davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1941-09-07

chases OF foodstuffs delivered into
British hands, but not to British
ports, rose TO 81 SOC, 900 a day, and
the outlay is held to have increased
steadily during August. Figures ap-
proximately correct under this head
may be revealed in the Presidents
forthcoming report to Congress.
To sum up, it appears reasonable
presumption that until now actual
expenditures of lease-lend funds,
plus Agriculture Department pur-
chases to be charged ultimately
against them, may not exceed
s4OO 900 900. or about ST per cent Of
the seven billion appropriation. To
this must be added transfers under
previous appropriations, amounting
to an unknown sum in excess OF
$65 .O00, 600. Superimposed on the
whole would be purchases of sup
plies under the cash-and-carry pro-
vision of the Neutrality Act, which
were paid for by the British. but
which were the product OF American
factories, farms, natural resources
and labor.
Bulk Goes to Britain.
The only hint accessible as TO
volume under this last head was
given by Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau in testimony before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
on January q. Supporting the
Lease-Lend bill. he cited statistics
obtained from the British Treasury
to the effect that the United King
dom had placed commitments IN
this country for the present cale1-
dar year totaling 1854 600 600. To
this should be added an unspecified
quantity of obligations to be filled
in 1912. and British orders delivered
during 1910
The great bulk of lease-lend aid
has gone to Britain. None has as
vet been extended to Russia, since
the Soviet Union is regarded as SOL
vent. But some has been given to
China, and perhaps a small amount
to the Free France movement OF
Gen. De Gaulle. 1t Is not known
whether lease-lend funds have been
granted to the Netherlands Indies
also supposed to have means with
which to pay.
Arms to Go to Poles.
President Roosevelt announced
last Thursday that military supplies
from existing stocks had been auth
ori7ed for transfer IN Polish trO0DS
training in Canada for service over
seas. This is thought to be the first
lease-lend aid to conquered coun-
try. The President stressed the i'm
portance of the act as continuing
expression of "the policy Of the
United States to extend aid to all
| who resist aggression"
The three great needs Of Britain
are food, shippins and lons-ranst
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Two Swift Cruisers
Bring Navy Nearer
To Two.0cean Fleet
Atlanta Is Launched at
Keorny and Son Juon
At Quincy. Moss.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
Two swift and deadly cruisers slid
down the ways yesterday, bringing
the Navy closer to its goal Of a
two-ocean fleet.
Speaking at one of the launching
ceremonies-at time when ten
sion was developing over a skirmish
between the United States destroyer
Greer and German submarine
Undersecretary Of the Navy James
| v. Forrestal asserted:
The events in the North Atlantic
make this a significant day for the
American Navy"
The launching of the light cruisers
Atlanta at Kearny, N j., and San
Juan at Quincy. Mass. brought to
251 the total of all types of new
| fighting ships to 60 into the water
thus far this year.
338 Combatant Vessels.
The rapid expansion brought the
fleet up to strength Of 338 COM
Blatant vessels on August /. The
fleet at that time was made UP of
Is battleships, 6 aircraft carriers
81 cruisers, 1853 destroyers and liz
submarines. That figure did not
include several ships afloat, but not
actually in service, such as the new
battleships North Carolina and
Washington and other smaller craft.
Between the first of the year and
yesterday the Navy launched 249
ahinc mt dou,p A2e LaalS ard ,o,,t
Into service or made ready for serv-
ice 2l3 more craft.
