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the THE ENQUIRER, CINCINNATI, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1941 FIVE DIE, Four In Attempt To Save Fifth In Blasts And Fire At Refinery. Pressure Reduced In Large Tank So It Blazes But Without Exploding. Okmulgee, December 1- (AP)-Five men died -four in a desperate attempt to rescue the fifth--and 15 others were injured today as explosions rocked the Phillips Petroleum Company's refinery, setting off a raging fire. The dead: Jim Hawk, 40 years old, an oiler. Hypo Decobert, 39, a special yard man.

C. J. Steighner, 39, a special yard man. Lewis Pope, 37, maintenance man. John Rogers, 46, welder.

TRIED TO SAVE HAWK. Decobert, Steighner, Pope, and Rogers grabbed a stretcher from ambulance drivers and dashed into the fire in an effort to reach Hawk. "We worked with Jim and we're going after him," one of them shouted. But the four were trapped by another explosion and it was an before they were pulled from the flaming wreckage and taken to a hospital. R.

D. Evans, refinery superintendent, said were six explosions. Three 250-barrel tanks natural gasoline detonated, he said, and then three 450-barrel tanks blew up. Evans said cause of the explosions had not been deter- mined. HEAT 10 BLOCKS AWAY.

Intense heat from the flames, which shot more than 100 feet into the air, was felt blocks away. At Wilson School, 10 blocks away, children playing before classes opened were taken into the building to the heat. St. John's paroescapes school, also about 10 blocks away, dismissed classes. For a time, plant officials feared A large accumulator tank would explode.

Residents for six blocks south and west of the refinery were asked to leave their homes and U. S. Highway 75 was detoured. But workmen succeeded in reducing the 600-pound pressure the tank to 75 pounds and after it ignited the explosion danger was past. Tokyo Extends Time Of Washington Parley CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE.

islands of the Pacific as well as countries on the pacific rim into her own garden." Special military examinations of current graduates to find officer material began this morning throughout Japan with the youths, wearing their black student uniforms, streaming to their designated stations all day. The examinations of the students, who by imperial ordinance will be graduated this month instead of next March, are expected to be completed by December 18. Bangkok, Thailand, December 1- (AP) radio confidently declared today that "Thailand will never be attacked by Japanese a sequel to its statement Thailand would welcome the assistance of friendly powers if she were forced to fight for her independence. Qualified observers attached particular significance to the sequence of statements. Well quarters said that this little country, sandwiched between Japanese guarded French Indo-China and British Burma, be taken by surprise.

States consular authorities have advised Americans here to be prepared for quick departure. PHILIPPINE ARMY ALERT. Manila, December 1 (AP) United States Army and naval forces in the Philippines were held on the alert today amid reports that Japan was pouring new troops Into French Indo-China for a either at Southwestern China or Thailand. A belief was growing that if Japan moved at all it would be in the direction of Thailand. It was reported that Japan had concentrated 70,000 picked soldiers on the French colony's Chinese and Thailand borders.

Batavia, N. E. December 1- (AP) -The air arm of the Dutch Colonial Army was ordered mobil1zed today render completely ready the military air force which must be able to fight in the front lines. The Dutch Java-China-Japan shipping line announced suspension of its services, to and Japan, sea Shanghect communication. The liner Fuji Maru, which had been called by the Japanese Consul "the last opportunity for large scale Japanese evacuation," sailed for the homeland with more than 1,000 of Japan's subjects.

JAPS LEAVE HONG KONG. Honk Kong, December 1-(AP)with the garrison of this British Colony on the South China Crown, "an advanced state of preparedness," virtually all remaining Japanese were reported be packing for departure to Canton by steamer tomorrow. The Colonial Government has urged all persons to leave who are "not required" for duty in the event of hostilities. Singapore, December 1-(AP)The British Government in Malaya today called up volunteers for military service under the current state of emergency. Chungking, December 1-(AP)government spokesman said today that failure of JapaneseUnited States talks would more MUMMER'S GUILD TO PRESENT PLAY PRESENT PLAY ill.

Aggie and Seth Gale have asked Lincoln to say a few kind words. The characters are, left to right, Virginia Gartner (Aggie Gale), Clifton Butcher (Seth), who is holding Don Rose (infant Gale), and Justin Friedman (Abe Lincoln). AGREEMENT CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. the nonoperating members. Today's recommendations were said to provide vacations of 6, 9, and 12 days a year for clerks and telegraphers, based on years of service, with all other of the 14 brotherhood members receiving six days a year.

