Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - August 21, 1940, Oelwein, Iowa TODAYS World fry Printer Service VOL 243 THE OELWEIN DAILY REGISTER WEDNESDAY AUGUST 21 1940 15 CENTS THE NOTED RUSSIAN EXILE IS ATTACKED NEAR PLOT AGAINST LIFE Cool Weather Prevails In Iowa Attacked By Assailant He Had Thought To Be His 1 Friend EDWARD P MORGAN Md Aug Walter Dandy famous fin surgeon and professor in ral surgery at Johns Hopkins will leave by plane st tonight for Mexico City treat Leon Trotsky Dandy will be accompani by Albert Goldman of Chica American attorney for the 4ed bolshevik leader who wounded in an at assassination yesterday Uhey will be joined in Mexico fy by Dr Harry Fischler Los surgeon Dr Dandy had ined to leave at P M but unable to obtain reserva is City Aug Trotsky lay close to death as physicians sought to save famed Russian revolutionist TI brain injuries inflicted by assailant he had thought to be friend condition was becom rapidly worse despite an em operation Efforts were jde to bring an eminent brain from the United States it was feared there was little ance that a physician ar in time or that medical sci lce save life rhe latest bulletin from the i Cross hospital where Trot was taken after the attack late said that his condition most grave pulse had risen to 140 ats a minute a rise of 10 beats an hour His temperature also is up a degree and onetenth pulse was rising stead L a certain sign of the fast ebb of his strength He was breath Lg heavily and with difficulty Its chances of survival were laced at one in 10 I j indomitable fighter since boyhood and almost always ainst the constituted authority en after the establishment of lie regime the usually liddy complexioned Trotsky lay in a darkened room his pad propped up slightly his face only his famous goatee defiant A corps of bodyguards sal out Ide the room Police guarded the Mrs Trotsky had hard left the room since her Kus fand arrived from their suburb villa last night Two surgeons Ind three nurses remained in at mystery man lay in a room nearby md around the corner at the ccn ral police police were Questioning in connection with the ise a glamorous blonde Surgeons who performed an op Continued on Page Six Des Moines la Aug today continued to enjoy cool comfortable weather j Temperatures averaged 7 de grees below normal and skies were I clear in virtually all of the state Scattered thunder showers are forecast for northwest and extreme western Iowa tonight Warmer weather is forecast for tonight with slightly cooler in the ex treme north portion Thursday Yesterdays highest temperature was 78 at Inwood and last nights low was 45 at Decorah and Mar sha DEMOCRATS TO MEET AUG 30 Edward J Flynn National Chair Man Will Attend Meeting Des Moines la Aug J Flynn of New York chairman of the democratic na j tional committee will arrive in Des Moines next week to attend the notification ceremonies Aug 29 for Henry A Wallace vice I presidential E H chairman of the state central committee ed today Birmingham announced also that John K Valentine the partys candidate for governor would preside over the ceremonies j Mr Flynn will spend three or four days in Des Moines and ar 1 rangements are being made to have him meet and visit with democratic committeemen Urom every county in the state and with party leaders generally Birmingham said i The central committee chair Iman said he would leave tonight plane for the east and would I spend Thursday in Washington I and Friday in New York in con ference with Flynn in campaign matters He said a meeting of the demo cratic state central committee would be held in Des Moines Aug 30 and that Flynn would at tend Plans for coordinating the campaign between state and na tional organizations will be work ed out Mr Flynns visit to Des Moines will be all the more notable be cause this is the first state he has I visited in his official capacity since his elevation to the chair manship of the democratic na tional committee to succeed Jas A Farley Birmingham added Mr Flynn is well posted on Iowa affairs and will take ad vantage of this visit to renew old friendships and to make new ones Extend Sentence Of Three Youths Clarion la Aug 18yearold youths who out of the Wright county lil Aug 12 and were captured days later at Madison Wis pday faced prison terms of from 11 to 25 years j Harold Keough Clarion receiv d 10 years at the Anamosa state Draining school on charges of and entering 10 years for Escaping jail and five years for Assault Dyer nd Gordon Formaro DCS Moines Vere sentenced to 10 years each breaking and entering and one onr for escaping jail The trio hud broken out of the training school in July and held here on charges of an Eagle Grove oil sta ion The sentences were pronounced y District Judge H