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0,000 Damage Is Three German Reds Drive Nazis From Basel at Leningrad
aused As Fire Razes Officers Three Villa9es Are Captured in Counterattacks J‘
__. J, J. mAaI# ^WIIM Am** lifrau IM j| jn j| MOSCOW, Sept. 5. (t’.fit—The Red General Victor Vorobiev, In a'laris had failed to seize Kruglaya
flOSG wret?ll Ir I llu iirp If OilIIDP□ army, aided by a fighting people* ' dtsputoh,from the besieged Black hill or the railroad escarpment
w tg f*,* ■ ■■ II VHIlWrll guard and'led By heavy tanks, sea pdrt, said that the Rumanian and that the Rumanian 3rd Infan-
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ar>-.
w rm mam
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Promise Retaliation
Russian planes from the north-
the rocf and the interior, kept
yn> estimated «at between steam Riled interior made the Former Communist Chief
Lwid |30,000 was caused by task of the firemen doubly diffi- Shot To Death; Germans
Ctnse smeke poured from, the »*«"“•
„ fi„ was ^covered at mid- burn
' and tt was three hours
p bdore rhe.ombmedeffort,
the Goose Creek, Pelly and
fire departments had ex-
the last of the smculd-
_
erftire stork of the store,
jby J. L Woods, the own-
fit approximately “
* oyed. Damage
the building
•e in adjoining establish-
r raised the total to between
5 and 530,000, insurance men
• Woods placed his total loss
00 and he said that he
1 that the amount not cov-
insurance would be be-
157.800 and 58.000,
s the second time in about
MOSCOW, Sept, s; (Rtt-The Red
army, aided by a fighting peoples
guard and led oy heavy tanks,
drove German forces back from
three villages used as bases for
the offensive against Leningrad, .
dispatches said today. '
the flames confined,
, A fleet of ambulances stood
ready at the Goose Creek hos-
pital, directly back of the burn-
ing building, prepared to remove
patients if that became necessary,
but neither the hospital, nor the
Dei Mont hotel were endangered.
The fire was discovered by an
occupant of a second-floor room
of (he hotel. He was awakened
by the smoke and he notified Mr.
and Mrs. George McKinstry, hotel
owners, and they turned in the
alarm. •
A second alarm was sounded a
that the pharmacy was few minutes later, and the Pellv
- and Baytown firemen responded.
by fire.^BBip^^^B
igh a complete investlira-
nct been made by Fire
Emery 'Williamson, he
it the fire began either
rear of the cafeteria sec-
[«f the pharmacy, or in a
at the rear of the
KSHtseif was confined to
■ mu of the store add to the
Tt* between the ceiling and
! roof; and at no time were
■ buildings endangered by
; center of the fire was dif-
It to reach, and the smoke and
’
flit
Hundreds of persons were at-
tracted to the scene in spite of
the late hour.
The damage from water to oth-
er establishments included rugs
and furnishings in the Lawless
Photographic studio, and the sta-
tionery room of the First Nation-
al Bank, and water Seeped into
the Bears and Roebuck and the
Montgomery Ward Order offices,
but none of the merchandise on
disnlay was injured.
There was no damage to any
of the merchandise in the Max
(See $30,000 Damage. Page t) »
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L HOLLYWOOD, Sept;' 5. «) -
F Richard Haydn, young screen and
radio actor, yesterday eprained
on of 25 To Draw to a scene of the forthcoming
was killed in new out-
breaks this week in the occupied
gone, according to reports re-
ceived today. »
Marcel Gitton, former Com-
munist deputy who turned col-
laborationist, died of wounds suf-
fered in ah attack in Paris.
May Be Dead
The other victims, believed to
be German officers, were report-
ed unofficially to have been shot
on Wednesday and Thursday,
Some reports said one or more
may have died. Two of them
were shot at Lille and another in
a Paris suburb, where a non-
commissioned German officer pre-
viously was wounded this week
while walking with his fiancee.
German occupation authorities
had threatened severe retaliation
against oppositionist prisoners
held In France while Vichy au-
thorities had been pressing a
drastic campaign ’against terror-
ists in both occupied and unoccu-
pied zones, Repression of rail-
waymen charged with Communist
affiliations or sabotage continued
with the’ arrest of a father and
son j after police said they found
a Soviet Hag and tracts in their
home.
Jftomsvhmattai
The shooting of Gitton was not
fully explained.
