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CONDITIONS Airway Station, Black Hills Airport) 12:30 a.m., Thursday Ceiling 2000 ft. overcast. Visibility 3 mi, Light snow. Temp. 23.

Dewpt. 14. Wind WNW 27 mi, Barometer 26.05. SIXTY-SIXTH YEAR Deadwood Pioneer-Times The Day's News By The Associated Press ISSUED EVERY MORNING EXCEPT MONDAY Western South Dakota's Leading Morning Newspaper DEADWOOD (Black Hills), SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1941 PRICE FIVE BRITISH OPEN SECOND FRONT Lewis Rejects FDR Proposal Arrested In Rome Rev. Hiram Gruber Woolf (above), of Elmira, N.

rector of St. Paul's American Protestant Episcopal church in Rome, was arrested and held incommimicado for questioning by police. The United States embassy in Rome was given to understand that Woolf was held for investigation on suspicion of intelligence activity, pending formal charges. Belle Fourche Man Cleared Of Fraud BELLE FOURCHE, Nov. 19- Circuit Judge Charles R.

Hayes today directed: a Butte county circuit court jury to return a verdict of not guilty in the case of the state vs. Abe Mershley, of Belle Fourche, on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses. The court ruled that the state had failed to introduce sufficient evidence to sustain the charge. Mershley was charged with giving Jesse Shroyer, of Belle Fourche, a check in payment of a purchase and when presented for payment at the bank was refused because of insufficient funds. Mershley showed that he had sufficient money in the bank to pay the check when it was issued, but the money was not there when Shroyer presented the check.

The prosecution was conducted by States Attorney Lem Overpeck. Attorney Harry Atwater, of Sturgis, defended Mershley. The case of the state vs. Clyde Woods, of Vale, charged with a crime against nature, involving the person of a Vale boy, was set down for trial when court convenes Thursday morning. Weather Forecast Sunrise South Dakota: Partly cloudy today with snow flurries, continued cold.

Montana: Partly cloudy today east of divide; continued cold. Wyoming: Generally fair RAIN OR SNOW today; extremely cold. THE STATE OF THE NATION By Olin Miler Recently released figures show that American women are spending around a quarter of a billion dollars a year in beauty parlors. (An editor, upon seeing this report, commented, "It ain't cess to him.) There are a few misogynists who claim that money spent in beauty parlors is just so much money fritted away, but the great majority agree that beauty parlor patrons are getting their money's worth, as our beauticians have become proficient in the art of camouflage. And, besides, it is understood that the jokes women hear in beauty, parlors far surpass in entertainment value those dished out by our highest-paid radio comedians.

Squire Perkins says: "Some folks has political pull--an' others have to work for a i JOIN CRO President Suggests A Postponement Or A Binding Arbitration WASHINGTON, Nov. 19-(P) -President Roosevelt proposed a new formula for ending the captive coal mine strike today and within a few hours, John L. Lewis, on his own behalf, flatly turned it down. The president proposed that further discussion of the closed shop isue be postponed until after the national emergency, or that the dispute be submitted' to arbitration with the union and mine management agreeing in advance to abide by the result. Lewis replied that any formal decision would have to await a meeting of the union's policy committee Saturday, but that as far as he was concerned the arrangement was unsatisfactory.

Lewis said officers of the union had no authority to accept anything less than a union shop. He added that Roosevelt's recent statements had been so "prejudicial" to union claims that he doubted that an unbiased umpire could be found. Troops Ready For Duty WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 Fifty thousand United States soldiers are waiting and ready for orders if President Rooseevlt decides to use the army to take over the strike-bound captive coal mines. An adviser to the president said that number--about one soldier to each anion miner in the affected pits--had been decided on "as adequate to protect lives and property without creating the impression of trying to frighten the workers with a show of force." The troops were to be equipped with "their usual arms," this source said; pistols, rifles, submachine guns and "possibly some bombs." Tank and artillery units would be purposely eliminated from the occupation forces, he added, "because it is the army's intention to move in not as an enemy of the workers but as a friend, not to deprive the laborers of their rights but to assure them of a peaceful continuance of work as behind-the-lines soldiers in defense of their country." If the troops are ordered to take over the mines, they will do so with specific instructions where to station themselves, what to do, even what to say.

