Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - August 17, 1941, Waterloo, Iowa All the News for All the Family FIRST WITH N K W S The Weather Partly cloudy Complete Mr lowi M ESTABLISHED 1854 WATERLOO IOWA SUNDAY AUGUST 17 1941 THIRTY-TWO PAGES PRICE SEVEN CENTS NO NEARER ROOSEV See Nazi End by Joint Action By W BEATTIE JB UP tive British and Russian sources optimistic on reports from the eastern front and frankly jubilant over the coining conference in Moscow predicted Saturday eight that war production would smash nazi Germany Soviet sources declared that irian offensives were being repulsed all the way from Lake Onego on the Finnish front to the sector west of Kiev They admitted nazi only in the southern where they asserted the tion altho is where under control Stimulated by these reports and by Soviet Premier Josef V Stalin's prompt acceptance of the joint posal of President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill for a conference on long-term war strategy in Moscow spokesmen that forces had now produced an alignment powerful enough to destroy the world's mightiest military machine British sources believed that one of the first topics on the agenda in the Moscow conference which Russian reports said would be held at the earliest possible would be the immediate dispatch of streams of fighting and bombing planes to reinforce Red air force Russia's most urgent need it WM said it to offset the constant attrition of her own combat craft in ting a In addition to planes was be- production be called upon to supply a long list of other weapons and terials which in the present stage of the war may most effectively be used against Germany by the Russians The Moscow conference in which high representatives of the United States and Great Britain will sit at the same table with Stalin will result in a pooling it was believed here of industrial military and naval resources greater than anything Adolf Hitler and his allies can ever to achieve The United States role in addition to that of industrial fountainhead will become in- apparent in the tle of the Atlantic and hi the maintenance of power in the Pacific observers pre- dieted British authoritative spokesmen admitted the military situation in the Ukraine vas serious but said that if Marshal Semyon Budenny could withdraw his forces to new defensive positions east of the broad Dnieper without losing too much material the Russians could con- to make the German effort tremendously costly Summing up reasons for ing the alignment of forces now directed against Adolf Hitler will prove equal to the task of destroying him British spokesmen listed these 1 The British navy has proved itself clearly superior to the com- German and Italian fleets 2 The United States navy just by existing is forcing Japan to be more cautious than she otherwise might be 3 The air force is superior in many respects if not in dive bombers to the luftwaffe 4 The Russian army is larger than the German and appears to be holding its units intact despite terrific pressure forcing steady withdrawal 5 American production throw the balance in that respect in favor of the forces Tokyo Gravely Concerned Tokyo Japan to day showed multiplying evidences of grave concern over the ing Moscow conference as the news paper Hochi warned Rus sia she may be digging her own grave by allying herself with the United States and Britain Commenting on what it called the pooling of British Russian anc American war Hoch sternly If Soviet-Japanese relations grow worse the kremlin alone must bear the burden of responsibility SAVE A LIFE IN 1941 Traffic Toll in City of Waterloo This Year and Last Since Sam 1 1941 Number of accidents 277 Number injured 95 Number killed 6 Date 1940 7 Martin King Unbelt 2 or So San Harvester cigars Troops Start War Games Washington Coastline Held by Parachutist Force from Hawaii SECOND ARMY BEGINS COMBAT IN ARKANSAS Fort Lewis Approximately soldiers of the Ninth army corps day night expected to make contact with a huge force of invaders who theoretically field most of the Washington coastline after effecting surprise andings by parachutes and boats All day thousands of troops lined highways leading from the fort to Lake up defense positions against the mythical attacking forces in greatest war games ever held in the northwest The invaders moved on the United States from captured Hawaii Main job of the Ninth corps at the outset of the titanic battle was to check innumerable enemy The troops were expected to re- main on the defensive until by more men of the Third army corps being rushed by caravan and troop trains California bases Gen George C Marshall army chief of staff was scheduled to ar- rive to observe the mock war Olympia Destroyed In the paper phase of the by umpires on maps the Invading army used every device of modern war to gain strong footholds along the irregular Washington coast and at the mouth of the Columbia river in Oregon Supported by innumerable and boasting hordes of and many parachute troops the attackers flattened Fort Worden on Sound bombed McChord field at Tacoma to rubble and were within sight of Tacoma and Seattle The state capital of was virtually destroyed and a half-dozen cities captured Altho not silenced the big guns at Forts Stevens and Canby ing the mouth of the Columbia river were under a state of siege by a strong unit of enemy para- chutists who landed on the broad beach at Seaside The city of Astoria Ore was easily taken Ready with Snoops While the invaders appeared to have a strong grip on the coast the