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I I CARROLL DAILY HERALD 10 THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN AN INLAND EMPIRE OF EIGHT COUNTIES CARROLL, IOWA, MONDAY, JUNE 23, 1941 VOL. LXXI NUMBER TE Rev. Huelshorst Of Dedham Dies There Saturday 'Pastor of St. Joseph's Church, Dedham, For 30 Years RITES WEDNESDAY Had Been Ill of Coronary Thrombosis for More Than Years Dedham (HNS) The Rev. Christopher Huelshorst, pastor of St.

Joseph's Church here for thir-, ty years, died at the rectory 3:15 p.m. Saturday, June 21, after a long Illness. Hig death was caused by corcnary thrombosis. Ill for niore than two years, Father Huelshorst had been practically bedridden since last August. During the last two weeks he had been able to HAy mass nine times at the rectory.

His last appearance in church was at the graduation exercises on June 8, when he was taken to the church in a wheel chair. At 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon the body, accompanied by a cortege of thirty-five car loads of relatives and parishioners, WAS taken from the rectory to St. Joseph's Church, where WAS innet by the Rev. Father N. Boe9 of Dedham and the Rev.

Father H. J. Dries of Willoy and given the bicasing. As the body was escorted up the aisle, the choir chanted the Miserere, after which the congregation joined in reciting the Rosary. Then the coffin was opened and the congregation filed past to view the hody.

The was recited ngaln Sunday evening. The body is lying in state in the church until the time of the funeral services, and parishioners are taking turns keeping vigil day and night. RITES WEDNESDAY Solemn requiem high mass will be offered at the sorvicos, which are to be held, at St. Joseph's Church at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning. The Rev.

L. Schenkelberg of Carroll will be the celebrant of the mass; the Rev. Father Dries of Willey, deacon; the Rev. L. thofer of Roselle.

sub-deacon; the Rev. P. M. Mattes of Ida Grove, master of ceremonies; the Rev. Louis Meyer, O.

S. of Conception, and the Rev. Henry Meyer of Sioux City, acolytes, and the Rev. O. Koester of Carroll, thurifer.

The sermon will be delivered by the Rev. N. J. Becker of Bancroft. Burial will be in St.

Joseph's Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers will be the Rev. August Meyer of Maple River; the Rev. die Stork of Arcadia; the Rev. E.

Schleyet of Breda; the Rev. Joseph Roder of Manning; the Rev. Arthur J. Poockes and the Rev. Urban Sie'grist of Carroll.

Active pallbearjers will be Theodore Meyer, John Huelshorst(Continued on Page 2) Red Army Given But Slim Chance Against Nazis Experts Consider This Invasion Admission of Blitzkrieg Failure PLAN LONG WAR Germans Seeking Supplies To Stand Off British Arms Longer Washington --The red army was conceded only the slimmest chances by military experts today in Its stand againat the armed might of Nazi Germany, but considerable doubt prevailed AS to the immediate advantages Hitler could reap from his Russian adventure. The initial reaction of well-informed specialists was that the invasion of Russia constituted the first open acknowledgment of the blitzkrieg's -Germany, of the total lightning victory she sought, was striking to assure the supply of food and raw materials she necds for a long war. The sudden thrust into Russia also was regarded tantamount to an admission that many still felt herself unequal to the supreme test with her avowed number one cnemy---the invasion and conquest of the British Isles. Departure of Italians From U. S.

Halted Efforts Being Made to Halt Removal of Any Property, Money Washington -The government acted today to halt the departure of Italian nationals from the United States. The action duplicated steps taken against Germans in this country June 18. The juatice department, announced it had instructions to Immigration and border patrol officers to take all necessary steps to prevent any Italian national from leaving the country pending further instructions. The department said it understood the treasury issued similar instructions to customs officers. The step was taken, the department said, to insure compliance with the executive order of the president of last June 14 regulating transactions in foreign exchange and foreign owned property.

The order and accompanying regulations prohibit Italian nationals from exporting or withdrawing from the United States any gold or silver coin or bullicn or any currency and require reports with respect to any property in the United States in which the Italians have any interest whatsoever. The United Stat es has 33,188 licensed civilian pilots. Direction of German Push Into Russia FINLAND, LENINGRAD SWEDEN MOSCOW BALTIC SEA S. S. R.

WARSAW Ill GERMANY UKRAINE HUNGARY MILES SEBASTOPOL RUMANIA 200 BLACK SEA Arrows indicate probable path ated all-out bombings of Kiev, of Germany's drive on Russia capital of Russian Ukraine and Finnish and Rumanian troops other vital Sovlet cities. NEA co-operated with Hitler's land Telephoto-2-C? Baltic Bulwarks of Russian Defense Believed Crumbling As Germans Move Inward; U.S. Condemns Attack Hawkeye Delegates Welcomed Home delegates occupied the front Carroll turned out to welcome week at the American Legion fairgrounds in Des Moines. the two small boys occupyare, left to right: Dean Polk- ing, Junior Walters, Bob McCord, Waters and Scott Minnich. Next to Wilson, master of' ceremonies, and of the two speakers.

