Moberly Monitor-Index (Newspaper) - July 19, 1940, Moberly, Missouri MOBERLY and MOBERLY EVENING DEMOCRAT 10 Pages 22 WIRM MISSOURI FRIDAY EVENING 1940 HITLER MAKES MONITOR 1888 INDEX EST 1916 DEMOCRAT 1873 NUMBER 13 APPEAL TO REASON FARLEY TO RETIRE ON AUGUST 17 He Is Re-elected Democratic Chairman to Serve Until That Time HIS FULL SUPPORT TO PARTY TICKET But He Will Leave the tional Post to Accept vate Business Offer CHICAGO July 19 A Farley announced James today he would retire as chairman of the Democratic National Committee August 17 to accept tractive private business offer presumably as head of the New York Yankees baseball club A new chairman will be ed after a conference with August 1 by a sub- committee of five headed by ward J Flynn Democratic leader of the Bronx Farley told newspapermen er an executive meeting of the national committee today at which he was unanimously re- elected chairman to serve only until August 17 discuss his leaving the he is the postmaster with the President and that it be up to Mr Roosevelt to make that announcement Walker In Line Authoritative sources have said that President Roosevelt favors Frank C Walker of New York former director of the old national council as Farley's successor Some of Walker's close friends have predicted he will cept In a formal statement given to reporters Genial Jim pledged full the ticket Farley said Democratic headquarters would be op- ened in the Biltmore Hotel New York He said he would retain chairmanship of the New York Instate Democratic Committee and would be active in support of the ticket in New York Replying to a barrage of tions he said it was too early to say what I'm going to do in the national campaign Asked who he thought would be his successor said he had seen newspaper stories on Walker Senator Byrnes of South Carolina Joseph P Commercial Club io Ask Aid of Stale Employment Service in Survey of Moberly Resources Directors of the Moberly Com- Club moved today to re- quest the local Missouri State Em- ployment Service office to assist the club in making a detailed community survey here Arrangements for the survey have been made In a series of con- by Lawrence D Jones secretary of the club William Taylor of Columbia district of employment offices and Howard Payne local employment office manager A community survey committee to undertake the work will be pointed in the club President J E Bach announced at the ed weekly meeting of the board of directors held today The survey Mr Jones said is to be a general of Moberly's community assets Inventory of Resources Its purpose as to the Commercial Club he explained is to show Moberly's advantages possibilities and needs in general peace times as well as in the ent national emergency to aid in Moberly's program of commercial development and to aid in the establishment of new industries here and in the supplementing of present businesses In peacetime just as in this present he said need to know have here exactly what we we TWO SHIPS SUNK NEAR THE INDIES British Merchant Vessels Go Down Under Attack by German Raider Moberly to win consideration in bidding for government ency contracts must be able to advise federal agencies and nance departments exactly what industries we have and what in- we can he ed The survey is to show what we here what we make where the raw materials are bought and where the products are sold Many Factors Involved Survey figures will include data j on factors pertaining to trial locations raw materials ducts labor living conditions re- Continued on Page Four REPRISALS AGAINST DUTCH BY NAZIS WILL WORK WITH AXIS Question of Protection East Indies Remains Unclarified However Germany Will Says Because Germans in In- dies Are Mistreated POSSIBLE BREAK IN HEAT SUNDAY St Louis Forecaster Gives Some Hope of Relief From Temperature ENTIRE MIDWEST BEING ROASTED HE UNDERSTANDS LONDON July 19 British merchant ships the King John the have been sunk in the region of the West Indies by a German raider known to be at large in the the admirality announced tonight The said the raider is believed to be a converted merchant Realizes the People's lems Because I've ed He Says ambassador to Great Brit- mam Secretary of Commerce ry Hopkins and Leo T Crowley of Wisconsin who has resigned as head of the Federal Deposit In- surance Corporation To Retire Aug 17 A Farley said he set August 17 as the date for his retirement from the national chairmanship he has held since the beginning of the Roosevelt administration ST LOUIS July 19 ing summer heat bore down on Missouri again today after the mercury shot suddenly to 100 de- rees and above in a few ties yesterday A seasonal high of 103 was re- port ed at Benton ty with temperatures ranging from 100 to 102 at Lexington mar Kidder Kansas City Clinton and Chillicothe It was ably cooler in the eastern and southern portions The weather bureau forecast York and see the campaign put in proper order so my successor can carry on Others who will serve on the subcommittee with Flynn to con- fer with the President