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RUSSIA RELATES
 HER WARSTORY
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Continued from Page D These were the three top Russian military officers: Marshals K. E. voroshilov, Senyon Timoshenko, and semyon Budenny. All executive power was placed in a five-man de- fense committee headed by StaIin and including Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov, L. P. Beria, commits sar for internal affairs, Voroshilov, and G. M. Malenkov, secretary-gen- eral of the central committee of the Communist party.
 (Political commissars have been re-introduced in the Red Army. Yesterday, Stalin assumed the de- fense commissariat and the com missariats of internal affairs and state security, recently separated, were again combined under Beria's direction.)
 Nazi Threat In Men
 The Plotsk-N -Nevel and Smolensk sectors of the Moscow front and the Novograd Volynsk area of the Kiev front were the points and it was indicated that the Germans were throwing men lavishly into the battles in an attempt, so far vain, to break through the Russian line.
 It was indicated that heavy | fighting in the Pskov area, on the Leningrad front, had subsided dur- ing the night.
 Russian planes have destroyed 31 German planes in their latest oper- ations, 1t was asserted, and have lost only six.
 The days first communique had reported that well organized guer- rilla forces, operating far behind the German lines, were now taking a heavy toll.
 Authorized Russian sources said that as the war enter ed its fifth week, the fighting was increasing in scope and intensity. They as- serted that in the last week, despite the prodigality with which the Germans had thrown their forces into the battle, there had been lit. tie or no substantial change in the lines.
 Despite all German attempts to break the Russian line, informants said, the front remained fairly straight between the Baltic and the Black Sea. Loca Herman ad- vanceS had been admitted implicitly but 1t was asserted that substan- tially, the situation was unchanged. Bad Flying Weather
 The communique noted that bad flying weather continued but said that nevertheless Russian planes continued to bomb German tanks and motorized infantry and to at- tack German planes in the air and aground. Twenty-Five German planes were shot down yesterday, it was added. /
 In the Baltic Sea, the commun- ique said, Russian planes sank German destroyer.
 Guerrilla attachments were said to be inflicting heavy losses on the enemy.
 Radio commentators told how the entire population of villages were retreating with the army, leaving only daring guerrilla fighters to await the Germans. It was asserted that the Germans were being am. pushed in woods, on roads, in viI- lages, and that bridges were being blownd up as troops crossed them,
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cameras of the news reels so the people can hear 1t in his own words and judge the merits of the issue.
 Neither radio recording nor news reels will be released until congress receives the message which probably will be sent to Capital Hill today but may be delayed until tomorrow.
 Decision to put the message before the people in MT. Roosevelt's own affective accents was made in recog- milton of the fact that the admins tration has a hard fight on its hands Go prevent discharge of selectees, Ma tional Guardsmen and reservists af- ter a year of service
 'The President regards the mes Eage as of such special significance, " said White House Secretary stephen 1T. Early, "that he feels it should be put before the country through every possible medium"
 Grave Urgency
 Others assert that the question Of retaining one-year men under arms for the duration of the emergency is of as grave urgency as was en- hctment of the lend-lease bill last March. The administration is Troubled that some of its own lead CTS in congress hesitate to risk the battle. Both Speaker Sam Rayburn and House Majority Leader John w. Mccormack, D., Mass, will support Mir. Roosevelt but both fear defeat.
 Radio and newsrell recordings of the message represent compromise between delivery of the message in person and merely sending it to Congress to be read by a clerk When MT. Roosevelt goes before Congress in person, his words are broadcast throughout the world and photographers may shoot at will. But never before has anyone thought of this expedient to relieve him of a personal appearance and yet enable the people to hear MT. Roosevelt argue his case in per- son.