In announcing the settlement, Morse said that all of the representatives of the railroads and their employees who had been authorized to do SO had accepted the recommendations. Those required to refer the proposals to their constituents, he added, had said they would proceed without delay to recommend their approval. "To all practical effects, the position taken by the representatives of the various parties," he said, "was itself an assurance that there would not be a railroad strike." HOUSE IS CAUTIONED. On Capitol Hill today the House gingerly took up the problem of curbing strikes in defense industries and promptly was cautioned against enacting legislation that might cause additional "friction" among organized workers. Robert Ramspeck, Democrat, Georgia, Acting Chairman of the Labor Committee, gave it this advice after Carl A.

Vinson, Democrat, Georgia, made an impassioned appeal for swift action to end strikes which, he said, were endangering national safety. Vinson has introduced a bill that would authorize compulsory arbitration of defense strikes. "The temper of the American people is clear," Vinson declared. "They are not going to tolerate any further appeasement." But Ramspeck told the legislators that "to keep the wheels of industry turning, we need the simplest legislation possible- legislation creating as little friction as Ramspeck asserted, nevertheless, that he did not think it was "good sense" on the part of labor to permit defense strikes. "They are destroying the very public sentiment gave labor their benefits," he added.

Ag the House began debate, the Senate Labor Committee approved 10 to 3 a bill by Senator Joseph H. Ball, Republican, Minnesota, requiring a thirty-day "cooling off" period between a call for a strike and its effective date. The measure also would set up mediation machinery and would prohibit a closed shop agreement if there had been a strike to obtain it. CONNALLY BILL ON TOP. The Senate already has on its calendar a bill by Senator Tom Connally, Democrat, Texas, providing for government seizure and operation of defense plants when production is impeded by a labor dispute.

Because of the death of Senator Alva B. Adams, Democrat, Colorado, Senate agreed informally, however, postpone consideration leaders, of labor legislation until next week. Representative Howard W. Smith, Democrat, Virginia, long an adof legislation to deal with strikes, brought the subject to the floor under prearranged procedure that give the House its choice variety of bills and would, probably less than three days to discuss them. New York, December 1 -(INS)Efforts to arbitrate the union shop dispute between the United Mine Workers of America and Steel Corporations operating coal mines continued today but no announcement of progress was forthcoming tonight after another five-hour meeting of President Roosevelt's special abitration board.

Neither Dr. John R. Steelman, Board Chairman, John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers head, or Benjamin Fairless, President of the United States Steel Corporation, would comment at conclusion of the meeting. Massena, N.

December 1- (INS)- production at the huge Massena plant of the Aluminum Company of America again was geared to defense needs tonight with settlement of a strike of 400 A. F. of L. workers. At a conference of company and union representatives arranged by Charles Ward, Federal Labor Conciliator, the company agreed to removal of Charles Begore as a foreman in the electrical department over whose appointment union members walked out Saturday in protest.

VERDICT GUILTY CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. son, state organizer; Felix Morrow, New York, editor of New Militant, official organ of the S. W. Oscar Coover, Alfred Russell, Oscar Schoenfeld, Max Geldman, Farrell Dobbs, and Carl Kuehn. Goldman, who participated in the trial as counsel for himself as well as others, issued a statement after the verdict terming the case and assailing Daniel Tobin, President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; President Roosevelt, and Acting Attor-69 ney General Francis Biddle.

"The government," he said, "has succeeded in winning a verdict of guilty against 18 of the members of the Socialist Workers party. That does not in the least prove that they are guilty of charges leveled against them by the government. It still remains a fact that the conspirators are Dan Tobin, President Roosevelt, and Attorney General Biddle, who have initiated this frame-up for the purpose of violating the will of the truck drivers of Minneapolis and of stilling the voice of the revolutionary opposition to the Second World War. "We intend to exhaust every step and every resource for appeal purposes. Above all we shall appeal to the American people in an attempt to convince them that the rights of free speech, free press, and free assembly are in real danger of suppression." The case was given to the jury of 11 men and one woman Saturday noon, and the group started balloting late this afternoon, 40 hours after beginning deliberations.