E Fry LITTLE RAIDING BY EITHER SIDE No Large Scale Activity Shown By Either Germany Or Britain London Aug man air raiders blasted away at midland and southeast British tar gets today in a series of run raids which late afternoon esr indicated cost them at least eight planes There was little large scale German activity over Britain but almost continuous sniping raiders coming over by ones twos nd threes and hitting at scattered targets The press association estimated German losses at eight planes up to 5 p m At least three of the German planes were brought down by British fighters One midlands attack put a towns water gas and electricity services temporarily out of com mission At both i the midlands and the German planes swooped low Snd opened up on streets anJ houses Continued on Six SENATE REFUSED DRAFT WEALTH WITH THE MEN Refuse Amendment On Grounds It Is A Revenue Measure Must Crane From House By LOUIS J SCHAEFLE United Press Staff Correspondent Aug The senate refused today to con sider an amendment to the con scription to draft wealth as well as men The amendment offered by Sen Josh Lee D Okla was thrown out on a point of order by Sen Allen J Ellender D La who con tended that it was designed to raise revenue and therefore should originate in the house The point was sustained by a vote of 54 to 23 I A Home AntiAircraft Gun Explodes Slayton Minn Aug they tried to make an gun out of n piece f fast iron pipe two military farm youths were treated or serious injuries today and Dwane Brad on living near Dundee Minn fashioned the weapon out of A 20inch piece of 3inch cast I iron pipe Knowing that a mixture of so j dium chlorate and sugar would form an explosive the brothers put more than a cup of the com pound the pipe One end was packed with mud and the other with of Iron and bail bearings But before firing the gun rain dampened the sodium chlorate and sugar and increased it ex After some delay the brothers finally lighted the The explosion was heard miles around Pieces of the cannon were scattered over a block and the Brandons were injured Cloyce 22 received gashes on his arms and legs He remained In a hospital today Dwane 10 had a fractured right arm and on hU side but he was released from the hospital after Washington Aug Sen Josh Lee D Okla told the senate today that it would be only to amend the con scription so as to draft wealth as well as manpower in event of war Lee sponsored a provision which would permit the presi dent to conduct a census of American wealth and require in to contribute to the war treasury He said that the Amer ican Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars have called for equal treatment of money and manpower in times of great na tional stress Citing news reports of testi mony given by army and navy of on the supple mental defense Lee said it was absurd to allow manufac to refuse defense contracts because they are dissatisfied with the 8 per cent profit allowed them Continued on Page Six EXPERT SAYS GERMANY GETS NOWHERE IN AIR Valentine To Preside Over Ceremonies PASSED SAFELY IN MINE ZONE Army Transport American Lee ion With Aboard Believed Safe Washington Aug Officials believed today that the army transport American Legion with 897 war refugees had passed safely through the mine infested waters off the north coast of Scot land The state department said it had had no word The war and navy departments declined to give information but it was believed that one or the other was in com with the boat calculations indica ted that the American Legion bound for New York from Je samo Finland had passed Cape Wrath Scotland yesterday Her from the mine fields of the belligerents which now blanket the At from Iceland to Scotland On her special voyage to Pet samo to pick up Americans strand ed in the Scandinavian countries she had skirted the British mine fields Both Great Britain and Germany had given her a safe conduct After she had passed the British extended their mine field several hundred miles fur ther south and notified all coun tries This left a small strip of water off Cape Wrath Scotland the only hole through the mine field and the American Legions homeward course was charted ac cordingly Continued on Page Six Japs Bomb Chungking China Chungking Aug Officials said today that Japanese sir raids on Chungking had made 10000 persons homeless but un official estimates placed the fig ure at 40000 In the 30th raid of the year on Chungking Japanese bombers yes started fires which de most of the walled city of Chinas provisional said that of the area was in ruins Russian Government Says Ger many Is Failing In Her Blitzkrieging WILLKIE RENEWS CHALLENGE FOR JOINT DEBATE Republican Candidate Charges Inadequate WOMAN KILLED IN COLLISION lf la Aug 21 UP Mrs Matt Bissen 45 