In addition to the building.
launching and commissioning of the
fighting ships, the Navy has pushed
construction program for auxiliary
vessels Among such vessels was a
97-foot mine sweeper, launched at
Millville, N. Y. yesterday.
Only Mosquito Boats Faster.
Details Of the two cruisers
launched yesterday were naval Sc
cretS, but some information was
made public The Atlanta is 50
speedy, Navy officers said, that only
the darting mosquito boats can out
run her. She is partly streamlined,
with the deck partly inclosing the
forward funnel.
The San Juan has similar charac-
teristics and speed. Her builders
said she was armed with torpedo
tubes and driven by twin-screw
geared turbine machinery.
While the cruisers slid down the
ways at kearny and Quincy. cere-
monies were going on at a Phila-
delphia yard to mark the laying of
a Keel for the 1O.OOO-ton cruiser
Wilkes Barre.
At kearny, the way on which the
Atlanta stood was cleared for lay
Ing the keels of two destroyers. On
nearby ways at the yard are the
Juneau. sister ship of the Atlanta
and several destroyers.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Roosevelt Tells All
u. 5. Units 10 Adopt
Fair Racial Policy
Non-Discriminotion Order
Follows Protests Over
Jobs for Negroes
~ the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
HYDE PARK. N. Y. Sept. g.
President Roosevelt has asked the
heads of all Government depart
ments and agencies to take i'm
mediate steps to put into effect a
policy Of non discrimination in Fed
eral employment because of race,
creed or national origin.
His action was an outgrowth of
protests that Negroes were being
Disseminated against in the defense
program. 1t was in line with rec
concentrations of Committee on
Fair Employment Practice, which
he created last June Is.
Letter Made Public.
The committee was headed by
Mark Ethridge. an executive of the
Louisville Courier journal. In a
letter to Mr.. Ethridge. dated
Wednesday and released tonight by
the temporary White House, Mr.
Roosevelt said:
Please accept my thanks for your
letter Of August %, to which I have
given careful consideration. This
will inform you that ! have ap-
proved the committees recon-
mendation. I am, therefore, today
forwarding to the heads of all de-
partments and independent estab-
1ishments a letter emphasizing the
necessity Of impartial administra-
ton of the Federal civil service, en-
tirely without prejudice based on
creed, race or national origin. I
1nclose a copy.
May I, in advising you of my
approval, ask You to convey to the
members of the committee an as
surance of my heartfelt apprecia-
tion of their conscientious work,
which I trust will contribute vitally
to the solution of grave problem" !"
Writes to Agencies.
The test of the letter which the
departments and independent es-
tablishments follows:
1T has come to my attention that
there is in the Federal establish
ment lack of uniformity and pos
sibly some lack of sympathetic at
titude toward the problems of
minority groups, particularly those
pertaining to the employment and
assignment of Negroes in the Fed
eral civil service
With a view to improving the
situation. 1t is my desire that all
departments and independent estab-
nshments in the Federal Govern
nnent make thorough examination
of their personnel policies and prac-
tices to the end that they may be
able to assure me that IN the Fed
eral service the doors of employ
n1ent are open to all loyal and
qualified workers regardless of
creed, race or national origin.
"It is imperative that we deal with
this problem speedily and effective
1y. I shall look for immediate steps
TO be taken by all departments and
independent eSta blishments OF the
Government to facilitate and put
into effect THIS policy of non-dis-
elimination in Federal employ
ment.''
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Club to Hold CurnivuI

