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35TH YEAR, NO. 44—15 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 31, 1941
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Hoscow Reports;
RUSSIAN COUNTEH-ATTACK IS HURLING GERMANS BACK
Hitler Losing the Initiative
r'a Naia: A poaaible paiat la the war in the Alllea may wreet «lM laHlaM** froM Adelf HMer la fareaeew by iha feteign newa •dMer of the United Preaa A Mm feUewlng diapnteli al the enfl ot two jresva of Naal vte-
Vr 'OE ALEX MOMUB
(Oopjrrlght, IMl,' bjr United Preat)
IW t4 montha HItlor'a modem n^natera af war hava aiaaiied • arima en trail aeroea Enrope aM North Afriea. Aajr ent lihe a thin Ha to aereaa the Elver Menao and left Franee hi helploaa pnnie. Thor relied throngh the narrow Sagaalat mauntnfai paetea and drof* tho KomitndJI into tho hUa. Thejr eraahed aouthward ¦tataiat the fntUe thunder et Coehnejr sunnera at eld Therme- Pliao   aad   from   tba   rear   do-
atroyod a Oroek nrmjr tint iMd Itnijr at hajr.
nor awung eaatward again, aUo time with an eaith-ohaUng roar  of motora   aad baclc-flred.
Hie read to Meaeow ia leng and the toU io high. Napoleon toliowed tt unUI he reached a winter turning point that led hia heatlttt, rag-wrapped toldlert to the aahea of empire. Hitler aiao foHowt it today and in the eoming weeka hia aU-lMme meehanlicd legiona muat round a taming point from whieh thejr proiialdy ean move oniy awift¬ ly te tetai triumph or alowly te total defeat  It ia aU or nothing
Already the Gemtan fenhrer'a espeetatien of vietory on hit own terma thia year haa vanlahed over tho hertaon of tank-ehnmed battlefleidt en the Eaatern Front WHh n may have gona all hope
fer  a nogothited  peaeo hi  thia war.
AUiee Moving Ftrat Now
And in the nest aix weeka tho paralyaia of winter wOt liegin to creep aeraee the Ruaaian ateppea te threaten the Oermana with leea ef their mett potent weapon —the military taiitiatlve.
In every IteUlgerent capital tho advance to winter ia checked oft againat the advance of armiea oa the Eastern Front On every aeattered war front, the atrug¬ gle ia nnder way to heid or aeiao the initiative thia winter in prep¬ aration for the eampaiga of IMt.
Oreat Britain and the Soviet i;nlen got the Jump en tiie Xash by invading the ancient king¬ dom of Imn to iHtlater their de- fenaea againtt a fierman wintbr puth inte milder climate of tiie Near Eaat
Preaident Beeeevelt and Prime
MInltter OhurehlH teek the tai- illative bl the Far Eaat war of nervea to Meek Japaneee aid to her Alia partnera.
Hio eight-point "Atlantio Oiarter" waa published agahiet tha epeetacuiar barkgreund ot a meeting at aea deolgned te thew the world, eopectally nationt eon¬ quered er threatened by tbe Asia, that Britain and Ameriea atlll rule the teaa and that aggreaaive aid it coming on a vatt acale to defeat Naaiiem.
Conquered Hordea Seething
Kealatance agalntt Axta rule waa apnrred by British and Rut- aian agente in occupied Europe and particularly In France. The London radio broadcast a eail for all feee of Naxllsni to mobii- iao in a Europe-wide V-fer-Vic- tory campaign.
But in the key poelUon atanda the Red Am|y ef  Ruttia.   Tlio
eovrage, endurance and elleetlve- naaa of that vaat reaervoir of fighting power wiU decide thia wteter't turning point Hitler mow* it and he Imowa that any goal ahort ef deetnietion ef tho Red Army aa a atriking force before winter will be a grave if ¦ot fatal defeat
The Naai invaaion of Ruaaia, hi the light of !• weekt of vrar, loeea much of ita early turpriie and mystery. Hitler iiad confuaed and then conquered one by one abneet every naMen ot Europe but he bad faUrd either to con¬ fute or make a temporary friend and potential victim ot Ruaaia. The modem theory of ruthleea total war ia ne myttery te the men who rule from the Kremlin and when Hitler moved, tiiry moved, too. Meteow matched Hitler'a friendly gettarea with friendly geaturet; hie aggrea- (Continued on Page A-9)
Roosevelt Says Choice of War or Peace for America May Not Rest with l/.S.
