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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1941
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HITLER CHARGES AMERICA HAS ATTACKED GERMANY'
U.Se Army Bomber Explodes in Air, Crew of Five Dead
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Still Another Warboat for Uncle Sam
Ohio Farmer Saw Flre in Air Before it Dived
MOTORS BURIED
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Bodies of Fliers Blown to Bits; Wreckage Scattered
FIndlay. O., No. 1. (UP)—A twin englned United State. Army Hght bomber which apparently "blew up In the air" crashed and burned In a corn stubble farm field today.' killing Its crew of tlve.
Wreckage of the plane, which was making a "local" tllght frem Patterson Field, Dayton, O., trf intended to retum there, was strewn over a wide area. The bodies ot the vlcUms were "blown to bits", according to the state highway   patrol.
Patterson Fleld olBcers began an Investigation tonight.   The victims were   attached   to  the  Army  Air Corps base at Orlando, Fla. Flames Shot from Plane
A. H. Clymer, father of the farmer In whose field the bomber fell, Mid he .aw "flame. .hoeUng out from the plane about MO foot off the ground and then It went Into a noM dive."
Air porp. officer, at Patterson Field said the bomber crew was testing an automatic pilot which files a ship without manual control when the rrash happened. It wax not determined it operation of the automatic mechanism waa re-' sponsible tor the crash,    u j
The plane, a North American; B-25, "apparently blew up in the! air and there wa. a great roar."i according to Lieut. 8. C. Augenateln I ot the state highway patrol. The! victims were thrown clear of the^ wreckage. Went Into Dive
The victims were identifled as:
Lieut. Oeorge W. Smith, Ashe- vllle, N. C. i
Lieut. P. W. Bafford, 18th Recon¬ naissance Squadron.
John D. Southard, Springfleld, O.
Robert J. Hageman, Dayton, rivilian apprentice airplane me¬ chanic.
Sergt. Lee D. Chambers, Iflth Re¬ connaissance Squadron, Hinsdale, N.T.
The crash occurred at 1:25 p. m. on   tha   farm   of  U   U   Clymers.     Washington, Nov. 1. (UP)-Sena three   miles   north   of   Mt.   Coiy.,j^^, representing  both major par Wreckage waa strewn over a wide,,i-,_f|.i:,„j„_, w   Green   D    R. I.. area.  VlcUms   w.re   Identified   byii'«^J^*;"|,%%SrR.,   Minn.-: Victory W^
Nazis Add  Says SItooting War
^^^^Sfarfed by
Russian War
Claim More Towns On Moscow Front, Menace Red Flank
'PURSUIT' IN CRIMEA
The new cruiser Cleveland, tirst of the new class of heavy cruisers  and  slater  ship  of  the
—TilMMlt.   rii.<.
Say Soviets Use Packs of Dogs Carrying Dynamite
By JOSEPH W. ORIGO
Beriln, Nov. 1. (UP) — Naal spokesmen said tonight that Ger¬ man Armies, pumplgg new lite Into the eastern blitzkrieg, were storm¬ ing anew through Meacow's outer defensea and nearlng decisive vic¬ tories in the Crimea and the DoneU Industrial basin.
As Adolf HUler's "last big de¬ cialve battle of the year" rounded out Its first month, front reports MUd the Germans had captured several towns en '.he Moscow front, had the conquest ot the whole Crimea within their grasp, and iwere menacing the flanks of Cen- itral and Southern Hussian armiea I after aeveral crossings of the upper {Donet.1 River.
I Nazi sources said German armies j bad stormed and captured a strong¬ ly defended but unidentified town {northwest of Moscow and rolled up a 30-mlle length of Soviet positions to the southwest engulfing a num- Iber of towns. Tell ef Crimean -Flight*
U.S.
By FREDERICK C. OECHSNER
Berlin, Nov. 1 (UP)—Reichschancellor Adolf Hitler charged in a formal Btatement to- night that the United States "has attacked Germany" in the shooting war ef the North Atlantic and a Wilhelmstrasse spokesman added that "Herr RooMvcIt has been plaee4 before the tribunal" for world judgment.
