Show G Year—No Seventy-thir- d F D R 17 SEEKS As Accused Bundist Heads for Jail Save to Cdmvpy Warship Torpedo POLITICO RACE m Africa Allied Fliers BIDS TO KELP DEADLOCK END ON FARM DILL r President to Keep Hands Off Congress Fjeuds Germany's Largest Ship Friends Report Crippled By Hero Of Russ Fleet NO PATS ON BACK He RapsPartisan Discord On Appropriation for Agriculture DISAGREE ON PRICES This Is War Rodsevelt Regrets Farm Argument During And Says Politics WASHINGTON July 9 — (AP) — President Roosevelt made another attempt today to persuade congress to break a long deadlock over agriculture department operations declaring that “our war needs not permit compromise or WASHINGTON July 9 (AP) — President Roosevelt while reserving the right to dabble an experienced finger in politics in his own state was reported today to have resisted firmly efforts of numerous politicians to get him to take sides in feuds elsewhere discord” The issue in matters In disagree-- ment between the senate and house he said in a statement is that of "more abundant production of the things we need” ' He added that “we can not afford to cripple any shackles” The presidential statement acUnable to raise $10000 ball at Syracuse N Y HE LACKS BAIL companied his signature of a stopgap bill which supplied funds for John C Fitting 58 of New Jrsey one of the 26 named in federal the agriculture department for the indictment charging bund activities and arrested in Marcellus before being taken to month of July Congress still is N Y was shackled by a deputy marshal JalL a county over the wrangling department’s full year appropriation The main points in disagreement are the questions of selling wheat at prices for livestock FBI ROUNDS UP size of the appro- -' the and feeding for he farm security adpriation ministration The house has insisted on banning any sales of government-hel- d wheat at less than parity while the senate has voted to sell Cass to Cast Day or Two 123000000 bushels of wheat under 113 Arrested Germans the parity level— for feeding pur-- i Before on ME BUNDISTS C - that "operations of a department so essential to our domestic and war needs should be left in such a predicament in this critical pe- riod in the nation’s history” Parity is a price calculated to give farmers a comparable return with past periods usually 1909-1- 4 ’ FMNfc In Two Days 9 (AP)— WASHINGTON NEW YORK July 9 (AP)— Fast-movi- The life or death July trial of FBI agents bent on wiping nazis accused of entering eight this out the German-America- it bund country equipped to burn and blast rounded up 24 additional members war production centers entered on sesits second secrecy-shroude- d in the metropolitan area last night sion today for a total of 113 bundistL arrests There were strong Indications throughout the nation In two days that another day or two might see The new prisoners were seized the end of the proceeding in which as dangerous enemy aliens and a commission of seven generals will judgment on the men who were 4 removed to Ellis Island to pass rowed ashore from submarines and await hearings by alien enemy landed at night on deserted boards that could result in intern- beaches ment for the war’s duration The possibility remained however that the trial would run into Meanwhile some of the original next a view held by two imweek f 29 Indicted Tuesday on charges in the case portant figures ranging from espionage to evasion The generals were reported to of the selective service and alien have heard yesterday the registration acts were arraigned of Mrs Gerard Melind 24testimony of Chi0 and held in bail as high as widow who once was the a cago Pleas of Innocent were en- sweetheart of Herbert Hans Haupt tered by all hut one of those heard a defendant yesterday Although many potential witKunze Makes Plea nesses were observed passing Among those pleading innocent through the closely guarded door was Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze for- to the trial room area there was mer national bund leader who was no official information as to which captured in Mexico and now is held of them testified at Hartford Conn under $50000 bail on a charge of espionage The indictments against Keegan and 25 of the 28 others arrested Tuesday charge conspiracy to evade the selective service act conspiracy to counsel bund members to resist service in the U S armed forces or conspiracy to conceal bund membership in registerIn the case of WASHINGTON July 9 (UP)— ing as aliens Kunze espionage also Is charged East coast motorists beginning today for permanent registration Imprison Thousands' gasoline rations found that the LONDON July 9 (UP)— Stan-isla- w office of price administration had Mikolajczyk vice premier of tightened up on issuing amounts