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THE WEATHER Generally fair. Day's record, page 12-A. Radio, page 4. The Newspaper Icwa Depends Upon PRICE CENTS-Tg DES MOINES, IOWA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 4, 1939. TWENTY-FOUR PAGES Broadcasters Adopt Sweeping New Rule i i o) A fn ML (p5 (jSU ISLTL IM Ul Ml 11 i i AMERICA AFTER SWALLOWING THE CANARY.

Only One Car SALE OF TIME tfejfs WW Skyrocket If Bar gomes Uncle Sam Will And It's Prison This article is the first in a series of It on the subject, "If War Comes to You." The series is a condensation of the took, "When War Comes," edited by Larry Nixon and written by five newspapermen Elmer C. Walzer, United Press; C. Norman Stabler, New York Herald Tribune; Jack Foster, New York World-Tele-gram; W. W. Chaplin, International News Service, and Malcolm Logan, New York Evening Post.

An effort has been made by the writers, who are experts in financial and military viatters, to reject everything not open to proof or demonstration. The theories advanced represent a consensus of authorities in each field. The proposed governmental regulations discussed have been worked out in Washington over a period of years and are based upon problems encountered in the first world war. The following article is written by Jack Foster, veteran writer whose articles on politics and war have taken him to Africa, Manchukuo and China. By Jack Foster.

On the day the United States declares war a change will begin in your daily routine. The products you buy, the things you do, the pleasures you enjoy, the comforts on which you rely all will be altered fundamentally by the necessities of waging a winning campaign. You will be told what you may purchase and how you may pass the day. The government will be your master in all Missing From City's Garage Picture on Page 9. Only one city car was miss ing Tuesday night when Roy Barnes, commissioner of transportation, "counted noses" at the newly opened central garage and sat down to write out the "check-in" report to be given the city council this morning.

Paul Sandahl, parks department executive superintendent, was the only driver of a city-owned car who Ignored the council's "must" resolution requiring aU cars to be stored in the garage at 5 p. m. Others Prompt. Drivers of all the other 55 cars wheeled in sharply at 5 p. m.

or made arrangements to come in shortly after, Barnes said. Barnes waved his hand toward the filled parking stalls. "Boy, there's a lot of city gasoline not being wasted in joyriding tonight," be said. Barnes said there will be no exemptions from the dally check-in granted for at least a month. to see how many nlglit calls these men really have," he said.

"Of course, they all cl.xjm they have night calls when they ask for exemptions." C. E. Forbes, lent from the city finance office, is assisting Barnes. "Has to Be Urgent." 'There are no such things as excuses around here," he said. "Of course, if a man's work keeps him late, he can't help that.

But it has to be awfully urgent' All city cars were supposed to report at 5 p. in, Monday for the first check-in, but 17 never showed up. A report on this was given to the council Tuesday morning, and the council adopted a resolution requiring all cars to check in every day for at least a month. Police Exempt. The only exceptions from this order are police and fire depart ment cars.

These departments will continue to use their garages. The city owns about 55 trucks. These will be serviced and re paired, but not stored in the cen tral garage. Missing Cars. Monday night, four streets department cars did not show up, They were the ones driven by C.

C. Green, W. F. McCarthy, Orie Daw son and Ed Smith. Also missing were cars driven by Sandahl and Art Thomas, air port superintendent.

The public safety department checked in only 6 of its 16 cars. Those who stayed out were E. Suddoth, C. R. Headstrom, Edward Gezel and E.

H. Tovey, electrical inspectors: Arnold Swanson and Paul Hoffman, plumbing inspec tors; Tom Hardiman and Guy Fish, health inspectors, and Nile Oldham and Fred Heyer, building inspectors. Grandma IS LIMITED TO 92 of Stations Under Code. WASHINGTON, D. C.

