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Show THE WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight and Sunday, little change . In temperature. 6 8 I 10 I 12 ) 2 Hour 88 60 67 57 72 I 85 Temperature ;13 ,... Fridays maximum, suit 93: 52. ewes- Sunday,- - minimum -- .00- Difertner lOTm cone bring late newt from- world capital for today1 Deseret New - Vol.363. Aa. 59. 92nd Year Salt Lake City,. Utah Saturday, September 6, 1941 Price : Five Cents - - T orpedoMg; Claim Greer Attacked Leaders Rush For Tax Nazis Fall Back Before Russ Attack vJ. $3,583,900,000 Measure Passes Upper Chamber By 65 To Five x I WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. (AP) Jubilant ovdr the Senates approval of the record $3,583,900,000 tax bill late yesterday, administration ..lieutenants strove today to hurry along the adjustments of differences between that measure and- similar legislation passed by the House The bill, which would bring an estimated 4 911,000 additiopat persons under the Income tax stiue-tur-e and thus raise an extra of" revenue," was $303,000,00(5 rushed through the Senate in only three days. Both proponents and opponents said he measure was only a step toward paving the nations huge wavs bills. The House Mediation Board Acts defense and means committee has esti. mated that ail federal expendiTo End Strike In tures w'ould exceed 822,000,000 000 during the next fiscal year, Alabama which begins July 1. Existing taxes, plus the BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS levies, are estimated President Roosevelts expected bv treasury experts to yield about of action in a threatened strike $13,500,000,000 during the next 1,250,000 railroad workers was calendar year Chairman George awaited today as the defense (D. Ga ) of the Senate finance mediation board sought ter settotal committee predicted the Alatle a walkout of some 20,000 federal income would appproach othbama coal miners and several $15 000,000,000, however, er labor disputes. CONCENSUS MADE The railroad unions, seeking To win fast Senate approval of authorized a the tax measure leaders had to wage Increases, strike yesterday after mediation make two important concessions: 1. They dropped a finance com and arbitration failed to produce an agreement with the companmute amendment, estimated to ies raise $50,000,000 a ear, which Under law, that strike authorwould have prevented husbands ization automatically placed the and wives in community property states from dividing income dispute before the president, who is charged with the duty of apor tax purposes Such property commitdivision now is permitted in the pointing a tee to report back to the White states of Louisiana. Texas, New House w'lthin 30 davs. A walkout Mexico, Arizona, Nevada. Calicannot be called until a month fornia, Idaho and Washington after the president receives the annd usually results in lower total tax liabilities for married coucommittee report. Five operating brothaihoods-ar- e ples. 2. They promised pension adseeking a 30 per cent boost in basic pay rates and the 14 vocates that the finance' committee wotdd consider promptly a unions ask increasan proposal to give es of from 30 to 34 cents pensions to all persons over 60 The hour A carriers committee acting for 125 class one roads mainpension plan had been offered as a rider to the tax bill. tain the union demands .would cost $900,000,000 yearly and that Both the community Income the companies could not meet and the pension Issues had" the proposals Present wage scalthreatened to develop prolonged es differ greatly among classifidebate Demoyatic Leader Barkcations w'lthin unions and among ley and Chairman George (D Ga ). worried because tach days various railroads inw measThe tax ith the delay unions, enacting some 900,000 members, set Sept. ure costs the treasury about 11 as a strike date and the operin uncollected nuisance" indicated the agreetaxes, engineered ating brotherhoods ments which made passage posthev would fix a dale soon. Such walkout dates are meaningless, sible GO TO CONFERENCE however, if the president inter5 ' Senate-approve- ,x r i i i F-- t i g - I venes. The United Mines The Senate and House bills now go before a joint conference rommitteo for the adjustment of Workers, CIO, was considering, meanwhile, a request of the mediation board that an estimated 20,000 Ala- - differences Because of a recess agreement, bama miners return to the House could not act on a thpir pits pending a hearing next compromise measure before September 15. and leaders said thev Cancellation by ,the Wednesday. hoped to have all differences iioned out bv that date The Senate s action in low Income tax exemptions fromering to $1,500 for married persons and from $800 to S750 for single AMERICAN LEAGUE persons topped the list of con' R. H. E. troversial issues between the two . 