It was reported that Gitton was
shot from behind by a cyclist
who escaped after fifing several
shots. The attach occurred in
planes” were said to have crashed
against the nearby cliffs.
.at which the German drive had
been based, the dispatches said.
Four attacks were required to
and 6th Infantry divisions try division, lost 10,000 men, or seize another village, but the Gcr-
been sent into action to re- \ two-thirds of its effectives. * mans finally, were driven out and
s three divisions that were ‘ On the Leningrad front, the a third village was occupied as
iy destroyed'' in the last three Germans attempted to force’their the enemy retreated after aban-d-
s of‘fighting . (Three divisions way across a river (possibly the oning guns, much equipment and
Id be probably*45,000 men) Neva) but Russian artillery sank documents: \'
their boats and smashed a Ger-
man heavy gun battery', a mine-
thrower battery -antj an observa-
tion post, according to official re-
ports. •
Russian units and tanks then
ullage
all, the general sadd, the Ru-
ian 3rd, 11th, and 21st Infan-
divisions and the 1st Guards
lion, were "completely rent-
Order Given
To Eliminate
Submarine
" Roosevelt Reveals
Attack on Destroyer
Made During Daylight
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. C.R1 —
President Roosevelt said • tpday
that American naval forces are
hunting for the submarine which
attacked the U. S. destroyer Greer
several times in daylight on the
American side of the Atlantic.
The American forces have been
instructed to "eliminate" the sub-
marine if they find it, he said.
Good Visibility
The president said that the
Dispatches from Odessa said
(The base was not identified that daily attacks by the Ruman- attacked and occupied the
but London newspapers said it
presumably was the great Kron-
stadt base, off Leningrad.) .
Furious fighting abound Lenin-
grad in which a German artillery
battalion (about 1$<X) men) was
destroyed or captured and the
headquarters of two erlemy regi-
ments were smasned was reported
by the official, Tass news agen-
documents:
“The battlefield Was littered
with German bodies,” the dispatch
said.
Later, the dispatches said, a Greer was subjected to more than
fourth village which had been for- ~«ae attack in good visibility. The
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Germans Move Up Big Guns for Attack
Berlin Asserts Encirclement Is Progressing
BflRUN, Sept. 5. 'I'.P)--German
Stavy' artillery is shelling Lenin-
The war communique jiaid only .grad, the high command'said
that battles continucd^fong^ the
force was again pounding enemy
troop concentrations and air ports
presumably to aid Russian edutt-
terthrusts after repulsing German
drives with heavy losses on the
lower Dnieper river.
Tass dispatches, however, told
of successful operations both #
Leningrad and at the besieged
Pinch sea nort of Odessa, where
it said that the roads were "strewn
with thousands" of-dead Ruman-
iaGemanrcasualties running into first in recent days that had
were rennrted at n°l been limited to Saying that
ratrwereproceedmg salis'
fighting line, as well a. at Unto- *^',1 source’s Berlin, how-
t
day, although it was admitted
,|bat th: Nazis were meeting
Heree resistance before the form-
ff, Czarist capita! and as a re-
sult of counterattacks elsewhere
pn the eastern front.
The communiqu- Skid the en-
circlement of Leningrad, the
birthplace of the Bolshevik revo-
lution and one of Russia’s great-
;|*t war industry centers, was
cjprnceoding,
is The communique, issued from
Adolf Hitler's headquarters, was
ever, had acknowledged during
the period ol high command si-
lence that strong Russian coun-
terattacks led by tanks had teen
in progress and sometimes had
cut through the German lines be-
fore they were crushed.
Thci ■ had been considerable
question as to whether the Ger-
mans would go "aii out" in an
attempt to take Leningrad or
ayo'd risking large numbers of
men by confining themselves to
a sivge. but- the artillery action
indicated it was hoped to over-
come the pity’s admittedly strong
defenses.
The high command said Ger-
man forces in Estonia had now
completely cleaned up. resistance,
thus giving them full control of
capital of
the south shore of the entrance
to the Gulf of Finland, The north
shore entrance is dominated by
the guns of the Russian naval
base of H.ingo, in southwestern
Finland *
i The Russians were reported to
have burned or destroyed a large
part of theE.itoman
Tallinn, i
The high command did not re-
fer to unoffciiil reports of strong
Russian counterthrusts on the
central and southern fronts.