VD A sweeping rule to prevent Father Charles E.t Coughlin or other "spokesman of controversial public issues" from purchasing radio time, except under strict limitations, was adopted Tuesday by the code committee of the National Association of Broadcasters. After an all-day session, the code committee decided that; "Under no circumstances will compensation be accepted by a station or network for time con sumed by the spokesman of a controversial public issue, unless the spokesmen appear on a public forum type of broadcast regularly presented in conformity with the code as a series of fair-sided discussions of public issues and when control of the fairness of the program rests wholly with the broadcasting station or network." 4S7 Members. Officials of the association said its 437 members represent 82 per cent of commercial radio. i While Father Coughlln'a name was not mentioned In the announcement, E. M.

Klrby, secretary of the association, said that during the committee's long discussion Coughlln was mentioned repeatedly. Other names often mentioned la the conference, he said, were Judge Joseph F. Rutherford of New York, N. president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract society, and the Rev. Walton Cole of Toledo, Ohio.

Attacked Catholic. Kirby said that Rutherford has attacked the Catholic church and that Cole, who represents the Unitarian Fellowship for Social Justice, has bought time on the radio to answer all of the public statements of Father Coughlln. Speaking before a church audience in Cleveland, Ohio, the Rev. Mr. Cole said that refusal of station WJR at Detroit, to sen him time to answer Father Coughlln "no doubt influenced the code committee's decision." He explained that he had protested the Detroit case-to the federal communications commission.

The ban comes in the midst of the hot struggle over neutrality legislation, during which Father Coughlin has been vigorously opposing the Roosevelt proposal to repeal the arms embargo. Association officials said they believe Father Coughlin may have contracts for radio time Coughlin Continued on Page Four. Roosevelt Shoppers and SECOND WOMAN DEAD IN CRASH Select Your Food if You Hoard! porting munitions. New York will have to turn to canned goods. While fruits and need express speed, canned goods can lumber along at any clip.

At the same time, the thunder ous voice of propaganda will be quizzing you: Why aren't you tilling a little garden of your own? Why aren't you canning your own vegetables and fruits The government will decree meatless, wheatless, sugarless days and make their violation a criminal offense. Then the government will in struct Its pep boys to sell the public on the idea of substitutes. You will be asked to give up many fresh foods, some kinds of canned goods, and turn to kinds of food you've never heard of before. The Germans have been wander ing In this never-never land of food substitutes for some time. At any rate, you must be pre pared at once to give up the freedom of choice you have In the corner grocery store.

You will present a food card whenever you make a purchase. This card will enable you to buy in specified quantities, depending on the size of your family, those products which the government allows. A list of possible purchases will be distributed daily to every store by the government food bu reau. And yon may expect to find under-nourishment a commonplace factor when full effects of the war's appetite are felt. Will Rents Soar? It Is an Indisputable fact that your rent will rise.

suppose you are living in a three-room apartment At the end of the first year of hostilities you receive a notice your rent has been raised 12 per cent You protest You're told living costs are up, taxes are rising. 0 At the end of the second year your rent has been raised an addi' tional 15 per cent After five years of war with steadily rising rents, peace comes. Now, you think, your housing troubles are over! But you are wrong again. Once again your rent soars. For now the troops are returning and in overcrowded cities there are not enough homes and apartments to meet the need.

exaggeration? Far from it We've only to study rental trag edies of the world war to realize NORMS CALLS ON U.S. TO AID LONDON, PARIS Thinks They Fight for Civilization. By Richard Wilson. (Th Regiiter'i Waihlngton Corroipondent) WASHINGTON, D. C.

Senator George W. Norris one of the three living men who voted against America's entrance into the last war, threw his weight Tuesday into the fight for neutrality revision by declaring what many in the administration think but are afraid to say: "It is self evident today, that England and France fighting with their backs to the wall, are fighting not only the battle of humanity and civilization, but they are faced with foes ruthless and murderous in their dishonorable and unjustifiable procedure. "It is fortunate, therefore, that in following our legal rights as universally recog nized, we are able to enact a law which will more likely keep us out of the war and at the same time put us on the side of humanity and civ ilization." What administration leaders have been afraid to say was stated baldly by the 78-year-old veteran of the liberal cause. He is closer than many an admlnis- America Continued on Page Two. The War At a Glance Oct.