The third is standing at extreme right. (Daily One Governor to Another Iowa's Governor George A. Wilson and Hawkeye State Governor Scott Minnich of Carroll were photographed together when the Hawkeye regime visited 'Iowa's Janesville Man Named Chairman Of Iowa AAA Albert Loveland Succeeds Guy Smith, Who Goes to FCIC Des Moines (AP) --Albert Loveland, Janesville, farmer and a field man for the AAA in northeastern Iowa, has been named chairman of the Town Agricultural Adjustment Administration effective July 1, it was learned authoritatively today. He will succeed Guy Smith, Rugsell, who will return to the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation as a field officer handling wheat insurance in the northcentral region and cotton in southeastern United States. Smith succeeded O.

D. Klein of Alden as state chairman last February 1. Smith will continue to make his home at Russell. ORDERED TO DUTY Omaha -Orders to a year's active duty were issued by the 7th corps area torlay to Second Lieut. James N.

Hall, Colfnx to Fort Sam Houston, July 1. Watch for the Daily Herald's Special 'Carroll Days' Edition Three Tiny Buffer States May Line Up With Hitler to Battle Reds LINE IS WEAKENING Finland Striving to Stay Neutral Though Claimed German Ally Rev C. Huelshornt Invasion of Russia to Speed U. S. Defenses American Striving to Get More Aid Ready for British Armies FOR DEFENSE TOO Question of Aid to Reds Has Not Been Settled By Government Washington Germany's lightning-like invasion of Soviet Russia promised today to produce an intensification of the United States' anms production effort foth for national defense and for lease-lend aid to Pritain.

Whether the lease-lend program would be extended to include Ru8sia was still a moot question, but some legislators on Capitol HIll already were urging that this country espouse the policy voiced by Winston Churchill yesterday for man or state" who fights against nazidom will have our The bomb-shell invasion of Russla caught the capital unaware while there was intense diplomatic activity Sunday the disposition of the state department was to await a clarification of the situation before making any mal statement. position Japan would take What in. sharply altered world situation was one subject of considerable Interest, but Tokyo WAR slow in indicating its plans officially, Japan, some diplomatic sources believed, finds herself In the role of deciding who is happy aggressor in the latest spread the war. As a member of the Axis Japan is bound to give military support to Italy or Germany and in event of "aggression" against them It was pointed out and Germany claime her invasion of Russia In self-defense. On the other the Russo-Japanese "neutrality" pact of April, 1941, stipulates if one signatory "becomes the ject of attack" the other will maintain neutrality--and Russia tends that the Sovict is the victim of an unjustified invasion.

Heavier Estate And Gift Taxes Are Considered Washington --'The House Ways and Means committee voted tentatively today in favor of' heavier estate and gift taxes designed to produce about 000 additional revenue. HOME ON VACATION Al Schweers, son of Mr. and Mra, Herman J. Schweers of Arcadia, arrived Saturday afternoon to spend a two weeks' vacation with his parents. Mr.

Schweers la employed in the War Department, doing clerical work. Fire School Held Sunday See Page 6 of Russian prisoners were reported coming to the rear today as Adolt Hitler's armored detachment charged forward along the entire eastern Soviet frontier behind air force units far ahead of the land forces. The first pictures of action along the two hundred mile battie line showed the smoke of many fires rolling over moors' and steppes. There were rumors that. this or that great city had been captured or was under heavy bombardment, A The six Hawkeye State row seats Sunday when them back from their Citizenship camp at the Shown here (not counting ing a single seat) "they Carroll's six delegates to the 1941 Hawkeye Boys' State which closed at the Iowa State Fair grounds, Des Moines, Sunday were given a surprise welcome 'party.

on the courthouse lawn after being escorted the last six: miles into Carroll by an automobile convoy. The Carroll high school band was on hand with a concert and several hundred persons surrounded the cluster of chairs in which were seated the six boys, their parents, and four previous Hawkeye delegates. The brief program was arranged by the American Legion and: 1 the Chamber of Commerce, with J. W. Wilson, commander-elect of the Carroll post, acting as master of ceremonies.

Scott Minnich, whose selection as governor of the 1941 boys' state brought Carroll suddenly into the limelight last week, was first introduced to the audience. After expressing his thanks for the welcome, he presented the remaining five (Senator) Joe Waters, son of J. Waters; (Representative) Joe Hermsen, son of. Rep. and Mrs.

J. B. Hermsen; (Public Safety Commissioner) Bob McCord, son of Mr. and Mrs. R.

D. McCord; Junior Waiters (secretary of the' Governor), son of and Mrs. E. Walters; and Dean Polking, (memter. of the board of control), son of Mr.

and Mrs, A. J. Polking. L. W.