Quotes Charge Of Axis Plans for World Conquest; Sees Peril Growing
Myde Park, N. T., Aug. SO (UP) fc-Prealdent Rooaevelt, quoting a .hargo that the dieUtera are plan- alng fer eenquott of tha Amerlcat
Sand the whole wMld, waned t.- Mtht that tho Axia rather than Americana may feree tho final de¬ ciaion of war or peace for the new world.
Once again expressing a hope that the United States can avoid fighting involvement in the world conflict, the Pretldent told the na¬ tion that "very poatibly" it may be In peril more acute than at any time tince outbreak of the prttent war two yeart ago.
Peace, taid Mr. Rootevelt, "itn't all in our keeping—it itn't all our dacition." Hit wordt and hit tub- tequent tolemn quotation of the eharge thtt the Axis is dreaming of world conquest made clear his warning that aggression from out- tide the new world might ba the factor which would involve thit eeuntry and the Wettern Hemit- phere in the world conflagration.
Awakening Ameriea
The Pretident't gravt words •ebered MM men and women at- tedning the 12th meeting of the Rootevelt Home Club in a maple grove on the (arm of Motet Smith, Mr. Roosevelt's tenant farmer. Speaking before his friends and ntighbort of Dutchets county, Mr. Rootevelt wat intentifying hit cam¬ paign to awalten America to the gravity of the world situation—to dangert of which he Hat atterted repeatedly that Americana are not tufficiently  cognixent.
Mr. Roosevelt's charge that Axis
¦cams of world domination in¬ clude conquest of the Americas was indirect. He wat quoting from a letter sent him by a woman cor- respondetjt whom he did not iden¬ tify. But he qualified her "at an exceedingly good obterver."
Mr. Rootevelt read her letter golcmnly anrt with emphatit.
Having teen with my own eyet tht cruel the cruel and ruthleti weep of the dictator armlet through Europe in the firtt ytar ef the war; having contact 'with the expansion of that sweep to Africa and Asia during the second year of the war—and especially be¬ cause personal, practical experience proves    the    point—1   know    that
orld domination, including of 'necestity the Amerlcat ,it the defl- nltt planned purpose of the dicta¬ tors," the letter taid.
Tlmee Grow More Serioua
Mr. Roosevelt's own informal ad¬ dress reflected the tame grave tone.
"It occurs to me that this is not the 12th anniversary of the club to much as it is the third meeting of ours since this world has been convulsed with all kinds of dtngers ¦nd they are not over yet, and It it very posisble that they may he *ven more serious at thit moment •Jisn they were at the end of August and the beginning of Sep¬ tember, 1939," he aaid.
''And yet, here we are In thlt (Continued   on   Paga  A-21)
Quisling Reported Seriously III
Stockholm, Aug. 30. (UP)—Re¬ porta from Oslo taid tonight that Vidkun Quitling, head ef the German-tpontored Norwegian re¬ gime, wat teriouily ill aa tha re¬ sult ef an overdote nf tleeping tableta taken two daya age.
Qulaling, It waa reported, had kom Miflerlng frmn InaMnnla in¬ duced by overwork and Ml iMliig aleeping tableta iiad taken an overdeoo through carcleaaneaa. Phytieiant were reported to have reitored Quitling to contciout- nett but the reportt frem Oalo tald he remained terioutly ill.
President Warns of Axis Threat to t/.S.
Report Nazis Retreating On Road from Moscow
114 Vessels Sunk in Gulf, NazisReporl
Crushing Blow to Russian Navy Is Claimed by Beriln
FLEEING TALLINN
COSTA RICA REFUSES TO RECALL CONSULS
San Jote, Cotta Rica, Aug. SO (UP)—Foreign Minister Alberto Echandi said today that CosU Rica would refuse the German re¬ quest that Costa Rican consular representatives be withdrawn from the occupied territories.