300 001 004 Boston 8 9 0 chambers 1 Other Senate changes IncludNew York . 100 000 000 7 1 Dobson, Peck and Pjtlak; Brener ed higher surtaxes for corporations not earning sufficient inand Silvestrl. - come 4o pay excess profits levies, First game: St. Louis . . 110 001 000 3 12 0 elimination of House taxes on 000 000 000 0 3 2 radio time sales, billboards and Chicago . Muncrief 'and Ferrell;, Lee and soft di inks and an increase from 5 to io per cent in ihe House Tres tax on local telephone bills. Second game: St. Louis : 000 0x xxx x By making their concessions, leaders won Senate approval one x Chicago .. 600 Oxx xxx dav ahead of their schedule, Caster, Ostermueller and whicb had called for final acrell; Klgnejr and' Turner. tion today. When the final test First game: Cleveland - 000 001 010 2 5 2 came after six and a half hours 400 000 llx Detroit 8 0 debate 'yesterday, a chorus of Smith, Desautel and Hemsley; See TAXES On Page 2 Newsome and Tebbetts. f S.-00- 0 1 t Second game: Cleveland 100 xxx xxx Detroit . .'.120 xxx xxx Milner and Desantels; and Tebbetts. First game: Washing. PhHa. .. 200 010 000 ..... 200 030 3Qx xxx x x x Benton 3 8 812-- 2 H j - 031 002 Oil 020 002 000 Phlla Leonard and Earl); Ferrick and Wagner. 8 14 1 4 11 2 Beckman, NATIONAL LEAGUE 000 100 120 4 Chicago Pittsburgh 021 102 OOx 6 8 9 I 0 "" Mooty, Lee Schmitz and McCullough; Hsiptaelman and Bak 1 9 1 New York .000 000 100 . 020 001 Olx Brook!) 4, 7 1 and McGee, Bowman, Adams Hartnett; Davis and Owen. Phila. ....;.20r ....000 000 00 1 110 010 Til 3 9 At Seizure Their participation in the war ended,' dejected Russian soldiers plod along .behind German lines on the eastern front, above, on their way to prison camps after their capture by the Germans. U.S. Watches Japans North Pacific Moves Attempts To Stop Shipnients To Russia Would Violate Treaty BY LLOYD LEHRBAS WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 (AP) American officials watched the north Pacific today for any sign that Japan after failing to stop the first two Amencan tankers carrying oil for Sovie.URusMa would attempt to blockade Vladivostok by a safety zone" across the sea lanes between the chain of Japanese islands which almost encircle the Siberian poit. International law' authorities said that aside from involving the tiaditional American policy of freedom of the seas any such action1 bv Japan might. bh interpreted bv Soviet Russia as a violation of the treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the war on September 5, Contracts Total Russo-Japanes- e 1905 (In reply to Japanese against the oil shipments the Soviet Union has already informed Tokyo thaiany attempt to interfere with trade between the United States and the Soviet would be consideied an unfnendly act). to If the Japanese intended take any action to pi event Amei-icaoil dclivenes to Russia it was said, they missed the boat at the very start by failing to intercept the tanker L P St. Clair, laden with 95 000 barrels of high octane gasoline, whijR docked at Yladivostak Thursday. A second Amencan tanker," the Associated, was reported to have arrived at Vladivostok yesterday with a cargo of aviation gasoline Still another tanker was said See J4PAN On Page 2 repie-sentatio- n Finns Await Grain HELSINKI, Finland, Sept. 6 (AP) The Finnish radio said today that Germany was arranging to ship Finland 25,000 tons of re. Drown When Ship Is Sunk SeptJ 6 (AP) Four American recruit fortbe RAF were drowned and two injured in the torpedoing of the boat in which they were crossing the Atlantic, it was disclosed here today. The names of the drowned were not immediately available. Survivors, who were landed port yesterday were Tom. aLa-British tTfTinrMtssissfppirJack Gilliland, Kansas; Rivers Grove, Georgia: Norman 'Alqprd, Missouri; James Jordan, San Francisco; B. F. Mayes. Texas; Robert Pereswin, "and it was waterlogged when the submarine tame to the surface The commander seemed to be In his early twenties. He asked if any officeis were on board. "He seemed to be ashamed of what he'd done and asked us what caused the explosion. He said h? had not fired a torpedo. lasked him if he could give ux any waters Hi n't spare any but gave us four tins of meat Beattie said that when the submarine moved off it accidentlv struck a Wobbly lifeboat and the lifeboats stern dipped. lifcgoat," he said, California. 