of the Polish refugee government fuel greater than that deemed necl” drivers said today that leaders of the un- essary for unlimited No gasoline cards are derground movement in Poland were demanding that the U S to be issued and the list of those get supplementary raimprison “tens of thousands” of who can was tions strictly defined in offiGermans in retaliation for nazi perOPA cial Trucks and regulations secution of the Poles came buses the under rationing "Our people are demanding it” for the first time and will he said “but It is not considered plan buy fuel when the feasible by the Polish government need cars to into effect July 22 goes program because obviously it is not possible to retaliate against American citizens of German descent" BASEBALL Polish sources said news had Gerbeen the received that just mans had slain the entire Jewish NATIONAL population of 5000 at Hrubieszow Boston at Chicago a market town of 20000 persons New York at St Louis 8:45 p m near Lublin More than 100000 EVT) have been executed he declared Brooklyn at Cincinnati 9 p m (EWT) ng 5 - Back from the battle of Midway F J Knapp a flier in the navy deems himself quite fortunate that he was able to return ' On the first day of the battle his seaplane was forced down from' a height of 4000 feet The first pilot had been killed the second wounded and the third pilot performed a miracle by taking the controls and guiding the bomber down Three of the crew of ten were lost and he and six others were saved not far off the shore of Midway He was unconscious when rescued having been wounded on the left side and his left leg showed fa shrapnel slash He was In the hospital only two weeks when permitted to proceed to the mainland and he landed at Alameda to further recuperate somewhat homesick he Getting hitch-hike to Ogden apd to Started arrived here' on Tuesday He discovered that in navy uniis not bad form hitch-hikin- g Leaving Alameda on Sunday he had to make only two transfers in order to land home He was taken to the top of the Sierras by his first friendly driver Then he reached Reno where a stranger said "Hop in boy Where are you going? Tm on my way to Utah” "So am I” said the flier home is in Ogden” "My $50-00- " -- GAS RATIONS ARE LIMITED "non-essentia- Then the conversation started and when it was disclosed the boy I nr blue had been in the battle of Midway he was the honored guest of his newly-foun- d friend with a r car which took him to KANSAS CITY July 9 his destination and into the pres railroads are hauling 310 ence of A J Knapp his father! cent more of freight per who Is on the faculty of Mound than did three they ago years Fort school Ralph Budd president of the Burlrailroad said inches and ington Being 6 feet 4 w have less rolling “Although weighing 220 pounds young Knapp stock than was available during the Is a fine specimen of manhood last war” Budd told 350 persons at a Burlington employe family His most distressing regret is danner "we are handling more freight and with much less (Continue on rare Two) Railroads Show Freight Increase fast-movi- ng (AP)-America- n Philadelphia at Pittsburgh p m (EWT) 9:15 AMERICAN Cleveland at Philadelphia 9 p m (EWT) Chicago at Washington 8: SO p m (EWT) ton-mil- es (Column six) y Scores: St Louis New York It II E 000 Oxx xxx— x --X 000 Sxx xxx-Batterie- s: Auker Borowy and Rosar Detroit Boston and x x X X Hayes 000 001 xxx— x 000 100 xxx— x Batteries: Ne who user and Wagner and Conroy x x x x Teb-bet- I By Soviet During Engagement MOSCOW July 9 (UP)— Anj ace Russian sub com- mander seriously damaged the giant German battleship Tirpitz with two direct torpedo hits and saved a big allied supply convoy from dis- aster it was announced to- day Captain Nikolai Lunin commanding a red fleet submarine sighted the Tirpitz three German heavy cruisers and eight destroyer- as they were trying to intercept an allied convoy in the Barents sea off the Arctic coast on the way to a Russian port j ‘Impossible Odds Despite the almost impossible odds against him Lunin decided at once to break through the screen of destroyers protecting the safely in port At last report the' German fleet was lnaking its way back to the KILLED Norwegian fjords' from which it had emerged to harry allied shipping on the Murmansk supply line Lunin is one of Russia’s most GAR daring sub commanders He has a star ' record of sinkings of enemy transports and patrol vessels in the northern seas Trolley Slices Auto With Nazis Claim Victory Rush-HoThe anAouncement of the torLopd in pedoing was the first allied word a "action in the Barents sea off of Pennsylvan the Arctic coast where Germany claimed it had sunk 32 out of a NORRISTOWN Pa July 9 (AP) convoy of 38 ships in an Ten persons ' were kil convoy en route