The jury reported it was ready with its verdict shortly before 8 p. m. Original indictments in the seditious conspiracy case, returned last July, named 29 defendants. One, Grant Dunne, Minneapolis labor leader, killed himself three weeks before the trial opened October 27. Indictments against five others were dismissed after the government completed three weeks of testimony.

All the defendants, the government, charged, were members of or associated with the Socialist Workers party. This party, the prosecution contended, was under the domination and direction of Leon Trotsky, Communist leader who was assassinated in Mexico City where he was in exile from Russia. The indictments charged: "The defendants would seek to bring about whenever the time (seemed to revolution them against propitious the an ernment of the United States. Said armed revolution would brought about joined in by the workers laborers and and farmers of the United States." The against whom charges were dismissed on a defense motion were Walter Hagstrom, Rose Seiler, George Frosig, Dorothy Schultz, and Nick Wagner. RAID JUNE 27.

Indictments against the group were returned following a raid on the Workers party headquarters June 27 when United Socialist. States Marshals confiscated two bushels of papers, two red flags, and several pictures of Trotsky. Prior to the trial various groups and individuals protested that freedom of speech and other American rights were nullified by the accusations. Most of the defendants denied membership in the party, and others declared they had no thought of violent overthrow of the government. At the time of the raids Acting Attorney General Francis Biddle said the action was being against "persons who have been engaged in criminal seditious activities and have gained control of a legitimate labor union to use it for legitimate purposes." Fifteen of the indicted persons were officers of members of the General Drivers Union 544 which had bolted from A.

F. of L. affiliation shortly before the raids. The count on which the 18 defendants were convicted alleged they conspired to commit certain acts prohibited by United States Statutes, "namely Sections 9 and 10 of Title 18 of the United States Code," and charged that they prepared and distributed which advised, the "necessity, ability, and propriety of overthrowing and destroying the Government of the United States by force and violence." WILLKIE SEEKS END OF SPENDING LIMIT Washington, December 1-(AP)Wendell Willkie, 1940 Republican presidential candidate, asked the government today to relax its restrictions on the personal funds of thousands of refugees now living in the United States. Willkie presented the appeal as attorney for the refugees, who he said all came from European countries other than Germany and Italy since June 17, 1940.

Foreigners who came to the United States since that date are allowed to use $500 a month for living expenses especial formality, but must get licenses from the Treasury to spend more. Willkie asked removal of the $500 limit. COUNCIL DEFERS ACTION On Wage Increase For Norwood Police And Firemen. Norwood City Council last night referred a request of the city's fire and police departments for a 25 per cent wage increase and a $75 clothing allowance to R. Edwin Tepe, City Solicitor, and the Council's Finance and Law Committees.

The three will hold a meeting before the next meeting, scheduled for December 15, to determine whether there are enough funds in the 1942 appropriations to provide for the increase. A report will be made at the next meeting. Police Chief Charles Fritz invited Mayor Allen C. Roudebush and Councilmen to attend a meeting of the Hamilton County Police Association Thursday, December 11, in Norwood's Junior Order Hall, PRESIDENT Of Company Is Dead. William J.

Radeliffe Started As Salesman For Mill Supply Concern 45 Years Ago. William J. Radcliffe, President of the E. A. Kinsey Company, distributors of machine tool and mill supplies, died last night at his home, 4165 Rose Hill Avenue, Avondale, after a long illness.

He was years old. Starting as a salesman, Mr. Radcliffe worked his way to the position of President during his 45 years with the company. was a member of Cincinnati Club end the Cincinnati Country Club. His widow, Mrs.

Alice L. Radand two sons, John S. Radcliffe, Vice President, and William W. Radcliffe, Vice President and general manager of the Kinsey company, survive him. Funeral arrangements are being completed Gilligan funeral home.

MISS ROSA HANAWAY. Services In Miamitown Tomorrow For Employee Of Bank. Services for Miss Rosa Hanaway, an office employee of the Fifth Third Union Trust Company, will be held at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow at the Church of Christ, Miamitown. Whitton will officiate. be in Miamitown Rewrovem Cemetery.

Miss Hanaway, who was 33 years old, died Saturday at her home, Hill Street, Miamitown, after a long illness. She had been an employee of the Trust Company for 12 years. A member of the Miamitown Church, Miss Hanaway was a former Sunday school teacher. She was a member of Marion Chapter, 0. E.