Germany's declaration was accompanied by a formal statement circulated through Nati
diplomats to all countries to which they are accredited as.serting that Mr. Roosevelt's charge
that Germany plans to carve up South America and stamp out world religion is "non.
sensical" and a "crude forgery."
Political observers regarded the German documents as the opening bla.st in a campaign
to place the "guilt" for a shooting war directly on the United States. The^e quarters noted that the German decla* rations paralleled closely similar charges leveled against Britain in the months before outbreak of the present war.
The German declarations were read to foreign correspond¬ ents at a special press conference to which they were sum¬ moned some hours earlier at the theater amembly room oif Propaganda Chief Paul Joseph Goebbels' ministry.
The German declarations were datelined from "the Fuehrer's field headquarters" on the Eastern Front, revealing that they came from Hitler himself.
There were two declarations—one concerning the shooting nar in the .Atlantic and one concerning Mr. Roosevelt's Navy Day address. Flach was prefaced with an extensive recapit¬ ulation of the background of the situation, as seen from the Nazi viewpoint.
Reds Engulf Nazis By Blowing up Dam; Crimean Wedge Wider
i   ,    ^     ^,      ',,„„. '    The first declaration contended that the reports, not onlv
London, Nov. 1 (UP)-Soviet re- ^^ j^^^i submarine commanders but of United States naval poru admitted tonight that small authorities, showed that the United Statea destroyer Greer
Nasi armored forces have wedged
Into Tula, southern bastion of the
! Moscow drfenae zone, while furious
Wilkes-Barre, now building, slips down   the   waya   at   New   York
Shipbuilding  Corporation   Yards at Camden, K. J,
Senators Urge Repeal Of U.S. Neutrality A<t Even at Risk of War
See Danger Lessened With Britain Aided; Clark Opposes— Fears Involvement All over World
By JOHN R. BEAL
iu alxth day ot debate on the pend ing bill to authorize arming of merchant ships and permit them to go through combat zones to bel¬ ligerent ports. At the beginning of the session Sen. Arthur H. Van¬ denberg, R.. Mich., chatting at the dais with Vice President Henry A. Wallace, noted the order in which they were scheduled: Green, Clark, Ball.
"That's aome aandwich," he com¬ mented.
urged  the Senate  today   to   scrap
Into
1   BuraiJ     Both  Green   and   Ball   conceded
•hinninr   mtrlc- that war may come to the United!
Uo^Tevcn tho^ugh the'movc might State,   but  they  both  held  It  was^
J    J   ,n   war '*** lilcely  if by   repealing  restric-l
„        ..  ^   r,i    «.    r.    M      tions now the United States stralna Sen.  Bennett  C.  Clark.   D.,  Mn
a  dive  aTid  plunged ^
contents   ot  wallets   found   up  to<
2,000   feet   away   from   the   •n*'"' Neutrality   Act
wreckage, '
Witnesses    said    the    ahip    was flying at about l.SOO feet under a
low atmospheric ceiling. Suddenly     "•"•, "*"",''"u^* ..'itr^^^.X-lnrrAn ''¦''•'''r It went  •"•- -   ^>«-  -"'•  "i..""H a   «••«'•>•   »'   'he   non-intervention
to   defeat   Hitler   without
J  J .    »    « .k ...1... actual participation,
to earth at a 45-degree angle. '?'"5'»,l'''«**'.,'*"'l'L°'. il-'fJln in     Clark took precisely the opposite
¦ Feet In the OreJnd ]"*¦ ^*''.^^^^T uliT\»   «vlr the ^•"'*> holding that the pending bill
The force of the landing burVdi w'"  without  limit    all   "vcr/"^, i, .but the immediate precursor to the twin motors and parU of the werid  and    Pf^Ie  th«   »'~^    "l our entrance  Into war," with  an- .hip eight feet ""^s'L'.V'frSmimTu^nrrvarhel'p" "r u°n'. other AEF Inevitahle. .. a crater 20  f.et reliable allies.