and tary Wallace the vice presidential on a new chairman are David Fitzgerald of Connecticut W W Howes of South Dakota Mrs Mildred Jaster of Ohio and Miss Beatrice Cobb of North Carolina ff This committee Farley said x will have full power to act for the full national committee in proving the President's choice of a new committee head Continued on Page Four Reds Say Britain Did Not Consult Soviet Russia a possible break in the weather by Sunday with widely scattered thundershowers in the afternoon CHICAGO July 19 degree heat wave roasted a large part of the Middle West today Forecaster A J Knarr said it was produced by a large nant area of low barometric sure which has hung over the area the last 48 hours He said there were no indications of a break for two or three days more A few light showers the low cooled off only North Dakota and Northern Knarr said he expected degree highs South kota Nebraska Iowa Missouri and Kansas Wisconsin and Minnesota were due for in the Illinois Indiana and Michigan in the low nineties It was progressively cooler eastward Huron S D was the hot spot of the nation yesterday with 107 Number Worn By Ronald King Sent to His Parents DENVER July 19 L Willkie told a cheering crowd at the Denver Union Stockyards today that if you elect Trie pre- sident you will have one who un- the problems of the American people because I've ed them and known e Republican stand vin blazing sun asserted he did not want to make any pretensions about wanting to be president He said there was none of the unselfish sacrifice in his He mentioned that President Roosevelt had talked last night about a deep sense of I know something about the democratic way of he asserted because I have lived it It is composed of people such as I grew up with and worked with The Republican nominee said he had learned about civil liberties in the hard struggle for val AMSTERDAM Via Berlin July 19 will take action regarding alleged ment -of Germans in the Dutch East and West Indies a German spokesman declared tonight in- the steps would be re- against person's now in Holland authorities regret to be obliged to the spokesman said and West Indian ties are They don't understand Europeans in the colonies be treated and appreciate the good treatment by of Dutch war prisoners 0 The Intimated German action would-be in reprisal in persons well known in overseas possessions Batista to Deal Quickly With Any Fifth Columnists This great he con- amidst cheers must be preserved at all hazards McCormack Also Answers Innocent HAVANA July 19 has no fifth column problem de- spite presence oh the island of some Spanish Spanish in the ion of President-Elect Fulgencio Batista REMAIN FRIENDLY f TO UNITED STATES Subservience to U S Will Be Ended However It Is Said TOKYO July 19 inner government of the new Konoye cabinet reached a decision today on relations with Italy and many and informed quarters that it calls for a closer working arrangement with the Axis The question of whether The Netherlands East Indies and French Indo-China would be taken tinder protection still was un- clarified j It was considered certain Japan first would attempt an un- with Berlin on any action in the South Seas Premier Prince oye and the other three of his in- ner go ministers of navy war and foreign affairs held a long conference in which they reviewed the entire field of proposed new diplomatic policies No Details Given The subjects touched on ed relations with the United States Great Britain and Soviet Konoye said in an an- tonight cannot at present announce details of the conference but I can say that complete agreement he Japan under her new government will remain friendly with the United States but not lean over backward to improve this friendship it The foreign office spokesman Suma told a press con- ference that Japan's desire for friendship with the United States would not be decreased even though the new government un- der Prince Konoye strengthens relations with many and Italy Patriotism Above All Roosevelt Explains in Speech to Historic Party Meeting By W B CHICAGO July 19 dent Roosevelt deciding that in a time of public danger he could not turn his back upon a call to accepted today a third term nomination from a Democratic convention which amid boos and cheers chose Secretary Henry A Wallace for his mate While persons sat in a midnight hush in Chicago um the President told them by radio from the White House that only the people themselves can draft a If such a draft be made upon me I say in the utmost simplicity I will with God's help continue to erve with the best of my ability asnd with the fullness of my he said But he explained as had Mrs Roosevelt an hour or so earlier that the times were so fraught vith danger that he would be able to do little campaigning But I shall never be he said to call the attention of the nation to deliberate or un- witting falsifications of fact which are sometimes made by political candidates Much To Be Done He said all the needs of man security had not been met much more