Echandi said that if Costa Rica should accede to tht requett it would be equivalent to a tacit rec¬ ognition of the German legitimate right to conquett and "therefore my   government   it   notifying   the
Pretldent Franklin D. Roose¬ velt It ahown aa he tpoke yetter¬ day at Hyde Park to the Home Club, when he warned that final choice for peace or war may not ba made by America but may be
German authoritiea ef itt rejection    forced    upon    It    by    the    Axit of their requett." I powen.   In the front row, left to
Britain, Russia Promise Full Support to Turkey
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By FREDERICK HUH
London, Aug. SO. (UP)—Great Britain and Soviet Ruttia, it was revealed tonight by Foreign Sec¬ retary Anthony Eden, have joined in granting Turltey guarantees of territorial integrity and a pledge of full tupport in event that na¬ tion it attaclced by any European power.
The pledge to Turkey, Eden tald it an address at Coventry, was made in firm clear terms designed to relieve Turkish anxiety con¬ cerning Anglo-Soviet intentions. It guarantees Turkey full British- Russian tupport in event Germany —long rumored to contemplntc tuch an attack—should strike across the Dardanelles to open a new middle eastern fighting front.
"Eden re-emphasized that Britain and Russia have no territorial aspirations in Iran, that the with¬ drawal of military forces has been pledged as soon as justified by the military situation and that only temporary concessions are desired from Iran. Pleada for Production
Eden coupled his pledge with a warning that the war eventually will engulf the entire world and pleaded for Immediate steps to Increase American and British pro¬ duction, which he desciibed as the key to victory.
He noted that Russia is fighting
a battle of unparaleled intensity along a front of 2,000 miles, con¬ suming vatt quantitiet of muni- tiont.
"Together we mutt help tupply Rutsia'a needs at well as ours," he tald.
It was understood that the Brit¬ ish termt were being submitted at Teheran, probably today, jointly with Russia. They were said to Include occupation of strategic points In Iran, safeguarding of the oil fields and supply routes to Ruttia, removal of German agentt
from Iran, a pledge of the mini¬ mum interference in Iran internal affaire, and atturancet that the Shah will continue to receive Anglo-Iranian oil royaltiet.
In olher flelds of foreign affairs it waa understood that Britain again had urged nationals who are able to do to to leave Japan but the move wat characterised at merely a routine warning. It alto wat taid that nothing wat known of rumors of mediation between Russia and Finland. Nail for Naal Coffin
Eden called the meeting of Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt "more than another nail for the coffin which is being prepared for NaiUsm."
"No nation must ever be in a potition to make aggrettive war against her neighbors, and second¬ ly, economic relations must be so regulated that no nation can in the future be starved out of its proper economic position by autarchic methods of trade arbitrarily im¬ posed, for autarchy, whether in political or economic affairs, means anarchy," he said.
HEADON CRASH KILLS FIVE ON ONE FAMILY
Indianapollt, Ind., Aug. 80 (UP) —Six pertont were killed and a teventh waa injured aerlously to¬ night in a headon crath of two automobilet 12 miles eatt of here on U.S. highway 40.
Five of the dead were memberi of one family.
Highway police found the bodies of Kenneth Tatlocic, Richmond. Ind., his wife, Martha, and their three children—Billy, Jona and Richard ranging in age from two tn seven years—strewn along the highway near the wreckage of the automobiles.
right,   are   Elliot   Roosevelt   Jr., Mrt.  Roosevelt,  Harry  Hopkins'
daughter Roosevelt.
—T«l«»h.ii. PIMI.
ind    Ruth    Chandler
War Analysis
A German nutcracker operation appeared Saturday night to be crushing outer barriers around Leningrad, but Moscow reported that the Nazis were being forced baek steadily on the Smolenik- Motcow highway and were auffer¬ ing huge losses In attemptt to pierce the ttone-wsll defenses of Odessa, Kiev and Leningrad.
Thtre were new signs pointing to a possible rarly awakening of the dormant Middle Eastern front. Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden revealed an Anglo-Soviet pledge of Turkty's territorial Integrity and fuU support in event of German at¬ tack. The possibility that the British and Russians may be aslced to give early fulfillment of this pledge seemed to be Increasing. War May Move South
Should winter close In with no definite solution in prospect on the Eaatern Front, a slash across the fairly easy Turkish terrain in the milder Turkish climate might prove an attractive winter possibility for the Axis forces.
