling to Serve In Gangster's Murder Court Is Forced to Recess New Aug. 5.-UP)-Because of a situation which County Judge Franklyn Taylor said was unwillingness of veniremen to serve as trial of Louis Buchalter and three on murder charges today was recessed until September 15. Judge Taylor directed that all veniremen return to court on that day and at the same time reserved decision on all pending applications for excuses by those asked to sit in judgment on the Brooklyn peculiar situation is is practically a by the The reason for it may be a reluctance to give protracted service during the hottest month of the The temperature in the courtroom was 74 Emmanuel Louis Capone and Philip charged with the murder of Joseph Brooklyn storekeeper in 1936, have pleaded The state says Rosen was murdered to prevent his appearance before a Manhattan grand jury where was scheduled to tell what he knew about the trucking Of the 250 members of a jury panel 26 didn't show tip at all and 129 offered a variety of reasons to be excused from ' One man said he was to be married next Others said they were needed in defense industries and still the need summer vacations or even the affliction of hay Judge Taylor denied 16 granted 18, and deferred decision in the The entire session was given over to hearing the pleas of - Charged with participation in the murder of Joseph a Brook lyn in 1936, to prevent him from testifying in a flour trucking racket Buchalter sat without emotion through the long court Not once did he grin as he did when he pleaded guilty to a narcotics law violation and received a 14-year federal prison term in 1940. Since that Buchalter has been sentenced for 30 years to life in Sing Sing prison for participation in a shakedown For months he fought New York's efforts to put him on trial for his The Buchalter during a period of touched virtually every corner of the United States in the case of extended beyond the nation's gangster control of bakery flour trucking and other fields were charged to From 1937 public enemy No. 4, Buchalter became a until he surrendered in 1939 as the nation's chief public he was sought throughout the United States and 4'fTw other public officials have openly charged the disappearance of numerous whose mouths were closed they could testify in racket Waiting to testify against him was Abe self-named leader of the Brooklyn murder syndicate whose testimony as a state witness already has sent five gangsters to Sing electric Senate Gets Defense Tax After House Action Aug. 5. - The huge defense tax which would give the government its biggest the national went to the senate today bearing a thumping house but immediately there was talk that it might yet undergo major It passed the house by the lopsided vote of 369 to 30 late yesterday after it had first been stripped of a provision for requiring all married persons to file joint income tax This provision had been counted on to raise about in additional revenue compelling many married persons to IN CAMP AREA Land Is Being Listed for Proposed Neosho Military Extended Five-day weather forecast for Kansas Oklahoma from 6:80 o'clock tonight 6:30 p. m. will average somewhat above recurrent localized thunderstorms will produce light rainfall on the but locally moderate to heavy amounts principally first half of Aug. 5.-Acquiring options was started here today by government officials working in co-operation with the construction quartermaster corps on for a proposed army camp near D. T. chief land appraiser for the said the war had instructed him to begin taking options on land in the 62,000-acre-camp Beattie said his has no authority to purchase the land and that i the options would be sent to where final purchase must be First Options Near will be either by field representatives or in the office of the department and options taken on their First options to be taken will on hand in the about two and a half miles south of Beattie said formal announcement of the camp project from the war department is expected by informed here pay higher The defeat of the joint return a 242 to 160 attributed to a great extent to the criticism voiced by President who wanted it modified to exempt the income actually earned by either husbands or Members of the ways and means who balked at recommending the president's were joined by other legislators in warning that further increases in individual income taxes would be necessary to make up the lost Chairman George of the senate finance expressed belief the senate would not seek to reinstate the controverted provision but would try to make up the deficiency possibly by revision of the income tax brackets to broaden the He said his committee would hear an explanation of the by treasury experts tomorrow and begin a two public hearing on George expressed doubt that the senate would make any change in the fundamentals of the excess profits tax plan approved by the The mentioned by George would be in line with President Roosevelt's for the chief executive told the ways and means committee he thought the exemptions for single persons should be reduced from to and those for married persons from to Mr. Roosevelt asserted that persons in those income groups were eager to in to help the defense As it passed the house the would virtually triple the taxes of persons in the lower and middle income groups by levying a graduated system of surtaxes at 5 per cent on of taxable income and ranging up to 75 per cent present on page 5.) LEAD AND ZINC New 5. - - Copper electrolytic Connecticut 12.00; New 11.00-12.00. Lead New 5.85-5.90; East St. 5.70. East spot and 7.25. MINE UNION HEAD URGES Proposes Formation of Organization of Professional Workers and Small Business Reid Robinson of president of the International Union of Mill and Smelter urged today the formation of a political party made up of professional workers and small business In his annual delivered on the Connor hotel roof garden today to the thirty-eighth convention of the international Robinson If the American people are to have their needs and rights expressed and advanced through