Stacyville was killed instantly today when the car in which she riding was struck by a gravel truck Her husband and daughter Bernice and the driver of the truck Leonard Fox were critically Injured and were taken to a hospital In By WILLIAM H LAWRENCE United Press Staff Correspondent Rushville Ind Aug L Willkie charged to day that the Roosevelt adminis trations defense program was hopelessly inadequate delayed and improperly organized and challenged President Roosevelt to debate this subject at the scene of some great national defense work The republican presidential nominee renewed the challenge for joint debates despite Mr Hyde Park N Y press conference statement yesterday that his position as president and the pressure of domestic and for eign events precluded an active campaign which would result from acceptance of chal lenge Willkie said the third term is sue and the challenge of the total itarian forces to the democratic processes made it essential that Mr Roosevelt engage in public discussion of the campaign ques tions He said he offered the sug gestion for a defense debate at the scene of a presidential national defense inspection trip so it would not waste his time He suggested last night that Mr let national defense ex perts make the defense inspection trips and that Mr Roosevelt him self devote such tme as he now uses for that purpose to making democracy work by discussing the issues in which the American peo ple are very much interested He issued the following state ment I it would be an priate thing for Mr Roosevelt and me to engage in joint debate on defense during one of his visits to defense projects I think I could show conclus ively that the administration de fense program is hopelessly inad on Page Six Retail Grocers Renamed Surry Cedar Rapids la Aug Surry Cedar Rapids was renamed president of the Iowa Retail Grocers and Meat Dealers Association here late yes Other officers elected at the close of the 41st annual convention included Noah H Falb Marshall town vice president B A Bartel Courcil Bluffs past president August Sunderbruch Davenport Treasurer and Frank Zen Des Moines secretary Funeral Services For Walter Chrysler New York Aug Funeral services for Walter P Chrysler 65yearold automobile manufacturer were held today at St Bartholomews church follow ing a family prayer service at the Great Neck Long Island estate where he died Sunday of EXTEND WAR TO IRISH WATERS Air Warfare And Submarines Taken To Ireland In At tempted Blockade By WALLACE United Press Staff Correspondent London Aug many has extended air to Irish waters and is launching new submarine attacks it was be tonight in an effort to in tensify her attempted blockade of Great Britain With air warfare over Britain continuing a tonly a modest pace increasing reports have flowed in of German air activity off the Ir ish coast and in the Irish Sea Four attacks are known to have been made on vessels close to Ire land in the past few days Other vessels it was reported have had narrow escapes from German planes operating in this area This has been combined with reports that submarines are now engaged in more intense activity against shipping to and from Britain The effort to blockade Britain failed to arouse apprehension in Britain It was felt here that the Ger man employment of magnetic mines had been effectively coun tered through use of equipment which repels the mines from contact with ships The convoy system it was said has proved as effective in this war as in the world war at pro shipping from submarine Latest official figures for July j showed that only one British ship Continued on Page Six By J W T MASON United Press War Expert The Russian government which has shown a consistently realistic capacity for judgment during the present war allows its ers to declare that Germany is geting nowhere in attacking Brit ain from the air That frank com ment will be unpalatable to Hit ler but will be an additional spur if any be needed to more inten sive German activity The present problem in Europe thus is how Hitler will try to strike afresh to save his prestige which the Russian criticism indi cates is beginning to wane on the continent He has declared total blockade of Great Britain but that is an empty gesture which is not getting him anywhere He must engage in some more con form of action An at tempt at invasion seems a lading nazi dream unless Hitler has lost all selfcontrol Renewal of the air attacks on Britain with largely augmented squadrons may come but by this time the German high command must be aware of the highly speculative character of an air blitzkrieg The halt in cation is significant of the ex hausting nature of blitzkriegs when the defense is as powerful as British aviators have made it military blitzkrieg