An    explosion gasoline,  blasted In   diameter   In   the
fl.ld.
fir§t Raid Alarm in Three Months Seemt fo Disappoint Londoners
London,  Nov.
"The Neutrality Act," said Green, was   an   act  of  appeasement  to- Thelr apeechea  gave the Senate ^.grds Hitler In  the hope that  If ^—.^^ we were not only neutral but also
, willing to give up some ot our rights as a neutral, he would re¬ spect our remaining righta. That hope ha* proved futile.
"The proposed revision ot the nuetrality law will simply restore the rights which we have alwaya
i^onaon,   iNOv.   1.   (UP)-London-lhan three months, shouted greet- ,   j     ^       International   law
•r. scanned the skies with that old:Ings to friend., on "'"by rooftops. *«'-<=^«'>"JJ^«'l^«"n^^^^        l»w feeling tonight as the banahee wail They   were  anxious   ^^ J'>   f^^^'     .^MtLt^Ztmton'oolnti  to of air raid sirens sounded here for thing,   although    they   hoped   the       '"'^ "»" "« ^«»n  «°^^^^^ the  firat  time   in  96  days  and  "worst would not f.H from the s,<.es, ,««^^^^
hawrfc    but   their   dUappolntment| and were disappointed when "oth- p^^^,g,^„g ^^^^ „ ^^ ^^^    ^^^^^ Wla evident when the all-clear waa; ing happened. by them "
¦ignalled soon afterward. |    It .truck newspapermen the same weakonln. is
11        r, ,j     ,.  J wav     One who  phoned   hs   office ^eara weaKenmg l,.8.
A lone Oerman raider had comejway.    ""* *"°  'L"_,, „, Anthony'    Clark, who pictured Secretary ot over apparently for a quick look "t ''»m the country hom^^ Anthony, ^^^^^ ^^^^ ..^^^^^ ^^^ ^JT^^
the   weather    and    London'a    im-i J- "r*"*.' Bidflie. *{"!«_"_"'"J^f" ^^ ,,„, ,rnm r«hle«" >¦• » man "declar
lime uermKH  raiaer nan «-"""' ,,_^, m. „„„„,,„ home nf Anthonv' •-¦larK, wno pictured
apparently for a quick look at"»m the country ho"^* "^Anthony ^^^^^ ^^^^
weather    and    London',    'm-i J^J'™**' »'^^'*j'^'^^^^^^^^ _.„._,
proved   anti-aircraft   defenses.     " voy to   h« •xlled "ovem'm^^^^^^^^ ^^, „„ nation after nation and
droppM bombs in two London dis- POJ'^^^^^^^^^^^ announcing   a   100   year
Farm Bloc of House Committee Slashes Proposal
Washington. Nov. 1 UP)—The House banking committee tonight approved by a vote sf 18 to 6 a drastically modified version of the administration's price eontrol bill after refusing to Include a wage ceiling in the measure.
With the farm bloc in the saddle, the committee rode roughshod over the administration's original bill and rejected, by a vote of 12 to 11, the proposal of Rep. Wilbur Mills, D., Ark., to prevent any wage In¬ creases which would boost the cost of a defen.se material *or any pre¬ vious established price  ceilings.
The farm price amendment, adopted by a vote of 12 to 11, pro¬ vided that the prices of farm pro¬ ducts could not be set lower than the highest prices which prevailed under any of three alternative base periods.
These vere: the general price level for farm commodities on Oct. 1, 1941: any price below 110 per cent of parity on the base period between 1909 and 1914; and the average prevailing prices for the prriod between 1913 and 1929.
Sponsors of the amendment said
the  base  period  between  1919  and
1929   permitted   the   highest   prices
for   farm   products.   The   admlnis-
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fighting enveloped the whole Mos- Though sleet, anow and mud still coar front as tar north as Kalinin.
held the armies in a frigid grip, in formant. said the German forcea were overcoming the handicap and probing deep into the Soviet forti¬ fications.
