Daily Capital News (Newspaper) - April 1, 1941, Jefferson City, Missouri NEWS JEFFERSON CITY MO TUESDAY APRIL 1 1941 Against Buying Foreign Food Forces Government to Purchase HomeGrown Woo and Canned Beef WASHINGTON March coalition of western sen ators caught administration for ces napping for the second time in two weeks today rolling up a 34 to 29 majority for a prohibi tion against buying food or clothing out of a Disastrous Moral H C Batte Say British Observers LARRY ALLEN that perhaps 1300 ABOARD THE BRITISH 1 seamen might have FLAGSHIP H M S since the normal complement of i AT ALEXANDRIA EGYPT I the vessels destroyed was about j March British j 2500 I Mediterranean fleet victorious j in a sea battle that appears to Altogether nine Italian have all but finished the Italian ers 14 destroyers and three bat i navy as a vital force in this war were in action It was I steamed proudly into harbor toJ the first great night struggle of day and so far as could be capital ships since the World not a vessel was scarred and no j War battle of Jutland j British seaman bore a wound This was the sequence of vio Admiral Sir Andrew ham the British planes of the fleet air arm chief termed it one of the extraordinary actions in pending supplemental appropriation defense The prohibition was sought by members who contended that its absence would make possible Vast government purchases of Argentine canned beef and for wool while adminis Oration forces opposed it on the ground that it would cause hos among na tions Applies to The restriction which has been approved by the House would apply only to funds spent from the pending array navy supplemental Still in dispute between House and Sen ate is asimilar proviso which would prevent the navy from buying food with any of the money contained in the regular naval appropria tion for the fiscal year be ginning next July 1 Should the joint committee which was appointed to seek set of the disagreement eli minate the proviso from the na val appropriation foreign lood purchases could be made by the navy regardless of the fate of the prohibition adopted today Todays vote which came af ten less than two hours of de bate was taken while many ad supporters were the floor To gain time Majority Barkley quickly moved a recess until tomorrow noon when he expected to have ers present to force reconsider His motion carried oil a to call 3330 Vote The vote on the restriction was actually 33 to 30 but Senator ah administra tion supporter changed his vote after the result an In order to be eligible to move for reconsideration to morrow Senators Butler and Thomas championed the prohibition I insist Butler told his col leagues it is unfair to ask the farmers of America to make this extreme sacrifice to the de fense program when other sec tions of our citizenry are not ask ed to make sacrifice He contended commit tees action would mean that the farmers of the midwest are to be sacrificed on the altar of South American friendship Thomas said the government had only recently made 1 a r e e purchases of canned beef in the Argentine and was buying large amounts of foreign wool in Bridges Trial Federal Attorneys Promise Evidence on Revolutionary Plans SAN FRANCISCO March Government 5 Plots Included iln TNT Plan Site 1 lieve to be for the property i Tne land involved consisted o price j ing the government takes part of the Bible has been diate possession of the land 1051 the property owners may except An order for 52000000 in court to the amount offered j Of gasoline tanks recently was placed with the Average of Per Acre Paid for Land Springs The i acre Five individuals own into which all or Goodrich Company property j The declarations of taking filed by District Attorney Karry C Blanton on I from the department of justice j at Washington I The declarations set forth ST LOUIS March Aas necessary and advantage eons to the government to ac government today toox title i quire title to the land lor mill to five parcels of realty included purposes for an ordnance in the site of the TNT plant and national de government Veldon Springs by filing It was naval British warships and fella spearhead for a thrust at of taking in U S District j suits will upon the Littorio scoring several speed British fleet i units raced in simultaneously British informants pursuing the Littorio Not a single British ship was hits and cutting her top it by the enemy he said 32 knots to 15 Britis hit night Moreover suggested that the weekend but the darkness made it impos Sons Clark to Missouri U ST LOUIS March U S Senator Bennett Champ Glark halted a conference here today to leave for Columbia af ter receiving word his son Champ Clark had undergone ai emergency operation for appen dicitis Tlie senator said the physician reported his son va at the University of Missouri was in good condition following the operation Clark came here from Wash ington to with members of the committee on the governments action in can celing options on land to be used TNT plant at Weldon Springs St Charles county Weather Observations U S weather observations for 24 hours