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I 18 Pages—Five Cents Salt Lake City Utah Tuesday Morning September 9 1941 i ' ' Nazis Obtain U S Secrets Escapes ' 111ZOILI AS 10111z7tTed 57rveetis Rockles P ' Girl and Companions Marooned ''ggl ' Day in Truck as Storm Hits From Montana to Colorado i t i I DENVER 8 (AP)—A Chicago hiker NEW YORK Sept S (UP)--prosecutor outlining I I government "nor a firs" tamiiait of a huge espionage who collapsed ring that would match any mys- A cf exhaustion west's earliest down the Rocky mountains Monday from Montana to southern Colorado A Chicago capitalist's daughter and two companions were truck in marooned- - nearly 24 hours in a blizzard-stalle- d rescuers reached them until ed Two fishermen marooned in Forest canyon in Rocky over-nigh- Mountain National park whittled u et sticks until they managed to build a fire that saved them from freezing Mn C L Poorman 58 Vanealic Ohio died in a Flagier Cob hospital Monday night of injuries suffered in the overturning of an auto that skidded on wet pave-menear Siebert 50 miles west cf the Colorado-Kansa- s boundary Poor-ma54 iwas in the same hos- pital suffering serious injuries Drifts Total Five Feet Whipped by strong mountain winds the snow piled into drifts five feet deep on the trail ridge road in Rocky Mountain park Temperatures fell far below freezing at high elevations The temperature atop Pike's peak was 9 degrees above zero The Pikes peak highway w a s closed by snow Overtaken by the storm on the High Wild basin trail George Po- New Mexico Cities Wait Blackout Test micro-camer- et n tratz collapsed of exhaustion while hastening down Herbert A with his brother Potratz of Boulder University of Colorado chemistry professor Park rangers summoned by a 59 of Chicago fisherman carried Potrat2 unconaciowi on a Itors& two miles down the trall to a ranger cabin Dr J O Mail of Estes park who admina'stered emergency treatment almost certainly said Potratz would have died 011 rescuers had reached him an hour later The Cticago man was taken to the Estes park hospital Trio Marooned Army Maps Moves To Meet 'Invasion' Raid Friday Night SANTA FE N M Sept 8 (A')— With more than participating municipalities in virtual readiness state guard officers and the army Monday put finishing touches to civilian defense against New Mexico's aerial bombing "Invasion" Friday night Communication facilities and civilian aircraft spotters drew final military attention to test civilian scale mobilization on a state-wid- e under simulated war conditions Warnings Issued Municipal warnings were issued to local populations to avoid accidents dutng- - the blackouts while test blackouts were tried in various cities Gallup made a test and decided on utilization of louder siren warnings to sound the blackout and the "all clear" A conference of state 'guard officials and members of the military department smoothed out details for operating the principal filter stations for plane spotters as Las Cruces Albuquerque Las Vegas three-scor- many details of the famed Norden bomb sight one of this nation's most prized defense secrets United States Attorney Harold Kennedy naming the German reich as coconspirator delivered the government's opening argument at the trial of 16 persons accused of espionage for Germany The defendants with 17 others who have pleaded guilty allegedly gathered important military information and transmitted it to Germany via transatlantic clippers and liner and radio with the aid of secret ink and elaborate code systems Kennedy declared that Nikolaus Ritter and Adolf Gerhoff who are not defendants directed the espionage from Hamburg and that through them and by means of radio code the German government was able to order specific jobs of spying Got Specifications Pointing to Herman Lang naturalized citizen born in Germany who formerly was employed as a draftsman and machinist by Carl I Norden Inc bomb sight manufacturers Kennedy charged that it was Lang who obtained specifications for the bomb sight and transmitted the information to German authorities in 1938 The Norden sight considered to be the most accurate in the world is said to enable a flier at 10000 feet altitude to drop a missile into a ship's smokestack Kennedy gave no Indication as to whether the information transmitted by Lang to Germany was sufficient for the luftwaffe to duplicate the sight Used Best Sellers "Lang" Kennedy said "went to While there Germany in 1938 we'll prove he furnished particulars of the bomb sight We'll also prove he received compensation for this—that 10000 marks are on deposit for him now in Ger- e and Roswell Phone Service Assured - The spies Kennedy said based (Continued on Page Two) (Column our) AAA Attacks relayed to Santa Fe and the "invaders" progress charted on a huge operations map Invitations were Issued meanwhile to governors of Texas Kansas Oklahoma California Utah Arkansas Missouri Louisiana