Miamitown, which will also conduct services at 8 o'clock tonight at the residence. She leaves her father, George Hanaway; her mother, Mrs. Madge Hanaway, and a brother, George D. Hanaway, all of Miamitown, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary C.

Woods, Cleves, and Mrs. Alice Braune, Miamitown. OLIVER W. SMITH. Operator Of Wallpaper Store In Walnut Hills Passes.

Services for Oliver W. Smith, operator of a wallpaper store at 1201 East McMillan Street, Walnut Hills, for will be held tofuneral Burial will be in morrow morning, at the Jacocks Rest Haven Memorial Park. Mr. Smith, who was 65 years old, died Sunday night after an illness of several months at his home, 3854 Millsbrae Avenue. A native of Cincinnati, Mr.

Smith succeeded his brother, Ellsworth Smith, who started the business 52 years ago. Mr. Smith was a member of Walnut Hills Business Men's Club and the Junior O. U. A.

M. Surviving him are his widow, Mrs. Bertha Smith; a son, Warren Smith; three daughters, Miss Bertha Smith, Mrs. Al Goodpastor, and Mrs. Howard Dacey; two Mrs.

Elizabeth Bonte and Mrs. Martha Kerr, and two brothers, Robert Smith and Ellsworth Smith, Los Angeles. MRS. LOUISA S. RABE.

Widow Of Cincinnati Jeweler Dies -Rites Thursday. Requiem high mass for Mrs. Louisa Santen Rabe, widow of Henry G. Rabe, Cincinnati jeweler, will be sung Thursday morning Burial at St. Cecilia Church, Oakley.

will be in St. Joseph's Cemetery. Mrs. Rabe, who was 81 years old, died yesterday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alma Moorman, 1606 Brandon Avenue, Mt.

Washington, with whom she had lived since returning from Utica, N. where she resided for many years. She was a native of Sabina, Ohio. Also surviving her are a brother, John Santen, and a sister, Mrs. Mary Nickol, both of Cincinnati.

J. H. PIERSON. Former Railroad Freight Auditor Succumbs In Florida. J.

H. Pierson, former auditor of freight accounts for the Big Four Railroad here, died Sunday night in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 73 years old. Mr. Pierson left Cincinnati 10 years ago, going to Detroit to become auditor for the Michigan Centrai Railroad.

He moved to Fort Lauderdale six years ago. Services and burial will be in Wellington, Ohio. SERIOUS CRISIS FORECAST In Unemployment In Cincinnati -Layoffs Are Reported. A serious unemployment crisis, caused by the exercise of priorities on defense materials, may plague Cincinnati, Harry J. Patterson, manager of the local office of the Unemployment Compensation reau, said yesterday.

Claims for unemployment comhave shown a "steady and pensation ominous increase" recent months, Patterson declared. Spokesmen for the United Auto-. mobile Workers Union (C. I. said that approximately 375 workmen were laid off yesterday at the Chevrolet and Fisher Body plants in Norwood.

Another 150 may be laid off December 23, it was said. The layoffs were attributed to curtailment of automobile production, which has been ordered by the OPM to conserve materials. RED TICKET TRIUMPHS. Candidates on the Red Ticket of the Northside Business Men's Club were elected unanimously last night in the club's hall, 4001 Hamilton Avenue. The officers are President, John W.

Bullock; First Vice President, George G. Rehn; Second President, Harold A. Spaeth; rich; Secretary, James Faulkner; Third Vice President, Ferd G. Treasurer, Hermann E. Gerboth, and Directors, Clifford E.

Schroder, Warner Koops, and William Bennett. Heart Attack Fatal To Alva B. Adams, 66, Colorado Senator -Associated Press Wirephoto. SENATOR ALVA B. ADAMS.

Washington, December 1--(AP) -The body of Senator Alva B. Adams, Democrat, Colorado, who died in Washington early today, five days after a heart attack, will be taken home to Pueblo, tomorrow night in the company of 25 members of Congress. It will be one of the largest congressional delegations ever to accompany the body of a dead member. Adams, 66 years old, was Chairman of the Public Lands Committee and of the Deficiency Appropriations Committee. In private life he was a banker and an attorney.

The funeral train will leave Washington at 6:30 p. m. and arrive in Pueblo at 11:45 a. m. Thursday.

There the body, will lie in state from noon p. and Masonic services will be conducted at 2:30 p. m. at the residence. Adams was a family, degree Mason.