On the Russo-German fighting front. Axis reports dealt almost ex¬ clusively with the Leningrad front
Tha Finns claimed the capture of Vilpuri, ttrategic point on the Karelian Itthmut north of Lenin¬ grad and dote to the old Russo Finnish frontier.
Tho Germans reported a great naval tucceta followed up the cap¬ ture of Talllmn, In Estonia. They atterted that lit Russian trans¬ ports and warships had been sunk or damaged In an attempted Red "Dunkirk". The Germans asserted that the Russian evacuation fleet ran bead on into a Utzi mine fleld and that at thip after ship was blasted by mines the Luftwaffe swept in and pounded it with bombs. Redt SUII HoM Itlanda
The Rutfiani atill hold a ttrong chain ef batea along the Gulf of Finland. Theat Include Hangoe, on the Finnith coatt, the Estonian islands of Dagoe and Oesel and the famout Ruttlan naval bate of Kronstadt. Thera teemed no doubt that the reduction of these heavily fortified Russian bases will be a long, arduous tatk. They are massively protected by steel and concrete defense works, huge gun;, and have airplane tupport.
Say Mine Fields, Planes and Ships Smashed Evacuation
Tell of Huge Mounds of Corpses Before Odessa Where Red Army Claims to Be Stopping All Drives; Russians Admit Heavy Losses but See Germans Forced to Fall Back
By HENRY SHAPIRO
Moscow, Aug. 30 (UP)—A Soviet counter-offensiTc on the Central Front was reported tonitht to be rocking Nazi troops back toward Smolinsk after casualties estimated at 10,000 killed and wounded.
Stone-wall defenders of Odessa, Kiev and Leningrad were said to have put a half dozen or more German divisions out of action.
An official report by General Constantin Rokossovsky, Held commander on the Central Front, asserted that Nazi forces still are retreating westward atong the Moscow-Smolensk highway under unremitting Soviet pressure.
Other developments:
Odessa after two weeks of fighting was said to be "another Madrid" surrounded b.v mounds of unburied corpses of Ger¬ man and Rumanian soldiers fallen in futile efforts to pene¬ trate the port's iron ring of defenses. Seventh Rumanian Infantry Division forced out of action with loss of half of its effectives; two enemy battalions destroyed.
Cossacks Raid Nazi Rear
Several German divisions were knocked out in attacks on an "ancient Ukrainian city" (apparently Kiev) while Cossack guerrilla fighters ranging 80 miles into the German rear were reported to have destroyed several tank columns. Ger¬ man foi-ces were said to have lost 15,000 effectives around tbe city of "K" (possibly Kiev).
Troops commanded by Col. A. I. Liuzukov drove thre Nazi divisions from heights on the east bank of an unnamed
river   possibly   the   Dnieper)   and  	
By FREDERICK C. OE8CHER
Berlin, Aug. 30 (UP)—The Ger¬ man high command today claimed that 114 Russian transports and warships had been sunk or badly damaged in an attempted Red "Dunkirk" in the Gulf of Finland. The huge toll of Soviet vessels sunk or damaged was the largest enemy lost claimed In a single sea evacuation since the epic British action at Dunkirk.
It waa taid to have been achieved In a Russian attempt to emulate the British tactics by evacuating their doomed Tallinn garrison across  the  narrow waters  of  the
Kr"onrtldt°""   "*   ^"'"«"''   '"'•Iforced  them  back  lo the  western'cession of defeats on the Nazi Tth German'  quarters   claimed   that |»l<«e "f the stream, inflicting heavy jp,n„r i„v,g,on
losses. In the Black Sea a Russian sub-
the Tallinn success and the fall of Vilpuri on the Karelian Isthmus to the Finns makes it "only a matter of time" before the laat Soviet bases on the Finland Gulf— Dagoe. Oesel. Hangoe and Kron¬ stadt—will be reduced and a final attack  launched  on Leningrad.