and WASHINGTON Sept 8 UPI — Arizona to attend or send repre- The American Automobile associasentatives for what is the nation's tion urged a senate investigating first state-wid- e blackout test committee Monday to recommend discontinuance of the night-tim- e Gisen First Aid ban on gasoline sales in eastern states but a spokesman for filling Losing their way they huddled Irish Envoy Travels y a small fire thropgh a sleepless BARCELONA Sept 8 (UP) — station operators asked its contheir way to Sean Murphy Irish Free State min- tinuance rIght before makingmuseum Alexthe Fall River pass Manvvhile In a step to facilitate ister to Vichy arrived here Monday ander 'has given first aid treat- night reportedly to cpnfer with the use of railroad tank cars to n ment there for hands American diplomats bring petroleum east from the southwestern oil fields the Assoelation of American Railroads applied to the interstate commerce 1 commission for authority to make emergency reductions in t h e freight rates and asked speedy consideration of the application UTAII—Fair and warmer' Tuesday and Wednesday NEVADA—Fair Tuesday and Wedneday slightly warmer Senator Skeptical At the srlate committee hear IDAHO—Partly cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday warmer however Senator Downey WYOMING--Partl- y cloudy Tuesday and Wednesday risCalifornia contended that (D) ing temperatures J J Pel ley president of the Car riers'association had "overjudged The following weather condi- :II tridr what the railroads can do" Peitions Were reported by the United etatiiis PP ley's statement that 20000 tank States weather bureau Monday at cars were available to move gaso5:30 p m: ' Blanding clear 00 line to the east Downey said ws' 46 65 67 00 based on a canvass made a year 40 cloudy The storm center which devel- Noise hurley partly cloudy 65 34 00 f 00 oped over the Rocky mountain Butte cloudy 34 52 ago and since that time consump46 Cheyenne 36 00 tion has increased 11 per cent due cloudy partly to had moved region Saturday 61I 90 Chicago cloudy 00 the upper Mississippi valley by Ileitis clear 36 65 00 to the defense program Downey lienver cloudy 41 31 47 The cold air Elko Monday evening clear 67 27 00 recommended construction of pipeIv clear which flowed southward over the Grand 63 34 00 lines as the best solution Junction clear 44 61 08 western states in the wake of the Greenriver Russell E Singer general manclear 74 50 00 87 10 27 ager of the A A A a motorists' or storm center now covers the great Kansas City cloudy Lao Vegas clear 79 61 00 plairut and Rocky mountain re- Lou Angeles 79 clear 61 00 ganization told the committee that clear 39 00 the 7 p m to 7 a m closing of 65 gion as far south as New Mexico Milford kipla-S- t 34 61 32 Tem- New YorkPCitydrizzle and the Texas Panhandle 78 clear 59 00 filling stations "is not in the pubOmaha 64 78 00 lic interest and Is not justified as peratures are unseasonably low Phoenix cloudy GS clear 94 00 62 35 throughout most of the west al- Pocatello 00 a means of gasoline conservation" cloudy partly Portisiatt 77 46 Om 00 seacloudy near and that none of the resultant savthe though they are Pueblo cloudy 52 39 26 sonal average in the Pacific coast Reno clear 75 33 00 ings in operating costs to the sta- 51 35 09 tions are being passed illong to Springs cloudy states Rain occurred quite gen- Reek knooeveit clear 40 63 00 Louts in and St Colorado 94 72 00 consumers partly cloudy Wyoming erally el L 64 39 clear 00 Airport snow states with the great plains than La 66 42 00 Points to Figures City clear 65 00 clear 75 Diego being renorted at higher eleva- San r11112C1 !CO 74 52 clear 00 "Gasoline consumption figures tions Idaho Utah Arizona and San Seattle cloudy 72 50 00 no are concrete evidence 67 39 that the Spokane cloudy regions to the westward enjoyed Toftopak 85 41 !air weather although there was Washington clear 85 71 00 night closing of station' has not clear 44 cadaver clear 64 00 had the effect of reducing conconsiderable cloudiness over the Winnmueca 71 37 00 northwest states and light rains W Yellowstonecloudy 30 00 sumption" he said clear ” 50 Yuma 99 68 clear 00 were reported alone the northwest Singer also urged that the committee "recognize that the passencost of Washingt8n 08 ger automobile is no longer a vemonth to date Comnarative nrecipitation data Total since October 1 to hide of pleasure" He said surveys for Salt Lake City: - of all date t Inches 2007 showed that 77 neceswere for Accumulated excess since automobile Total precipitation for the 24 by trips October 1 hours ending at 5:30 p inTrace 468 sary purposes such as in connec34 Sun rises 6:02 and sets 6:48 tion with earning a livelihood or Total for this month to date Accumulated excess for this closely related business pursuits September 9 1941 Gasoline Sales frost-bitte- Interim ountaiii Weather 16 - - 1 - I as Night Ban on pers-cen- t ' - 111 First Air Attack On