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nn DEM OCRAT HE STATE NEWS AMUSEMENTS EDITORIALS THIRD SECTION AND LEADER EIGHTY-SEVENTH YEAR No, 70. DAVENPORT, IOWA, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 1, 1912. PRICE r'lVE CENTS ufl Sullivan Brothers, All Five of 'Em, Join Navy DAVENPORTER'S FLYING FEET Cold Wave In Wake of Hero's Widow To Open Drive Of Red Cross In Former Days Set World's Record Roller Skates, Thrilled Thousands Des Moines, (AP) The Sullivan brothers, five husky sons of Mr. and Mrs. T.

F. Sullivan of Waterloo, cams to Des Moines Saturday to join the United States navy. They are George Thomas, 27; Francis Henry, 25; Joseph Eugene, 23; Abel, 22; and Albert Leo, 19, the only married one of the five. For two of the brothers this Is a return engagement. Frank and George completed four years of service in the navy just six months ago, returning to Waterloo from Pearl Harbor, where they were stationed on a U.

S. destroyer. "And that's just where we want to go now," said Frank. A buddy of ours was killed in the Pearl Harbor, attack," George explained. "Bill Ball of Fredericksburg, la." Their father, a conductor on the Illinois Central railroad between Waterloo and Freeport, thinks the mass enlistment of his sons, which leaves only their sister, Genevieve, 24, at home all right, but their mother well, says Madison Abel, she isn't too happy about it.

"You know how mothers are" he said. The Sullivan brothers attended school In Waterloo and were all employed at the Rath Packing company. Extra Meet Is Unlikely For Solons Wilson Sees No Reason to Call Special Session. By GEORGE S. MILLS.

Associated Press Staff Writer. Des Moines, la, (AP) Despite probable major state revenue losses due to the war, Governor George A. Wilson Saturday said there is no reason now in sight for a special session of the Iowa legislature. The state faces a loss of $1,500,000 a year in use tax revenue because of federal restrictions in new car sales. Similarly, the federal tire J.

's- for One Mile on by Somersaults. on roller which he linger in That man on the flyini? Nation's Safety Depends Upon Productive Capacity, Iowa Economic Expert Says 1,: 01 Roy A. Powelson (above) back some 40 years ago performed all kinds of daring stunts skates. He, too, set a world's record for speed over a one mile flat course. The skates, gazes at admiringly, have long since been hung up but memories of their spinning wheels the mind of the bath house manager.

funds to "worthy" private companies for use in expanding their plants, these loans to be repaid as leliveries on defense orders are r-nnsunimated. As a second means, the government will build plants or add to the existing plants of firms with large defense contracts, then lease lliese new facilities to the contractor, payments on the lcaso to be irteptcd in (lie form of deliveries an the contract. BUILDS OWN. Finally, where neither of these plans is suited to the situation, the coveninienf Is buildinc and operating its own plants. This plan has been ijfiHzcd in the case of the specialized ordnance shell loading plants, also In the case of.

four large air corps assembly plants located In the Interior central region of the United States. Supplies to Russia and China are handled thru the defense aid division which was established after Mie pasae of the lend lease art. Davis said 'Those who man this division," he added, "have the vitally important responsibility of con I rolling the apportionment of acutely needed supplies where an ultimate co-ordinating authority must direct their movement to serve the most urgent needs." trapeze had nothing on ennort's own Roy A. Powcl-i nicipai p- A By GENE CLAUSSEN. A.

P. Staff Writer. Iov a Citv. la. "The safety the United States during this po-iloil of extremo emergency is proportional to the productive capacity of our armament plants, the volume of military supplies available, the adequacy of our organization for defense and the spirit of our people," according to Prof.

Mradley N. Davis of the University of Iowa collece of commerce. Davis, who spent the summer in the office of the undersecretary of war in the nation's capital, recently published a report on the management aspects of national defense which centers around the army and navy departments and the newly-created office for emergency management. FOUR-FOLD JOB. The hi? job for this country.

now that -we are at war, Is, Davis said, fonr-fold: 1. Abundant military supplies promptly delivered to England. 2. An increase in the strength of the American navy to two-ocean proportions. 3.

