Daily Capital News (Newspaper) - July 25, 1941, Jefferson City, Missouri DAILY CAPITAL PUBLISHED EVERY WEEKDAY MORNING EXCEPT MONDAY Jefferson Citys Leading Leased Wire of the Associated Press and the United Press VOL XXX NO 108 JEFFERSON dTT MISSOURI FRIDAY JULY 25 1941 PRICE FIVE GENTS Governor to With Wy more Judge Blair to Attend Conference Today on Shakedown Gov Forrest Donnell and Attorney General Roy trick will meet Cole county j officials this afternoon apj to discuss an of legislative tion Although he called the meeting Prosecuting Attor ney Carl Wymore declined reveal the topic of discussion but Governor Donnell said he rather got the impression that the investigation would take precedence Last night Wymore said he expected to receive this morning a report of the legislative com which made a shallow in into reports that downand vote buying attempts had been made in the recently adjourned general assembly j Courthouse officials rumored j two possibilities as the result of todays conference Cole county will be given state funds with which to pursue an ft allout probe or Investigators tion of the governors office will delve into the precious little evidence of corruption uncover ed by the legislatures commit tee Anticipate Inquiry In the minds of most county officials there appeared little doubt an inquiry willbe under taken is launched by Wymore additional money must coine from the the county have it When the years Budget was Established 510000 in o I Imagine His Confusion Tourist Forgets Wife At Gas Station Stop WINCHESTER Va July 24 absentminded Il linois tourist drove 30 miles yes before he noticed his wife was missing from the car State Trooper B E Williams said the frantic woman called him after her husband drove away while she was in the rest room of a service station here The officer and woman set out in pursuit and found the middle aged husband on the roadside pondering what to do He said he failed to see his wife leave the car and thought she had been thrown out on a curve f was provided for criminal costs Half that is already gone and the A do little expenses of cult court which must be held Deputy Clerk Richard Williams said the cost of an or Jury could be met but a probe necessitating wit is not ordinary One member of the county court who declined to be quoted went further should Cole county be asked to bear such expense be asked when the entire state will be benefit ted Donnell Seeks Aid If we have to stand the cost alone only one thing can hap A pen We will proceed so long as the money lasts Then the in will die Governor Donnell embraced the problems of the inquiry yes when he invited anyone to present to me information Q from any and all sources relat ing to whether or not there has been misconduct of any kind in legislative proceedings I should like to have this in formation as promptly as possi ble the governor added Previously Donnell had re conversations with Mc Kittrick regarding the possibility of state financial aid for Cole county authorities He said he would confer with the attorney general again and that he would survey the facilities of the coun ty for conducting an investiga tion A day later Wymore invited both to meet with him and Cir cuit Judge Sam C Blair Two Funds Available Two funds are available the state officials they mav draw to aid the county The governor has 525000 the attor ney general out of which they may lend aid on request of the circuit judge or the governor The investigation was laid on Wymores doorstep when the legislature hours away from the time fixed for adjournment re A fused to follow up its own preli minary inquiry That probe was based on charges by Charles M Hay St Louis lawyer that a teachers pension was de because he refused to be shaken down fay members of Qs the general assembly Since Hays speech jerked leg and government officials to the alert other reports of slush funds have been given life Todays meeting may decide whether or not there is sufficient evidence to launch a official investigation gr Missouri Partly cloudy scat tered Friday and Saturday slightly cooler north Friday Temperature high 101 low 70 River Stages Kansas City 74 Fall 01 Waverly 82 Fall 01 81 00 St Rise 11 Lake of Ozarks 9 foot below full reservoir Lue Lozier Former State Legion Called to Service Highway Department Attorney to Report to Army Monday Morning Lue C Lozier former state commander of the American Le gion and a member of the high way departments legal staff has been called to active military service Lozier who holds the rank of a captain has been ordered to re port to the zone constructing quar at Omaha Neb Monday morning The zone roughly cor responds to the seventh corps area and includes Missouri Arkansas Nebraska Kansas Iowa North and South Dakota Captain Lozier said he had not yet been informed as to his exact duties He is a member of the Jefferson City reserve officers association and was a member of the udge advocate generals reserve Cur ing his association with the high way department Lozier was an assistant to the chief counsel commander of the Missouri department of the Amer