1 "The submarine commander Mayes suffered arm injuries and and Pereswin a broken leg. said Beattie, adding apologized, They Mont-- 1 were taken to a that he was German. hospital. The survivors 'were reticent Beattie feaid the survivors about the submarine attack but clung to the rafts for 12 hours 000 Oxx xxx St. Louis said thev longed to get Into acbefoie being picked up by Vander Meer and. Lombardi; tion in the air. Polish warship. White and W. Cooper, AmWilliam Beattie, Belfast seaAltogether there were-1- 1 x x x man who was on the torpedoed Cincinnati xxx xxx xxx erican airmen on the ship, all ' ' X XXX XXX XXX X X a Sir ship, told' startling story or said toTiave had commercial flyand Vandermeer Lombardi; talking to the submarine ing experience in the Unite White and W. Cooper. States and in addition RAF after the attack, D , ; "There were four of u In a' 'training in Canada,- -. r Boston 1 Johnson, Melton, Pearson Warren; Tobin and Berres, gomery. Cincinnati '000 lxx xxx xxx xxx Il, have pushed the German besiegers out of a vital railway rone in the approaches to the benty In a gieat battle which gan thiee days ago. and still is m progress, official Soviet accounts stated today. The army newspaper Red Star made the claim without stating the exact location. Menuen-of the railway was no clue, for Leningrad is a hub of radiating lines, to which the Germans claim have cut. The Germans only yesterday, however, said they were shelling the railroad Leningiad and Schluessel-burg- , 25 miles east of Leningrad, and this route might well be the key to the detense of the entire area between Lake Ladoga and the Gulf of Finland. In autumn fog made thicker by the explosions of heavy artillery shells and the bursting of bombs, the Russians said the battle was continuing without respite for either side. Seventeen out of 30 raiding German planes weie declaied destroyed near the city. Thus, as the German 'invasion finished Its eleventh week, the battlu for Leningrad became the foremost chapter in the story of the war which was the tale of three cities Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa. Each was being defended bv all the steel and sinew the Soviet could Union bring to bear against the close drawn peril of, conquest. For all three the climax seemed near. The German high command Germans Take Captured Russians To Prison Camp Four American Recruits GLASGOW, cojn-miand- Germany Contends American Ship Had Orders To Assail Them BY THE ASSOCIATED TRESS Desperate Russian counter-attack- s in defense of Leningrad 1 Hudson. Znherind Early, Knott, Shirley and Hajrn Second game: ' It. H.E. Wash JDefy Attempts d fart-findin- g 4 Kiev Odessa Still 20,000 Miners Study Request To Resume Job A Roosevelt Accused Of $347,156,674 WASHINGTON, Sept 6 (AP) The"War Department announced today ihe award of airplane contracts totaling S347 150,674. shortly after it had disclosed plans for the mass pioduction of "bigger, impioved flying forties bombeis The numbehs and type of planes coveied bv the conti acts were not disclosed. However, the companies which obtained the aw aids manufactuie bombeis pumarily and it was indicated that the orders weie for the new modeL Boeing Airplane Company, Seattle, Wash, received two of the contracts totaling $337,447 057. JLhe.. remaining one for S3 709,610 went to Douglas Aii craft Company, Inc, Santa Monica. Calif The new font engine bomber,, known as the B 17E, is a laiger' and moe powerful version of the Boeing flying fortress, already m use by the Butish Roval Air Force in attacks against Gersaid it many. was approximately five feet longer than the ptesent fortiess. It was estimated in view of approximate cost- figures in earlier fortress models, that the flving new planes would cost somew hat nt m excess of $300,000 each- Russians- .- - Wash. Sept. - che-du- le tpday and went into secret conference with Brig. Gen. John B. Brooks. " . General Brooks, acting commander of the second air force, left orders at the hotel where the conference was being held that the group w'as not to be disturbed. Brig. Gen. Mikaltfl Gromov, hero of if Russian- - transpolar flight, headed the group. The party of 47 which made the flight toSeattle was not ex- pec ted Her until Monday, and there was.no word from the advance unit as to the date of arrival of thg rest of the group. l North Iceland bristles today with guns, an fields dot the countiy-sidand warships of America and Rutain comb surrounding wateis m ever-- atchful patrols, New iv ed observers aie impiessed at onCe with the defenses of this keystone in a communications arch over which aims and materials pass from Amenca to Great Britain. Gibraltar itself and Malta in the said only Operations of attack in the e Mediterranean are scarcely more strongly held than this" barreTr land, whiclv is half agam the size of Ireland Censorship, of course, will not permit disclosule of the number of men or the amount of equipment here, but it can be said that the Amencan, British and Norwegian foices on the island exceed the number of trained troops Britain had to repel