They already have been issued orders not to adopt "bossing" tactics or to make any wise cracks about the patriotism of the miners. Army men expressed confidence that if the president ordered the soldiers sent in -five per cent" of the strikers would go back to work voluntarily "on patriotic grounds" and the other 25 per cent "would dribble back within a few weeks." Mobilization of the fifty thousand soldiers, it was understood, has been completed to the point where it would require only a few hours to move in on the idle mines in states. SANITARIUM WALL FALLS The blazing wall of a building of the Brunswick home, a private sanitarium at Amityville, N. crashed at the height of a fire. More than 30 bed-rid den patients were carried to safety but three I persons were known to be dead and five or six were reported missing after the blaze.

BANK BANDITS ARE ACTIVE IN THE MIDWEST Iowa And Minnesota Banks Are Robbed MOOSE LAKE, Nov. 19-- (AP)-A bandit carrying a brief case held up the First National bank here today and escaped with undetermined loot. Heavily armed deputies from the sheriff's office at Carlton and Pine City were rushed to strategic points on highways near Moose Lake, The bandit is believed to have escaped in an automobile, though he emerged from the bank unnoticed by noon day pedestrians. Moose Lake is on Highway 61, in Carlton county, 40 miles south of Duluth. It was the second bank holdup in or near Minnesota within a few hours.

A youthful bandit held up the Kensett, Iowa, bank at 9:45 a.m. today and escaped with between $500 and $600 cash. Loot in the Moose Lake bank holdup was not immediately determined but Walter Winters, deputy state crime bureau chief said it likely would run into several hundred dollars. The bandit was described as about 24 years old, weighing about 150 pounds and five feet six inches tall. $500 Secured In Iowa KENSETT, Nov.

19-4P). Forcing the manager to lie on the floor under the threat of a revolver, a gunman held up the Kensett office of the Manley State bank at 9:45 a.m. today, and escaped with about $500 in cash. Otto Brunsvold, bank manager, was alone when the man, described as 20 to 25 years old, entered and made a casual inquiry before an- DISTRICT DECLAM CONTESTS IN DEADWOOD NEXT SATURDAY The district 33 declamatory contests will be held next Saturday at the high school auditorium in this city, under the auspices of the South Dakota high school declamatory league, it was announced yesterday by Superintendent of Schools H. S.

Berger. The program will open at 9:30 o'- clock in the morning with piano selections by Darleen Furois, "Rustles of Spring," by Sindling and "Polonaise," by Chopin. Program for the morning and afternoon sessions, follows: Oratorical Contest in the Public Square," by Donald Hair. Sturgis "Youth for Sale or Hire," by Howard Owens. Belle Fourche- "Golden Windows," by Lois McIntire.

Lead-'Two Men," by William Kolberg. Humorous Contest Belle Fourche 'Tom Sawyer's Love Affair," by Arlette Howell. Sturgis 'The Awful Fate Melpomenus Jones," by Earlene Morrill. No," by Elizabeth Sorensen. Husband Wants i to Enlist," by Violet Vance.

Imperial Forces Beating Forward Into Lidya CAIRO, (Thursday), Nov. 20 -(P)-The British Mediterrancan fleet is bombarding German positions at Hellfire Pass, at SaTum, it was reported here early today. Mass flights of British bombers, many of them Americanmade, were reported to have wrought "tremendous damage to the enemy." (By Associated Press) The British imperial armies of the Middle East, embarked on a major African offensive to create that diversion and second an active line against the axis long wanted by the Russians, were reported last night to be beating forward into Italian Libya on a 140-mile front and continuing an advance that already had carried for 50 miles. Word that General Sir Claude Auchinleck was not only on the march but already well on his way with perhaps Britain's finest single striking force, broke upon a world at a critical hour in the struggle on the Russian front. Seven hundred thousand imperial troops, by reliable estimate, made up the army now moving on the Germans and Italians.

While the British command in Cairo was disclosing for the first time that Auchinleck's forces had been advancing since Tuesday, Hitler was hurling forward his German armies of the north, center and south. From the Baltic down to the Black Sea, red millions were breasting a new general offensive. Ended on the Russion front was the long period of selective German attack, concentrated now in one sector, and now in another, It seemed clear that the nazi command, hearing in fancy, distant thunders rising in Africa, was casting the die for great decisions all along the line. The initial British advance into Libya to a depth of 50 miles actually had been achieved by Tuesday evening and a Cairo communique reported that operations since had gone "according to plan," and gested considerably deeper penetration. Berlin Claims Progress BERLIN, Nov.