 He was moved to that strategy because Congressional non-inter- ventionists, who had been unable to crack administrations legislative defenses on any other issue, sud- denly found themselves winning recruits with the slogan:
 Keep faith with the boys"
 They meant that Congress and the rGesident had called selectees, guardsmen and reservists for one year and that to keep them longer would be to break the faith. The
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Great Britain Tells
 Army ToAwait Word
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preparing its ''v" campaign through secret agents in occupied countries and that in addition to the sym bolic chalking up or tapping out of W" there is to be organized Sabo- tage against the Germans.
 Rome reported yesterday that 30 workmen had been killed and 50 ti- jured near Como when passenger train taking Italian worknlen to Germany crashed into a derailed freight car. Authorities rushed to the spot to investigate the accident and responsibility for it," g United Press dispatch said.
 Naxi Train Blown Up A Russian war communique re- ported today that a German rail- road train was blown up near Pre- sov, Czechoslovakia, by SahoteurS and that 21 cars filled with artil- lery shells were destroyed. Forty. four Germans were killed, it was as- serted.
 A United Press vichy dispatch said the Germans had found it nec- eSSary to warn that persons who tried to swim or row across the AL Tier river between the occupied and unoccupied zones of France would be shot without warning.
 Moscow was putting out frequent reports calculated to fit in with the "" war of nerves.
 Columbia Broadcasting Company picked up in New York during the night one Moscow radio report which said an Italian monarchist officer had shot at Benito Musso- lini at Ferrara several days ago. The officer was described as being a member of the "anti- German oppo- sition group headed by starace and Mutt"
 Achille Starace and Ettore Mutt are former secretaries general of the Fascist party.
 Goering Dismissed
 Another Moscow broadcast picked up by Columbia, insisted again that Field Marshal Hermann Goering had been dismissed as commander in chief of the German air force be- cause he opposed Hitler's war on Russia.
 This time Russia said also that Field Marshal Walther Won Reich enau had lost his command and that Field Marshal Sigmund List, commander in chief of the Balkan campaign; Field Marshal Nikolaus Won Falkehorst, commander in chief In Norway and Finland, and Field Marshal Stueipnagel were surround ed by secret police agents because of their attitude toward the war against Russia.
 Moscow said there were persistent Fumcrs that q number Of high GeT- man officers had committed suicide.
 Incidentally Berlin, in a broad- cast picked up by National Broad- casting; suggested that Tcelanders 'fFtse and throw down che burden of American occupation" The broadcast ended with the three Gh0gt end one long notes Of the opening Of 1eethoEen's Fifth Gym- phony, equivalent t0 the Morse V.
 Y in South America
 The ' campaign spread to South America during tho week end. q United FEeas Duenoa Aires dispatch naid that y@st9fAav "V'BR eas0deniF appeared all eyer nueros AiFea, and M0afGyIaeo, Uruguay, across tlae plate AlEGF especially on German oNned rEopeEslea
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administration argues that condi- tionS have char ] for the worse that national defense W uld be jeop- ardized-almost sabotaged-if one- year men were sent home and that the selective service act contained provision for more than one years service, anyway, If emergency con- ditions warranted.
 Various Proposals
 The Senate military affairs com mittee today resumes hearings on various proposals to keep the men in service, including:
 1. Legislation sponsored by the Army which would simply authorize the extension of the service of any member of the armed forces for the duration of the emergency.
 2. A joint Congressional resolu- tion declaring that national safety to be imperilled. Gen. George c. Marshall, Army chief of staff, told the committee this would accom- plish all of his purposes.
 3, A compromise proposal orig inally proposed by Sen. Walter F. George, D., Ga, which would re- tain National Guardsmen but per- init the selectees to leave the serv- ice at the end of their first year. keep the selectees.
 The Army has said it would rather
 4. A proposal by Sen. Sheridan Downey, D., Calf, which would give all selectees and National Guardsmen bonus of $50 month if they were retained in the Army for more than one year.
 5. A proposal by Sen. George Nor ris, Ind, Neb., which would permit the selectees to leave the service at the end of year but would of- fer them bonus to re-enlist.