Rwuian troops were reported In precipitate flight before Axis torce. In the Crimea, and sanguine Nasi comment reflected the expectation that the whole Black Sea penin¬ sula might aoon be in German hands.
The reports by Radio Moscow, heard by the United Press listen¬ ing post, and received by British authorities Indicated that Adolf Hitler's second big attempt to break through to the Kremlin may now be reaching a peak.
The nightly Soviet communique as broadcast by Radio Moscow, re-
Kvas attacked by a German U-boat only after it had attacked
the .submarine for some hours with depth charfi^es.    The
USS Kearny, the statement claimed, was attacked only after
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Japan Studies 'Duty' To Aid  Attatked' Ally
Tokyo, Nov. 2. (Sunday^—(UP)— attacked Germany," it wa. noted. An information board spokesman directly paralleled the phraseology declined    to    comment    today    on of the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo military
and were   In   ceaseless   pursuit beaten enemy in the Crimea, the River
»„ enemy in thi Crimea   that >, .^^ SovlT^d unlu opeiatting ?a"ref",y"""'''
r^d ^'e'n  cJo^ed a't severil ''^•'-   '^^^   ^¦'"""   '""   SouthenT ".^t^tld  be f.*l''l'^''^."f!'.'^l'J.*^!r'.' Fronts    destroyed   more    than    40 „,,„[ otherwise
ported that fierce  fighting waa  in AHnlf Hl.W.   fipIH  headauarter.' P''??''"i^ '''^°"^!?°"^'"'i*'.^ T,^*** Ado'irHltre"rs   formal   charge   that alliance,    which    calls    upon    each lJ^«d.?immunIlucc^S^thI^l"''" ^       '"  ^'^    K^^ Un't-d   States   "ha.,   attacked power   to   offer   assistance   in   the
oJrmJJ    «S^   Rumania^   fr^M^"' /'«" '       '*°«'°,Germany,"   adding  that  the  state- event one ot them   "is attacked by
Oerman     and     Rumanian     troopa .round Moscow. !„^„j    ^^^^^^^    *^   .^^^    'important a power" not now involved In  th.
 h.t'    "J"^*   communique   said   that   on nature." would have to bc studied war.)
Although informed observers said premature tn com- the  German  charge was  likely to polnti, and that'renewed hostilities p'r""„ Tink."'manv"tmck'sTokde'd  t""' ?'*'")*''''• o" such matters as receive   the   endorsement   of   Uia In   the  L«nin«rart   reiion had   cost I *^'^'"*" ' """"y t'ucks loaded japgn'g  obligations  under  the  Tri- Japaneae   people,   they   added   that
he Rua^taw Sllvllv °n me^ and *"," '"'""!'•'' »"** ""'L'"^ supplies petite Pact," he aaid. ;Japans  obligation  und.r the Tri-
materiiil «»**viiy  in men  ana      j .everal score machine gun em-j    (The  language  of the  phrase  in | partite Pact did not yet appear to
_     .«..«       .    ,. placement!!. Hitler's   statement   that   "America I be concerned.
Bomb Ma'Supply Une. \    j^ ,;„ j^  u„|t,  ,t  „id,  .mashed:	
A far-flung and Intensive ••''•I >„ .nemy tank formation and blew __- bombardment     was     reported     In ammunition   dump.   "anni-|\W«l»     ^nmiUarT prograM, aimed at ahattering Rua- Liiatlng" two regiments of infantry i *^ "*^     JBB——BMB-^
sian concentration, and communi-L„j ^^.q cavalry platoons. A Rus-       	
catlona to the rear and perhapa at igi.n grtlllery unit on the Southern '    Adolf   Hitler   charged   Saturdaya  move   Into  Thailand   multiplied, rupturing tbe route, of British and.pront "annihilated" two battalions night that  "America has atUcked The Thailand parliament wa. ealled
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American aid to the Ruuians.
of German infantry and one of ar- Germany.'