ending at p m MaxMin Pre Tex 71 Cheyenne 59 Chicago 49 Columbia Mo 72 Kas 73 Denver 69 Des Moines 61 Bodge City Kas 74 Edmonton Alta 34 Fi Smith Ark 73 81 Kas 72 Huron S D 63 Kansas City 73 Little Rock Ark 74 Los Angeles 58 Memphis 59 Miami 75 Minneapolis 51 Ala 58 New Orleans 76 New York 56 North Platte 71 Oklahoma 74 Omaha Neb 67 Ariz 79 Portland Ore 62 Rapid City S D 67 St Joseph Mo 74 St Louis 66 San Francisco 58 Springfield Mo 70 Tulsa Okla 77 Washington 63 Wichita Kas 74 N D 64 40 30 42 47 43 32 42 38 22 50 53 36 30 43 53 48 52 54 33 47 56 30 31 46 38 47 45 34 37 46 47 45 42 29 44 29 cjp 0 0 44 12 0 0 0 0 0 04 04 0 0 0 07 82 28 0 0 12 13 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 127 04 0 0 0 0 struggle had been precipitated by the Germans themselves that the Italian naval command had left port only at the prompt ings of the Germans that Ger man naval observers were aboard the Italian warships and thus that it was a defeat for the Nazis as well It was a long action much of it in the darkness but this is the main part of the story as ob from exultant British of The 35000ton Italian battle ship Littorio heavily damaged j sible to determine whether she was hit again Then all British forces drew up for the assault on the ships that had accompanied the Lit torio shells burst in to the Pola the Zara the Fiume and while destroyers cut in to lose their torpedoes the three cruisers were finished off in bursts of fire and steam The British battleships War spite Valiant and Barham shot the Italian destroyers Vincenzo and Maestrale into to have plastic planes require 25 per cent less power a given speed than possibly also a cruiser of the Banke Nere class the destroy ers Maestrale and Vincenzo berto sunk and probably also an other destroyer three German warplanes shot down more than 900 Italian sailors and officers taken prisoner This was mainly in two hours of flaming action in the eastern Mediterranean on the night of March from 10 oclock to two hours of action about which the British com Admiral Sir An drew Cunningham messaged the fleet when it was all over Well done The account of British officers with the fleet that there had been no than the loss of two no casualties aboard the fleet was supported by the admiralty in London but not by the Italians While the loss of five Italian warships was acknowledged in Rome it was asserted that at least one British cruiser was Sunk and that two other British warships were damaged The admiralty said more than 1000 Italian survivors had been picked up and it appeared from Details oi Risk Firm Tax Claims Aired in Hearing Missouri Ouster Suit Against 123 Firms Continues at New York NEW YORK March of a federal income tax deduction of claimed by the Royal Insurance company in 1936 were revealed in testimony today by Albert J Johnstone chief accountant for the com pany at a hearing on Missouris ouster suit against 123 fire in surance concerns Two payments made to the late Charles R Street in connec tion with the 1935 rate compro mise in the form of checks for and respectively were entered under the heading of legal on the com pany books Johnstone testified In July 1938 federal agents con ducted an audit and notified the company that the payments be classified under the heading So the total deduction was disallowed Roy Attorney General of Missouri asked the witness Johnstone re plied in the affirmative adding that he had informed executives of his company con the governments deci sion Later McKittrick recalled E W Hotchkin assistant United States manager for the Roayl company who formerly had di rect charge of the western de including Missouri Hotchkin produced confidential bulletins of the Western Under writers Association for the years 1939 and 1940 which McKittrick j had requested I McKittrick and Homer Berg er one of for thei insurance companies became in volved in a long controversy over whether some of the questions asked by the attorney general called upon the witness to testi fy on the basis of hearsay Phrases and inferences in state ments by McKittrick were brand ed as vicious in practice byj snips A gunnery officer of the War spite told how the battleships Valiant and Barham worked close to the darkened Italian ships One of our destroyers the Greyhound switched her search light on the third ship in the ene mys line he said We recog her as one of the 3inch gun cruisers of the Zara class an subsequently learned that she was the Fiume The 15inch guns at once opened fire at very close rangeTh broadside struck the cruiser with devastating ef fect The whole ship from fore mast aft burst into flames The aft turret was blown clean over the side After one more broadside had caused a fresh outburst of fire the ship was hopelessly crippled We switched our fire to the next cruiser in line the Zara Again the first salvo produced an incredible effect She burst into flames By now the entire British battle fleet was in action De sank Finished off the cruiser Pola Our searchlights il two enemy destroyers These were for torpedo attacks against us and turned and launched their torpe does