19-(P)-A German military spokesman declared tonight that the "whole soviet front is definitely threatened" by nazi armies smashing eastward in a new offensive which the high command indicated was a large scale assault. The spokesman asserted that the soviet front "at no place is able to withstand a determined German drive." He said the "only reason there has not been such a drive in the last weeks is the weather," and ded pointedly: "That condition may be changing." The Moscow and Leningrad regions and the section beyond Leningrad, southeast of Lake Ladoga, were named as centers of German pressure. "It is approximately correct," the spokesman said, "to say that in Russia we are being opposed by 100 divisions (1,500,000 men) reorganized and remaining after the destruction of 300 of about 400 divisions FIRST PICTURES OF CAPTURE OF ODENWALD Released by the navy, this is the first picture of the capture of the German motorship Odenwald by a United States cruiser in Atlantic equatorial waters A boarding crew is nearing the ship which is flying the United States Bag and sailing under the name of Willmete of Philadelphia. GERMAN CREW FLEE ODENWALD Members of the crew of the the Atlantic flying the United as a boarding party (foreground) As the boarding party reached explosions and the crew said it official navy picture was made with which Russia started the war." Nazi Units Cut Up LONDON, Nov. 19 (P) -Four German divisions about 60,000 men--attempting a surprise flank attack on Rostov were trapped in a pocket near Novocherkassk and suffered a heavy defeat, Tass said today in a dispatch from Moscow.

The Russians said thousands of men, 13 tanks, 273 trucks and many guns were lost by the Germans and half of their tanks were put out of action. Novocherkassk is 25 miles northeast of Rostov in the southern front and one of the key points in the defense of the Caucasus. Tass said the Germans, commanded by Field Marshal Evald von Kleist, had attempted a drive in that area which had now been brot to a standstill. Germans attempts to slash red army lines above and below the defense arc that has shielded Moscow thru seven weeks of battle were declared by Russians to have been frustrated bloodily in the upper Volga and Donets basins. A war correspondent of Pravda, communist party organ, reported that German tanks had wedged into soviet positions in extremely violent fighting at dawn yesterday near Tula, 100 miles south of the capital, but other attacks were repulsed.

A Crimean crisis was acknowledged, even though the soviet union did not officially recognize the German high command's announcement of the capture of strategic Kerch. Markell Services At Rapid Today RAPID CITY, Nov. 19-Funeral services will be held here Thursday morning for Neil Markell, 38, Rapid City, formerly of Huron, whose body was found Tuesday in his parked car near Deadwood. Services will be held at the Campbell funeral home at 10 a.m., with Rev. Jerome Pipes in charge.

Burial will be in Mountain View cemetery and pall bearers will be fellow-employes of a local packing company, for which he was salesman. Markell came to Rapid City about 10 years ago as a meat salesman, but had been making his headquarters in Deadwood more recently. You Meet The Most Interesting People NEW YORK-4P) -Fred Maisch, sound engineer of a phonograph record company in this city, says that in 31 years of the work he has noticed that almost every star, when recording, shows some syncracy or nervousness. Some examples he gives: William Primrose, violinist, rehearses without coat or tie insists on being well-groomed during an actual recording. John Jacob Niles stands on his head before singing -to get a nasal tone in American folk songs.

Alexander Brailowsky insists the studio be entirely dark, except for a spotlight over his head. Chaliapin once got mad at his accompanist, seized that individual by the coat collar, and bounced him up and down. Then just as suddenly Chaliapin apologized. German ship Odenwald, captured in States flag, attempted to flee the ship from a U.S. cruiser approached.

the side of the ship there were two would sink in 20 or 30 minutes. This by a member of the boarding party. AMERICAN CLAIMS AGAINST MEXICO TO BE SETTLED SOON Zuppke Resigns Bob Zuppke (above), who for 29 years guided the football destiny of the University of I- linois at Champaign, has resigned as head coach. This is one of the most recent pictures of Zuppke, who will wind up almost three decades of service at Illinois when the Illini play Northwestern at Evanston, Saturday, November 22. nouncing, "this is a stickup." The man fled north from this Worth county village located on Highway 65 about 30 miles north of Mason City and about 10 miles south of the Minnesota line.