British Capital 1 t 1 F By Associated Press LONDON Sept 8—British pilots attacking in coldly furious commemoration of one of Britain's most tragic nights beat at Berlin for hours Sunday night and early Monday in a raid officially termed the heaviest ever delivered upon Hitler's capital It was payment in the red fa- miliar coin of fire bombs and ex- ploses for the first mass air at- tack on London on the night of September 8 1940 an assault of eight hours and 18 minutes that by British count cost the nazis 65 planes Twenty British bombers and one fighter plane of squadrons of hundreds which crossed the channel last night in the white moonlight of Indian summer were said- to have gone down before German defensive fire but this was the total acknowledged loss of a great anniversary offensive that struck not only at Berlin but at Kiel and other far separated points In the retch and along the occupied French coast Four German Tighter planes of those that leapt aloft to meet the R A F were declared shot down Shows New Strength It was by every account thrust of mighty power sharply illustrating how Britain's aerial lt arm strengthened by American-buiplanes has grown from a year ago to take theöffensive where it once fought desperately only to protect this Island Berlin itself said the air ministry in- a brief communique was left alight with a series of tremendous fires "We could see the place like a flight map" said a returning moonsergeant describing how the light threw the city into clear relief "Soon there were many fires with one in particular blazing large and fiercely in the heart of the city as a further guide to our bomb7-- - - ers" Flames by these accounts were especially thick about a main Berlin railway station Hit Kiel Base Aside from these violent assaults on the reich's capital the shipyards at the nazi naval base of Kiel and the docks at Boulogne in France were especially hard hit overnight German airdromes over a wide area also were assaulted All this capped a series of weekend raids—some of them participated in by American volunteers in the Eagle squadron—extending on Page Three) (Continued (Column Two) Photo of Reds Proves Dud SPOKANE Wash Sept 8 Charles Sheely Spokane Chronicle new photographer was arrested Monday trying to obtain pictures of the Russian aviation mission Sheely was taken to the police station after he had been warned no pictures were to be taken but had snapped one from across the street from the Davenport hotel where they stopped Released after an hour with an admonition by Chief Ira Martin not to publish the picture until it was released by the war department Sheely rushed back to his darkroom Development showed three city policemen and several automobiles in front of the hotel and no Russians who had already gone inside At Seattle last Thursday a navy patrol boat fired four shots to warn away a press boat attempting to photograph arrival of the mission's two planes from Russia 7174177r77:1717":77- -" Paris Jews For Hostages 11 V I C II Y Also France 8 100 Jews than Sept including Pierre Masse former minister of justice and Theodore Valens! a former deputy Monday were reported arrested as hostages by German authorities at Paris in new reprisals for growing disorders against the occupying power Vichy no longer tried to conceal the gravity of strife in the tone or the fact that reprisals seemed only to heightUnoccupied L1M---M- ore German- -occupied en IL Incidents to Multiply We can expect to see street Incidents multiply" the official news agency told the press of unoccupied France The agency circulated an extract from the Paris Cri du Peuple which likened the situation in the occupied capital to open warfare Vichy authorities have Insisted that the increasing demonstrations shootings and sabotage were a communist plot designed to divert German military strength from the Russian front to France Three hostages shot at dawn Saturday in reprisal for an assault on a German sergeant were Identified as communists but their names were not yet disclosed They were among some 60 imprisoned August 13 after demonstrations in the Porte St Denis quarter of Paris Regarded as Moderates No charges of communism were published here against the latest hostages Masse who was a minister of justice in the Poincare cabinet In 1922 and Valensi the former deputy were regarded as political moderates Masse was a member of the democratic alliance e formerly headed by Flandin The Paris newspaper Au Pilory said three other prominent Jews had been arrested but this could not be confirmed per-Ilo- anti-Germ- na an Pierre-Etienn- anti-Semit- Tr zi ic for an abdominal operation that doctors believe may be necessary The- boy who learned to walk less than a year ago and who was released from a hospital - war some This was Adolf once ‘Dn only Canadians Norse Britons Join in 2500-Mil- e Venture new-foun- said 9 - i 1 in of of any had of men been position foothold