Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - October 16, 1940, Oelwein, Iowa Win Report TODAYS t of the World by Automatic Printer VOL 290 THE OELWEIN DAILY REGISTER WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16 1940 I RST PEACE TIME DRAFT REGISTRATION TODAY HOW THE BOYS WHO REGISTER FEEL ABOUT IT Every MaJe Resident Must Regis ter Before By LYLE C WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent First call and millions answer All day Americas young man hood is marching Theyre a little out of stefi but not for long Zero hour moves westward with the sun and 16404000 strong they register for national service East side west side main street farm town hall firehouse village barn the young men gather to fulfill responsibility to America Johnny gets his gun if his num ber comes up Democracy is your cause of youth President Roose velt tells them Seven a m and they are lined up and waiting in the east An other hour another time zone and the Mississippi valley is of fering up its youth Through the mountain states the zero hour is moving up and over and down the Pacific slope The machinery of national se service is spinning coast Canada The world around us is on fire This is the traditional Ameri can muster done Jo greater scale But the muster all the same that enabled western pioneers to hold the plains states and the New before them to meet the Indians charge America is mobilizing for defense The presi dent emphasized that Here they come there they go or more an hour for the national army of males 21 to 35 years old inclu sive All is the way of The high and low and poor good and bad The boys and the sons of heir older servants Bobby Feller signs on with a shot gun in his tar Bobbys going hunting and if Ihe draft gets him okay Tough though for the Cleveland ball club Hour by hour the lines form at 25000 places of registration It wont be long now Johnny you are fit and free Oct 16 at peace Continued on Page Eight Corn Is Making Good Progress DCS Moines la Oct dry weather of the past week was favorable for continued progress of Iowas corn crop tow ard maturity S E Decker assist ant federal meteorologist report ed today it is still generally too for safe storage and in some there are still a good green leaves the report A good deal of old corn was and stored in bins to make for the new crop the report said There was some picking and husking for storage in the north west and some picking for feeding fn all sections Fall plowing made good pro gress in those sections ture conditions are favorable but in many areas especially in the the ground is hard and breaks into clods Fall sown rye and wheat look good but would be helped by rain In the drier pastures arc brown and Warmer Weather Forecast Iowa I DCS Moines la Oct averaged five de grees below normal in Iowa to day but fair and warmer weather was forecast for the next 24 hours I Light frosts were reported dur 1 ing the night at Des Moines and in southeastern and eastern por tions of the state i The mercury dipped below i freezing at Davenport with a min imum reading of 31 The highest mark was 64 at Council Bluffs BEING IN MIDST OF BOMB AREA American News Reporter Gives Vivid Description of Home l x Being Bombed Editors note What would you see rnd hear and do if bombs be gan dropping around your home In the following dispatch Harry Flory European news manager for the United Press gives an Ameri cans vivid and detailed answer By HARRY FLORY United Press Staff Correspondent London Oct was no warning no whistling sound Instead there was a sud den terrific wham And the clink of breaking glass mingled with the explosion of a German aerial bomb The house shook violently I dived flat on the floor yelling duck My dinner guest in the ground floor dining room of the five story London house I share with a friend sut his The maid who had just served dessert stood at the door The sound of falling glass continued but our house remained standing 1 arose from the floor feeling very silly We all laughed My friend said later I first looked cross apparently because he and the maid had failed to take my advise and also because of my awkwardness in diving to the floor The house is in one of those lovely garden squares of Londons wesi end We judged the bomb must have fallen in the garden perhaps even on the trench shelter in which 50 or 60 persons usually sought safety I Continued on Page Seven ROOSEVELT TO TOUR THE EAST Will Confer Friday With Cana I das High Officials At Hyde Park Home IOWA POLITICS MORE