J. M. SCHOONMAKER, JR. Pittsburgh, December 1-(AP)- James M. Schoonmaker, 53, President of General Aviation Corporation of Baltimore from 1930 until 1934 and former Vice President of the Standard Steel Spring Company of Coraopolis, died today at his home in Sewickley Heights.

Since his retirement from the aviation firm, had served as a Schoonmakes, ard Steel Spring Company, the Union Spring and Manufacturing and the Union Storage Company here. GRANVILLE VERNON. New York, December 1-(AP)Granville Vernon, 56, critic for the Commonweal and formerly a music critic for Herald Tribune and editor of the Dial Press, is dead of a heart attack. A native of Newport, R. he was graduated from Harvard in 1903.

WILLIAM C. REID. Albuquerque, N. December 1 -(AP)-William Clifford Reid, 73, former Territorial Attorney General and solicitor for the Santa Fe Railway in New Mexico since 1915, died today. He was a native of Etna Green, Ind.

BISHOP HOBSON TALKS TO F. F. F. LAW UNIT New York, December 1-(AP)Formation of a Lawyers' Division of the Fight for Freedom Committee with Pierce Butler, St. Paul, as National Chairman, was announced today at a luncheon meeting attended by more than 100 attorneys.

Butler is the son of the late Supreme Court Justice. The meeting was addressed by Right Rev. Henry Hobson, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Southern Ohio and National Chairmn of Fight for Freedom, who said "no battle was ever fought that was needed more than the one against Hitler." MILLION JEWS Have Migrated Or Are Homeless Refugees In Own Country, Is Report Of Committee. New York, December 1-(AP)A million of the 8,500,000 Jews who reportedly lived in 1933 in countries now dominated by the Axis have migrated or are homeless refugees in their own country, the of Jewish Affairs said today. The institute's report, covering 16 countries, said only 225,000 of 765,000 Jews remained in Greater Germany.

Included in the study were Rumania, Hungary, Italy, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Luxemberg, Holland, France, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and "About 600.000 have migrated, another 400,000 are homeless refugees interned in concentration camps, building railways in deserts, waiting vainly in harbors for a ship, rotting on floating prisons," the report declared. "The Jewish birth rate has been decreasing steadily during this period while the death rate has been increasing at an accelerated speed of five to ten times. "The population has been further decimated by the death of thousands in concentration camps, at the hands of Gestapo and in the flames of total war, while many thousands more took their own lives in hopeless despair." "Old" Planes Used By Both Sides, View Continued From Page 4. This is a touching scene in the Mummers Guild adaptation of Robert E. Sherwood's play, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," which the Guild will present this week in Wilson Auditorium, University of Cincin- nati.

The play, first of a series of three to be staged by the collegiate actors, will be given at 8:15 o'clock Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights. A prairie schooner bearing the Gale family west stops outside New Salem, Ill. The child is deathly Isolationists Backed For '42 By America First Committee Chicago, December 1-(AP)-The America First Committee reported tonight that it would take a hand in the 1942 congressional elections by supporting Senators and Representatives who "have kept faith with the people's mandate to avoid participation in the war." The committee said flatly, in announcing the program, that "it will not be used as an attempt to build a third political party." The organization, opposed to American intervention in conflicts abroad and sponsor of a long series of rallies in all parts of the nation, outlined its political policies in a statement issued by its national committee. "Today America is confronted with a condition which strikes at the basic principle of the American way of life- government by consent of the governed," the manifesto set forth. "We know from the experiences of other countries that Fascism results when the legislative branch of the government surrenders to one man its power to make decisions for the people.

In the fact of this same trend toward Fascism in America the immediate duty of the American people is to return to Congress only those Representatives who faithfully execute the people's trust. "Accordingly, the America First Committee which has not sought likely be followed by intensified ac-1 tion against China than in invasion of Thailand. "Japan is not ready nor has she the resources to invade Thailand, he said. Shanghai, December 1-(AP)Captain Fritz Wiedemann, once one of Adolf Hitlers intimates, former Consul General at San Francisco and now Consul General at Tientsin, arrived at Nanking today for an unexplained conference with leaders Chinese of the Japanese Government dominated At the same time it was learned that Ernest Wender, German Minister to Thailand, had to Shanghai by plane from Bangkok, on a mission likewise although he was expected to confer with Wiedemann and Christian Zinsser, Acting German Consul General here. Shipping heard that the British and had canceled circles, schedules between Hong Kong and Shanghai.