now Is in Rus - Thus after nearly a month of silence on operations of Marshal Semeon Timoshenka's forces the Russians told officially of what has been going 'an in that hotly con- - tested central sector On both ends of the front mean- while counterattack after counter attack by the red forces appearel to be relieving pressure on Len25ingrad on the north and Odessa and Kiev in the south The recapture of Yelnya lodged the Germans from an Im- portant rail town 200 miles west of Moscow The account of the battle there was the first official admis- Tuesday sion here that the Germans had The raid on the group of Islands gotten that close to the soviet capi- 500 miles north of the Norwegian till mainland was unopposed on the battle at the town Birtish ships removed some 1000 of Report Yelnya about 40 miles east of Norwegian miners and their fam- Smolensk and 200 miles west of ilies the men promptly enlisting Moscow was issued as the fight In the Norwegian forces in Britain for Leningrad grew more fierce The announcement did not disclose when the expedition led by Fighting Stubbornly a Canadian officer was made Nor The ferocity of the struggle on was it revealed whether an allied the central front was matched on garrison was left on the Islands the north where Marshal Klementi most of the Voroshilov's armies stubbornly which are were defending Leningrad three year Unofficially it was reported all weeks after the Germans declared the allied troops were withdrawn the second soviet city "under Nearly all of the Norwegian pop- direct threat of attack" ulation was removed What bapThe exact location of the fight- pened to the Russian miners also ing on the approaches to Leninliving there was not disclosed grad was not given but Monday's These stolid Russians and Nor- communique said guerillas were the raiders operating in the rear of the Gerwegians welcomed Members of the expedition said and mans in the vicinity of Luga a even aided them to land supplies rail junction 80 miles south of the seize and operate the island's two Baltic city radio stations and plan for the Schooled for years to be ready return journey to die for the revolution the soviet The Russians in their communal proletariat fought by the side of centers where pictures of Lenin the red army to beat back the iron Stalin and other soviet heroes were tide rolling toward Leningrad If hung passed out drinks and Rus- they gave ground soviet dispatches sian cigarets to the expedition's of(- did not mention the fact on Pare Three) Continue-d The Russians broadening their (COMMTI Four) aerial offensive reported a red air force raid on Bucharest Sunday night and repeated assaults upon German troops in the field and their airdromes behind the lines Hastily Retreat Remnants of the smashed German divisions on the central front — 8 WASHINGTON RI Sept after Monbeing thrown out of Yelnya disclosed Wickard Secretary a rail town were reported "hastily day that as part of the government's "mobilization of American retreating in a westerly direction?' At the conclusion of the massive agriculture" tolimitations of acre- battle the Russians said their sugar probably will age planted be lifted in 1942 Marketing re- troops occupied the town Sunday The routed German divisions strictions may be continued it were identified as one S S (black-shi- rt was learned elite guards) 17th motorized Dr Joshua Bernhardt chief of the sugar division said the acre- 10th tank 137th Austrian 15th 268th infantry age limitations probably would be 178th 292nd and Everywhere else along the front removed next year whether the 1937 sugar quota law Is continued the red armies yesterday continued their stubborn fighting Mondays In effect or not The law expires at the end of early morning communique said this year Legislators from sugar as usual without giving particustates are seeking to continue the lars Leningrad broadcasts breathed control system either through a new act or a continuation of the defiance ae workers soldiers sailors pledged defense to the death existing law Wickard's table of production but admitted that the city now ls in the front line of a fierce goals for agriculture next year battle made this notation with regard to "We have erected a steel wall both cane and beet sugar: "No the city" said one speaker acreage limit expected" There was around his voice tight with emotion and no explanation Bernhardt said however the he declared his confidence the Gerwould be turned aside carryover of sugar from this year's mans Not for a moment in more than so acrebe would small that crop leaders age restriction would not be nec- 20 years have onsoviet Pare 'num) crop 'Column Five) essary for the LONDON Tuesday Sept 9 UPI— Canadians British and Norwegian troops have made a spectacular 00-mile roundtrip expedition by sea to the Norwegian archipelago of Spitzbergen in the Arctic circle where it was understood they smashed valuable coal mines