HEATED AS ELECTION HEARS Declare Railroad Employes Wages Reduced First Years of New Deal CBy United Press Even draft registration failed to slow the tempo of Iowa poli tical activity today Republican spokesmen hurled it barrage of charges against the new deal and democrats concen on the visit of Sen Scott Lucas of Illinois their midwest campaign manager Alf M Landon 1936 republi can presidential candidate told a political rally at Atlantic last night that the election of Wen dell L Willkie would do for the nation what a rain would do for our winter wheat crop But he warned foreign powers that republicans and democrats would unite for the national in terest after the election and de clared whomever is elected will be my president for the next four years Landon praised Willkie as a man of character broad vision executive ability and determina tion and assailed President 3qr ance and poor management He advised the dictators who are offering us alternate threats and bribes that they are making a very grave error if they mis take the rivalry cf a political campaign for disunity in the Un States We Americans do not conduct our political with that at Sen Lucas will confer with state democratic leaders today and Thursday He will address a democratic meeting tonight at and a mass meeting tomorrow at DCS Moines The senator will deliver two important radio talks tomorrow on PRES ROOSEVELT SPOKE AT THIS MORNING Addressed Country On Reg And The Cause For It 5 New Members Of Iowa Alumni picking potato digging find harvest of lile truk crops Tomato and cucumber are still green Melons are to market is generally in good Washington Oct President Roosevelt haw ind that he soon will make de tense tours in five eastern sea I board states I The president probably will make personal appearances in Massachusetts Connecticut New Pennsylvania and New Jersey Mr Roosevelt also will make l several major radio addresses in j which he will present his case for reelection The first comes Oct J Youth the president speaks on radio time purchased by the democratic national committee Another ad dress on paid time will be on Oct 30 On Oct 24 he will speak by radio cr send a message to the Nrw forum He also may deliver addresses dedicating the new Battery Brooklyn vehicular tunnel and new Harrisburg PitU Lurgh Mr Roosevelt plans to leave Friday for his Hyde Park N Y reportedly for a confer Continued on Page Seven Recalls Draft Registration In 1917 i Washington Oct UP Maj Gen Allen W Gullio the prog re f of todays registration but re tailed another historic day tho duy of first world war draft registration Gullion who played an Import ant role in the selective service ram of 1917 now is judge advocate general if the army He in his little iy and recounted the story ot his counterpart 23 years In nn the Tnit he rited several striking ir thr two days Todays registration is during peace on Trne S 1917 this country was at with Germany More than 16000000 men are to register for military today 1925751 nrn the ages of 21 and 31 in tho first of the three v war The army has been preparing for 20 years for todays Rday in 1017 registration was started 18 days congress passed the law We had only 18 days to set up the registration machinery said in an interview Gon Enoch Crowder provost marshal general was in charge executive who was a genius ii tin was a colonel Johnson DOCTORS WIFE FOUND SLAIN Mrs Leah Rubin Found Mysteri Murdered In Locked Apartment New York Oct Detectives encountered a full blown mystery today in the mur der of Mrs Leah Rubin 38 wife of a physician Her body was found in a locked apartment at yester day evening by a maid returning from shopping It lay in Hie foyer The head was battered and the face bore shuup cuts The medical examiner believed the murderer had used a claw ham mer but no such weapon was found George assistant district attorney said robbery apparently was not the motive but he did not suggest any other motive Mrs Rubin wore a house dress Her purse lay beside her its con tents strewn over the rug She still wore a ring and a wrist wa tch Mrs Rubins husband is Dr Eli H Rubin chief of the sis division of hospi tal They have two children Su san six and Leonard nine The maid Betty Clampa said die last saw Mrs Rubin alive at 2 p m At that time the maid hud started her shopping lour going first to a grocery then to school to get Susan and take her to a dancing class Returning home with Susan the maid found a note on the door knob from Leon ard saying he had been unable to get