political they will have to do this job through their own political The time is long overdue for a true party of the great majority of us who make up the American and professional workers and small business Big business may have the millions of dollars to throw into election campaigns - but through their own party the American people can throw millions of votes into electing their true Criticizes He charged that is no real representation of labor in the defense The report criticized the national administration for what it termed an effort to promote for allegedly attempting to enforce a policy through the defense mediation and other and for using troops to end the strike at the North American Aviation Company plant in Calif. tain in their with as organized labors sympathized with and supported the people of Ethiopia and Spain in their struggles against he labor may boldly and justly support the the people of Britain and of the soviet union in their fight against fascist This is the declared policy of the United States policy which organized labor fully He said involvement in this war will meet the destruction of the entire program we support the launching of unrestrained reaction against labor in this but becomes obvious that there can be no lasting peace even for our without a smashing and final defeat of Sets Out Union Speaking of internal union he claimed these gains for his organization during the past 1.' A 58 per cent increase in three times as great as last year's rate of 2. Increase of 28 per cent in the number of signed contracts and a boost of 14 per cent in the number of members covered by union 3. An extra in wage raises and NLRB arid back pay 4. Victories in 18 out of 21 national labor relations board Robinson's which was started this extended into the afternoon The afternoon program also includes the annual report of James Leary of international Allan Haywood of organizational director for the C. I. was scheduled to speak but had not arrived early this He is expected to appear on tomorrow's 2, and 4-room efficiency apartments at Hotel SAYS NATION FACES STRONG RISE IN PRICES Living Costs to Even if Control Is Leon Henderson Tells House Banking Aug. 5.-UP)-Leon head of the office of price told congress today that the nation faced the and most pronounced increase in the cost of even if the administration's became law Testifying before the house banking committee as the first witness on the Henderson declared that even with the powers which the would the government would have an in trying to prevent the country's volatile from entering an inflationary No Limit on Using a series of towering charts to illustrate Henderson said the nation's price structure was at the of 1929 levels and heading toward the 1919 The would give the broad power to establish ceilings over prices for virtually all commodities and for rents in defense It would not permit to regulate wages or utility rates and farm prices could not be fixed below 110 per cent of parity or below the market price of July 29, 1941. The stipulates that the price levels of July 29, 1941, are those to which the give due consideration in establishing - hearings republican members of tho committee talked of drafting a complete substitute for the administration's Credit Control Representative Wolcott of Michigan said the substitute should con tain controls over private which he contended was one of the basic sources said it also should provide for administration of the proposed law by a quasi-judicial The administration measure would give the president to designate any individual agency to administer it. Henderson testified that outbreak of war 28 of the most important basic commodities had risen 50 per cent in and we're creasing at an even more rapid he was a complete justification request for regulatory Those 28 basic commodities included several metals in which price rises had not so This was he to that nature of restraint agreed the government and the pro Without those voluntary Henderson would have for 17- or 18-cent copper instead of 12 cent Although in the early months of the war prices in this country remained relatively the price structure generally has advanced about 20 per he Discussing the difficulties of controlling prices through voluntary the government's ohlef tool in the situation thus Henderson mentioned scrap steel dealers as presenting one of the most troublesome Although he said much of the difficulty was due to the scattered nature of the Henderson testified that great he had been forced to turn over to the justice department evidence of collusion on the part of scrap steel He said It was the first instance of his office having to refer any case to the attorney Far East Believed Near as Siam Is Put Under Pressure Two U. S. Cruisers Arrive in Australia Visit of Heavy Warships on Co incides With Formal Pledge of All-Out Economic Aid to Aug. 5. - navy announced today that two United States heavy the Northampton and the Salt Lake had arrived in on what was described in a formal announcement as a training The navy's official statement made no to curront tension in the South stating merely that the cruisers would refuel at the Australian port and give their crews a recreational period of few The ships are commanded by Rear Admiral S. A. The voyage followed the dispatch of a formidable squadron of warships to Australia and Now Zealand last March during earlier tension in That also was called a training but the the ships might be kept in South Pacific waters The squadron which visited Australia In March consisted of two cruisers destroyers and a - smaller force of The new announcement by the navy followed reports that Britain also was strengthening its naval forces In the as an of Japan's move Into China and Indications that similar action might bo aimed against bordering The American decision to supply to soviet Russia also hold frosh potential complications with whoso relations with Russia wur subjected to new uncertainty today Despite the Kunlo official for the Japanese forces In said at Shanghai that a minor clash of and soviet