Newspapers, laokfog specific
information, devoted their main
headlines today to Finnish claims
of advances in the Karelian pen-
insula and the German claim
that 537,200 tons of British ship-
ttSee Germans Move, Page ■>)
BERLIN, Sept. 5. <U.P.)—German
spokesmen said today that they
knew nothing of a submarine at-
tack on the I nitrd States destroy-
er Greer and that comment would
have, to be withheld pending offi-
cial advices "a-suming that the
report is true.”
attack, ho said, definitely occur-
red on the American side of thd
Atlantic ocean.
Speaking at a press conference.
Mr Roosevelt said that "a search
for the marauding submarine is',
underway. If it is founds he
said, "the American naval force
will ‘eliminate it."
“Eliminate” is a very good
word, he added, granting permis-
sion to put direct quotations
around the term.
The president, however, declin-
ed to discuss a suggestion that •
such action would -bring the
United - States into actual War-
fare.
Clearly Marked
He said, with emphasis, that it
(See 1, & Navy, 1‘age 2)
I
1 the po;
quarter of
Three Italian %M50.000 Rail, Workers Vote Strike
Troop Ships Sunk ^ex* Step Up To Federal Mediation Board
Berlin Hard Hit
By Red Raiders
tg sej
'oMfS
tal camp}
I Trass counties are cxpcct-
i be here tqpiiht for an
on and supper, W. 0 '
(.secretary of the local
id Joday. . I
(Hupper will be served at 8
• at Woodman h«U sn East
isvtnue and the Initiation
r f°l,cw' %.•>• will be. a class
I •brat 25 to be initiated in-
local can(i
(» the Tri-Cities to
[ aaucted into the order are
■Ptoera, J E Huron. Tru-
R. w. Terry, Andrew
,:G. Truitt Parker and
nfeld.
I team,
will cohd'
torork
to be represented are
tand Liberty, Mr. Tidmon
0( The other playraa^n^tte ^ene, •*** /e8rs sub^rines ^ive"sonk^towe'uah UhL
iaxa-asrj«u: SS-ssSSS
-Z &kaR 7l ind m^STTrarers, in^tbe ^PSS po^Ur front land- &*ed * 10'000 ton 8nd 8
Many OtTigrs Woundgd
_______________ire adequate | me nrotnernood ne^o^ia^ors
ingly to compensation for the services ren- f 1 allure fused" to consider: any of- v
Strike for ihcrewd" wagcs~"a“na~ teWr tlie carriers bhff the pUh-"'~TiFr wmrTi-TnrffOT'raae-TKe ba^c~-^
Reformatory Cruelty Bared
Probers Find Bat Used By Guards
’ - ------- “ "J Duilio,
WACO, Sept. 5. i'.ih All but one
of the 47 beys who broke out ot
the Gatesyille juvenile training
school a week ago had been "se-
verely beaten” with outlawed
"bats,*’ and seven bore raw
wounds, legislative investigators
The "bat” is a heavy leather
strap, attached to a handle and
rereutly was banned in punish*
ay«a*»- s'sjsrjsisns:
frouert Page S> a handle were discovered at the I
, .. Gatesville reformatory when
inmates said they were
a.. . :
Eugene MeGlasson, '“that you
could see where they squeezed the
mattress out of shape.”
He said one mattress bore blood
stairi*. .
Representative M. A. Bundy,
Wichita Falls, said one boy show-
ed a bruise Imprint of the bat on-.
his back and also a mark which
resembled, and which the boys
said, was left by a spun. One of
yuarda
a® rot
the mounted guards reportedly
had kicked the boy.
*' a handle were discovered at the Another boy had a black eye
Gatesville reformatory where the which he said was the result of
_ jtouthful inmates said they were a gimrd kicking him:
L hidden. Seven prison guards have re-
Beatings occurred to two rooms, signed sines the iataoiteatten op-
«* TrtKMtes- Each contained only a mattreaa. ened MeGlasson said He praised
ir.tr
a prS in°^ih* w®aid across their backs. Jr. former Boy Scout official andl
SfSJs-: 3KSr£s jsfetusraic -issans? ov"i
Biff” lur- »:W* mm) I..
... **a*Tr * rep
lieved t.o have been the
23,636 tons.
Other victims were reported of-
ficially as a tanker, sunk in the
seas off Sicily, ^.supply ship of
8.000 tons, sunk in the . central
Mediterranean, and the supply
ship Aquitania, 4.971 tons, hit bv
torpedoes and severely damaged
In addition the 10,000 ton cruiser
was reported “severely damaged”
and the liner, probably the Duilio,
was believed suhk.
