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Counter Attacks Push Nazis Back
JAPAN REFUSES CLEAR AMERICAN LINER
Men Over 28 Exempted From Selective Service
Russ Counter Attacks Save “Kay ”
Possibly Kiev-Admit Nikolaev Is
Taken But Shipyards Blown Up
UNDATED, Aug. 13 UP) —
Fierce Russian counterattacks
were reported to have saved a
Ukraine city identified as “Kay,”
possibly Kiev, with 20,000 Ger
mans killed and wounded, after
they had advanced to within a
mile of the town, and were then
thrown back six to eight mi'.es.
Red Army troops are still advanc
inig, Soviet dispatches said, hit
ting savagely at the northern
flank of the long German wedge
into the Ukraine.
On the central front. Marshal
Timoshenko's defenders cf the
road to Moscow reported they
have repulsed other Nazi col
umns, in large-scale counter at
tacks near a city identified only
as "Em." German losses were put
at 5,000.
The Russians acknowledged
that Nazi troops, knifing across
the heart -of southern Ukraine,
had captured the big port of
Nikolaev, 60 miles northeast of
Odessa, but declared the city’s
shipyards were blown up in with
d.swrg. Soviet officials a so ad
mitted the fall of Krivci P.og,
rich iron ore center, UK) miles
n.:riheast of Nilokaev, which the
Germans claimed last week.
Authoritative London quarters
said Hitl-.r’s armies apparently
had launched a major new of
fensive in the north, driving
from Estonia toward Leningrad.
London advices said the Lenin
grad thrust was timed with the
witkdrawal of Marshal Budyen
ny’s Red Armies in the south
where they are taking up the de
fense lines along the mile-wide
Dniepr R:ver.
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Russians To Make
Stand On East
Bank Of Dneipr
UNDATED, Aug. 16 OP) — The
Russian army is fighting a rear
guard action in the Ukraine, for
a stand on the east bank of the
Dneiper river, which is a ma
jor tactical obstacle to the Ger
man advance, but communiques
from both sides are in. the vag
uest terms.
London and Washington inter
preted the Roosevelt-Churchi l
proposal for long term aid to
Russia as an indication of con
fidence in the Red army how
ever battered but still unbeaten.
Stalin quickly accepted the pro
posal for an early conference in
Moscow to work out a program
of maximum aid.
Russian dispatches said the pro
posal implied a complete pooling
of the resources of all three na
tions in an effort to smash the
Nazi power.
London sources pictured the
Germans as digging in. in the
Smolensk sector, with little indie
ation of an early push and re
ported capturing new points
around Lake Ladoga.
Reports circulated in London
again, that the British might
land troops in Arctic Russia to.
help keep the Muirma.rkj and
Archangel supply routes open.
Shanghai sources, including.
Japanese and German, said that
Japan is apparently readying for
an attack on Russia in the next
two or three weeks, if at allf
before winter.
Saigon expected 43 additional
Japanese transports to disem
bark troops on Sunday.
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Nazi Attack Russia
Brings Alaska
Into Prominence
WASHINGTON. Aug. 16 (JP —
Military authorities said that
when the nation's soldiers be
come ful y aware of the dangers
confronting the United S ates,
mcra e problems will be dissap
atecl a general wave of enthus
iasm for defense, after Secretary
of War Stimson last night addres
scd troops in a national broad
cast. The nearness and gravity of
such dangers, authorities said,
have prolonged the bitter con
gressional debate on extending
enlistments to 18 months, and
tended to lower morale, but the
situation will eventually right it
3 8.t.
Secretary S imson said: ‘The
present attack of Germany on
Russia brings into sharp prom
inence, the importance of Alas
kan and Aleutian Island out
posts. Japanese newspapers are
already beginning to tell us of
the trouble we may expect to
have .n Alaska, if Germany con
quers Russia, but the most dan
gerous avenue of attack is thru
south or central America. We
hsve not been seeking any wild,
adventures or foreign war and
have not been planning any ex
peditionary force for the benefit
of other nations."
Indications Russia
Britain Planning
Step In Iran
LONDON, Aug. 18 (JP) — In
dications grew that Britain and
Russia are planning a decisive
step shortly in Iran, where re
ports of German infiltrations
have brought a second protest
from London and Moscow.
GERMANS STAGE FIVE-HOUR RAID ON MOSCOW
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This is :a general view of the business section of Moscow, where a five-hour raid by German planes
was reported to have left great fires, in the first air attack on the Red capital. Civilians were killed.
Roosevelt and Churchill Retuni
From Sea Meeting-Both Assert
Complete Accord War Situation
ROCKLAND. Me., Aug. 16 </P)
Returning from sea, President
Roosevelt asserted that he and
Churchi 1 are in complete ac
cord on all aspects of the war
situation, but he did not think
the United States any closer to
enter.ng the conflict, because of
their epochal high seas confer
ence.