Japan Losing 75 Per Cent Of Imports, Board Says New York, December 1-(AP)The National Industrial Conference Board reported today the "eocnomic blockade" of Japan by the United States, the Brtish Empire, and the Netherlands Indies has cut off 75 per cent of her normal imports. In an analysis effects of Japan's present situation, the research organization found that in peacetime Japan was barely selfsustaining in foodstuffs, while her industries were heavily dependent on sources now under control of the "blockade" group. "Japan proper has a population of 73,000,000 packed in an area less than that of California and inferior to it in material resources," the report said. The analysis showed the cutting off of Japanese imports to the United States had been detrimental to American economy because it severed an important market and source of supply, but that it had not seriously damaged the defense effort. Financially, the report said, war costs weighed heavily upon Japan.

Her military expenditures for the fiscal year 1941 took 70 per cent of the national budget, compared with about 50 per cent in the United States. Inflation was evident in Japan, it added, estimating that by the end of 1940 wholesale prices were 58 per cent higher than in 1936, while retail prices were up 66 per cent. Scanty imports have resulted in salvaging of every available scrap of material, the report said, including iron fences, sunken ships, wire, name plates, manhole covers, and kitchen utensils. Gasoline is severely rationed; them with the latest Messerschmitts, which have proved SUperior to the Hurricanes. The British then would be obliged to divert their best Spitfires to meet such a challenge.

Inferior types, especially the Stukas Nazi end and the P-40's on British end, would the then either be eliminated or assigned minor auxiliary roles. In sky fighting, more than on the surface of land or sea, the law of the survival of the fittest holds true. The mass production of backward and outmoded types of will be recognized sooner or Plater, even in the United States, not only as wasteful economically but as dangerous insofar as it creates a false illusion of strength. IBYAN dispatches have reL ferred to American destruction of Stukas This by fighters. sounds like a notable accomplishment only to those who are not yet aware that the Stukas, although the best advertised of all aircraft in this war, are really very poor specimens.

They became famous in campaigns where the Germans had no real aerial opposition. The surprise element in the early Stuka attacks, plus the fact that the Nazis had mass of them and liberally, gave actremendous this plane a reputation for invincibility which it does not in fact deserve. From the aeronautical point of view, the Stuka is a mediocre machine, with a speed of only 240 miles an hour and a single machine gun for protection against rear attack. It is extremely vulnerable to any fighter, and made a brilliant showing in France and elsewhere largely because there was no genuine overhead contest. The Stukas were merely acting as a a sort of flying artillery clearing the road for the moving surface columns.

In Africa these Stukas are meeting powerful opposition. Even the P-40 is about 100 miles faster and has about six times greater fire power. Unless the Germans have massed so many of these planes that they can safely sacrifice six or more to one of the enemy's, and are well protected overhead by Messerschmitt 109-F's, they will be eliminated. Hence reinforcements with more effective types on both sides is likely. The Axis has a delicate problem in keeping a great aerial armada properly supplied with fuel and maintenance support across the Mediterranean.

For that reason Hitler cannot exercise his usual strategy of preponderance numbers, since a great mass of equipment in the air calls for a correspondingly great mass of supplies and support on the ground. This is a handicap which must incline the Germans against reliance on sheer quantity and will encourage them to throw more efficient aircraft into the battle. In respect to reinforcement with new planes, the Germans have a distinct geographical advantage over the British. They are able to fly their craft to the scene of action directly from the European continent, whereas the R.A.F. can receive its reinforcements only across the and dangerous routes from England and America.

Reliable information on these matters, of course, is sketchy. To an aviation observer the only certainty is that while attention is concentrated on the surface operations, the real decision in the African campaign is shaping up in the skies. influence the election of any candidate for public office, now believes that in due time and in proper compliance with the law this policy must be changed. Efforts must be directed toward the renomination and reelection in 1942 of those Senators and Representatives in Congress who have kept faith with the people's mandate to avoid participation in war. "This program will be undertaken in a spirit free from partisanship and without regard to the political affiliations of the candidates.