"Italian liners of this type hire
been known to be acting as troop
transports." the damlraltv said. ,
A submarine torpedoed the crui-
ser, armed with eight inch guns,
near the strait of Messina.
The admiralty did not specify
when the attacks occurred.
lie. It represents a determination
to share in the product of their
labor in order to meet the ever-
soaring prices of everything- food,
clothing, shelter, taxes, etc.”
Persons close to the negotia-
tions .of the past several weeks
said the- closest the carriers had
come to meeting ,;he brotherhood's
demands for 30 to 41 per 'Cent
wage increase was an offer of 10
concessions from the- na-
tioa’s booming carriers.
Zero hour for the strike was
set' for 6 p in September 11 but
this does not mean that the lines,
burdened with defense traffic? will
become idle at that turn- The
strike call merely projects the
controversy into a new stage of
mediation under the National
Railway Labor act.
No strike is possible for at least
60 and possibly X) days.
The strike vote which swept
the membership by 95 to 100: per»
cent majorities — brought to an
end the jwcond stage set up by
««**««.«-1»- «*
lions had reached stalemate - J%e Texagaana Ga-
Next sten is for the national ?fte and thc .afternoon Daily
railway mediation board, sitting ^'v\^pe4r!d w'thnul f%Tru^
here, to notify President Rome- t10" today desp.te a strike of
ao emerarenev exists. The ■ OOW^Sing. roon).. ..empltiyea,.:,:. ■■
The mechanical work was be-
ing done by a new crew and by
Me Falls to Halt
Two Texarkana Papers
wage-structure.' "We had no, offer
from the railroads on a wage in-
(See Kail Workers Page 2)
Funeral Services for
King infant Are Held
Funeral services for William H.
King, six-day-old.son cf Mr. and
Mrs.^Ira. .Lee. Ktosi-of-afe Ash
street. Pcljy. were held at 11 a.m.
this morning at‘‘the Hi!! o
leteyy,. with Rev. N
of P.......
e Hill of Rest
- Rr'aw-
ner.i 'pf Pelly Methodist churclj,..
ceme
officiating.
William Henrv
v. ir
BRIEFS
th* mid’ mnevnarv
■rta;
Hi
L?* “mai. the midnight fire
' stvic
Sgj . “w mranign
l^^'^^wTand oW) in
iKi- ,5% Manager John
^ who leaned
aw ™* •*«»• button for the
dull «-T he wa* in from
. *H«"xy Catbriner
.Win-passing, past ...
Stockf
By United Press
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LONDON, Sept. 5__Official Brit
ixh circles said today fhat Brit-
ish shipping losses during July
■amt August were “ particularly
is a decided low” despite operattons bj a mim-
a u tom a tiC-.teJety ne linotype ip*r
chines, which cast news from the
wires into print.
The services of a labor depart-
ment mediator were sought and
meanwhile, pickets marched be-
fore the newspaper plant.
& .
M. A. King,
Willie Gard-
vclt that an emergency exists. The
President is expected to appoint a
special fact-finding commissicn
to study the issues and no strike
may occur during the 60 days this
commission has in which to make
it« report
Presidents of the "Big Five”,
operating brotherhoods declared
their members voted 98 7 per cent
for a walkout, the "largest vote
in flg history of the Big Five in j,
fa»c^*r “a de.- tfriends To Greet Thomas
. died at 10:45
p m.,. Thursday, in a local hospi-
He is survived by his parents,
Mr. and‘Mrs. King: five sistoTe,)'
Misses Irene, Ailtne: Cytel, .Mar-"
jorie. knd Betty King; and three
brothers Travis. Tvrus, and Reg-
gie King, all Of Pell;
He is also survi
grandmothers. Mrs.
of Pelly; and' Mrs.
ncr, of, Shawnee, Okla. _
Burial was under direction of
the Paul U. Lee Funeral home.
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by kvo
ing.
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Courtesy CHisens Nat
■MJL 5«
,*5lfcrri* ^plaining a
Problems concern-
L*J»«to* »' a meeUng
'•&« club at Baytown
winder if C RWr8
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Aimrafi 44% Socony Vacuum
Consolidated Oil Indiaw 32%
§&: 888 * S3^entyB
touch with On"Tr Etortric Power'snd^ght 1% Telre* Corporation ..... ■ 41%
j a A*lihr °p *1in EMPajuj ^Nature* G^s »% Texas Gulf Sulphur .......38
*. Anderson paying EJJNmural Gas ridewafer Corporation 10
Harru ecun- W“*-........... S T-P Cbai and OH «
i.renrrm c.jectTic •
her of German submarines ami
WASHINGTON. Sept. 5,-Senate
mif - - • administration leader* today
Uf sought an agreement to postpone
—s*-—-- consideration of husband-wife
ind Trust Company community property taxation un-
• ’ til the next revenue bin. Under
-.Aviation
Reception Slated For Legislator
More than ”300 friends of Con- and th* barbecue supper will be
fresaman Albert Thomas and (heir served at 7 p.m.