I tillery.
The  official   new.  agency  DNB'
reported   that   In   attacks   around!_, „       ,    -. ., „.,.
Kalinin, the Red troop, sent ahead "'»"' """ '" ^"' ^***'
:anentlrepackofdogs, each carry-     On the   Southern    Front    the     ^___    ^^__^^ _  _^^_^^^
ing two pound, of dynamite on Its Russians  "P^''^,"^"/* "P''""''"^ proaches   to   Moscow,   driving back  In a .ort of "living mine."      news-that Red Army troop, have ^^„„„j  snearhead  i
'¦ Instead ot blowing up the barbed'blown up a huge dam in the Ros- wire entanglement., the agency tov area which "engulfed" a Heet said, the doga were blasted to bita of  German   army   truclts   and   ap-
|by German mine flelds. ; parently is holding up further Nazi
i Hostilities on the Moscow tront 1 thrusts toward the gateway to the appeared to have surged to a new Caucasus
I peak of intensity after day. ot be¬ ing bogged down In a vast moras.
into private session. Anti-Japanese
pamphlets    were   alleged—by    the
The    Oerman    declaration    was Japanese—to   be   in   circulation   in
made  public as  the armies of the. Thailand,   another   possible   excuse
Reich   pounded   heavily  at  all  ap- for a move by Tokyo,
an
On the actual war front the Ger- turning on heavy pressure a. far ""ana appeared to be stepping up north  as  Kalinin. ithe tempo ot their Moscow offen¬
sive   and   greatest   Nazi   progreaa In the Far East. Japan, poasibly waa   recorded   in   Tula,   where   a in   coordination   with   the   Berlin spearhead of armored  unit, broke
'declaration,    was    jockeying    into through   Ruasian  defensea  but  the
The    Nazi    break-through    Into  position   for   a  possible   attack   on city apparently  was atlll in Sovirt
Tula,  100  miles  south  of Moscow. Thailand, a thrust against China's hands  with  Intense fighting going
of   bottomless   mud   guarding   the was achieved In nne of a spreading Burma Rond nr even a blockade of on. Soviet capital. j series   of   attacks   along   all   the Vladivostok    or    a    feint    against
Fighting was  reported especially  chief    highways    leading    to    the Siberia. The    Crimean   situation    waa
severe southwest ot Moscow, where Soviet capital. Radio Moscow said. frankly   characterized   a.   bad   by
the German, claimed they made! A huge action waa In progress For the first lime In more thaa ."Woacow. But on the Rostov front considerable progress. The Red at the northern bastion of the three months the deep weekend the Russians blew up a big dam armies Friday renewed heavy and Moscow zone, where fresh German quiet of London was broken by and appeared to have slowed the repeated onslaughts against the troopa were fighting fiercely in the sounding of general au- raid Nazi advance to a walk. Germana German  lines,  only  to be repulsed an   attempt  to   oust   the   Russians alarm   sirens,   touched   off  by   the ou the Rostov approaches were re«
with heavy caaualtles. Tank. Storm Town
A   DNB   dispatch   told   of   the capture  of  the   unidentltied| tewn northwest    of    Moscow.      (Heavy (Continued  on Page A-10)
strong    position miles   due   north
from their Kalinin. 100 Moscow.
Tho  German  Luftwaffe  was  ex¬ tremely   aetlve,   blasting   ahead   of (Continued  on Page A-10)
wir"r.'nort"ed'""'"'" "' •"""""" irhe'ita'rm""sounded. VSe".C:'.ou„d.d just a  little"    >  "ewly-arrived  newspaperman
alliance with Great Britain," said:
"We  are   confronted   today   with
, vaVtinv hU first taste of an alarm, < the bitter question of peace or war
rusty after their long layoff »lnc.l««"i^5'^;'^i'^'^Xt h» ^" sup- -not  war  in  the  defense ot  eur
the morning of July 28, when Lon-j p"°    ^^ ^^   j^,,^,^ whether he had own shores and the shores of thi.