 6. A proposal sponsored by a member of the military affairs committee, who declined to permit use of his name, that the present group of selectees be permitted to leave the service at the end of year but that the law be changed to keep all inducted in the future for the duration of the emergency.
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Otto Strasser, former Nazi, said at Montreal that Britain's V cam paign could be "an insistent and po- tent weapon in breaking down an internal moral in Germany which is already weak and ready to crack"
 Strasser, one time leader in the Nazi party. who broke with Hitler before the Nazi assumption of pow. CT in 1883, said:
 This attack on German morale this insidious and destructive cam. paign, will have certain results. Il may take little time but 1t will succeed"
 V on Court House
 Indiana, Pa, July 2l.-tUP)- Borrowing British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's " for Victory" slogan, Alexander Stewart, father oi actor soldier James Stewart, has erected 10 foot aluminium painted v atop Indiana county's courthouse
 Stewart unveiled the sign this week end. asserting it expressed his hopes for an allied victory.
 The sign, which hangs 100 yards above the towns streets, is Hum. mated by flood lights each evening until midnight.
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 around the camp" the governor said, T heard only one complaint. The boys would rather be nearer home.
 That's perfectly natural de- sire. But there has been no grouch- ing about it. They know they're there to do g. job, that they're in the army, and they have swung into training with typical American en- thusiasm."
 The day of the review Governor and Mrs. Hurley visited the camp hospital and for several hours chat ted with the confined men. Its a splendidly equipped and staffed hospital" said the governor And don't take any stock in re- ports there has been a heavy hospi- talization. Remember, Camp Bland ing is equal to 8 city the size of New London. There's bound to be some sickness, and I'll venture to say there's much less than in a city of civilians"
 The soldiers, he said, "are doing their part to make a better genera tton. The folks at home should stand solidly behind them"
 Camp Rlanding is 125,00O acres of government reservation, developed into a city of tents and barracks that later this week will be virtually deserted as the troops pull out for the big maneuvers in Louisiana. When they return. the government will have spent $2,000,000 to provide additional improvements. Experiments Under Way New experiments are being con- ducted to combat the disagreeable sand, to which the northern troops are finding 1t difficult to accustom themselves Tons and tons of top soil have been spead to keep the sand from swirling through the camp. Torrential tropical rains, coming in later afternoon during the last month or more, have great ly relieved the high temperatures, to which the soldiers have become accustomed. The rains also have helped keep down the sand. Tall southern pines provide welcoming shade and huge lake around which the camp is built, Is another heat relief.
 The boys find their entertainment at camp dances, at Jacksonville, 70 miles away, or at the little boom town of Starke, only eight miles to the north.
 NeWsmen who talked with many of the men to get their viewpoint of army life, and the southern camp, found the men fully satisfied. There were some exceptions, but on the whole the division had become ad- justed to conditions. the food was good, all felt physically better for the training and signs Of home sickness were fast disappearing. They'd like to be nearer home, that's ail.
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ployers to hold open the jobs of men who have been held in the army.
 The president further promised to order the return to civilian life ot officers and men whose retention on active duty would impose undue hardship and that selectees and en- listed men of the national guard who have reached the age of 28, be transferred from active service to a reserve component as rapidly as pos- siple."
 The Presidents message was read in both houses of congress shortly after noon.
 An hour earlier, in the oval dip- lomatic reception room in the base ment of the White House, MT. Roosevelt had read his appeal into microphones for transcription for radio.
 On National Network
 Shortly after the message was read in the House and Senate, the National Broadcasting com pany put his transcribed appeal on it's national network. The Col umbia BroadcaSting system was to follow with a system wide tram scription broadcast at 3:30 p. m. E. D. T., and the Mutual Broad casting system followed suit.
 It was move without prece- dent. MT. Roosevelt was asking a reluctant Congress for the neces- sary legislation, but he was going directly to the mass of American citizens with his case to build lip public sentiment for a move which he holds imperative to the na- tional defense.