ican Legion in 1940 He also had served as commander of the Jef ferson City post employes of the high way department called to active military the emergency was declared All have been assured their jobs will be held open Donnell Trims From Fund Measures Signs Penal nary Appropriations Af ler Two Minor Changes Gov Forrest C Donnell yester day only two minor j financing Mis souris penal and eleemosynary in for the next two years He struck out out of the 57891135 allotted penal Drive Nets 9000 Pounds Of Aluminum Canvass of City Dis Completed Rural Collections Unfinished Officials estimated last night that nearly 9000 pounds of minum were collected at the end of solicitations yesterday Cecil G Morrison scout ex said the entire city had been covered Householders who Japanese Send Troops Into IndoChina AsU S Warns Against Conquest Moscow Beats President Hints at Possible 12Transporfs German US Consular Employes Are Exchanged LISBON July man consular officials and their families from the United States were formally exchanged today for Americans similarly ordered out of Germany and territory Altogether 248 Americans were exchanged for 200 Germans The deal was completed at pm when a third and final trainload of Americans 66 sooty and tired men women and children crossed into Portugal at Vilar Formoso As the train chugged across the border a telephone message was flashed to Lisbon and the Ger mans who had been held there for almost two days aboard the U S navy transport West Point were released The two preceding trains had reached Portugal with loads of 77 and 105 Americans in the mid afternoon after an exhausting and frequently delayed 6day trip from Frankfurt On instructions from the American legation the U S navy and marines kept the Germans on the West Point until j the last trainload of Americans actually crossed the frontier A trainload of Americans nad arrived yesterday from Italy with 35 American consular officials and their families and 137 Italians from the United States also i vetoed of have scrap metal are asked the legislature voted state hospitals and the blind com mission The eliminated was an allotment from the constitutional ly earmarked blind pension fund It would have been used to fi nance industries employing blind persons and for bund prevention work Donnell cited the constitutional requirement that only the surplus from the blind fund after pensions are paid can be used for admin activities Predict No Balance From an analysis which has been made of the probable re into the blind pension fund he said it does not appear that any balance will exist after the deserving blind shall have been He did not disturb the appropriated from general reve nue to investigate hundreds of pending applications for pensions In the penal Donnell trimmed 53000 out of a allotment for new buildings at the state industrial school for girls at Chillicothe That left that tions total appropriation Mrs Mary Saladin Dies in Hospital Funeral Services at Frankenstein for Na tive of Austria Mrs Mary Saladin 85 died at St Marys hospital yesterday aft following an illness of two it up j Another bin is to be erected in I front of the capitol to supplement j the overflowing depot there j Collections from all seven sub stations in the city were brought to the capitol bin yesterday but last night several of the stations reported they already had a good starton another truck load Proceed in Rural Areas The aluminum which will be sold to smelter companies to re place that used in the manufac ure of national defense needs is being guarded by members of the Missouri Reserve Force and the American Legion volunteer police The rural collections are still proceeding under the Direction of various farm organizations Morrison said no further can vassing remains to be done in the city Twenty trucks were kept busy hauling the metal to the capitol yesterday They were supplied by Farmers Lumber Co Duen Lumber Co Nent wig Lumber Co t Jefferson City special road district Missouri highway department Jefferson weeks Mrs Saladin until 12 years ago had made her home at Franken stein but during recent years had her daughter Mrs Leo Nentwig in Jefferson City She was born in Austria and came to the United States when 19 years old She was mar ried to Cyrus Saladin in Ten and shortly afterward came to Frankenstein Her husband died 12 years ago Surviving are a son Frank of Frankenstein seven daughters Mrs Francis Behrens Mrs Emma Klaus Mrs Lena Blackburn St Louis Mrs Mary Philadelphia Mrs Elizabeth Blackburn Montgomery City Mo Miss Florence Saladin Franken stein and Mrs Leo Nentwig Jef ferson City Twentythree grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren also sur vive Funeral services will be held at St Marys church at Franken stein City street Chapma n Lumber Co department Les Missouri tiary funeral home Becker Lumber Co Railway Express Co J D Heed C o a 1 Goal Co Dalton Coal Co and Bottling Co the Dr Pepper Housing Given Weidon Springs WASHINGTON July President Roosevelt today ap o f no nf were released then American Bombers Alter proved the construction of 320 temporary