needed to be done But he added progress free lines is gravely endangered by is happening to other continents Then he continued in a grave If our own government passes to other hands next untried hands inexperienced hands we can merely hope and pray that they will not substitute appeasement and compromise with those who seek to destroy all everywhere Mrs Roosevelt sat on the listening intently Once she closed her eyes for a Continued on Page Five NO DEFINITE OFFER MADE But He Warns Her Will Be Destroyed If She Insists on A VICTOR APPEALING TO COMMON SENSED MAY ORGANIZE A HOME GUARD Training May Be Formed Into Brigades OTHER DEFENSE MOVES EMPHASIZED NEBRASKA BANK ROBBED OF Escaped Iowa Convicts Be- to Be Bandits Staging Holdup Declares British Statesmen Have No of Impending Destruction WASHINGTON July 19 Creation of state home provide local defense in event total or partial national guard mobilization was reported today under war department tion v Authoritative ed the possibility that men dis- qualified for active combat duty because of age physical defects family and job responsibilities might be organized into brigades to replace the regular militia Although the war department MOSCOW July Great Britain neither solicited the ion nor the advice of Soviet sia concerning the agreement with Japan to close the Burma road because she is not obligated do so in the present state of relations Tass the official news agency said today It said Prime Minister ill's reference in Commons day to consultation with the U S S R contained an inaccuracy BROOKFIELD Mo July 19 UP number 27 won't appear on University of Missouri football jerseys at least until after 1942 University sent the 27 jersey worn by Ronald King llast fall to the parents of the sophomore end who died recently of an infected tooth They ex- in an accompanying ter that the number would be re- tired through the period which King would have worn it KANSAS CITY July 19 Tom Pendergast R Smmet O'Malley former state insurance superintendent and A L mack St insurance tive pleaded innocent today to indictments charging conspiracy to defraud the government by in- with functions of a eral Pendergast and O'Malley ed innocent yesterday on the first indictment McCormack entered his plea of innocent to this charge today when arraigned before Judge Merrill EJ Otis His trial was set for Sept 9 the day also set for trials of Pendergast and O'Malley The three are at liberty on bonds of each dangerous our action to eliminate the danger will be he last On the eve of the consultative session of the Western foreign ministers here Batista recommended extreme care in any plan of establishing mandates over Western phere possessions of defeated Eu- ropean nations notably France and The Netherlands He pointed out the peoples of America are very jealous of their Closer to Axis The Japanese press expects an end of what it describes as pan's diplomatic subservience to both the United States and Great Britain coupled with a closer move toward the No immediate alliance with the Axis is expected however Prince Konoye and his Foreign minister Yosuke Matsuoka are described as believing the present time inappropriate for outright alignment with many and Italy and that instead Japan should proceed speedily ward stabilization of East Asia and establishment of a gave no confirmation to the re- ports it was known that the army has been studying the vilian problem for some has drawn up com- prehensive measures for cy use SeVeral authorities pointed out that the police powers normally exercised by the national guard would remain the responsibility of the states and that they might be charged with creating home de- fense units under war ment supervision Training Plans Home defense training on a tional scale for men between 18 and 21 and between 45 and 65 is Neb July 19 Two men identified as a pair of Iowa escaped convicts forced their way into the Diller State Bank at 9 today lined three employes up at pistol point ed all money in sight and escaped with an estimated after locking in a vault Willard Beckman bank teller identified the bandits from officers said as Ivan van and Lowell Haenze two of three men who escaped from the Fort Madison la penitentiary June 22 and later were identified as the trio who robbed the State Bank of Wilber Neb July 29 Wilber is 25 miles north of this Southeast of 400 Nebraska community Some Important Pronouncements By Hitler Since 1933 ence and suggested it might be economic system better to give the European j Suma that Japan would contemplated in the pending compulsory military training which the war department has endorsed in By The Associated Press Since his rise to power in 1933 Adolf Hitler has made most of his important pronouncements before the were May 18 Reichstag Included There is but sessions their independence Roosevelt Only Prolonging War Is German View BERLIN July 19 Bolit Head for SEATTLE July 19 CONVICTED CAIRO OF MURDER July 19 Eli Moten Cairo Negro has been con- of murder in the slaying of Deputy Sheriff