into the apartment and waiting at a neighbors down stairs The maid had a key tp the apartment and found the body on entering on Elected Grand High Priest of R A M Cedar Rapids la Oct Walter Schwarz Keokuk was elected grand high of the Royal Arch Masons of to succeed Harry B Sher man Fort Dodgo Other officers named were Na than Hicks Marsh all town de put high priest R J Camblin Atlantic grand king D D Algona grand and G E Masters re elected grand secretary ws as the site f r ih mxt meeting of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masons and Chapter of the Arch in 1942 REGISTRATION AT DES MOINES IS RECOUNTED One of the Registrants Gives Hft Impression of the Work Gone Through By ROBERT P SPEER United Press Staff Correspondent DCS Moines la Oct young men between 21 and 35 in my voting precinct had the same idea I did this get there early and get it over with They were standing outside in the crisp fall air when I arrived tc be the 37th Topcoats pulled up around their ears they shuf fled and shivered waiting for a 7 A M deadline that would mean for some of us an entire year torn out of the routine of our lives The 37 of us were only thousandth of the 375000 young lowans who will register for the nations first peacetime draft be fore tonight has passed into his tory We were a quiet lot There was no banter one little conversation at all We stood in line and kept our thoughts to ourselves A thin boy in a ragged over coat squinted at the sky Duck hunting season opend today he observed The season opened on us too another commented The armys hunting and were duck ing The wisecrack drew no laughs At we were inside and 10 young men faced 10 women across a long table We answered all the questions and the women filled them in on a little card Name address age next of kin identifying features The we men werent used to the procedure yet and some of us had to help them out with sug gestions The woman who the information from seemed nervous and made quent mistakes at first By JOHN A REICHMANN United Press Staff Correspondent Washington Oct President Roosevelt told the esti mated 16404000 men registering for the first peacetime draft today that their cause is to protect de and peace against those who have dared to threaten the whole world with war In an unprecedented early mor ning radio 7 a m CST the president said the program upon which the nation had embarked was one obviously of defensive preparation and of defensive preparation only but that the duty of this say has been Towa City la Oct Five new honorary members of the University of Iowas alumni Club have brought the total up to 426 men as the club enters its fourth year I Now members voted in by the executive board are Wilson Abel and Charles E Strickland of Ma Word From Berlin Says son City Dr J W Thompson of Was Turned Into A Large Dr Ernest A Cahs of Sea of Flames LONDON GETS WORST BOMBING OF THIS WAR Earlville and Lyle 111 Hedrick of EFFORT TO STOP REGISTRATION Two Divinity Students And House wife Arrested At Chicago Chicago 111 Oct Two University of Chicago div students and a young house By FREDERICK C United Press Staff Correspondent Berlin Oct air fleets attacking Britain in mass formation started big in central London and turned the British capital into a large sea of flames that could be seen 08 miles away the official news agency reported today London is a large sea of flames the agency reported Geiman fliers observed the fires from a distance of 80 to 100 kilo meters North of Victoria docks on the Thames river five particularly large fires were burning having imposed upon us from without 1 wife were arrested today while destroyed an important warehouse Those who have dared to passing out leaflets urging dont Large fires also broke out in threaten the whole world with 1 register for the draft outside a I the center of the city northeast who have created the i conscription registration place of the corner of the Thames el WILLKIE TALKS ABOUT PRESENT SCARCITY PLAN After Several Days In Ohio Will Speak At Cincinnati Tonight By WILLIAM H LAWRENCE United Press Staff Correspondent Aboard Willkie Train En Route to Cincinnati O Oct I L Willkie charged to day that the new deal economys tragic fallacy is that it main tains scarcity in the midst of po abundance The prosperity of a democracy can be developed only by produc ing more and better things at de creasing prices and ever higher standards for the farmer and worker he said Calling on the people particular ly supporters of President Roose velt