to Murn head-omansk in the injured A communique was supplementcrowded interurban passenger car and a freight trolley late yester ed by official information that the lf Tirpitz probably the most powerful day on a curve three and miles north of hej’e battleship afloat and believed to tons had d jThe heavy freight be? of more than 40000 Several harbor a left slicec down Norwegian grade literally running and cruisers its with a of third the ago days pas through nearly allied to ona big was route car en prey which destroyers senger from Philadelphia to Allentown convoy load Although the battleship was proPa with a rush-hotected re were Several of the injured by a screen of destroyers” statement said! "Capofficial an in at Nor critical condition ported ristown hospitals- - A Philadelphia tain Lunin decided to break Red Cross unit which rushed blood through and attack the Tirpitz "Two torpedoes found their mark plasma for transfusions was cred and the battleship was heavily lives ited with saving six damaged The German squadron The dead: to abandon further Henry H Strunk 42 Allentown was compelled it withdrew to the and operations motorman of the passepger car Mrs Martha Clair 64 Ambler Norwegian fjords '"The convoy was enabled to conPa Miss Mary McCoy 22 Washing- tinue on its way and it arrived safely at a soviet port” ' ton Square Pa In London the admiralty exMrs Bertha Thompson 50 One pressed interest In the Russian anLexington Pa had 22 Souderton nouncement that the Tirpitz Mrs Mollie Dietz I been torpedoed Pa It was believed there that a big Harry Shiffer 47 Allentown aerial-navengagement might Miss Catherine L Naee 23 Lans have been fought in the Barents dale Pa sea but it was emphasized that Henry T Moyer 46 Souderton no announcement was likely beFa engaged reached Miss Virginia Wiekel 19 North fore the ships port Wales Pa William M Kelly 18 North Attack Denied Wales Pa The Lehigh Valley Transit com BERLIN July 9 (UP)— (Ger pany which operates tiie rail line man Broadcast Recorded by UP in announced it was investigating to New York)— The high command determine the cause oflthe crash today denied Russian assertions German battleGrover S Meckley 54 Allentown that the 35000-to- n motorman of the freight trolley ship Admiril Tirpitz was attacked said he first saw the passenger and damaged by a soviet submacar round the curve about 50 yards rine in the Barents sea “This is away on the single track He mere invention” the high comthrew his car into reverse and ran mand said regarding the Russian "The battleship toward the back escaping with announcement was neither damaged nor Tirpitz slight injuries i attacked at all” TEN Judgment Nazis Reported Throughout' Nation s orpedoes SABOTEUR TRIAL -- ' No 1942 Turge' Persons closely associated with Tirpitz the' chief executive who prefer to He did so and plunged two Into the great German batremain anonymous say they are convinced there will he no 1942 tleship it was asserted officially version of the 1938 1‘purge ” ' in As the result it was said the which the president campaigned German naval formation with its (Continued on Page Two) chief unit stricken was forced to (Column Two)! turn back and the convoy arrived ! I " poses alone Mr Roosevelt said he- regretted i i He himself has remarked that this is war and politics are out And one individual witn access to accurate information asserted that the president had lived! up to that declaration so far although he has had many a bid for political assistance from members of congress who feel uneasy over their chances for reelection jin November- A presidential pat on the back conceivably could make considerable difference in their fortunes SECRECY CLOAKS sub-pari- ty FLEES TO THE FJORDS Impossible Odds Braved ’Are Out -- ’ He Avers War Crisis Cdo Hitler Forces Wi oedOut Jap Warship Boost Aleutian Toll to As Russians Spage 15 Counter Blows ! ” v V S Subs Bag ts WASHINGTON July 9 (UP) --p American subs have taken full advantage of the “miserable weather” in the Aleutian islands to sneak into harbors invaded by the Japs torpedo five of their destroyers and escape j apparently without being detected Whereas bad weather J has been blamed for lack of air action against the Jap invasion forces in the Aleutians it is jnade to' order for undersea craft Periscopes are difficult t6 see even in good weather Bit a submarine crew despite the mists characteristic of that area would be able to see the outlines of a ship well enough to send a torpedo crashing into its side t Helped By Storms That apparently is just what American subs have done! Helped rather than hindered by fog and rain they have bagged another Jap destroyer at Kiska bringing the toll of enemy ships sunk or damaged in the Aleui j j ? tians to 15 i of