through Belgium and northern France had reached temporary exhaustion when the Belgian ar my surrendered preventing the Germans from quickly following through to cut off the British Continued oft Page Six LEGIONNAIRES IN STATE MEET Stale American Legion Conven tion Will Be Held At Arnolds Park DCS Moines la Aug H Birmingham chairman of the democratic state central com last night selected John Valentine the partys candidate for governor to preside over cere monies in connection with the ac eptance speech of Henry A Wai ace here Aug 29 The vice presidential nominee nd Edward Flynn democratic chairman both suggested he appointment of Valentine Bir said He said other de ails of the notification would be in the near future Rumanian Wheat Crop Is Short Bucharest Rumania Aug present wheat harvest is two million tons less than last year Minister of Eco nomy George Leon declared in a radio speech last night Unfavorable weather conditions and mobilization of farmers were to blame he said Rumania has with the past and her economic and indus trial activity in the future will be linked with Germany which can absorb all her surplus farm products Leon said The harvest decline will mean less surplus for the axis to ab Just now we need money with which to buy machinery for agri culture and since we have not this money Germany will assist us and we will be able to receive this machinery in time and conse produce more grain and j of better quality he said He added that the minister of j agriculture has estimated the wheat production this year at 2 201170 tons which is ately half of last years crop Infant Smothered To Death In Crib Sioux City la Aug Wickey 3weeksold son of Mr and Mrs George Wickey smothered to death in his crib yesterday while his mother Ironing in another room Arnolds Park la Aug 21 from Iowa and other midwestern states are expected to begin arriving here tomorrow for the state American Legion convention set for Aug 25 to 28 The largest preconvention reg on record pointed to per haps the biggest state meeting ev er held A crowd of 20000 is ex Parades addresses by midwest ern governors and Le a memorial ceremony a drum and bugle corps contest and a mardi gras will feature the session The Legionnaires will hear Gov George A Wilson of Iowa Gov Harlan J Bushfield of South Dak ota the Rev P M McDermott Atlantic National Legion chap lain James F Bartci olis general manager of the Am erican Legion publications anc former national commanders Han ford MacNider of Mason City and Ray Murphy of New York City The convention proper will be gin Aug 25 having been set for registration the forty anc eight parade and the memoria service At the Monday morning session the hands of the various veterans orders and auxiliaries will be in Continued on Page Six Nephew Killed In Action In Norway Garner la Aug Mrs J T Gatche Garner has received word that her nephew Sgt Sydney James Rice was kil led in action while operating an English antiaircraft gun at Nar vik Norway May 24 Word of the death did not reach relatives in England for severa weeks and only recently was re layed to America Rice here a number of times during th several years he spent in Canada IRON TO SAVE LIFE Sioux City la Aug iron lung presented to th city by the Womon of the Moose failed to save the life o Gehring 8 when it wa used for the first time The girl a daughter of Mr and Mrs A B Gearing of Sioux City was suffer Ing from BRITISH BOMB ETHIOPIA TODAY Admit Several Air Raids On Their Positions In Ethiopia By ELEANOR PACKARD United Press Staff Correspondent Rome Aug admitted an intensification of British air raids on Italian posi tions throughout Ethiopia today War communique No 74 issu ed from general said that the British had raided Mega and Dire Dawa in Ethiopia Neutral shipping had been warned that vessels approaching within 3Q miles of the coasts of the Mediterranean Red Sea Gulf of Aden Egypt and British Af rican colonies henceforth were in danger of destruction by mines or other means of war The communique said that Ital ian bombing formations had at tacked successfully and hit air bases on Malta It claimed that all Italian planes returned safe ly despite violent enemy reac tion At Malta the communique said British pursuit planes were counterattacked by Italian fight ers and forced to withdraw and one British plane probably was shot down In British Somaliland ered to the Italians by the Brit ish native populations were mak ing acts of submission according to the communique which said that Askaris of the camel corps and bands of surrender ed their arms and asked to be en rolled in the Italian army It was said that the Italians found five destroyed British airplanes three in Berbera and two he capital Two persons were killed and seven wounded in