{ The United Young Mems Demo-
cratic Club of Montgomery County
will hold a carnival at Silver Spring
beginning tomorrow and continu-
ing through Saturday. The affair
will be held on the lot off Georgia
avenue near the Baltimore Il Ohio
Railroad station. Joseph D. Buscher
Is chairman.
Evening star., 1941-09-07

bombers. As has been shown. the
Surplus Marketing Corp. has begun
to place at British disposal an i'm
pressive quantity of foodstuffs. Ac-
cording to Rear Admiral Emory S
Land, chairman of the Maritime
Commission, building programs will
not attain full pace for another
seven months, though the first ves-
sci of its Liberty feet is to be
launched at the end of this month,
with an output of 29 promised for
December and AZ in January. Com
pletion of the programs is not plan
ned before the end of 1943
Bomber Production Criticized.
Last November William S. Knud-
sen, co-director of the Office Of
Production Management, called for
an output of 500 four engine bomb
ers a month. For some time an es-
innate was circulated. without re-
pudiation from o. P NJ, that pro-
duction of such craft was about so
a month, of which 40 were sent
to Britain. But in a radio address
this week Senator Byrd, Democrat,
of Virginia, declared he had posi-
tive and indisputable proof" that
American output of long-range
bombers was 81 in April, IL in June
and IA in July.
These alarming allegations have
not yet been denied. The Airplane
Division of O. P. M commented only
that Senator Byrd knows how to
get the headlines" The Senator
added that July production of me-
dium bombers was 95 and of light
bombers 243. With a total of 1,46C
military planes for that month, oi
which 700 were trainers, the output
OF lighting planes seems to have
been 408.
August Output Up.
1t was stated yesterday by o. P. M
that the August production of mill
tary planes was 1854, an increase oi
1874 over July and more than three
times the delivery Of August, 1910
AS in previous announcements, the
| proportion of combat to trainer
craft was withheld, and there wa.
no indication as to how many of the
planes had been turned over tc
Britain. At the rates suggested by
Senator Byrd, the August output
would be divided approximately a.
follows: Heavy bombers, 18; me-
dunn bombers, 120; light bombers
800; fighting planes. $40 and train.
ers, 906.
In pamphlet just issued by the
National Planning Association, 6
striking plea is made for the estab.
hshment of an overall internationa
board of economic strategy. to poo
and manage the overwhelming re.
sources of the democracies and tf1eil
allies. Represented In its member.
ship would Be the United States, thu
Evening star., 1941-09-07

British commonwealth, the Soviet
Union, China and the anti-Axis
governments in exile. This recon-
mendation gained impetus from the
fact that the chairman of the Ma
tional Planning Association is VIII
liam L. Bait, director of the new
materials division in o. P M. and
one of a five-member American mis-
sion which is leaving for Moscow.
A start toward such a super
agency is seen in the announcement
that Lore Beaverbrook, British
Minister of Supplies, will take part
In the discussions with American
and Soviet oficials.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
; Ousted Nozi ConsuIs
Leove Cubo for U. S.
BY the Associated Press.

HAVANA. Sept 6.-Three Ger
man consuls expelled from Cuba for
propaganda activities sailed with
their families today for New York
aboard the Spanish ship Marques de
Comillas
They boarded the ship before last
midnight in order to comply with
the government order that they be
out of the island by September 5.
Four other Nazi consuls, including
one who has since died, also were
expelled. 1t was not learned to-
night. however, whether the re-
manning three have departed.
Evening star., 1941-09-07

BhoWerS To-Day. OIlUWeIS lUIIIUIlUW'
River Report.
: Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
al Hsrpers Ferry today.
Weather Conditions Last 81 Hours.
Comparatively dry air now occupies the
Middle and North Atlantic States and the
lover Lake region, but warm and quite,
r1nfst tropical air Is spreading northeast
ward into the central valleys, A new mass
az rather COO! air is pushing southeastward
cter Lake Superior. Since Friday evening
there have been scattered showers in the
Middle and North Atlantic States and por-
tions of the central valleys. Showers have
occurred also over the Northern ROCKY
Mountain region.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Army Plone Hits Truck
At Airport; Driver Hurt
BY the associated Press.

BY the Essociated Press.
HOUSTON, Tex, Sept. 6.-An
Army observation plane crashed
into a dump truck while landing
at the Municipal Airport today,
critically injuring Charles Robert
Tullis, 19, truck driver.
The plane piloted by 1t. Bill
Nottingham, stalled as 1t was land
ing. 1t Nottingham and two passen-
gers with him were uninjured.
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Committee to Elect

LEONARDTOWN. Nd. Sept. 6
(SpeciaD "A countrywide meeting
will be held September u in the st.
Marys County Courthouse BY the
County Conservation Program Com
mittee. New officers will be elected
and new committeeman Amounted
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Weather Report
Furnished BY the Ur

Furnshe
To-Day,
tonight and tomorrow slightly cooler
southwest winds today.
coudness rather scattered snow
today and slightly cooler tomorrow
coudine snow
IN portion today and local showers tomorrow
VgnaPary cloudy and rather warm with few scattered
Evening star., 1941-09-07
New Leose-Lend Plea Due
With Deliveries Still Slow
Flow Is Called 'Streum but No River;
Only Z Per Cent of Fund Discussed
By RICHARD L. STOKES.