Fletcher ert 29 of Charleston Mo The Negro had denied on the witness stand that he fatally shot the Missourian at a cotton oil plant here Nov 8 ten was one of the pickets phen F Chadwick national com- mander of the American in and a one-time cratic nominee for Congress from the first Washington al district said today I will be with Wendell Willkie lican presidential nominee in the forthcoming campaign A designed third term under forced draft presents a real danger to the perpetuity of our he added in an interview cal circles commenting today on President Roosevelt's acceptance speech privately made no secret of their opinion that by aiding the Axis enemies the President is prolonging the war His reference to the necessity of national unity was met with the rejoinder that the greatest traitors were those Germans and Italians who went to America and were incited against the tarian states Fascism and they held do not enslave the people nor in- with social justice as President declared Official sources were silent insist upon a free hand in ment of the three-year-old war in China Commenting on British Prime Minister Churchill's re- marks in parliament yesterday suggesting that the war might be mediated later Suma said At this moment we are not welcoming offers of good offices of third parties general Anticipating mobilization of Man Who Failed to Answer Call Not Yet Known MOSCOW July 19 Party newspaper Pravda said today that Japan with her new government under Prince Konoye is under an open dictatorship of the military Peace Offer Spurned in Silence by Great Britain In an article analyzing the new cabinet Pravda said that it fore- shadowed new and obviously LONDON July 19 The British government spurned ler's peace offer tonight with silence Official sources said it was not worth talking about and that there was no for official reaction All sources in that Hitler's speech did not change the general situation one way or another Jous movements both in the inter- Official circles declined com- and foreign policy or Japan j ment because they said it waa the same old stuff The expressed similar opinions in more truculent guage Britain was standing by Prime Minister Churchill's pledge to fight on for years if necessary These sources said they had been expecting a peace tum ever since France ed and that Britain's the seizure of the French fleet ll Congress to Move Out for Capitol Roof Repairs WASHINGTON July 19 The Senate and House may have to move from their meeting bers in the for a year The roofs are to be repaired and David architect of the capitol said he would recommend to Congressional leaders next week that the Senate move to the old Supreme Court chamber and the House use the caucus room in the House office building until the completed He ed it would take almost a year to complete the work STATE MATCHES ST CHARLES Mo July 19 Missouri National Guard range will be the scene of fourteenth annual state rifle championships tomorrow and continuing through Sunday About 150 riflemen are ed to compete WASHINGTON July 19 Roosevelt singled out an unnamed but ently not forgotten man in his acceptance speech as one who had failed to answer a call to serve the nation in the defense emergency In his address early today the chief executive said he had drafted men and en to contribute their skill and and that regardless of party less of personal convenience they came they answered the call Every single one of them with one exception Secretary Stephen Early said he could not identify the exception MISSOURI Fair and ed warm tonight and Saturday Sunday fair and warm widely scattered afternoon ers North the guard for active service many states already are weeding out of their militia units all men in the lower enlisted ranks who have dependents and it was thought likely that men with vital jobs also may be dismissed eventually Another phase of the ness program was emphasized by Senator Norris who forecast the development of erous regional power manufacture Ample Power Vital Speaking after a conference of agriculture industry and labor representatives with defense ex- perts yesterday agreed that ample sources of power were vital to plans for de- centralizing powder factories aluminum production and other industrial units essential for re- armament The veteran public power cate and sponsor of the Tennessee Valley Authority said that projected munitions tories would be scattered out tb e country Many he said would be in the from centers of population and ed from possible attacks by my bombers or sabotage Senator Norris said the defense conference broadly involved gration of agriculture into the entire He said a plus of farm labor in many rural areas could be utilized for labor in these industries one great task before the world namely to secure the peace of the xxx Germany ready to join every solemn ion pact Jan 30 The assertion that Germany plans to violate Austria is absurd and incapable of proof May 21 pation in arms limitation pacts and proposing mutual sion we believe that if the