4, 1939. 1 Adolf Hitler Tuesday carefully studied Neville Chamberlain's speech in which the British prime minister said he would "examine" any German peace offer but warned the allies would not deal with the Nazi regime; it was indicated Hitler might revise his reichstag speech, to be given Friday or Saturday. 2 French troops repulsed increasing German attacks on northern flank of western front. 3 The Estonian-Soviet pact struck a snag because of additional Russian demands concerning Soviet military bases on Estonian soil. 4 Senator Norris calling for repeal of arms embargo, said Britain and France were fighting for the survival of civilization." Index of War News.

FRANCE French repulse Ger man attacks (Page 2). SHIPPING Latin America tackles problem of German raid' era (Page 3). GERMANY Hitler draf relclw tag speech, plans trip to Warsaw today (Page 4). POLL Gallup poll shows president's speech increased sentiment for repeal of arms embargo (Page 5). MOWRER French Communists demand study of Hitler peace pro posals (Page 4).

ITALY Mussolini favors seven-power peace conference, Including United States (Page 7). TEXTS Chamberlain text, Page David Lloyd George text, Page 7. LONDON British munitions plants running at full blast, pre pare for stratosphere raids (Page 7). BALTIC Estonian pact strikes nag (Page 3), things incidental to the problem of continuing your existence as a human being. Your, rents will skyrocket; your house or apartment fall into disrepair.

Your clothes will rise ta price and descend in quality. Your means of travel will be curtailed and the cost of motor essentials, such as gasoline and oil, will jump. The heat you need and the light you read by will come under strict government supervision. What About Food? Food of every kind and in every place will become subject to the arbitrary control of Washington. Your grocery shop wiU go no further than the government allows.

Your menus will be picked by a board of conservation experts. For food is the prime essential of war, greater in importance than bombs and shrapnel. A Washington bureau will attempt to block the rise in prices and to prevent a scarcity of essentials. Price-fixing regulations will be instituted. In the last war the public was sold, through moral persuasion, on the Idea of conservation.

In the next war you will not be given the chance of voluntary patriotism; you will be told what food to buy and in what quantities. It will become a criminal offense to hoard food. Yet there will be few opportunities for hoarding or waste. For the foodstuffs will come Into the big cities In such reduced quantities that a housewife will not be able to plan much beyond the next day or so. Why? Take New York, for Instance.

Normally, it uses 200,000 carloads of fresh food every year. A 22-car train is required every hour to move the produce con sumed by citizens of New York. This is exclusive of milk, meat, fish and canned goods. A train an hour for vegetables and fruit alone. It Is easy to see what will hap pen, then, when most trains are used for moving troops and trans A Woman's Anxiety This series Is the result of a woman's anxiety.

Alarmed by the headlines, she wanted to know what would happen to her child, her husband and herself in case the United States should enter the. world war. The Des Moines Register presents these IS articles not in the spirit of the Inevitability of war but rather to reveal the drastic conditions Americans would face In wartime, the costs which stagger the imagination, and the loss of personal right under a martial dictatorship. Doctor Shot By Police in Fight Is Dead Dr. Hubert H.

London," Negro physician who was wounded in a gun battle with police at his home Monday noon, died at 6:32 p. m. Tuesday in Broadlawns General hospital. The doctor, who had a police rec-ord In Des Moines, was wounded twice in the thiirh and i once in the lower leg aiier uarri-cading himself in his house when a DR. LONDON.

munlclpai court bailiff called to serve a traffic court summons. Internal hemorrhages caused his death. He was driven from the house by a tear gas bomb thrown by a police radio operator, Hugh Qlassburn, as police laid a barrage of shots Into the house from the shelter of trees and nearby houses. While waiting to be taken to the hospital, the doctor Insisted he had been shooting only at J. C.

Heefner, the traffic patrolman who gave him the summons for running a stop sign. Innocent Plea, Four hours after he was shot, London was arraigned at the hos pital, and pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with Intent to commit murder. A guard was stationed in his hospital room. Dr. London tossed on his bed Tuesday, complaining of severe pain and calling for a hypodermic Injection.

He declared he did not remember anything about the battle with the police. Charles P. Howard, Negro attorney who had always represent ed Dr. London, said the doctor was committed to the state insane hos pital at Clarinda, twice after trouble with police in Des Moines. The court both times adjudged him a mental case and not subject to criminal prosecution.