President Roosevelt request
for added easelend appropriation OF five or six billion dollars
billions appropriated last March Plans for the
request following between the
Minister Churchill during their Atlantic
meeting time when the first grumbng regarding the
stream of United States aid to Britain becoming
| ihIn liz thaI IInitad Kiaudnn
Evening star., 1941-09-07
PART TWO.
Editorial and Features.
PART THREE.
PART FOUR.
Financial and Classified.

Defense boosts Jobs close to 55000,-
600 mark. Page Ell
Steel shortage not as severe as ex-
pected. Page Ell
Rebound in auto production fore
cast. Page Ell
Stocks uneven at weeks close.
Page Ell
Defense bond sales climb in fifth
district. Page Ell
Weekly stock summary. Page E-2
Classified Advertising. Pages E-4-13
Evening star., 1941-09-07
Readers Guide
and
News Summary
PART ONE.
Foreign.
The Sunday Star, Sept. !, 1941.

PART ONE.
Foreign.
Leningrsd defenses penetrated at
one point, Nazis claim. Page A
Greer case linked 10 Na1 crisis in
Atlantic battle. Page A.l9
National.
American airmen die IN torpedoing
of ship by submarine. Page A-3
Evening star., 1941-09-07

= Record CntH TO Pm. Saturday,
Hiehest' So pm Yesterday year
> Lowest, 6o. am. Yesterday year ago,
= Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 100, on July 2e.
Lowest Is, on March Is.
Evening star., 1941-09-07

Weather in Various Cities.
-Temperature-Pre
Max. Min Sat. itatton
Sat- Fri 7:30 to 7:30
.Irdan r1ipht u n
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-20
COACHES ATTENDING
HIGH SCHOOL CONFAB
Session on Missabe Range
Today is Important
One for Ely.

Range high school coaches are con-
Quoting their annual fall meeting in
Hibbing this afternoon and tonight.
In attendance from here are Coach
Steve Smrekar of Memorial high and
Edward T. Buckley, director of ply
steal education.
The session this afternoon at which
football schedules are being drawn for
next fall is especially important for Ely,
because a game may have to be ar
ranged to replace Tower on the local
schedule, and the contract with Golfer
aine has expired.
Buckley said he would seek a re-
neWaI of the Coleraine contract. Ely
and Greenway have provided one of
the seasons top-notch games, although
the red and white has failed to win
against the MeSaba range school.
Tower, along with several other
smaller schools, is considering adopt
ing Six-man football, and in this event
the Battle of the Vermilion Range will
be ended. 1t is probable that Mt.
Iron, present mythical champions of
the range, will be approached first to
replace Tower. Chisholm is also men,
toned.
Another important matter, organi-
zation Of a range football league, may
also come up for decision.
In the evening a basketball rule in
depreciation meeting will be conducted
by the State High School league.
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Giants Predominant
on Basketball Teams
Memorial High Club May
Top District ~ in
Average Height.