Admit Bloody Battle
Dispatches mnde plain that the capture of Tallinn wns a bloody, hard-fought encounter in which the Russian.i resisted from house to house, fighting right down to the harbor edge as the Nazis forced their  way  into   the  city.
Soviet forces still hold out in Estonia but the number is not known. A dispatch to the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung said that since the start of operations the Ger- ;man army of the north has taken 199,000 prisoners, and captured 2.252 guns and 1.936 tanks, mo.it of them in the Baltic States.
He  admitted  that  Soviet  losaet have   been   considerable   but   said marine was reported to have sunk I that the Germans tteadily are bo- a German U-boat off the Rumanian Ing forced to retire, (•oast German  air  unitt on thlt  front
Dispatches from Tallinn Indi- were said to be running short of rated that the ritv was still in bombs and to be dropping scrap Soviet control ns late as ln.it night Iron and boulders in ground-straf- despite German claims of its cap-ling operations. Rokossovsky re- jy^p j ported that the number of German
The widespread reports of Soviet, priaoners and deserters coming in counter-action again.'t German U? the Russian lines is increasing, forces came in a day of apparently petalled accounts of Odessa t heavy action alnng the entire front, h"-"'^ resistance were published by There was no statement of the sit- Red Star, the army newspaper, and uation   on   the   Karelian   l.ithmus,  "^tia. ,j  ...     „
where Finnish forcea nre attempt- ,Th"« dispatches said the Rus- Ing to drive southward toward "'«"? «"«"trenched and well sup- , "i___,j piled   with   provisions   and   arms.
L«nmgrBa. Women and children were said to
PararhutUlt Aid Guerillas jbe under evacuation, protected by
Russian   pnrachutittt   were   tald ithe  Red  Banner  Black Sea Fleet.
to be aiding guerrillaa In harryinc the   Nazi   rear.     One   parachutist battalion,  operating  near the  ciiy German quarters said that in the! of "P" was taid to have ambuthed 10th week of the war. now ending, la   panzer   column   and   a   cavalry
the Russians loat 300.000 prisoners, J298 tanka, 713 gun.i. 72 transports, 115 warships and 439 planes.
I Run  Into  .>line  Field
I    The high command said that the {Soviet sea forces ran headlong in-
rnlumn destroying several tanks wiping out the staff of a Nazi unit nnd inflicting AOO casualties and destroying 23 armored cars, tl.t tEnks anrt M trucks in 18 days. Rokossovsky  reported   in   Izves-
Odessa was said to be under al¬ most constant air bombardment but anti-aircraft defenses were said to keep the raiders at great height and to prevent accurate bombing.
German-Rumanian troops, the reports said, are hammering con¬ stantly at the outskirts nf the city despite severe losses. These at¬ tacks were said to have failed to pierce the Odessa defenses, which wera described as an impenetrable bastion. .  .
Pravda's correspondent In Odessa
Finns Capture Viipuri; Say Big Army Trapped
Half of WfVes and Lawsuits Gone But Still Has Plenty of Trouble
Reno, Nev., Aug. 30. (UP)—Dana Dodge, 25-year-old Nevada mining heir, today had only half at many wives and lawsuits as he had yes¬ terday but he still isn't out of the woods.
Dodge was in n Llvermore, Calif., sanitarium when his attorneys ob¬ tained annulment of hla marriage to Leah Kewlei. Reno hula dancer. At the tame time. District Judge William McKnight dismlsaed Miss Kewlel's fSO.OOO damage suit gainst him.
Still to be settled Is a bigamy charge and a divorce action against hia   legal    wife.    Evelyn   Tborye
Dodge, now in Daly City, Calif. The bigamy charge eould bring him a sentence of one to five yeart and $1,000 fine. An extradition hearing will be held for him Wednetday in Sacramento.
Judge McKnight ruled that^ be¬ cause Dodge had another wife when he married MU.s Kewlei, the annul¬ ment was In order. He held that the S50,000 damage suit, a tort, could not be attached to Dodge'a annulment suit as a cross complaint in a civil action.
Dodge's annulment suit claimed he was sn Intoxicated he dirt not knnw what he wa.^ doing when he married Misa Kewlei.
  ,tla.    the    <jovernment    newspaper.