coveted by Germany It was announced - WASHINGTON Sept 8 UPI— The state department was informed Monday night that the American freighter Steel Seafarer was sunk by an airplane in the Red 'sea Sunday second United States merchantman to be sent to the bottom since the start of the European war The Identity of the plane the department said was unknown The sinking from which all crew members were saved occurred In the Red sea through which'American ships have been carrying supplies to the British In the middle east President Roosevelt lifted a ban In April which barred American ships from the Red sea declaring that water outside the combat zones from which merchant vessels of this country are barred The sinking of the Steel Seafarer occurred four days after the United States destroyer Greer and a German submarine engaged in a bomb duel in the torpedo-dept- h North Atlantic The Greer northbound with mail f o r American forces in Iceland reported the submarine fired torpedoes at her without warning and that she then circled over the spot and dropped' depth charges Berlin asserted the destroyer opened fire first 4 stomach As lately as last Thursday Carl played barelegged in the pine needles near his home beside Oldham lake fondled adog and cat and did other things in the d life which his mother had described as "just like a baby's — learning of many new things for the first time" i the first time more than two years European war Allied Troops that Hitler's have driven out major taken a they Raid Mines Disordered Retreat Not were they driven out what's left them Of Spitzb ei gen but disordered retreat toward the west from whence they came the pronounce- was taken during the week end seriously and rushed to a Boston hospital He apparently had recovered' from tuberculosis of the spine that had afflicted him at the age of 11 months and which for nine of 10 years he WU hospitalized forced him to lie flat on his !1'::':: 'i 26-d- ay economy ago 1 ii: 1 Tuesday Sept 9 (AP) — The red army proclaimed Tuesday as its greatest victory of the war against Germany the routing of eight nazi divisions totaling 115000 men in the Smolensk area of the central front The Germans were smashed in a battle that ended in a victory for soviet arms Monday when red army units regained the town of Yelnya 40 miles east of Smolensk an official "announcement said Tuesday Bomber Sinks United States Ship in Red Sea N‘reeks i MOSCOW ment of importance was reliably reported likely to be made by Premier Konoye later in the week but its nature was not disclosed Two weeks ago Konoye sent a personal letter to President Roosevelt only six I 1'"::' t eat it ack Foe illl : Ice-bou- Sugar Limit Lifting Seen 2 19-4- 1 - t Into Hasty Retreat After Lone Fivilt on Central Front New Illness Ends Fred edom For Boy 10 Years Abed BOSTON Sept 8 LTI—Eleven- Carl Mason faced a year-ol- d surgeon's knife Monday night on the Monday he was to have answered a school bell for the first time in his life after being In hospitals since cradle days While thousands of American school children he had hoped to join recounted to parents the adventures of their first classes Carl lay on a hospital bed too ill to receive visitors and blood donors stood ready to aid him 1 Moscow Reports Germans Forced which would reduce and eliminate small industries and definitely restrict the profit motive in Japanese business In Violence As Reprisals Fail i 11 e Vichy Fears Rise ' 1 ' 'L - Jil 100 Nazis - k III n 1 Cividliails- m Rifle tip Eye Nazi Greer Duel Alongside A 11Til Yi assumed prime importance in the Japanese press Monday as leaders of public opinion weighed the chances of the incident involving Japan in war Article three of the tri- partite pact among Japan' Germany and Italy obligates signatories to aid the others if "attacked" by an outside power Press opinion was divided between those blaming the United States for the incident and those professing ignorance as to who was the aggressor Meanwhile Masazo Sa: konji minister of commerce and industry appealed in a nation-wid- e broadcast for the people's cooperation in erecting a full-tim- NEW YORK Sept 9 (AP)—The British radio quoted an official Berlin broadcast to the effect that the R A F bombed Berlin again during the night for the second nocturnal assault in a row - t ' TOKYO Sept 8 (AP)— The question of who fired first in the U S S Greer-nasubmarine sea duel Night and Day Assault Leaves Many 'Tremendous Fires' Kiel Naval Base Made Target f ' I 111) I 7r-n-7 I t 0 ' many" Telephone company representatives arranged to maintain service after regular hours in small communities for warnings to the various headquarters All information on the flight of bombers will be L 1 ' widespread Sept t (i)-f:-115(- 1111) ci i - 1 Says Prosecutor - I Anik 1 Sr° Spies Send Data On Bomb - Sight I i 1 Court Hears ' lunenDaLtleat RussLins Itefear000c G e lin e'Ill1 701ree rEin R A F 9 atiii6:t-omb''-:0II - |