There is no "big brother" stuff be-
tween the Memorial high and Ely
Junior College basketball teams-it'S
just plain brother"
The big" is eliminated, for all are
in the same category when it comes tc
size.
The victory team" in the making
for the high school has plenty OF
size-as does the college club-and il
may rank among the tallest teams in
district 81.
Coach Steve Smrekar's potential
starting five averages but a fraction of
an inch under the 6-foot mark, and
can look the average college player
right in the eye with no tip-toe work
necessary.
This size and the experience and
speed of the first five is calculated to
give the red and white plenty of power
in district competition. The conserva-
tive high school mentor says that the
team may be somewhat better than
last seasons, which means plenty when
it is recalled that last winter the boys
had the inside track to cop the dis
trict tournament until they went down
before Eveleth in the opening round
for the meets most stunning upset in
years.
Ed Chachich, groomed for the center
post, is the tallest man on the squad
towering at the 6-foot 2-inch mark.
Keith Brownell, in line for a starting
guard job, can hit the 6-foot line
without stretching, and Gordon Bird,
paired opposite Brownell at guard,
and Al Logar, veteran forward, brush
the 5-foot 11-inch mark. Dwarf of
the starters is Louis "Tiny" Senta,
barely 5 feet 10 inches in height.
With the exception of Bird, all these
boys are veterans of last years club
and are seasoned campaigners. Bird,
a brother of Lloyd Bird, star guard
of last season. has been graduated
from the second string to a starting
position on the first without benefit
of big-time competition Taller and
rangier than his brother, one of the
most dependable and consistent back
court players in the district, the
younger boy has bright cage future
ahead of him.
incidentally, to get the cart before
the horse, only two, Browneu and Senta
will be lost next spring by graduation,
indicating rosy basketball pictures for
the future)
While these five are blessed with
plenty Of height, only three of the
nine boys most likely to make the first
string as reserves are much over the
5-foot 6-inch mark The three are
Tom Murn and Bob Johnson, guards, |
and William Rowe, center, all 5 feet |
II. Others are Frank Volk, Sheldon |
Aayute, Ray Johnson, and Joe Omerza, |
forwards, and Gerald Klobuchar and |
John Anderson, guards.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1941-11-20
NORTHERN JUNIOR
COLLEGE CONFERENCE

docs not include Ely's gamesJ
Dec. tBrainerd at ItaSca.
Dec. 5-Duluth at Crosby.
Dec. 6-Eveleth at Brainerd.
Dec. 12-Hibbing at Crosby, Duluth
at Eveleth, Virginia at Brainerd.
Dec. 13-*Eveleth at Northern COL
lege, Ashland.
Jan. 9EEveleth at Virginia.
Jan. 10-Hibbing at Duluth, "Itasca
at Northern
Jan. 16-Virginia at Duluth, Crosby
at Brainerd
Jan. 17-Eveleth at Itasca.
Jan. 22-Eveleth at Hibbing.
Jan. 23-Itasca at Virginia
Jan. 24-Virginia at Crosby.
Jan. 30-Virginia at Hibbing, Duluth
at Northern.
Jan. 31-Brainerd at Virginia, Crosby
at Hibbing.
Feb. 6-Eveleth at Duluth, Itasca at
Hibbing, Crosby at Virginia.
Feb. 7-*Northern at Eveleth.
Feb. 14-Brainerd at Duluth.
Feb. 18-Hibbing at Eveleth
Feb. 19-Itasca at Brainerd.
Feb. 20-Duluth at Hibbing.
Feb. 21-Crosby at Duluth.
Feb. 25-Hibbing at Virginia.
Feb. 27-Crosby at Itasca, *Hibbing
at Rochester
Feb. 28-Itasca at Eveleth, *Hibbing
at Austin.
Mar. 5-Virginia at Itasca.
"Non- conference game
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College Has One Player
6 Feet 5 Inches, TIUO
8 Feet 4 Inches.