invasion in the summer of olive-- 1 troop-carryin- 6. Sept. American-buil- See BERLIN on Tage 2 Hungarian Chief Resigns East Indies parachute lands corps, newly formed, is being trained with American equipment, army officers disclosed fort-re- 9 d . health. Germany Must Learn We Defend Our Ships Sept. 6. (AP) German charge that the U, Greer was the deliberate ag gressor irr a clash with a Nazi submarine was received unbe lievingly in the capital today and Chairman 'Connally (D.J Tex ) of the Senate foreign r iations committee declared that "the Nazis might as well learn now that we arg going to de. fend our ships ana our citizens." The Germans issued a communique saying that president Roosevelt was distorting " the facts in the case in order to in cite the American people to war. ThS statement said the submarine fired two torpedoes only after it had been attacked with depth bombs. It w'as the opinion of Senator Capper (R Kas ) that there were some misstatements In the Nazi version. "I can hardly that the president would order our warships to attack in an effort to incite the people into .war, Capper said. Mr. Roosevelt put the blame squarely on the submarine in a press conference yesterdaysay. ing the destroyer had been, attacked without warning on its wav to Iceland with mail. Ha seekadded that the navy-w- as ing the undersea boat With a firm intention to eliminate it if WASHINGTON, A S. S. be-lie- found. BELIEVES PRESIDENT "I would take the president word over that of Hitler any day of the week, was the reaction of Representative Manasco (D Ala ) The president was at Hvde Park. N. Y, today where William D. Hassett, acting press see. reUryJ' was advised of the German statement. "I'll, show this to the president when I have a chance, Has-se- tt said. .But considering Its See SUBMARINE on Page 2 " White House Spurns Story Nazi Report Declared Of No Importance 4 - Three Frenchmen Die As FHostage Executions ss planes oLJhe British bomber command todav attacked Axis 'shipping in the harbor of Oslo, Norway, the atr ministry announced tonight. .A brief communique tola of the attack on the German-occupie- ' port a follows: In the course of high altitude reconnaissance this morning fortress aircraft of the bomber command attacked enemy ship-pinin Oslo Harbor. None of our aircfiaft is mis?-ing- . BERLIN. Sept. 6 (AP) A DNB dispatch from Budapest said today that Colonel General Heinrich Werth, chief of the Hungarian general staff, had resigned, and been replaced by Lieutenant General Franz Szombathelyi. Werth was said to be in poor U. S. Leaders Declare HYDE PARK, N. Y Sept. . (AP) White House official declined comment, "considering its source, on a German com-- (AP) t Na--v- y BATAVIA, Netherlands East Indies, Sept. 6- - (AP) A Nether- Shippiiig-ALOsl- o LONDON, water ' Chute Corps Formed Flying Fortress Attacks German High-flyin- g with pursuing That It proved that President Roosevelt pieviously. contrary to his statements, had given general orders to American destroyers not only to report positions of German ships and but, beyond that, to attark them 3 That, finally, "Mr. Roosevelt in this way also Is trying with all means at his disposal to provoke incidents in order to incite the American people into tear agamst Germany. The announcement broke a two-dasilence by officials on the Greer incident, the Germans apparently having awaited a report from the German submarine commander. Authoritative sources had put off questioning that they with the statement could not discuss the ease. g pro-lectio- n zone. .The communique ggijJ the U- boat commander w a Justified in his action because it was in and said he "was not in' position to determine the nationality of the attacking destroyer. The communique described the incident as a running battle, starting at 12 30 pm. Thursday, was attacked by when a water bombs at 62.31 degrees north and 27 06 west and pursued continuously. (This is the" North Atlantic, about 200 miles southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland, which the United States Navy said was the Greers destination ) 2. See WAR On Page 2 the European continent, and the long nights., would afford for a hostjle flotilla creeping down past Greenland effeeta landing in the north. American and British officers have studied these - problems." and madetheir plans according- blockade That the United States was assertion that the the aggressor "can only be to of give at least the appearance an justification to an attack by American destroyed on a German street-to-stre- The island is within range of planes based on zone. The Germans alleged that the destroyer operated under orders of President Roosevelt to attack German ships and end accused the president of trying "to incite the American people into