Answering press questions,
aboard the yacht Potomac, he
said he supposed that not a
single section of a single contin
ent was not discussed.
“Are we any closer to enter
ing the war, actually,” a reporter
inquired. The President said he
would say no.
He described the meetings
with Churchill is eminently suc
cessful but declined to reveal
where they took place or how
long they lasted, nor Churchill’s
present whereabouts. The rea
sons, he said, were obvious.
He said he objected to the ad
vance announcement of his own
landing but it had been foggy on
the way over and if any sub
marines had fired torpedoes, they
had not been sighted.
FDR Confers
With Key Men
In Congress
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 i(P)—
President Roosevelt resumed per
sonal command in the aapital,
with all signs indicating a faster
future tempo for United States
efforts to hasten the downfall of
the Axis. The President started
the new week by calling to the
White House, key men in Con
gress, who have dealt with for
eign affairs. Aides said he ar
ranged to give them a full ac
counting of the international sit
uaticn. The conference is also ex
pected to consider the possibility
of a new lease-lend appropria
tion.
Churchill Returns
To England, Will
Make Broadcast
LONDON, Aug. 18 </P) — Chur
chill returned to Britain today
from his meeting with President
Roosevelt, and a visit to Iceland
where he inspected British and
American troops. He was met in
London by Minister of Informa
tion Sracker, to complete ar
rangements for a probable radio
broadcast. No time for the broad
cast was set.
U. S., Britain Win
Russ Promise of
Aid Against Japs
LONDON, Aug. 16 (JP) — The
United States and Britain were
reported authoritatively to have
won a Russian promise for ac
tive participation in the stop
Japan movement, in return for
sharply stepped-up Moscow war
aid.
Japanese Refuse
Let Americans
In Japan Leave
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 UP)—
The State Department said the
Japanese government refused to
clear the American liner Presi
dent Coolidge if it sought to re
move the more than a hundred
American private citizens in Jap
an. The Foreign Office is willing
only, for it to enter the port to
take off the American official per
sonnel of which only about 20
desire to leave now.
ORDER FOR
CHECKING INFLATION
WASHINGTON, Aug. — Presi.
dent Roosevelt authorized the
Federal Reserve Board to take
any lawful steps necessary to
control installment credit as a
means of checking inflation.
President Roosevelt signed the
Executive order designating the
Board of Governors of the Reser
ve System as the agency for reg
ulation of transfers of credit in
cooperation with other Govern
ment officials.
Men Over 28 Need
Not Serve Under
Selective Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 ‘(/P)—
President Roosevelt signed into
law the legislation to relieve
men 28 year and older from act
ive military service under the
Selective Service Act.
Chinese May Send
Silk to America
CHUNGKING, Aug.— Chinese
silk exporters asked the govern
ment to take steps to increase
the silk production in China to
fill the gap caused in the United
States by the cutting off of Japan
ese imports.
The Chinese silk men said that
China should be able to ship to
the United States $200,000,000
worth of silk a year.
This would be equivalent to
about three times the present
silk exports from China to the
United States.
Vice-President Henry A. Wallace;
Two Foreign
Projects To
Be Started
WASHINGTON, Aug. — The
Economic Defense Board called
for reports from several govern
ment agencies preparatory to in
itiating two international pro
jects, the nature of which Vice
President Henry Wallace, Board
chairman, declined to disclose.
Wallace told reporters the dis
cussion covered the field of in
ternational economic action but
declined to say what decisions
have been made by the Board,
which was set up to coordinate
defense activates in the foreign
field.
6 Children, 2 to 11
Perish In Fire
PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa.. Aug.
18 (JP) — Six children, ranging
in age from two to eleven years,
perished in the flames which de
stroyed their farmhouse, at
Grange, near here.
KETCHIKAN YOUTH DIES
AFTER “HANGING” STUNT
SEATTLE, Aug.— Edward At
kins, 11-year-old Ketchikan lad,
who was injured trying to show
others “how they hang people,”
is dead here after remaining un
conscious for two months.
Young Atkins was injured
when a plank on which he was
standing broke while he had a
rope around his neck on June 14.
The lad was brought here
from Ketchikan on a Coast
Guard vessel for special treat
ment after Ketchikan physicians
struggled for one month to keep
him alive.
Meat Industry Men Indicted
CHICAGO, 111., Aug.—The Fed
erai Grand Jury indicted 118
corporate and individual figures
in the meat industry in 29 states
on charges of “conspiring to fix
the price of ham at Easter time
in violation of the Sherman.
Anti-Trust Act.”
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