the Jap toll was credited to subs which sank four destroyers and left another “tjuming fiercely”' within 48 hours On July 4 American submarines torpedoed four destroyers and left another “burning fiercely” Three of those were attacked at Kiska the fourth was sunk at Agattu The success of sub attacks within the last week however may jead to greater concentration of those craft in the Aleutians in an attempt to harrass the enemy which must depend upon ships to hold their precarious toeholds and for supplies The latest successes of subs in the Aleutians brought to 74 tiie number of Jap ships sunk probably sunk or damaged by subs during the war Most of the 47 actually sunk were warships One-thir- -- d i BALKANS SEEN QUICK RUBBER " SECOND FRONT SOURCE LACKED 1 ur Anglo-Americ- an one-ha- high-floore- ur al j ’ BULLETINS - SPOKANE Wash July 9 (UP) Corp Marvin (Bud) Ward Spo- kane medalist and defending champion won an easy 7 and 6 victory over his fellow townsman Otto Rosand in first round match play of the western amateur golf tourney at Manito today WASHINGTON July 9 (AP) The department anthat nouncedjustice Herbert Karl today Friedrich Bahr 29 an American citizen has been seized by F B L agents on charges of violating espionage laws The nearly 1000 persons aboard theSO steamship were deDrottingholra June tained after its arrival pending questioning of each passenger by federal agents WAR END SEEN 1 IN 1942 OR ’43 Guerrilla Campaign on Guayule Shrub o Mexico And Texas Claimed With Slavs InvadPromising ing Italy F j July 9 (UP) — Dis patches from neutral European sources today reported that a "real second front” had been established in Jugoslavia by a guerrilla" campaign that is "in full swing” against the axis (Washington dispatches today reported that Balkan guerrilla bands had Invaded jltaly clashed with Italian troops and forced the Italians to launch 4 punitive expedition against them with troops and airplanes) The dispatches to London said that rebel warfare was growing in Jugoslavia and that officers who had been cooperating with or not opposing the nazis in the past were now joining up every day with the guerrillas! of General LONDON Draja Mikhailovitch A Jugoslav diplomat said that the operations were fa real second front” against the axis It was reported that the rebels had captured the town ©f Ojalin with about 2000 inhabitants not far from Zagreb Other reports from occupied Europe said that a German army restaurant at Brussels had been dynamited by Belgian with a number of casualties The city of Brussels wa fined 2000-00- 0 Belgian francs anti-naz- is Soldiers Kidnap Girl FBI Told DENVER July 9 jUP)— Federal agents today investigated the story of k Iowaj girl who said two soldiers on with she stayed a week-lon- g holdup tour of the midwest because she wanted to see them "hung” for what they did to her Margaret Rollie who has been missing from her ’home at Hesper Iowa for a week said the soldiers Private Elmer F Kuske 23 formerly of Lakewood Colo and Private David Westmari 19 Trinidad Colo took her away from her escort and attacked her criminally FBI agents who would not comment on the possibility of filing kidnap charges against Kuske and Westman said they would talk to the soldiers the giri and Larimer county officers where the two men staged a holdup They said any such charges would bo filed in July 9 (AP)— would end war the Predicting "probably In 1942 and unquestionably in 1943” Chairman May of the house military affairs committee said today there would be no need for the army to induct married men or youths ini the 18 to group The information on which he based the prediction the Kentuckian told reporters was a military secret” obtained since the recent apparent Russ an re- Des Moines verses WASHINGTON (D-K- y) 19-ye- ar WASHINGTON July 9 (AP- IAfter many months of intense in- vestlgating and experimenting agriculture department plant specialists and engineers have- about concluded that there is no quick easy source of natural rubber to replace supplies cut off by the war Departmental studies directed at such rubbe plants as guayule Russian dandelion goldenrod and babbit brush Shrub Promising Most promising of these In the opinion of the department’s rubber specialists is guayule a shrub native to Mexico and parts of Texas Some progress has been made toward commercial production of rubber from this plant Sufficient seedlings are expected to be grown this summer to plant at least 50000 acres next winter Loren G Polhamus rubber spebureau Of plant incialist e that dustry emphasized however rubsubstantial yields of guayule ber cannot be expected in the immediate future At least 600000 acres would be required to provide a sixth of the nation’s normal - slow-growi- ng of-th- WILHELMSHAV