to require Mr Roosevelt to define what his program what his principles and what his poli cies will be if he is reelected Willkie left New York state and headed into Ohio where he will speak at Mansfield Marion Springfield Dayton and Hamil ton on his way to Cincinnati for a major speech on relief tonight It will be broadcast over the blue network of the National Broad casting company from to 8 p m CST In a speech prepared for de livery at Mansfield Willkie said that farmers and industrial work ers enjoy prosperity or suffer de pression at the same time but that both would prosper if the nations productive capacity is name and deed of total imposed upon us and upon all free peoples the necessity of pre paration for total defense he said Selective compulsory military service he said in effect is Am ericas answer Todays registration for train ing and service he said the keystone in the arch of our na tional defense To the 16000000 young who register today I say that de is your cause of youth your act today affirms Those arrested were John Hay ward 22 Wellesley Mass and Paul B Henniges 25 Peoria III residents of the divinity school dormitory and Mrs 22 a housewife Police said they were passing out handbills sponsored by the youth committee against war They were held under bail of each pending arraignment to morrow on charges of disorderly conduct U S district attorney William J Campbell ordered a federal in and assigned an assist to build your future for yourselves Mr Roosevelt said it was to the democracy the cause of peace that we Americans today devote our national will ancT our national spirit and our national strength Continued on Page ACTORS AMONG REGISTRANTS Movie Stars And Lead ers Registering For The Draft not only your loyalty to your ant Francis to handle violation tions An airplane chartered by the campaign for world government flew over the city for two hours pulling a banner on which was printed Stop Members of the organization cir j loop streets urging citi zens to register for peace by signing petitions for congressional passage of a appropria tion for peace action by nations not at war and in preparation for a world peace convention An estimated 600000 men be tween 21 and 36 were expected to register at 404 Chicago registra tion places the cu Non Continued For nearly eight years we have been taught by the new deal i that by making things scarce we I could bring the more abundant Willkie said The idea has been that if the fanner did not I produce so much the prices on I Continued on Page Thee me frc Shc Continued on Page Imee WALLACES SON FIRST TO REGISTER DCS Moines la Oct Browne Wallace 25year old son of democratic vice presi nominee Henry Wall ace was tho first man to register for the draft at Johnston la con school near here today He is employed at his fathers hybrid seed corn plant at John ston Young Wallace is married but has no The other son Rob ert Browne Wallace 22 also is el for He is taking graduate work at the University of Wisconsin KILLED BY AUTO IN DAVENPORT Davenport la Oct Allison 41 Davenport was instantly killed late yester day when he was struck by an automobile driven by William Wickus 28 also of Davenport His death is the first automobile fatality of the year HERRING TO CAMPAIGN IN IOWA Des Moines la Oct Clyde L Herring will be unable to attend the sixth district democratic rally in DCS Moines tomorrow night because ot busi ness in Washington However he advised local party leaders here that he will arrive Saturday night or Sunday morn ing The senator will start a series of campaign speeches on behalf of state and national democratic candidates in Iowa Oct 23 or 24 and plans to remain here until af ter the election FIVE IOWANS ARE KILLED AT MOLINE Moline 111 Oct UP Five persons were killed early to day when their automobile was struck by a Rotk pass enger train at a downtown cross ing Four of the dead were from la and one from Muscatine la Dead were Alice Marie Woods W Clarence Tadlock 28 Arline 23 Elmer Asmus 20 all of Davenport and Uan don of By FREDERICK C OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent Hollywood Oct UP The movies heroes or those young enough and they were sur few joined the rest of Americas young men today in registering for the draft Most of the topflight heart throbs like Clark Gable Gary j Cooper Spencer Tracy Ronald Colman and Cary Grant were too old Even those hemen of the horse operas Buck Jones and George OBrien topped the 36yearold mark Of the so actors who did register most were