soldiers of the defending armies were ready to Continued on page 2 column 2 End of Historic Meeting President Franklin D bids good-bye to Prime ter Winston Churchill as the latter leaves the U S S Augusta at the close of their conferences Aug New Problems of Defense Await President at Capital Roosevelt's return to capital Sunday will find a problems great and small awaiting his attention and disposition First of will be the delivery of defense supplies to Great the armed forces of the United States and also to Russia This is an problem made now the more prominent by the president's conference sea with Winston Churchill and the presence in Washington of Lord Beaverbrook the British minister of supply There have been reports of them seemingly founded that a shake-up of the defense organization is Point to Ukraine and Odessa as Area of Especially Heavy Fighting BERLIN SAYS STUKAS FILL DAYS WITH TERROR News Feature Index Page Afterthoughts 18 Believe Boys and Girls Brady's Health Talk 4 Bugs Baer Comment 31 Cedar Falls News 15 City in Brief 11 Classified Ads Comics 32 Farm News 20 Markets Merry-Go-Round in News 4 Northeast Iowa Events 14 Parsons Movie Picture Private Lives 15 Radio Programs 17 Serial Story 18 Stamp Stories 4 Theatre Entertainment Uncle Ray's Corner Uncle 18 War Map 19 Waterloo Winchell on Broadway nent One report had it that Roosevelt had appointed Judge Samuel N Rosenman of New York to look into the situation and make However a high official said Judge Rosenman was confining his studies to the overlapping of tions of the office of price tration and office of production management In addition Washington would not be surprised if the president were bringing as many problems back to Washington as await him here problems calling for decisions based on the information exchanged at the Churchill conference or de- on how best to effectuate policies adopted as a result of the meeting at sea On the domestic front strikes continue to particularly that at the Federal Shipbuilding Co in Kearny N J The operators of the plant have asked the navy to take it over Governor Edison of New Jersey has asked that such action be delayed Several bills await Roosevelt's signature notably the army service extension adding 18 months to the possible service of draftees national guardsmen reservists and army enlisted men The measure was passed last week with the house giving its proval by a margin There is also de- fense appropriation Friday but less money than the army and the administration re- quested 72 Italian Seamen on Way to Montana Missoula S immigration authorities announced Saturday that 72 additional ian seamen will arrive at the internment camp at Fort Missoula Monday from the tic coast swelling the number of internees to At the same time it was disclosed the war department had turned over its facilities at the fort to the immigration service bringing down a curtain on the last active army garrison in tana The Italian seamen who have a band will give their first public concert Sunday They plan to play before clubs in the region and it was an- collodions will be taken for the internees British Children Are Going Home Safe Parents Say New Three British children who came to this country two years ago to escape the nazi bombings left here aboard the Dixie Clipper en route home returning because their parents conditions in land now are safe Christine 13 her brother John 10 and sister Jane 7 told reporters We share the hardships with our parents Frank A Day jr of Newton Mass at whose home the children have been staying said their parents had written that the tion in England was greatly im- proved Allies Claim 7 Axis Ships Sunk sinking of seven axis ships including a destroyer by British naval torpedo planes Royal Air force bombers and a Dutch sub- marine operating in the ranean was announced Saturday night with indications that a large convoy en route to Libya had been shattered At the same time a violent RAF bombardment of the ports of tania and Augusta and the dromes at Gerbini and Trapani on the Italian island of Sicily was dis- closed to have been staged day night The Italian high command knowledged the intensity of the raid on Catania announcing many dead and Nudists to Meet in New Jersey Stockholm N dred American nudists and special guests from France and Egypt will assemble at nearby Rock Ledge next weekend for an annual sion of undressed business and fun dedicated to five-year plan The occasion will be the tenth annual convention of the American Sunbathing association MOTH BALLS TRIP UP TOO CUNNING FARMER New Ulm at the Brown county fair thought a certain sample of wheat had a strong odor Moth balls agreed the judges A farmer who won a prize on the sample last year had kept it in moth balls or entry again this It didn't win Moscow JP The Germans made another at- tempt to raid Moscow last night and early Saturday but it was announced that all planes were dispersed before reaching the city the Associated Press Moscow Red army went into the ninth week of its all-out resistance against Germany's invasion today with bitter fighting along the entire eastern front while Russian British and United States leaders rushed plans to pool their resources for a long war against nazism The soviet communique again merely reported that fighting continued yesterday and last night on the whole third consecutive time that the Russians have issued a report on the war The Soviets did point Saturday to the Ukraine where the Germans are pushing toward the ports of Odessa and Nikolaev as an area of