homes for defense workers in Weidon Springs Mo j No estimate of the cost was given First Motorized Review Staged by 35th Division CAMP ROBINSON Ark July 60th field artil lery brigade conducted the first completely motorized review the 35th division has ever seen to day for Maj Gen Ralph E Tru man and Col Edward H De Armond brigade commander More than 5000 soldiers and 500 trucks of the brigade participated in the parade The field pieces and rolling kitchens were coupled to the trucks in which the soldiers rode The review lasted approx 20 minutes as the trucks rolled by the reviewing stand 12 abreast The brigade is composed of the 126th 130th and 161st field artil lery from Kansas Kansas City Res amp Ready by September Off Renewed Air Attacks Russians Claim Nazi Division Wiped Out in Battle Hear Smolensk MOSCOW July millions huddled in shelters Soviet defense crews beat off another savage German air attack last night and the Red army command reported fresh successes against the Nazi mechanized legions far to the west A fresh German infantry division thrown into battle in the Smolensk area 230 miles west of here was wiped out the nightly Soviet informa tion bureau communique said Other Red army units were en gaged in stubborn battles against the Germans at 100 miles south of Leningrad and at about 80 miles west of the Ukraine capital of Kiev There was no indication that Soviet troops had given ground vital sectors air raid alarm here ed at p m last night p m CST and the was given at p m Use Subway for Shelter modern subway sys tem was used as a shelter by government decree and long be fore the alert sounded hundreds of women and children equipped with bedding and food had filed into it in expectation of another German air raid In the vast military arenas far to the west the Russians said their air force still was inflict ing blows on the Germans mech units which were reported also troubled by heavy rains Fiftyeight German planes were shot down or destroyed on German air fields Wednesday compared to Soviet losses of 19 the communique said Another five German planes were report ed knocked down in the luft waffes attack on Moscow during Wednesday night With the war in its 34th day the Red troops were reported clinging fast to their Soviet troops by official ac count still stood substantially where they had stood 10 days ago and thus the second Nazi offensive was pictured as ending in failure KANSAS CITY July j f army recreation camp wun facilities for 1000 soldiers is ex to be ready for use by j Failing too the Soviet govern ment claimed were the early September Nazi air raids on this capital A crew of 150 veteran CCC German airmen str jck last night workers will begin construction Monday The camp in a city park will follow the pattern of model recreation centers cities with wood others with concrete equipped with winter gas heaters and early today in the third con raid but again it declared that there was no mili tary damage The windows on two sides of the of United forj States Ambassador Laurence Continued on page be Embargo on Oil for Japan Roosevelt Explains Action Avoided Previously to Avoid Conflict in Pacific Remarks Follow Blistering Attack on Tokyo by Welles WASHINGTON July Japans move in French IndoChina as a threat to American security and a step toward further conquest the United States hinted at strong countermeasures today and warned Tokyo against a drive on Singapore the Netherlands East Indies and the Philippines From President Roosevelt himself came some about why the United States had rot heretofore shut off all oil shipments to in the past tense He told a civilian defense group bluntly that this policy was designed to make it sary for Japan to go down to the East Indies for the President said it has worked for two years thus keeping war out of the Pacific But from his discus sion of American methods in seeking to keep peace in the South Pacific some observers drew the inference that the Pres ident now might be ready to im pose a full embargo on oil ship ments to Japan and take other strong economic measures His informal remarks followed a blistering attack on Japan by Sumner Welles acting secretary of state which also appeared to mark the end of American con ciliation efforts and the adoption of a still firmer stand in the Pacific Welles declared that Japanese occupation of military and naval bases in French IndoChina was primarily in preparation for more obvious movements of conquest in adjacent areas The Japanese move he said threatened sources of American defense materials endangered the safety of other areas of the Continued on page 8 US Bomber Bound For Britain Crashes Burns in Ohio Corn field Had RAF Insignia MT GILEAD O July AP A roaring bombing plane bearing Royal Air Force insignia and apparently en route to Brit ains lighting forces plunged its occupants to fiery death late today in a sunny Ohio cornfield Lieut Loren Cornell officer of the day at Patterson Field near Dayton said te plane left the field at 2 p m CST bound for Montreal Canada Lieut R F Rush with First and Second Lieut N L Warner aboard