married many also were paying alimony to their exes Single men with an en chance of becoming soldiers in cluded James Stewart Orson Welles Cesar Romero and Brod KILL SHERIFF IN TAYLOR NEB Two Brothers Shoot Sheriff At A Registration Booth In Nebraska erick Crawford Virtually all of the others could list Taylor Neb Oct Willard and John Birkes ranch ers who allegedly shot Loup County Sheriff George Brock fa tally at a draft registration sta lion today were captured several hours later by police and state bow Even with the most vigor ous use of the London firefight ing forces it will be difficult to extinguish thees The positions given in the of news agency report indicated that the big fires were in the city of London or financial area in the middle of the capital Nazis said that London was in a state chaps During the night nazis said 1 000 German planes dropped 2 200000 pounds of bombs on Lon don in what they called reprisal raids for the alleged bombing of German civilians by the Royal Air Force Informants said thai a percentage of the bombs dropped on mes southeast of London that reconnaissance planes flying over the area this morning MWJ the ruins of factories and centers German planes saw also along the thames the ruins of an and the smoking wreckage of factory Informants indicated that all night attack had one of 1 the most terrible in aerial history J They quoted nazi ses as describing scenes of utter horror with great fiery great bomb craters torn UD streets and crumbling buildings A high command communique described the raid with more re serve After the British had still not d existed from choosing defenseless German civilians and nonmilitary objectives as the targets of teir bomb attacks the Ger man air force on the night of Continued on Two Bob Feller Registered Today Cleveland Oct Feller 21oearold strikeout king early registrant here today sheriffs deputies who flew into line a this sandhills country mrc hin from out ot the city who up when the shooting occurred the brothers were taken hastily to Custer county at Broken Bow The registrants arranged mostly to sign their names at polling and sandhills ranchers friends of the popular I driven to town to register their V T L Tho shooting occurred at Val t R iW in 1 cy miles northwest of P Burwill The Birkes brothers Preston in Seattle took advantage of traveling regula tions to register away from homo Kay Kyser and his band of 10 Continued on Eight Died or registration of trans ient hotel guests convention delegates and other visitors tiers in the tine failed to re the pitch ins star cf the Cleveland Indians Pellets registration card will bo snt to his home town of Van Meter la nd the draft board will decide whether he ue is culled for military train j nephew Richard Birkes for the how he felt about the possibility of bein drafted for hcn Lrock attempted to serve service tho noint i a win rant on the brothers order ing them to vacate tho ranch on i which they were tenants the two allegedly opened fire Broik was Derison la Oct UP Hovard C 32 Manilla la cied in a hospital here yester day of injuries suffered Monday night when his automobile hit a bridge oo a gravel road near here ed t a shotgun which he is taking on 1 cluck hunting trip this and remark ed Auto Mishap struck m the Duck hunters passing by fired with that shotgun Continued on Page Two with u Til Inail Ive got Tom Mix Buried At Hollywood Today IOWA FOOTBALL TEAM REGISTERS He Oct singing Mix of actor friends and trite ong Empty Saddles army buddies I Hr will be buried under silently into the little cf Forest Lawn Memorial flowers to pay mar the graves of Iowa City In Oct to Tom Mix clashing j Harlow Fairbanks cf Iowa football oldie and Mai ie Drossier ers at least a food share of them man Fn JJ hours yesterday planned to register today for the j A Masonic ritual was read by j at rody lay in state in the dralt M ntr Blue player and Hosi thai of Pi tree Brothers Besides Kile Kinnick they cf the greatest of alt while hundreds by luro Mike John Church who fought at Bruno Enith Reel Frye George Gable Gallagher Ooj Max Hawkins Heing Henry Joel Bus Steve Joe Moore Murphy Boh Otto Pet tit Ham Sni the service was conducted by tho I Cri lol il Hill with Mix Rr 1 Brougher for Mix killed j last Saturday when his the Spanish he left the of bile overturned at 80 miles an J The actors hour near Florence extravagantly tier Edward Thomae Charley in true but restrained Hollywood i tt re his initials T 1JL to and Jim Walker fashion with orchestra leader