people of the world would unite jointly in destroying all their fire gas and explosive bombs this would be cheaper than de- each other March 8 Announcing re- militarization of the I believe I can consider with day the fight for German equality as concluded xxx I can assure you that nothing certainly ing in this world can move us to renounce this sovereignty over the Jan 30 I hereby most solemnly withdraw German signature from that declaration the treaty of Versailles forced upon a weak government against its better knowledge Feb 20 1938 Germany has no quarrel whatsoever with from our colonial de- sire There will be an demand for those colonial By LOUIS P BERLIN July 19 Trans Atlantic Telephone Fuehrer Adolf Hitler speaking be- fore the Reichstag tonight ad- dressed one more appeal to son in that a world empire would be destroyed if England insists on continuing the Hitler emphasized he was not asking peace in the voice of a victor demanding capitulation of the vanquished but rather as a tor proposing a reasonable peace No Conception of Fight He said that British men apparently have no of the destruction which would be visited on England if Churchill continues to demand a fight to the finish one thing is he exclaimed no Churchill will be left in that case the rehabilitation of Britain The ple left behind in London after the great assault he would have ideas entirely ent from those of Churchill and his colleagues Touching on Russo-German re- the Fuehrer that these have been fixed once for all be a clear delineation his previous efforts conciliate England Hitler said Ilia policy of European reorganization had been based on a two-fold Real friendship with Italy and a similar relationship with England It would have been a boon to the world if England had ed he said No Definite Offer The Fuehrer did not say what he expected Churchill to do in response to his peace of- fer to England but he left no doubt that any peace would Be on German terms Hitler said he never intended to annihilate or even to the world empire of Britain He solemnly In this hour I feel myself obligated to sons Jan doubt 30 There is that a war against the Italy of today for no matter what motive will call Germany to the side of her friend Denouncing naval pact and agreement with Central Fair France Warned and continued warm tonight and Sunday Unsettled with scattered local showers this afternoon and tomorrow after- noon Friday and Saturday time temperatures 92 to 96 est night time temperature 73 Local Weather Data Temperature at this after j noon 94 Minimum last night 70 Maximum yesterday The British Broadcasting Corpo ration in a report heard here day by NBC said the French newspaper Xe Temps has warned of the likelihood of a famine be- cause France now is forced to live on her reserve food supplies The NBC reported Le Temps issued a protest against man of t sup April 28 Poland and answering President Roosevelt's request for I have not taken that violated fore- ign rights but merely have ed the rights violated 20 years ago Sept a am putting on the uniform and I shall take it off only in victory or death Oct 6 a broad conference to bring about ament and new economic The most important condition for a real revival of life in and outside Europe is the of unconditionally guaranteed peace and of a sense of security on the part of ual in England said he could do this because he was not asking for peace vanquished but rather as the tor appealing to common sense The Kroll Opera House was a sea of Brown uniforms sprinkled with the field gray of the army Count Galeazzo Ciano the ian foreign minister arrived 15 minutes before Hitler and was given a seat of honor in the diplo- matic box opposite the Fuehrers United States Charge Alexander Kirk also was in the diplomatic box Hitler entered the Reichstag at p m a m EST and seven minutes later Field shall Hermann Goering opened the session Hitler began speaking at p m after the Reichstag had risen in homage to the German and Italian war dead No Grounds Left There is no ground for the prolongation of the war he said The British statesmen probably have no real conception of what it will mean once the German of- fensive begins in earnest against the British Isles Churchill would not dare to face the music The people left behind in London would have quite a different conception than that of a government which had fled to Canada Once more I will attempt to be a said Hitler ing that world empire will be destroyed unless England ed to reason Churchill he said may think that it is Germany faces destruction I know it will be he asserted Hitler said that England's forts to disturb the relationship between Germany and based on a clear delineation of spheres of ed to failure He added The British statesmen always see so much more slowly Perhaps they'll see this in due time Germany's program Hitler said was Real friendship with Italy and a lar relationship with Great tain With Italy he succeeded he went on It would have been a boon for both nations he ed had Britain and on