aon had lU last alarm. heard anything In his area, he re-!hemisphere   but   war   around   the
Fire-watchera. .currying to their,  ,,j   "Nothing but the beating of world, war In Europe, war In Asia
posts  for  the   first  timo  in   mora, ^   heart, chum." *"•• Africa and the South Seas, war
' Other German raldera were re-. in defense ot other lands, some of ! ported ever the Liverpool district, | which we may not be able to defend over eastern, northwestern and and some of which .we ought not 1 southern England. A few casual- to defend, war In which we will ties were reported in a south coast vastly w eaken our ability to defend area, where high explosive bombs ourselves at bome against any iwere  said  to  have  struck  a   resi- aggressor." »
I dential district. i    To which Ball replied: \
Three raiders were said by au-; The chief argument against this thoritatlve quarters to have been resolution is that passage i. cer-j shot-dewn during these attacks.      |        (Continued on Page A-10)        I
Cof 2 Subs, Sailor Wrote
at appearance     of     enemy     aircraft ported  digging in.
of overhead.
[ Neutral Turkey, wedged In a hot
Hitler's propaganda barrage spot among belligerent fronta In against the United States wa.' Europe, Asia and Africa, sent up a leveled from two barrels of Narl peace balloon but it did not appear Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph that there would be any takera. Goebbels   shotgun. Tresident   Ismet   Inonu   told   the
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Danville, Va., Nov. 1. (UP)— Leonidaa C. Dickerson, seaman on the United States Destroyer Reuben James, sunk in the Nort*. Atlantic hy a torpedo, wrote Iri a letter received last week that "Ve have gotten two subs, maybe more."
The letter was written to Mrs. .¦5. B. Moore of Danville, an aunt of the youth who enlisted in the Navy   18  months   ago.
"We have gotten two subs, may¬ be more. I  have  lots  to  tell  you
when I see you," Mrs. Moora re¬ ported the  letter  said.
Dlckersnn wrote that he had been at sea 42 consecutive day. nt the time of writing and that he   "had   lost   lots   of  aleep."
"I'll bc glad when we"re through wllh this job and I can get aome sleep  again,"  the  letter  said.
Mrs. Moore said the letter wa. not dated but apparently had been written "aeveral weeks ago." The letter made It clear that Dickerson waji in Iceland at the time he wrote It, Mrs. More said.
Dickeraon is the tm of the late
Dr. L. C. Dickerson and Mrs. Dick er.on ot nearby Stuart, Va, Ne Time to Sleep
Mr.. Moore .aid .he planned to take tho letter to the boy's mother In Stuart tomorrow, although Mrs. Dickerson already had been ad¬ viaed ot ita contents.
The aunt said her nephew had "nothing elae" to say In the letter except that members of the crew of the Reuben James were having to work long perioda of duty and wera having difficulty finding time to aleep.
The first was designed to place on the United .States responsibility for the start of th^ shooting naval war in the North Atlantic. The second was nn abusive denial that Germany plotted to carve up Latin America according to her own wishes or that she proposed to wipe out religion all over the world and establish a Nazi statechurch.
Both statements were given to foreign correspondents summoned to a special press conference at the theater of the Berlin propaganda miniatry.
! Whether Berlin was laying the 1 groundwork for an appeal for action by Japan in the Far East Iwas not known. Japan appeared to I be getting ready to act. Rumors of
Turkish Parliament Turkey would bc glad tn mediate between tha belligerents. He reaffirmed Turkey'a neutrality, her friendship with Ger« many and with Britain and her continued interest in the independ* ence of the Balkan States.
British planes carried out fairly heavy day and night attacks ever the European continent, eoncen* trating on shipping along the coaat and targets in Northern FraneOi Hamburg and Bremen.
Diapatchea trom Euro* pean countriea are now aubject   to   cenaoraMp.