war against Germany. The communique acknowledged that the German submarine fired , tw o torpedoes. It declared, however, that It first was attacked by the in waters the Germans have declared to be within their1 1 150-fo- ov erlooked - blockade bombs unsuccessfully until then. The communique charged. One attack by three divisions and thiee and a half regiments of attiileiy was hurled back with gieat German losses, the invaders own cannon being turned A on them, the agency said. similar drive met thejsame fate only last week. Odessa. the Black Sea .port to whose history dates back early Grecian day s, was i enforced by sailors from the Red fleet and still stood encircled but deblufis fiant atop the that make it a natural fortress. Russian The government newspaper. Izvestia, said 82,000 had volunteers civilian ripped up the cobblestone paving to conw a for plete breastworks defense it necessary. . Cossack Wild cavalrymen, skilled with carbine and sabre green uniforms - occupy an law portant place in Iceland's defense plans. Their guns and tanks have taken up positions alongside" the Bntish. The British appear to have gieat lespect for the marines, as who settled on the island though it were the most natural ' place in the world to be- .In planning the defenses of Iceland no possibility has been e, stroyer withiirUir past month, the Russian official news agency report-p- a 1940 United States marines in Germany acknowledged officially today that tw-- torpedoes fired at the United States destroyer Greer - ' ' . . were aimed by a German submarine. A contended, communique however, that the Uboat commander actedjustifiablyt in without knowing the nationality of the warship, after the destroyer had, attacked"him first inside waters the Germans have declared to be within their " of superlative strength, the Russians said soldier and citizen aimies were grimly defending each of the three great cities. Kiev, the mother of Russian cities and capital of the Ukraine, continued to stave off a semicircle of German assaults after breaking two major Onslaughts lv-a- n -- 6 LAM'S LONG TIME The engagement. It said, lasted until tow aid midnight, the de- cast aie ptogressing favorably. Admitting the steady force or assault, interspersed by thrusts G dozen members of ;ed REYKJAVIK. Iceland, Sept 6. (AP) Within a few short months this Atlantic island ocean has been turned into a United Gibraltar of the States British So w ell have these foi ces done their work that submarine sinkings in this part of the Atlantic have dropped to a new low. military jnission, Seattle this week Alaska, -- reached Spokane via British, American TroapsTAnd Ships Guard Island ly In Spokane Study Air Force .SPOKANE. (AP) A half the Russian which flew to Iceland Becomes An Armed Fort BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN, Sept. PARIS, Sept. 6. (AP) The execution of --three French hos- tages in reprisal for an attack on a sergeant.of the German al my of occupation in France last Wednesday was announced by the Germans today. The executions first of the threatened by the Germans in an effort to halt attacks on German troops of occupation were announced in all Paris newspapers and in notices plastered on walls throughout the city. , The hostages, taken from among thousands of Frenchmen held in prisons, were lined along a wall and jphot by a German filling squad.t ' The . GAman , announcement ' g sait): - "Aug. 22, as a result of the of the sasmation of Gerraan armY it as announced t hat for - any- - new- - attacks hos tages would b shot -. "Despite this warning a member of the German army has been the victim of a new attack September 3. Inquiry has shown the guilty party should have been none other Jthan a (French Comm' munist. "As reprisals fof this dastardly action three French hostages have tieen-shot- . , The three were not identified immediately. Neither has the German sergeant. The first German warning read: In case of a new 'criminal attack a number of hostages corresponding to the gravity of the act committed will be shot. lr munique today which mentioned the efiase of the U.S S. Greer and Said a Nazi submarine had launched two torpedoes Thurs day at a destroyer In the Gei area. - Hassett, William-- R. acting presidential secretary, was advised of the contents of the Ger 4 jpan statement.' '"Ill show this to the president when I have a chance, he said. "But considering its source I don't think any comment la neo assary. It carries its own com ment I think its a typical com ment. considering its source. Asked whether he took the communique to mean that it was a German undersea craft which tried to sink th Greer, Hasspt replied: "Apparently, from this Then he added: Your inter pretation is as good as mine. man-blocka- de J ly |