Warned of the holdup, Minnesota authorities immediately placed a guard of police and sheriffs armed with machine guns on Highway 65 south of Albert Lea, Minn. The bandit was dressed in white trousers, a sweater, green overcoat and brown shoes. GOOD TURNOUT FOR TOMAHAWK CLUB BANQUET Washington To Give Mexico Financial Assistance WASHINGTON, Nov. 19-(P) -The United States and Mexico today signed a series of agreements for friendly settlement of all major questions at issue between the two countries for many years. The agreements call for settlement of the long-pending dispute over expropriation of American oil properties in Mexico; payment by Mexico of $40,000,000 in full settlement of general and agrarian claims by American citizens against Mexico; announcement of intention to negotiate a reciprocal trade agreement; agreement for providing financial assistance to Mexico to stabilize the peso; and a $30,000,000 loan to assist in financing Mexico's high-1 way construction program.

The oil issue agreement provides that each government designate an expert to place a valuation on the seized properties and "determine just compensation" to be paid the American owners. TEACHERS TO CONVENE HERE FOR INSTITUTE A teachers district institute will be held at the county building here next Friday, Mrs. Laura Pascoe Bentz, county superintendent of schools, announced yesterday. Teachers from over Lawrence county will be in attendance. The sessions will start at 9 o'- clock and will be concerned with school problems and YCL contests, it was said.

One hundred and thirty varieties of violets grow in Japan. About 50 members of the Tomahawk Lake Country club attended an enthusiastic annual gathering of the organization held at the Franklin 1 hotel last evening, during which directors were elected, reports of activities of the past season were received and trophies in the various club events were presented. Dr. F. S.

Howe and R. L. Ewing were re-elected to the board of directors for three year terms. Carryover directors are James Campbell, Joe Porter, H. A.

Hanson, Lee Morford and John Boulen. Reports for the past club year showed that the organization was in good financial shape and the physical properties of the club in good. condition. Plans were made during the meeting for a very active 1942 season. Dr.

F. S. Howe, club president, presided over the meeting. Dr. J.

J. Berry presented the men's trophies and Miss Shirley Lang made the presentations to the women. Following are the winners of the various golf competition staged by the club during the past season: Men's Events Club Championship--John Rachetto, medalist; John Boulen, winner and Don Arant, runner -up. Consolation flight, G. D.

Crary, winner and Johnson, runnerup. Second flight, W. J. Ewing, winner and Homer Hamilton, runnerup, Second flight consolation, Geo. F.

Baggaley, winner and Don Fletcher, runnerup. Third flight, Ben Lowe, winner and Ray Holst runnerup. Third flight consolation, H. S. Berger, winner and Ted Roberts, runnerup.

Hanson-Peterson Handicap Tourney-Guy Culbertson, winner and Charles R. Hayes, runnerup, Consolation flight, Al Roesler winner, and Jack Anderson, runnerup. Women's Events Club Championship (New York Store trophy) Harriet Rachetto, winner; Merle Mattox, runnerup and medalist. Consolation, Olive Crary, winner and Charlotte Bridenstine, runnerup. President's flight, Shirley Lang, winner and Naomi Roesler, runnerup.

Handicap Tourney-(M. W. Morris trophy) Barbara Ely, winner; and Naomi Roesler, runnerup. Consolation, Edith Roesler, winner and Olive Crary, runnerup. Ringer Tourney (Fish Hunter trophy) Jean Jennack, winer and Harriet Rachetto, runnerup.

Medal Handicap Tourney Olive Crary, winner (Black Hills Amusement Co. trophy); and Jean Jennack, runnerup (Simms' trophy). Dead the Honeymoon," by Henry Bjorklund. of Green Gables," by Berdena Anschutz. Lead-'Taming of the Shrew," by Delores Stoner.

2:00 P. M. Poetry Contest Dead Hundred Rubles," by Betty Jane Enyeart. Spearfish--Cutting from "Enoch Arden," by Ethel Oitto. Belle by Doriene Fox.

to the People," by Johnny DePuglio. Longfellow and His Boy," or "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Night," by Vivian Brown. Dramatic Contest Doc," by Clarice Wiest. Lead-'The Devil and Daniel Webster," by Mina Pendo. Belle Fourche "Homecoming," by Betty Mae Sturges.

Deadwood "Father Forgive Them," by Loretta Welf. Sturgis-" "Illusion," by Norma Anderson. Spearfish-'The Lord's Prayer," by Winifred Beardshear. For Sale," by Lorraine White. Deer Season To Be Closed Thursday PIERRE, Nov.

19 (P) South Dakota sportsmen were taking their last blasts at pheasants today, which marks the close of a 50-day season in 25 counties and what conservation officials termed "the most eral bag limit and longest season, in the country." Thursday ends the 20-day elk and deer seasons in the Black Hills..