Wilke, president of the Rotary Club, the organization which sponsored attendance at Boy's State, was called upon next, parents' and of the following delegates his words, the presented, as were the four delegates of former yearsGeorge Schmich, John Holley, Jack Traner and Walter Neppl. The closing talk on the short was. given by F. H. program who explained in brief the Cconey, service performed by the 'Hawkstate in training tomorrow's eye citizens for the tremendous respon- which are now more than sibilities apparent.

4 More Towns to Get Driver License Renewal Service. license renewal service Driver will be extended to four more towns, Sheriff Tom Finegan Announced today, adding the following to the list already planned: Friday, June 27-Dedham Monday, June 80-Halbur (evening). (evening). Tuesday, July (atternoon), Tuerday, July 1-Mt. Carmel (evoning).

shut Joe Hermsen, Joe Minnich are J. W. F. H. Cooney, one speaker, W.

Wilke, Says NaziRuss War to Benefit U.S. Herald Newspicture). Washington (P) The U. S. condemned Germany's "treacherous attack" on Russia today and declared that "any rallying of the forces opposing Hitlerism" would rebound to the benefit of American defense and security.

The statment made by Sumner Welles, Undersecretary of after he had conferred with Presldent Roosevelt left open the question of whether lease-lend aid would be given to Soviet Russia. NO WORD FROM SOVIET Welles said no communication had been received from the Soviet government as yet and consequently the question had not been decided by the American govern-! ment. He said, however, that President Roosevelt had authority under the lease-lend act to furnish aid to any country resisting aggression. The formal declaration of policy read by Welles at a large press conference declared the immediate issue before the American people was whether Hitler's plan for universal conquest was to be successfully halted and defeated. 2-Year-Old Breda Girl Drowned in Water Tank Today Details Not Learned in Death of Patricia Reising Breda (HNS) ---Patricia Reising, -two-year-old daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Andrew Reiging, drowned water tank on the farm near Breda this morning. Details of the tragedy were not learned. She was born June 28, 1939. Surviving are her parents, four sisters and two brothers.

Funeral services are to be at 9 o'clock Tuesday morning at St. Bernard's Church. Rites are under the direction of the Olerich Funeral Home. LaGuardia Predicts Hitler Will Turn On Italy Later New York (A') --Mayor F. H.

LaGuardia predicted today that Adolf Hitler sooner or later would turn upon another pact but confirmation was lacking In Berlin. The high command said only that operations were proceedIng "on schedule and successfully." New York (AP)-The German radio roported today that nazi forces crossed the Prut river, the border between Rumania and Soviet Russia and were continuing to advance after German artillery and the luftwaffe had smashed Soviet border fortifications. The broadcast was heard by NBC, (By the Associated Press) The Baltic bulwark which Soylet Russia erected by threats and. persuasion against the possibility: of just such an attack by Germany as is now raging along her great western frontier appeared today to be crumbling. Combined military and blows within and without the three little states Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia--which Rusgia took into camp and started fortifying a year ago threatened to line them up with Adolf Hitler.

LITHUANIAN UPRISING According to Berlin advices based in turn on broadcasts from the Kaunas radio, Lithuanians have risen up forming a new government pledged to help Germaby. fight Russia. An effort to cut Latvia also out of the Russian camp was indicated when the German radio broadcast a declaration by a Latvian "government In exile" that Latvia, too, would fight alongside Germany, presumably when and if. Russian rule could be cast off: 1 Helsinki reports said that farthest removed of. the three from the.

Germap-Russian battle line, was expected to follow suit. Baltic political refugees, themselves anti-Russian, said Russia had expected revolts in, the three states. FINLAND NEUTRAL Fintand, who lost territory to Russia by war, declared at the same time that she wouldl maintain neutrality as long as possible -this despite Adolf Hitter's classification of her as his ally. Lithuania's declaration of independence came 88 German land forces, now at least ten miles inside Russian territory, and the Gorman air force pounded Russian bases and communications. In a tide of destruction which the German high command announced was proceeding "on schedule and successfully." Russia acknowledged a ten-mile German penetration of Lithuania from East Prussia.

state house during their stay at the' American Legion citizenship camp last week. (Iowa Dally Press Photo) Second American Squadron Training London -A second squadron of American pilots is being formed to take its place alongside Eagle Squadron of fliers the RAF from the United States. To Join British U.S. Rejects Italy's Charges Against Consuls Seeking Relief for U. S.

Nationals Whose Bank Accounts Are Blocked Rome -U. S. Ambassador William Phillips delivered to the Italian government today a note in which Washington rejected the Italian charges that U. S. consular officials -whom Italy has demanded be withdrawn- -had acted improperly.

In an attempt to obtain relief for Americans in Italy whose ambas- bank necounts are blocked, sador also informed the foreign ministry of regulations under which Italians may obtain money in the United States. American consular officials are planning leave Italy within a week in accordance with Italian oragnization for their expulsion. The Weather The Weather in Saturday's high Saturday's low Sunday's high Sunday's low At noon today The Forecast 10WA---Generally and Tuesday; slightly east portion tonight; warmor Tuesday. Carroll 92. 87 fair tonight cooler: la somewhat.