It will not be used as an attempt to build a third political party. Wholehearted support will be given to those candidates, of any political party conforming to American principles, whose records truly reflect the will of the people and the spirit and letter of the constitution." The statement contended that Congressmen who opposed steps toward war had been subjected to "drastic pressure by the administration," and added: "Mr. Wendell Willkie, too, has indicated his intention to attempt to purge Republican Senators and Representatives who dare to support the pledge in their own party platform against entering the war. The America First Committee, therefore, now feels it to be its to enable its members in any state or district to counteract these pressures and themselves to mobilize their supporters behind those public officials who oppose further tosteps to involve us in war." even boats are denied supplies, fishing, researches found. "In spite of these heroic measures," the board reported, "lack of material has spelled death to many industries.

Even in the all important cotton textile industry, the number of factories operation has been reduced by almost 50 per cent." MARINES REACH MANILA. Manila, December 2 (Tuesday)(AP) The steamship President Madison, carrying the first contingent of United States Marines from Shanghai, arrived in the harbor early today. The ship left Shanghai last Thursday. A second contingent sailed the next day on the Harrison for an unPresident. destination.

LIGHTS OFF CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. ing it difficult for firemen to check the flames' spread. Leslie May, manager of the oil company, estimated damage to his company's property at $15,000 to $20,000. He said M. M.

Carter, driver of the truck that exploded, and other men working near by escaped injury. Damage to the electric company's property here was estimated immediately. SPECTAT. DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER. Chillicothe, Ohio, December 2- This city was thrown into darkness tonight by a fire that burned through the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company's main power line at Circleville.

Lights in streets, residences stores, and factories were out and manufacturing plants, most gasoline stations, and other business depending upon electric power shut down. The staff of the Chillicothe Advertiser, a morning newspaper, worked by candle light and flashlights, but the typesetting machines and presses were shut down. It was reported here that restoration of light and power was not expected for 8 or 10 hours. SPECTAT. DISPATCH TO THE ENQUIRER.

Hillsboro, Ohio, December 2 Shutdown of power and light service here because of the fire that put out of commission tonight the Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric Company's main power line in Circleville extended also to Seaman in Adams County and Sardinia in Brown County. Other communities in Highland County apparently were unaffected as all except Greenfield, which has a municipal plant, are served by the Dayton Power and Light Company, E. 0. GROVE PRESIDENT Of Manufacturers' Representatives -Other Officers Are Chosen. Officers were elected last night at a meeting of the Association of Manufacturers' Representatives in the Gateway Restaurant at the Union Terminal.

E. O. Grover was named President: J. Rengering, First Vice President: P. N.

Jahnson, Second Vice President; W. R. Thompson, Secretary; George H. Schultz, Assistant Secretary, and R. L.

Ferguson, Sergeant at Arms. A. H. Bientz, U. P.

Fisher, J. H. Klahm, H. J. McTammey and G.

E. Storer were reelected to the Board of Governors. Ralph D. Davis, retiring President, G. H.

Moore, and Phil R. Cottrell were new members chosen for the board, BANKER ACCEPTS POST On Y. M. C. A.

Board -To Succeed Rabbi December 17. William A. Stark has accepted election to the Board of Directors of the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Y. M. C.

A. for a three-year term, succeeding Dr. James G. Heller, it was announced yesterday. Dr.

Heller, rabbi of Isaac M. Wise Temple, has resigned, effective December 17, because of the press of other duties. Stark is trust officer of the Fifth Third Union Trust Company and Treasurer of the Ohio Bankers Association. The board's electoral council recently elected Stark and reelected six incumbents, Cecil H. Gamble, Troy W.

Abbleby, Dr. E. A. Henry, Dr. W.

T. Nelson, R. Cliff Smith, and John M. Stoner. MEDAL GIVEN TO KNUDSEN.

Philedelphia, December 1-(AP) -William S. Knudsen, Director General of the Office of Production Management, WAS awarded the Franklin Institute success Vermilye Medal tonight. by the as an administrator. The citation that accompanied the award read: in recognition of long years of outstanding managerial ability in American industry, characterized by brilliant initiative, farseeing vision and human understanding, culminating in invalubale service to his country in the administration of unprecedented production for national defense." PATROLMAN QUITS JOB. Police Chief Eugene T.

Weatherly announced the resignation of Patrolman Elmer A. Wagner, attached to District 7, and the transfer of two other patrolmen yesterday. Wagner plans to enter the United States mail service. Patrolman Arthur E. Guard was transferred from District 4 to District 7, and Patrolman Thomas Tracy from 7 to 4.

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