Our fleet altered course to get this menace en gaging enemy destroyers which retired behind heavy smoke screens At the same time the C I N G the British com mander in chief ordered our de to finish off the burning cruisers The destroyers went in with the torpedoes to put the Za and the Fiume in the bag the course of the ac tion the enemy destroyers Maes trale and Vincento were sunk behind their smoke screens j Vi today as it opened its j court deportation trial of Harry Renton j Bridges slim labor leader It promised full and able evidence that the Commun i government representatives be defense not learned how manyi be filed Tne govern already has acquired title to 121 parcels under an option i agreement and had options oa li 146 oi the remaining 149 The same procedure was that Bridges became a number ins 1st party teaches the Workers of by force and violence of the after hc of the United Staies San 1920 from a and it contended that Bridges had i from Auckland The affiliated with the Communist j Goodwin declared taught party and should bethe damage and deported to his native Australia of property and sabo m acquiring property for the national expansion Under a declaration of tak Judge Clarence N Goodwin special assistant to Attorney Gen eral Robert H Jackson indicted Communism as a festering sore in the body politic as he opened the governments case Rejects Dismissal Plea Judge Charles Brown Sears of Buffalo N Y the trial examiner rejected a defense move for dis missal ruling that the fact Bridges was tried on a deportation warrant in 1939 did not place him in double jeopardy as the defense contended and dapper in a dark blue suit sat at his counsel table throughout the day except j for the few minutes he was on the witness stand answering rou tine questions about his birth place occupation and status Benjamin Gitlow former gen eral secretary of the Communist party and onetime member of the executive committee of the Communist International testified that the party does advocate vio lent overthrow of this govern ment The New York City man said he was a member of the party since its inception in this country to 1929 that he was twice t its candidate for and its candidate for mayor of i New York City Determine the Ripeness Asked by Albert Del Guercio of whether a revolution in any country awaited a large membership in the Com munist party country Git low answered they will deter mine the ripeness of a revolution on particular conditions at the time determines the ripeness Del Guercio asked The Com munist party of the United States after it has approval of the Com munist the wit ness answered The International he explained was controlled by the Communist party in Russia Goodwins statement charged tage Some time later the state ment continued Bridges affiliated with the Communist party and the Marine Workers Industrial union Orders are now being taken for Easter in CENTRAL BEST ICE CREAM Call 2616 for Ice Cream gestions for Easter Affairs IRRITATED MENTHOLATUM Announcing Bee Tree With Possum MOBERLY Mo Clark cut down a tree on his farm From it he took 90 pounds of honey and two swarms of bees Gloating in his haul he turned to walk away From a hole in the trees trunk crawled a mother and 11 youngsters Clark called help and salvaged bees honey and Forethought Not Afterthought The reason estates can be best protected against undue tax es by appointment of experienced administration is not dif to see Tax problems must be anticipated not left to be worked out after the mistakes are made of paying too much Getting back money paid erroneously is uphill work expensive work and sometimes futile Its The only real protection is in having your estate handled by those know the rates and the rulings who can give you the benefit of forethought rather than afterthought A National Bank is equipped to render such service if desig as executor or coexecutor of your estate THE EXCHANGE NATIONAL BANK OF JEFFERSON CITY MO OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS W A DALLMEYER President HUGH STEPHENS Chairman of tht Board W EAGER Officer O W RAITHEL Cashier JOS H DULLE PAUL BOSCH Assistant Cashier FRANK RAILTON Assistant Cashier R E DALLMEYER Assistant Cashier Established 1865 Member Federal Reserve System Federal Examination and Supervision Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation In Jefferson City Its KROGER r MIRACLE WHIP MARSHMALLOWS PEACHES PEACHES Gelatin or Pudding 32c 13c Embassy 1lb cello bag IIV AvonA 3STo dale cans Country A No 2V2 Club cans Del Monte 25c 2 29c MILK Pet Wilson Borden or Carnation 4 Tall Cans n Med Giant cans Country J No Club I Avon dale J HOMINY KRAUT Campbells Except fi Chicken Mushroom U BISQUICK CAKE FLOUR 25c 37c 48c Quart can cans bos or box SUGAR C Pure Cane CC VV I Bag Bag F L o u R Gold Medal 24lb Sack Pillsbury 24lb SacE Spot light ll Ibs Maxwell House 1lb can COFFEE COFFEE SANKA CAMAY SOAP 5c IVORY SOAP J 5C 3 Bars PORK CHOPS 21c 29c End Cuts Cuts Ib Center j Cuts Ib SIRLOIN STEAK Ready for Broiling Ib Hot or Cold It Hits the Spot can SPAM PHILA BABY BEEF LIVER 29c KROGER WIGGLY