particularly heavy fighting But their last three communiques have not mentioned of towns and cities as usual To reports that the Germans were approaching the vital Ukraine manufacturing area of S A Lozovsky soviet spokesman Radio Does the Work It is the idea of the German radio about the movement of the German army The German radio wants to do work the troops not do The last communique of the sians mentioning specific points in the Ukraine said the Red army had withdrawn from Kirovograd and in the heart of that part of the Ukraine west of the but that the German ad vance had been stemmed British quarters in London said the Russians were drawing rapidly to new tions east of the broad but said the situation would appear to be quite cheerful Finnish war correspondents re ported the capture of the towns of and Jaakkima on the northern shore of Lake Ladoga cutting in two the soviet force fighting on the east and west side of the lake A broadcast communique from Moscow said Berlin and Stettin on the Baltic were bombed with high explosives and incendiaries Friday night and that many fires and ex- plosions were observed in both places Stukas Spread Terror the Associated Press Berlin Screaming Stuka dive bombers are giving days and nights of terror to Russian troop said to be encircled near Odessa and in other parts of the southern Ukraine German military reports received in Berlin said Saturday night The German air force was re ported spreading terror lavishly over a wide area with the greatest intensity in the re- gion where the high command is attempting to achieve another Dunkerque by driving the Russian in wholesale flight into the Black sea German fliers reported they were concentrating their bombs on railways roads and long col- of Russian troops and plies The high command devoted just two sentences to the Russian war Saturday opening the daily com- with the sentence ations continue successfully ing to plan on the entire eastern and closing it with a report of an attempted Russian air raid on Germany Bitterness of the fighting was stressed in dispatches from the front which declared that neither side was disposed to give much quarter In one incidental skirmish the said they took only 200 prisoners as 800 Russians counted dead Predicts to Take Over Shipbuilding Plant by Monday Washington D The government probably will take over the plant of the Federal Shipbuilding and Co at Kearny N J within 48 hours a high defense official predicted Saturday This official who would not be quoted by name said that President was expected to act on the case as soon as possible after his return to the capital An order for the action is un- to have been drafted at Japanese Troop Trains Move to Siberian Border anese troop and military supply movements were believed in ress in Manchukuo Saturday night after Japanese authorities took drastic measures virtually closing the Manchukuo borders to all for- eigners Peiping dispatches warned for- eign residents of Manchukuo who now are in north China to return o their residences by Monday and foreigners visiting Manchukuo were ordered to leave the country uy Monday Well-informed quarters said that after Monday all Manchukuo road lines would be monopolized by troop and military supply trains to the Siberian frontier where anese officials admitted border clashes have been continuing U.S Tankers on Way to Russians with Plane Gas San Pedro one American tanker on the high seas with barrels of aviation gasoline bound for Eussia a ond tanker the J C Fitzsimmons last night had finished loading barrels of the high test fuel and awaited sailing orders Reports persisted that vessels bound for Vladivostok of least three more are to load here during the next few days would meet at sea and proceed in a group thru waters in which American destroyers are on After delaying her departure for two days the L P St Clair loaded with barrels sailed early Saturday Scent Axis Hand in Assassination of Jap Statesman Shanghai UP Diplomatic quarters heard reports Saturday that 10 hours before the attempted assassination Thursday of Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma an axis newspaperman telephoned the home ministry at Tokyo to inquire whether the Japanese statesman had been shot Japanese gendarmes as result of the call were said to have foreign correspondents at Tokyo closely to determine er they had advance knowledge of the plot to take the life of uma who is regarded as a friend of the United States and Great Britain conferences between executives of the navy maritime sion office of production agement and defense mediation board About worth of naval and merchant ship construction has been tied up for 10 days in the strike called by the industrial union of marine and shipbuilding workers of America The mediation board has mended a settlement of the dispute by adoption of a contract ing a maintenance of union clause The union agreed to the but called the strike when the company failed to do so L H Korndorff president of the company offered to turn the plant over to the navy and asserted that the strike involves no issue but the maintenance of the open shop We are unwilling to abandon the defense of the freedom of the American worker to choose whether will belong to a union or not Ship Officers to Have Insurance War Bonus Washington D C An agreement for payment of war risk bonuses to licensed officers of merchant ships and carrying of war risk insurance on such officers was reached last night by representatives of the officers and shipping companies after longed