the British air raids on Ethiopia the communi que said An earlier communique had car ried the warning to neutral ship REVIEW OF THE EVENTS OF THE WAR NATIONS British And German Claims Are Contradictory As Usual By German bombers today ted a series of bulls eye attacks on key objectives in the British midlands and southeast sections as Britain girded her forces for re of largescale air war Berlin claimed that the attacks caused damage and destruction to important units of the British war and industrial machine in the populated midlands area But British reports were that damage was small and that at least eight German planes were shot down in scattered battles British reports told of several instances in which German planes turned their machine guns on streets and houses causing civil ian casualties The German account said that fires were caused in a motor works vital to British aviation and huge damage caused at Derby and Sheffield steel industry cen ter Fresh reports came in of Ger man air activity around Ireland indicating an attempt to inter fere with the stream of supplies arriving at Britains back her important western ports The latest report told of the bombing and machine gunning of the Norwegian Jarl off Tory steamer Svein Island on the ping The communique said that Italy would not hinder the pass age of neutral ships through im plying that the international character of the Suez canal would be respected It included the Egyptian coast in the danger zone an indication that Italy now regarded that country as an enemy because British troops were stationed there northwest Irish coast Two mem bers of the crew were wounded Gibraltar had its first air at tack in three weeks when raid ing planes took advantage of a bright moonlight night One pi nan shot down A fire was started by one attack but it was reported quickly extinguish ed Sir Archibald Sinclair British air minister reported that Ger man air losses may have been even heavier than the official Bri tish figure of 710 since Aug 8 He explained that the number of planes listed as probable or possible losses and not includ ed in the official tally was more than equal to the number claimed officially Athens reported new tension as Italian mobile divisions were said to be concentrating on the Greek Albanian frontier Relaxation of mass air attacks on Britain was interpreted in Lon don as the lull before the storm A hint that the storm may not be lorg delayed was seen in news from Vichy France that Germans again have sealed the border be tween occupied and unoccupied France against any travel whether by rail motor or foot Every effort was being made by the British to harass German pre parations for the big attack All German radio stations went silent at 11 oclock last night and even Continued on Page Six PATROLMEN TO HELP AT THE STATE FAIR DCS Moines la Aug C A Knee chief of the state Four Killed In Auto Albert Lea Minn Aug persons were killed early today their bile crashed headon into a truck a mile south of here The dead were Frank Goette and his wife and Ernest Eilers and his wife ali about 30 years old They lived at Bricelyn Minn 30 highway patrol today announced j miles west of here The accident happened when a machine carrying the two couples pulled out of the traffic lane to pass a semitrailer truck and struck a light truck coming from the opposite direction The im assignments of 27 patrolmen to state fair patro duty He requested all patrolmen throughout Iowa to lend every aid necessary to visitors traveling to the fair At the same time he asked mot pact threw the automobile against particularly those travel the ing in the vicinity of Des Moines All were killed instantly except to bear in mind that highways Goette who died enroute to an Al mny be crowded and to drive with bert Lea hospital extra caution The couples were believed to be The 10 highway patrolmen to their homes after at signed to the Des Moines district tending the Freeborn county lair will help Des Moines police in here handling in the fair The truck drivers were not in grounds vicinity jured Ickes Perkins Should Leave Cabinet San Francisco Aug UP ties said last night in an Martin Dies who savs is no power or is in favor of Secretary of nation of powers which could ior Harold L Ickes and Secretary vacie the United States I of Labor Frances Perkins being as we stand together driven from the cabinet unless vulnerable to attack they change their attitude toward out he said trojan horse organizations re Dies said turns east today in his search for had found 6OOQfW subversive activity I United If theae leaders in the or Bad ment continue to lend aid and comfort to the enemy I He motion every American driving them stars March out of public office the and man of that unAmerican the i