EN HITj U Air Attaclc ese China Upset In Invasion By Associated Press Germany’s migntiest offensive of 1942 has failed thus far to gain any broad foothold east of the great Don pver barrier and Red from army counter-attacks- " the flanks have endangered the nazie wedge west of the -- -- river battlefront dispatches reported today I 'With massed tanks and an infantry force padded heavily with Rumanians Hungarians and Slovaks for numerical superiority the Germans-werreported still forcing crossings in small groups In an effort to regain footholds whre their earlier bridgeheads were e smashed - t Nazis Wiped Out Some of these the Russians said were wiped out' but other of the axis advance forces were holding! 0 grimly in the face of intense artillery and machine gun fire Russian' dispatches said that as a result of tank-le- d Russian coun- which recaptured several communities on the flanks of the nazl wedge west of the river the’ Germans were forced to divert large forces from their drive to-- 1 ward Voronezh The Russian counter-attack- s ap- parentlyl centered northwest of Voronezh (perhaps aimed from Orel- - at Kursk starting point of the nazl drive) Earlier a Russian' withdrawal from Staryi Oskol had widened the German salient 65 miles southter-blo- ws west of Voronezh Two French Moves -France figured in two outstanding news developments of the day The British war office announced occupation on July 2j without resistance of the French Island of Mayotte in Mozambique channel off the southeastern coast of Af- r rica and the Washington state department designated) representatives to consult with the free comrhittee in LonThe significance of the state department’s move was not fully apparent but the ranks of the representatives chosen emphasized the importance of the Appointments They are Admiral Hafold R Stark chief of American naval forces in French-nation- al don European waters and General Charles L Bolte chief of staff to Lieutenant General Dwight D Eisenhower U S army commander for the European theatre-EgyptiWar Quiet The battle of Egypt had become largely a waiting game with both the British and th axis forces near El Alamein trying to hold present positions pending reinforcement necessary for a major an move British in daylong assaults despite duststorms smashed at axis vehicles and landfighter-bombe- ) rs ing grounds in the Jyvestern desert following a sharp night raid oy ground troops who destroyed a ’ number of German cannon and killed and captured some- - of the nemy a communique reported toneeds !f day Vine of Milkw eed concentrated The British Polhamus asserting considerable particularly in planes sector the southern attention had been given lately to some miles west of Alexanthe possibilities of cryptostegia a dria where Nazi Marshal Erwin tropical vine of the milkweed fam- Rommel has folded back his line ily found in Mexico and other to avoid being outflanked countries said it had An unstated number of axis been claimed by those interested planes’ refueling on the landing in this plant that It would pro- ground at El Daba were attacked duce rubber much more quickly and eight were shot out of the air than guayule He addpd however during the day’s operations the that the department was not yet British said Like the land raid ready to recommend extensive Tuesday night the aim was! to plantings of cryptostegia because the axis invaders shaken up no practical method of extracting keep of sorely needed rest and deprived rubber from the plant had been and reinforcements found R A F Hits Nazi Port Nevertheless the department is London reported a strong force this planting several test tracts ofHaiti of R A F bombers attacking plant in Florida Mexico and Cuba to ascertain production the German naval base of 4000- last night loosed problems bombs— bethe biggest' the Brit-- j pound Officials said the department of the ish ever have announced using — lieved that development Re- -! Hevea rubber tree culture in trop- the air ministry said today the time said that by pilots ical America offered the best hope turning for long term supplies of rubber the last of their planes left the great fires were ragat costs which- are competitive targetin area Wilhelmshaven shipthe anying of rubber those produced with were reportbombers Four yards where in the world ed lost in the attack! the first on Germany since the night of July 2 OPPOSES ADJOURNMENT — Japs Upset in China WASHINGTON July 9 (UP) toDevelopments In the American-ChineSen John Thomas air offensive in China and day declared he would oppose any a Chinese for to reports of an upset for adjourn congress plan the weeks of during period (Continued oo Pjte Two) 70-o- dd Lat-In-Ameri- Wil-helmsha- j - (R-Idah- j se o) (Column Eight) t |