 The networks likewise were re- broadcasting the message to the entire world by short wave, and later will rebroadcast it by beam in six foreign languages.
 One final word: time counts" {" MT. Roosevelt said.- Within two months disintegration, which would follow failure to the congressional action, will commence in the armies of the United States. Time counts. The responsibility rests solely with the Congress.
 "The objective is, of course, the all important issue. It is to author ize continuance in service of select eeS, national guard and reserve com- ponents of the army and the retired personnel of the regular army, with the understanding that, should the exigencies of the situation permit, early return to civil pursuits will follow in due course"
 Hold Them All
 By proclaiming an emergency, either limited or unlimited, Con- gress automatically permits MT. Roosevelt to hold in active service any or all of the selectees, guards men or reserves who have been call led to the colors. That mode of pro- cedure was provided in the selec- tive service act.
 In presenting his case, MT. Roose-
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Guardsmen, Selectees
 Likely To Be Retained
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welt warned that Americans cannot afford to speculate with the security of America" and he reminded the nation that this country also must prepare to defend the entire Vest ern Hemisphere.
 He said plainly that the menace which the country faces originates in Germany and the Nazi party's aspirations.
 T must refer again to the se- querce of conquests-German con- quests or attacks-which have con- tlnued uninterruptedly throughout several years-ali the way from the coup against Austria to the present campaign against Russia.
 By Time Schedule
 Every move up and down and across Europe, and into Asia, and into Africa has been conducted &C., cording to a time schedule utiliz- ing in every case an overwhelming superiority not only in material but Tn trained men as well Each cam paign has been based on a prelim- mary assurance of safety or non- aggression to the intended victim. Each campaign has been based on disarming fear and gaining time until the German government was fully ready to throw treaties and pacts to the winds and simultan- eously to launch an attack in over whelming force.
 Each elimination of victim has brought the issues of Nazi domina- tion closer to this hemisphere. while month by month their in- trigues of propaganda and conspir- acy have sought to weaken every link in the community of interest that should bind the Americas into a great western family.
 T do not think that any branch Of the government of the United States will be willing to let Amer ica risk the fate which has destroy ed the independence of other na- tions."
 MT. Roosevelt reminded congress of the responsibility of this coun- try to protect the new world against ~o0~ SSN9ASAS VI dCN CdC11 d1lO every one of them against attack from without the hemisphere"
 T do not believe that any branch of the American government would desire today to abrogate our Pan-American pacts or to discard policy which we have maintained for nearly century and a quarter" !" the President said. "If we do not reverse this historic policy, then it is our duty to maintain it. To weak en our army at this particular time would be, in my judgment, an act of bad faith toward our neighbors."
 White House Secretary stephen T. Early had explained the Presidents plan to carry the message to the tn following statemnt:
 people by radio transcriptions with the following statement:
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British Planes Have
 Blasted Nazi Defenses
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1 It is believed here that the Ger mans have built a network of roads at strategic points between Calais and Boulogne, to give their troops f1u1dity of movement. The roads have been sunk to give armored vehicles and supply trucks good cover.
 The air ministry reported that re- connaisSance planes had seen 7,- 900 ton German tanker, crippled by bombs yesterday of the French coast, beached half a mile from Berck-Sur-Mer, down at the stern and with its bow out of water, splling trail of oil on the sea.
 The well informed Press Associa- tion reported that last week had been the most successful of the war for British raiding planes and that in addition to constant raids on Germany and occupied territory British planes had probably de- stroyed in all 242,000 tons of Ger man shipping.
 Raids By British
 Cairo, July 2i-(UP)-The Britt ish high command reported today that British forces in Tcbruk have carried out another series of suc- cessful raids upon the German Italian troops which enclTcle them. Heavy casualties were said to have been inflicted in c series of forays Saturday night.
 A general headquarters cosnmuni- que said the British raids from Tobruk were remarkable for the success obtained in proportion 70 the paueity Of casualties sustained by our troops
 At one point, the eommuniaue said, an Indian patrol, attacked by enemy troops, e0nIlteF-aitaeked with bayoDeis drawn, slnilselina many casualties and forcing the enr emy io reiige ia alsoEdor.S The h.