Rush and Warner members of the U S army air corps formerly were stationed at Tucson Ariz and recently were transferred to the ferry command Lieutenant Cornell asserted Lieut Innes W Lawver Patter son field post operations officer and other members of the acci dent classification committee left Patterson Field to investigate the crash Lieut Cornell said Two bodies burned beyond rec were recovered and a belt buckle and wrist band bear ing the name R F Rush were found in the wreckage State Highway Patrolman W B Corder said he counted five bodies in the wreckage but as tractors attempted to drag the plane from a hole made by the im pact only two bodies were found The plane bore the marking RAF on the wing and Corder said the bombers log indicated it was en route to Can ada Once Again Mercury Sets Seasons High Time 101 its act City yesterday to register 101 de grees the highest reading of the year Cooling winds and overcast skies however drove the tem down 20 degrees with in an hour and a half yester day evening Light thundershowers fell over scattered parts of Missouri yesterday and additional mois ture was promised today Whether any of it would reach Jefferson City was a problem Reported on Way to Saigon Tokyo Threatens Brit ish in Pacific as Vichy Surrenders Colony SAIGON French Indo China July Jap anese warships were reported off the coast of southern French IndoChina tonight and 12 Japanese troop trans ports were said to be on their way here as Japan followed up quickly French acceptance of her demands for new mili tary concessions in the colony spokesmen for the Vichy government declar ed the French had acted for protection of IndoChina the general reaction here was that the agreement amounted to complete taking of the strategically located colony by Japan sources reported that Japanese warships had ap off bay a naval miles northeast of here on ndia coast Hope for Break in Midwest Heat Wave 100Degree Tempera tures Prevail for 3rd Consecutive Day By Associated Press The heat demons continued their devastating dance yesterday across the sunbaked fields and streets Sweltering Missourians and Kansans hoped for rain or a cool wind to break the hot spell that has gripped the midwest the past three days One death from heat prostration was reported in Wichita Kas Benjamin L Carney 52 a con carpenter stricken Tues day as the mercury hit 101 de grees died yesterday The top there yesterday was 97 Concordia Kas reported 104 degrees Kansas City had 102 Topcka Kas 102 Dodg City was relatively cool with 89 James R Harrington manager j Kas reported a top of 39 of the nearby Mansfield airport j The weather bureau reported Berths American Ambulance Drivers Bound k I M Home After Escape From Nazi Captors SAN DIEGO Calif July the royal air force intended to use the companys long range WASHINGTON July AP bombers to alter the outward dramatic escape of five appearance of Berlin American ambulance drivers In an interview after German authorities in Ger tion of the huge plant the British j Franc was dis ambassador said he planned to fly to London next month prob ably in s Consolidated bomber to report to his government He added he would leave tomorrow or Saturday probably by plane for Washington to acquaint him self with the situation in the Far East which he said did not look so good Addressing the work ers he asserted I feel a greater feeling of con in what is to be the end of all this trouble KS I look here into your faces Each of you as you drive a rivet strike 3 blow for freedom so that we can force with force As the nights get longer the Liberator bombers you send to us will be sent over Berlin and we hope to be able to alter the outward appearance of that city and make some part of it look like London now Zara Zam by a Nazi raider in were all taken to a German r the Atlantic on April 17 at Lure and the three es American ambulance drivers were landed in France from a leaped from there in an undis German ship and held closed manner der guard at a small town nea i They succeeded in reaching St Jean De Luz until June 23 j Switzerland and then went to said approximately 35 planes bear ing similar R A F markings had passed northward over this north central section of the state in the past few days The ship crashed nose down on the farm of Roy Foust seven miles southwest of Mt Gilead its mo closed tonight Two of them are homeward bound on the liner Ex calibur and the three others await departure from Lisbon Portugal on the West Point along with 16 com panions whom the Germans re leased The two on the are James Stewart and Thomas O Greenough who escaped from a dimly lighted and closely guard ed German train at St Jean De Luz on June 29 The thres others escaped from a German camp at Lure in Ger France on July 8 They were William R Davidson Ray Colcord jr of Kansas City and King of Washington DC Twentyone American lance drivers were taken prison ers by the Germans after the of the Egyptian liner They were put on a train Marseilles where arrangements that day and started for an made for them to proceed disclosed destination which they suspected to be a