conferences with labor de- and maritime commission officials The battle has tied up scores of ships in American harbors The full issue however will no be determined until seamen anc radio operators have reached an agreement on bonuses CCC Boys Must Learn to March Washington D CCC boys are going to have to learn how to march but they are not ing to carry guns Director James J McEntee of the civilian conservation corps an- last night that he has proved a war department tion requiring junior CCC enrollees to be trained to march like diers Most emphatically he said the order does not in any way put the CCC into the military ment Nor is it a prelude to training in the CCC Entee added U S Plane Beats Off Seven Nazis London W fortress bombers participating in heavy RAF assaults upon occupied France bombed Brest Saturday and one of the big flying craft beat off an attack by seven nazi fighters returning safely altho damaged and with some of its crew wounded An air ministry account of the fight between the fortress and the Germans the first in which one of these craft has been reported even touched by the nazis said the bomber beat off re- attacks by the luftwaffe men The Brest raid was only one of several carried out by RAF fighters and bombers over northern France Argentina Holds Meet Buenos Aires One of the largest a n t a z i demonstrations ever held in South America was staged here Saturday by at least persons as the climax of a one-day work stoppage to strate workers sympathy for the democracies and invaded nations Roosevelt's name was cheered for five minutes when a speaker re- ferred to the Atlantic meeting of the president with Prime Minister Churchill The demonstration was arranged under the auspices of the tine Workers federation and it was estimated that 500.000 members of the federation and others stopped work MAN DEES Long Beach liam P Dunlap 65 former ness manager of the Chicago ald and Examiner and resident of Chicago for nearly half a century died Saturday after a lingering ness Dies in Crash The RAF ferry command in Montreal announced that Rt Hon Arthur B Purvis head of the British Supply Council in North America and Canadian Industrialist was killed in the crash of a trans- Atlantic plane taking off from a British port that took 23 Including 12 American President Intimates He and Churchill in Accord on Developments BELIEVES RUSSIA WILL V HOLD ON FOR WINTER Aboard Presidential Train en Route to President Roosevelt intimated Saturday that he and Winston Churchill were in complete cord upon tense developments in the Far East as well an the Russo-German conflict but asserted this nation was no nearer to war than when he sailed away to meet the British prime minister at sea The chief executive spoke aboard the yacht Potomac with craft guns mounted on her deck just before he came ashore at land Me There he boarded his special train for conferences in ington Sunday with Secretary Hull on both the Far East and French situations Tanned and obviously happy at what he called the eminently swapping of ideas with Brit- ain's leader Roosevelt told more than a score of newsmen crowded into the Potomac's wardroom that there a single section of a single continent that went cussed during their dramatic ing Think Russia to Hold On Are we closer to entering the war a reporter The president said he would say no Roosevelt also intimated that the heads of the two biggest cies saw eye to eye in believing that Russia would hold on against Germany thru the winter He said consideration had been given at the meetings both to fitting Russia's immediate needs into this country's production of war materials and to Russia's needs for the campaigns of next spring Roosevelt declared that con- sideration of Russia's next spring were based on assumption that winter would at least partially halt the nail drive Back from London and Harry Hopkins lend-lease trator who accompanied Churchill to the conferences sat quietly at his side as newsmen plied the ident with questions seeking to learn what changes if any the de- liberations would bring in this country's status in the world con- One Conference on Battleship He would say little on this point however beyond declaring that the next step would be only a further interchange of ideas The chief executive likewise was silent on the length of his meetings with Churchill or the setting of these sessions except that he did reveal that only one conference was held aboard the British ship Prince of Wales The others he said took place on the United States cruiser Augusta He obvious sons he discuss the ex- act location of the epochal ex- change of ideas between president of a nation at peace and the head of a government at war Nor would he lor the same sons say when he and Churchill parted company or where the prime minister was at present The chief executive explained however that the meeting was a joint idea planned as long ago as February and postponed because of Britain's campaign in Greece and Crete It was called he said for an exchange of views looking to both the present and the future Russia Able to Pay Cash He said he had even objected to an announcement that he was ing at Rockland Saturday Then smiling he remarked that it had been foggy on the way over and that if any submarines had fired torpedoes they had not been sighted The president asserted that new lend-lease program was stiU in its study stage but that it was the point where additional would be sought to finance aid fur the democracies In response to ever he said wouW not lend-lease aid now cw Uw