wives will be-hosts at a free bar- Other members of the commit- ‘he German station's wave length
1 ption or, the cam- toe planning the event are C I. to appeal to the German people
WE la*High sMtoei .....-- • - ^ .^Ma
Saturday,.
persorts were killed and 72 wound-
ed in a Russian air raid on Rrr-
lin during the night and some of
the wounded are, not expected to
recover, it was announced offi-
cially today
It was emphasized that some
of the victims had failed to take
to air raid shelters
It was first announced- that a
small number of Russian planes
had attempted to raid Berlin.
This communique said:
“A .sn*tfl number of, Soviet
bombers attempted to attack -the
Reich capita! during the night of
September 4-Scpyygber 5.
'*‘01 two enemy planes one was
shot ,down by- antiaircraft fire.
"Bomb droppings were noi
ported."
Russian Radio
Outblasfs Nazis
LONDON. Sept 5. (F.D — “Ivan
the Terrible," the Russian radio
voice, took over Berlin’s great
Deutschfr ndj, sender station last
bight with s speech mimicking g
German Propaganda Minister U
Paul Joseph Goebbels.
The German station went off m
the air afier, failing for an hour , :
to owrcofoa'the mysterious "muts, • i
ing” or "damping" effect caused,
apparently, by a Russian trans-
mitting station. * This permitted
Ivan the Terrible to take oyer
'-I
Graham Paige
”! .saarr- "j
H% United State! Steel.......... Wt*
lgll such an agreement, the *3,633.-
■ ,*; CtJ
g|m. *y. ■ - - J
BERLIN, Hepi S. — A Nasi
spokesman said tonight that Ger-
rangr artillery batteries
shelling military ob-
jeetives^ the LenTngrad-Sclili*- I
selburg arefc^for Gvo days. The
niRn r it lwitfevrfporK'a * «. _
that the elly of^ningred “al-
ready lies under the of Ger- 1
nan heavy artiUery.” X
-1
.....
Western Union
While
WASHINGTON. Sept 5._I
Control Administrator-
Hcndcrso!.. asserting thi
can't sink a pipeline”
mended today-cm
network* of new i
;ih.: . 5 5“-
hem Steel 98
*,*■ C»'«-
pus of Robert E
-at 4 p m
Tlae congressman and Mrs,
, Thomas will be guests of honor
at the eyant.^ A special attraction
of the afternoon and evening'will
be a band concert at 6 pm. bv
v the Robert E. Leh High school
v band under the direction of A. A..
Davis ; ,
Nc program his been-arranged,
and there will
"Most of th#
Cities already know .Mr. Thomas,'
J. H. McKinney,, chairman of th*
I. arrangemehts committee - said.
F *ThI* reception give ail a
■ chance ttf-ranew their acquaintol
ance with him, and if will also
give an opportunity for those not
knnwifiF (^Nnjfnejjrrjg n
Hie congressman frmn
county Is at home for the
Rm# to months due to the
-* -—-re during tire
time are on a
Fortinberry, Shannon Morris. F.
R Higginbotham, W C Swain.
Tom Driscoll Publicity on the
reception la, .being handled by
Jack Jacobs.
Barbecue will be prepared by
a committee headed by Jimmy
to get rid of Hitler. M. ..
Imitating Goebbels, the voice
said: '“Hitler alrredy J»s lost the
tear He is faced with dlfftcuJ-
Ins he cannot overcome Hitler
has led the German people into
a two front war . . Hitler means
war German people, come to
your senses Hitler must be
overthrown." .
made no attempt..
ito been arranged. |j|m TmL Cxpe ut Thi German* made no atter
oe no speeches "** *■» W to interrupt Ivsn.
■ Texas EsftnWtd at 400® * ,
Ordnance Depot Work
k Well Under W*
AUSTIN, Sept. 5.
mate that there are
tank cat in Texas, tht
be pressed Into servlet |
Teyj oii to eastern states
a
i
"If the railroads should reduce
reported,
"If tht
their tank car rates te-A
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