border troops occurred about two weeks The American assistance to Russia would be in military supplies and implements of oven though the Japanese controlled presB in recent weeks has boon printing veiled warnings against the routing of such shipments across the Pacific to port of Special Election to Vote On Airport Funds Is Called For Aug. 26 by City Council The city council today called a special election for August 26 to vote on a proposal to use out of the city's impounded fund to purchase additional airport land In accordance with an agreement - with the federal the airport is to be improved cost of to make it for use as a military ' That action was taken immediately after the council obtained options on 81.44 acres of land on the east and north of the present municipal to be purchased at a cost of The additional money to be used to reimburse the city for the cost of the Purchase of the land is made commissioners in order that the army may extend the three principal runways to length of 4,250 feet and pave thereby making the field adequate for the landing of heavy army There is approximately remaining in the Impounded fund and only a majority is re- on page 5.) Speech Provokes an Uproar in Union Convention Aug. statement by Richard national director C. I. that he symbolize the arnly of provoked a demonstration at the sixth national convention of the C. I. O. United Automobile Workers called attention to a display of tin airplanes and tanks on the table of Local 683, Lbs and a sign reading A leader in a move to bar communists from holding any elected or appointed in the Frankensteen had termed the Strike at the North American Aviation Corporation plant last Juno a and The resulted in the seizure of the plant by the U. S. After the R. J. U. A. W. asked that the display be The Los Angeles which said it represented workers at the Douglas and North American but not before one of tho members wish wo could get soldiers off the lines as easily as wo got them off the the convention was to oppose any attempt to train workers to replace men on skilled jobs until all unemployed men have been returned to work and a man power shortage A partial report of the resolution committee submitted to the union's sixth annual convention said there were 8,000,000 unemployed in America one year after launching of the defense program and added that a contemplated 50 per cent curtailment in automobile production would result In drastic Increase in mass The committee took no action for the present on resolutions barring or fascist sympathizers from the Senate Rejects Six-Month Extension of Draft Service Aug. 5.-CflP)-The senate today 50 to 27, a proposal to limit the service period of army selectees to a maximum of six months beyond the originally set one-year The proposal was offered by Senator Taft as a substitute for pending administration legislation which would permit draftees to be held In service for a maximum of one and a half years after completing the one-year training Taft's which gave a clear test of opposition strength for modification of the pending administration would have permitted the army to retain national guardsmen and reservists for not more than one extra Regularly enlisted men could not have been retained beyond the termination of their Taft's plan also would have authorized a regular standing army of 800,000 He said plus national guardsmen and would provide for a total force of 2,000,000. The vote For the Democrats - Clark of Clark of Republicans tor - of Progressive Against the Democrats Johnson of Thomas of Thomas of Van Republicans Johnson of The following pairs wore for the proposal and and and and Paired but position not an- MOVE TO CUT Thailand Is Put Under Heavy Pressure by Both Nipponese and With Chinese Preparing to Join in Conflicts Aug. 5.-W)-A diplomatic said tonight that events In Thailand wora moving toward swift and terrible but British officials wore silent over possible naval and military In tho Far Authoritative quarters refused to comment on reporting that Australian Indian troops wore moving to tho of the Malay states and on page 6,). By tho Reports from today said Thai officials would not deny that Japan was applying pressure certain demands and that Thailand lng a momentous decision in relations with and the United 1 London reports have said the Japanese were demanding air bases In within 400 miles striking distance of Britain's great citadel of Singapore Forces Tho Japanese newspaper by assorted that Thailand was merciless by the United States ' the British announced officially that large numbers of British and Indian Including R. A. have at Dispatches from French said a large and Chinese reported massed on ready to cross at a moment's notice to join British against any Japanese attack against British Burma it appeared that in the Far East was ing Belief in informed in Manila that Britain was making preparations for swift tho koy points of now reported under heavy Japanese These that the British might even move before Japan had actually encroached on Thai possibly the Thai and Kra isthmus ' A. F. at Tho R. A. F. has already reinforced its bases for flank protection against any airport ' pan might in Thailand and picked Australians and the cream of the India regiments have been shifted by the thousands t* the A Japanese army spokesman admitted today that Japanese and Russian troops had the while authoritative quarters don reported Japan had reinforced her Manchukuo garrison of a quarter of a million Dispatches from Shanghai said the Yellow sea port of point of entry to was swarming with Japanese 1 horses and and that large quantities qf munitions and other ' supplies were constantly moving through the Foreigners reaching Shanghai said they took It for granted the Japanese forces and equipment were to be moved Into Manchukuo to reinforce garrisons along the With relatione f increasingly all Japanese ships had left U. S. Pacific ports today and reports from the Far East Indicated that no more vessels flying the flag of the rising sun would be seen in American ports for some - 16 1449