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dian patrol finally withdrew with- out single casualty, 1t was added. The communique reported that oc- cupation of northern Syria by Brit ish and Free French troops was nearly complete.
 Naples Bombed Again
 Rome, July 2i -(Up)- Fifteen persons were killed and 24 wounded In 6 British bombing raid on Naples during the night, the Italian war coThmunIque said today.
 Five anti.aircraft Enilltlanaen were among those Killed.
 The communlQue said the p0pu- Iation remained calm,
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Httacker was a f1end-a maniac. "
 Police Have 2 Clues
 There were two clues which police hoped would resultBin apprehension of the slayer. Beneath the girls fir r~ernails were few strands hair indicating she had battled flercely for he life. A friend said Miss Cochran got into an ancient sedan type auto with yellow wheels Thurs day--the day she disappeared.
 Discovery of the girls body fol- lowed by few minutes a radio ap- peal for her return made by her mother, Mrs. Harold Cochran. Pite- Ously speaking through stiffled sobs, Mrs. Cochran said:
 "If you hear this broadcast Frances, come home or telephone at once. If there are any explanations to make do not hesitate. Come home"
 Only 6 minute or two after the heartbroken mother left the station D telephone rang in the broadcast ing room. Announcer Joseph Tobin answered and voice, which he be- lieved was that of man attempting to disguise his speech, said:
 You can find a woman's body On Danvers road at the Salem Ewampscott line"
 Tobtn described the conversation to news commentator Walter Mackie who notified police.
 Police Reach Scene
 Radio patrolmen James Pedrick and Harold Heating of Salemn were 1irst to reach the scene but they were joined quickly by cruising car police from Lynn and Swampscott
 The group forced their way B feet off the backroad through a tangle of brush and creeping vines 70 a ditch where the girls body was gprawled. Wedged between two rocks was one of her white sports shoes that apparently was pulled from her foot as her body was dragged to the hiding place.
 Her dress was in shreds, her stockings were torn and nearby piled carelessly, was her blue sports coat and under clothing she was wearing when she started home from her office in a Lynn Leather shop. With the clothing was a plaid umbrella which her mother said was not her daughters
 Miss Cochran's wrist watch was missing and police believed it had tallen in the underbrush as the body was dragged to the ditch.
 Another High School Lad
 They planned to question a 15- year-old Junior High school student who was held in connection with she sex-murder of l5-year-old Con- stance Shipp in Reading 10 miles sway. Authorities said, however, the crimes were similar only in their extreme bestiality. The Shipp girl Was stabbed and beaten and her eyes were gouged.
 Since Thursday afternoon, police Qf eight states had sought Miss Cochran.
 She rode toward home with fellow wprsers on bus but left at a street NsIner 10 post a letter.
 Edward Neal of Lynn, a friend xaid he saw her mail the letter ana z=4n snter the auto. He believed E4&t Mlss Cochran recognized tho fzf and greeted the driver as a for. HssF acquaintance. The girls mother zld she was certain her daughter #eula not have accepted the ride sI&ss aho knew the driver.
 *fIa Cochran said her daughter fsAd no particular boy friend but 'ked dancing and went out often se rald the giFi left home Thurs- zay morning with e with which -sf planned to purchase q dress EHf q dance that evening at the
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PENNSYLVANIA TWEED

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CROWN JEWEL COPIES

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President Appealing Directly To People
Sends Special Message to Congress to Retain
 SeIectees, National Guardsmen in Service
BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff COrTespOndent)

Washington, July 21-(UP)-President Roosevelt IS appealing directly to people to retain selectees and National Guardsmen in the army and may utilize the Unprecedented method chosen in special message to congress today Mr. Roosevelt will read this message 10 nnoress into radio recording machines and the sound