I to a huge Nazi mine field in which:,1,^1  the  Red   Army   has  held  the
I ship     after     ship     foundered     ori|r,m„(ive   for  an   entire  month  on, «        » .,
' careened after damaging mine ex-1 ihc Central Front, Inflicting a sue- (Continued on Page A-8)
i plosions.   Simultaneously,  Nazi  re-, _^.,^________^_———^—
ports said, the Luftwaffe swooped down, raining hundreds of bombs upon the Red fleet as the ships rocked from the geyser-like ex¬ plosions ot the mines.
The high command claimed that a large number of ahips were dam¬ aged so badly that their loss could be aasumed. The totnl tonnage of tiaiuports sunk wa.s estimated at 122.200 tons.
The sunken warships were said to include a cruiaer, four destroyers, nine mine-sweepers and three out¬ post boata. Damaged warshipa in¬ cluded five diatroyers, one auxiliary cruiaer and one mine-sweeper.
The   official   news  agency.  DNB. ^^ Leningrad reported that German troops todfiy I    ^hc   Russian   defenses   are   "be- occupied   a   number   of   i.ilands   m ^^ j^„.. ^^ ,^, frontier
the   Baltic   off   Tallin   and   hegan j »^^ ^^.^^^ „, ^^^ Vuoksen River, the mopping up areaa around the Baltic,   ^^^^^^^^ ,^,j    ,„di<.atin^   that
port where isolated Soviet detach-1^^ advance down the western side ments atlll held out. j^^j  ^^^  isthmus  was   now  catching
Reda Attacking In South lup   with   previoua   gains   on   the
It wat tald that the  rapidity of!eastern  side adjacent  to Lake La¬ the  German  advance  into  Tallinn 1 doga and approaching the old Rus- foiled  Soviet attempts  to  set  fire,sian   frontler^soine  30  ml^es Jrom to   many   factories   and   blow   up '     '        "     "^'^ buildings.   As a result, it was said, many   of   the   most  valuable   and beautiful  of the  ancient  buildings and   monuments   in   the   historic hanteatlc city were aaved.
By HOLGER HANSEN
Helsinki, Finland, Aug. 30 (UP) - Flnnsh armed forces captured the flame-scarred strategic city of Viipuri, the high command said today, in an offensive that trapped large Russian army units and cut n new wedge into the Red Army line on the Karelian Isthmus road
Leningrad. The Vuoksen River runa through the middle of the isthmus, where the Finns said they had advanced to Vlvenaebb.
Helsinki received news of the capture of Viipuri with jubilation DNB admitted that Russian'excelled only by the celebration 23 forcea on the Dnieper River stlUJ years ago of the end of the war of arc engaged in an attempted coun-1 "liberation" nealnst Russia, when ter-attack. It was snld thnt the Field Marshal Baron Karl von Soviet troops are attempting to Mnnnerheim entered the capital cross back to the western bank of riding a white horse at the head of the Dnieper despite heavy losses In- his troop?. flicted   largely    by    Nazi    artillery!    Finns   alsn   were   elated   by   the
1940 had been returned to Finnish hands. (There have been reportt .hat Finland intends to fight only jntll territory lost in the war of '939-40 has been recovered.) .Vear Old Frontier
Kivanaebb is only 12 miles from .he  old   frontier.
Finnish and German forcea alto were reported In heavy fighting en the Salla front In Northern Fin¬ land, where the Russians defend¬ ing the Murmansk-Leningrad rail¬ road were said to have suffered ex¬ tremely heavy losses. (Berlin re¬ ported that the Rustlan SSth divltlon was wiped out on the Salla front, that 650 Russian dead were counted on ona battlefield and that many prisoners and much booty had  been  taken.)
The operations ttraightentd eut the Finniah linet aeroat the Isthmus, although it wat pointed out that the Ruttian deteniet eatt of the old frontier were extremely strong and would be difficult ti attack. Leningrad ia T5 milti from Viipuri.
fire.    In one such attack  south rf
Kiev, It was claimed, the Russians
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fall nf Klviiiaebh, whirh meant thnt the greater pnrt of the Kar- lian  Isthmus   ceded   to  Russia  ini
Diapatchea from Euro- pean countriea are new aubject   to   eenaorahip.
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