German con centration camp They were warned that guards had orders to shoot to kill if any attempted to escape to Lisbon The 16 others were held at Lure until their recent release after negotiations involving the return of ousted axis consuls from the United States andAm In the early morning of June consular officials from ax 29 as the train stopped in a countries They permit road yard at Poitiers Stewart j ted to Lisbon io sail on and Greenough leaped through Tir window eluded guards and fin ally made their way into unoc France Arriving at Marseilles they were fatigued and inadequately clad They contacted the Amer ican consul and arrangements were made for them lo proceed the West Point with the Ameri can consuls Greenough 20 was a teacher at Lakemont Academy Lake mont N Y and Stewart 36 gave up an ice business in One onta N Y to join the lance corps Davidson 22 lives at Worces to Lisbon in company with Mass He left Norwich Uni erican foreign service officers They the Excalibur oc July 18 The other ambulance drivers versity to join the ambulance corps Colcord studied for two years Continued on page 8 the St Louis maximum at 989 St Joseph Mo 100 Columbia Mo 100 Springfield Mo 97 Des Moines la 102 Huron S D 105 Omaha Neb 100 Oklahoma City Okla 96 Tulsa Okla 98 Kansas looked for pos sible relief today from a weather JA tors virtually buried in the earth forecast of partly cloudy Robert van Sickle a farmer near scattered thundershowers the crash scene said he first saw j the plant about 1500 feet above ground weaving in the air and emitting whistling sound Sud denly it banked to the left drop ped out of sight and exploded ss it crashed he reported He could see flames shooting about 100 feet high 83r Receives Selective Service Notice SIOUX CITY Ta July Adolphe Kruse would liked to have shown the young tins something about soldiering Adolphe received a letter from the Dakota City Neb draft board ordering him to report But he wasnt much surprised when he later learned that the notice was intended for a much younger rel ative of practically the you see is 83 He serv ed in the German army long ago House Group fo Lawrence Seaway WASHINGTON July a dozen mem bers of the house rivers and har bors committee left tonight for Buffalo N Y to inspect the St Lawrence seaway area after hear ing representatives of the coal in dustry claims that the project had national defense value Representative Beiter DNY said the group would visit power plant sites and the Weiland canal near Buffalo and Niagara Falls N Y and would go to Cleveland O before returning to hear testi mony by John L Lewis head of the United Mine Worker CIO Monday Making the inspection trip ter said were Representatives Ellis and Bell on and off Cap which guards estuary of the Saigon river on which Saigon lies The dozen transports were re ported reliably to be en route from Hainan a Chinese island off the IndoChina coast which long has been occupied by the Japa nese and which for months has been a troop concentration base Midway Between Bases moving in to her newly positions Japan was establishing herself strategically about midway between Britains two great Far Eastern bases of Singapore and Hongkong each about 800 miles away and ap proximately 1000 miles across the China Sea from the powerful U S naval base of Cavite guarding the approach to Manila bay in the Philippines French acceptance of Japanese demands hit this city with a great impact Business and commerce was halted while Japanese pho with cameras mounted on automobiles drove throughout Saigon photographing streets and points of interest Hope Status Temporary The Japanese presumably were taking pictures to illustrate an other step in their southward expansion Local busi expressed hope that the new status would be only tempo rary French acceptance of the Japa nese demands was announced of but details of the agree ment were withheld presumably pending formal signature and oth er details Japan was declared to have won however and air bases in the southern part of the colony giving her a strengthened stra position She is now two days by battleship and three hours by bombing plane from Britains Singapore base Saigon has a modern air field said by experts to be the best in the southern Pa except that at Singapore Japanese French Shift Negotiations to Hanoi VICHY France July AP French IndoChina will be placed under the armed protec tion of Japan as the dominant power in the Orient according to an agreement in principle an today Negotiations were temporarily shifted from Vichy to Hanoi cap ital of the French colony where technical details on bases for Ja pan were to be worked out but in late afternoon contact was re here between the Japa nese ambassador Kato and Frances vice Minister Admiral Jean Darlan It had been understood that any details worked out at Hanoi would be referred back to Vichy for a final understanding It was em that nothing had been signed yet and that the accord in its present tentative form pre served French sovereignty in IndoChina An official spokesman declared at the afternoon press conference Continued on page 8