"Hey, you, up there. Come down
and fight
That's the salutation awaiting the
Ely junior college basketball team.
1t will be case of come down" for
team members for the simple reason
that they certainly will be "wav up
/ there" in comparison with the aver
age height of their opponents.
Ely viii have a team Of virtual
giants, who viii average at the 6-foot
mark, or slightly above And, better
still, these big boys not only have
height and reach but they also have
considerable ability an dexperience.
Topping the giants is the elongated
Torsti Franti, veteran center, who
towers at the 6-foot 5 inch mark.
Franti, tallest man in the conference.
astounded opposing players and officials
by occasionally going up for a pot
shot and pushing the ball DOWN
through the hoop, with plenty of room
between his hand and the rim of the
hoop for the ball
When Franti was on it was virtually
impossible for anyone to stop him, and
in Ely's 54-37 defeat of Brainerd he
enmassed the amazing total of IL
baskets and 7 free throws Improve
ment expected of him this winter is
calculated to put him IN the front
ranks of the conferences all-time
high scorers.
Then there is big George Perkovich,
talented center from Memorial high.
who towers at the 6-foot 4-inch mark.
and Ted Grahek. football player who
is taking his first crack at basketball.
who equals Perkovich's height.
Next in the stair-steps line is robust
Andy Luthanen, veteran guard, who
hits the 6-foot line
Small" men include Dan Mestnik.
another veteran, and the speedy Ed
Grahek, 5-feet II inches. and Tony
Grahek, letterman, 5 feet 10, not 70
mention such midgets as William
Mills, guard from last year, and Roy
Johnson. and Don ProIa, Memorial
high players, all 5 feet 9.
Nine of these players will get first
call, according to present indications.
for starting positions in the seasons
opener one week from tomorrow night
The tenth, Franti, will register for the
fall quarter Dec. l, so will miss the
opener but will be available for the
rest Of the Christmas games
Lined up for the center job are Tel
Grahek and Perkovich; for the center
positions, Ed Grahek, Johnson, and
Prola; and for guard, Mestnik. Mills.
Luthanen, and Tony Grahek
When Franti returns he will either
90 to center or forward, or alternate
at both, necessitating considerable
shifting of the lineup for the second
and other contests.
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GRID SCHEDULE
FOR AZ Drawn
Two Compiled as Starting
Date of School is
Undetermined.

NJCC coaches did something that
they haven't done often before when
they compiled next falls football
schedules. They made out two.
Reason for the extra schedule was
the uncertainty surrounding the start
ing date of classes. In 1912 the first
day of September Labor day and a
holiday, is on Tuesday, and it is
possible that school will convene
Monday dismiss Labor day, and re-
convene Wednesday. 1t is also pos
Sible that school viii be delayed until
Sept. Z, which will delay all but the
seasons opener for Ely one week.
The schedule drawn for the Aug 81
starting date follows:
Sept. 18-Hibbing, here.
Sept. 25-At Virginia.
Oct. 2-At Itasca.
Oct. 9-Eveleth. here.
Oct. 16-At Duluth.
If school starts Sept 7, all but the
Hibbing game will be delayed one
week
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ByA.K.U.,

dent so much on populations as it is
to the weather conditions, he pointed
out. An open winter affords plenty
of food for deer and even if the snow
is deep deer find little difficulty in
getting about.
It's the crust on the snow that
RACES havoc with deer, he declared.
Then travel is very difficult as they
either slip and slide around on top
or break through and injure their
legs. They quickly become exhausted
and easy prey to the elements. Under
such conditions deer starve regardless
of their population.
If the conservation department
wants the authority to determine deer
seasons, rather than have them set
by law, then the department should
give assurance that the authority will
never be abused That was the COM
ment of noted local woodsman.
Such a guarantee could be given
by setting up a board composed of
a few persons selected to serve in
an ex-officiO manner with the con-
servation commissioner.
He felt that there was no doubt
experts within the department were
better qualified to say when wildlife
should be taken by sportsmen than is
the legislature by arbitrary action But,
he continued, what is to prevent the
politicians from again gaining control
of the department as they did in the
not too-distant past?1 As a protection
against such an occurrence, a check
should be placed upon the authority
given the department, check that in
no way can be influenced by the
change in political fortunes.