Lived With Mother. A graduate of the State Uni versity of Iowa medical school in 1920, Dr. London lived at 2704 Cleveland with his mother. Other survivors are a sister, Mrs. Valletta Fields of Waterloo, a son, William, and a daughter, Charmian Jean, both of Chicago, HI.

Families Flee Dense Smoke Picture on Page 12-A. Dense smoke from a smoldering basement fire at the Albert E. Thomas drug store, Sixth and Forest avenues, routed more than a score of persons from five business houses and seven apartments about 7 p. m. Tuesday.

The blaze, confined to the drug store basement, where it started in a pile of rubbish, firemen said, did some damage to the building, but heaviest damage came from smoke. Firemen used gas masks and several were forced to come from the buildings and receive oxygen from the emergency truck's tanks. None, however, was overcome. The billowing smoke sent customers and clerks from the drug store, the A.K.D. food store, Dilly Dally tavern, Rusing bakery and Phipps shoe repair shop in the half-block building facing Forest and routed seven families from the Temple apartments on the second floor.

Trackless trolleys on Sixth ave. were halted until runways could be placed over the fire hose. Other traffic was detoured. BRITAIN LETS ALIENS FIGHT LONDON, ENGLAND (I.N.S.) The British government has decided to permit aliens to hold commissions and enlist in the armed forces, it was announced officially Tuesday. BELGIANS SEIZE 12 NAZI SOLDIERS LONDON, ENGLAND (WEDNESDAY) UP) A Belgian communique today announced that 12 German soldiers crossed the Bel gian frontier in autos.

They were arrested and disarmed. The com munique gave no further details. DUMMY VICTIM LEADS TO CHASE Two police squad cars Tuesday night searched in vain for youths reported have been throwing a dummy man in the street at E. Fifteenth and Walnut streets. Police were called after one motorist chased another many blocks in the belief the latter had struck a man.

Returning to the scene they saw the dummy. Mother and Daughter Are Victims. Mrs. O. G.

Richards, 44, of 518 Watrous died at Mercy hospital Tuesday of injuries suffered in an automobile accident last Thursday night. Her daughter, Catherine, 22, died Monday as a result of the same accident. The car in which they were riding collided with a parked truck in front of 2118 S. E. Fourteenth st.

during a rainstorm. The death of Mrs. Richards was the seventh' auto fatality in Des Moines this year as compared to four at the same date a year ago. A double funeral for the mother and daughter will be held at the Indianola Heights Church of MRS. RICHARDS.

MISS RICHARDS. Christ at 2 p. m. Friday. An earlier funeral previously had been planned for Katherine.

Mrs. Richards, a lifelong resident of Des Moines, was a member of Indianola Heights church. Mr. Richards, a plaster contractor, who was driving the car, suffered only slight injuries. Mrs.

Richards, who suffered a broken left leg and arm, broken collarbone and shoulder, chest Injuries and severe facial cuts, died as she was being prepared for a trip to the operating room where doctors planned to set her leg. Besides Mr. Richards and a son, Russell, and another daughter, Dorothy, Mrs. Richards leaves her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs.

H. H. McConkey, Des Moines, and three sisters and four brothers: Mrs. Virginia Anderson, Mrs Helen Bird and Mrs. Sadie Blllick, all of Des Moines; Alfred, Denman and Theodore McConkey, all of Des Moines, and Hervey McConkey of Runnells, la.

1939 Iowa Motor Vehicle Accident Deaths 371 Same Date a Year Ago 321 ICY- A W4 ''fWfefc. A -n I '4' Cyr 1 A ft what an accurate forecast It is. What about clothes styles and prices Win citizens be permitted to keep and use their automobiles WIU your favorite radio programs continue? These are a few of the questions which will be answered tomorrow In the second article on "If War Comes to You." WIREPHOTO John Roosevelt Boettlger had a distinguished playmate Tuesday in his Seattle, home. She was Mrs. Franklin D.

Roosevelt, who Is visiting her daughter, Anna Roosevelt Boettlger..