An Increase in our merchant tonnage. 4. Organizing, training, and equipping a mechanized army of a million and a half or more men with ample emphasis on the air force essential to the success of that army. This program, to be successful, is dependent upon clear and efficient administration, organization and growth, Davis said. "All the work of this pvten'-ive program is being dono under a capitalisllc regime characterized bv the institutional features of Individual liberty, personal freedom ind private properly," explained iu outlining the features of this program that has already been felt by nearly all of the nation's people LACK OF FUNDS.

That neceaiy developments shall not be restricted because of lark of funds. Da via said that three general plans for facilitating progress are available: The first is a loan arransement with the Reconstruction Finance corporation. The RFC may loan SAYS MATERIAL KJeeo bi Parts of State Report 20 Below During Night. Des Moines, The temperature was down to zero at the "warmest' spot in Iowa late Saturday; niprht. Early reading ranged from zero at Davenport to 13 below at Mason City, and the mercury had not touched hottom yet.

The reading at Des Moines was 8 below. The weather bureau said it would be as cold as 20 below in some parts of the state by morning. McGregor, in northeast Iowa, had 14 below Friday night. FOLLOWS SNOW. The severe cold came in th wake of the New Year's day storm.

Ten Below Zero When You Reached For Newspaper When you reached for your Sunday Democrat this morning your hand struck 10 below lero temperature, or ths Davenport office of the government weather bureau erred in its forecast That was the minimum for seen for the day Saturday night when at 8:30 p. m. the mercury had already slumped ta six below. While the weatherman wouldn't say much about other pro pects for the day, he said It would be fair up until noon and that no immediate relief from the cold was in sight. Saturday's high was nine above, after a four above mark in Davenport and a six below recording at the Moline airport This made the average in Davenport two degrees or 21 below normal.

which left as much as a foot and a half of snow in part3 ot the state. Snow shoveling operations had advanced Saturday night from the digging out stase to the cleaning tip process. All primary roads were reported clear and trains and busses were operating regularly again, altho still somewhat behind schedule. FALSE REPORT. Coal mines were reopening, and in the cities dairies were able to resume house-to-house deliveries Saturday.

The weather bureau said a rumor that another blizzard was approaching was without foundation. There will be no school In De Moines Monday or Tuesday because of the deep snow and extremely cold weather. Regular classes wilt be resumed Wednesday morning under present plans. DEFENSE BOND SALES SEEN AS INFLATION CURB Iowa Business Digest Believes Year Needed to Reach War Economy. Iowa City, la.

(AP) Increased, consumer taxation and greater defense bond sales will offset the threat of inflation, according to tha Iowa Business Digest. The Digest predicted that trial production may be expected to attain higher levels "ahha the withdrawal of workers to active serTice in the army and raw will sonn prove a limiting factor." "L'nf'jrtunately it will taks as-other year or more before full transition to a af ecouomy will ha reached," the declared, "aa many shortages of materials sad skilled labor must made Bp." It recorded better busiue fit Iowa during November aud said that continued in farm income, together with arrive employ mst in defer.se proyct torecas: a protoned prt ivl of active DIES OP SUFFOCATION'. Ortumwa. -(APj five-nsin'IniJ cia'uMr Mr Mrs, Roy riif h-r r. cauuii ia fctr is ib.

Mrs. Colin P. Kelly, Will Deliver Speech in Des Moines. Dos "Moines, (AP) Colin 1 Kelly, .1 1, widow of the first American air hero of the war in the Pacific, will make her first speech in the Red Cross war fund drive in Des Moinps. Wednesday noon.

Mrs. Kelly, who bravely received the news of her husband's death in sinking Lhe Japanese battleship Ilar-una north of the Philippines, Dec. 9, will address a street mass meeting at m. Shu will apeak to a noon lum.U- cm of Kuo team worker the Hotel Saverv. opening the folk county drive for 100,000 of the $50,000,000 national Koal.

At 12:33 p. in. kIip will uppoar on th floor balcony for another! brief address. ANNOUNCE MEET. Announcement that Mrs.

Kelly will be the chief speaker at the ceremonies was made by S. K. McGinn, drive chairman. Mrs. Kelly will fly to Des Moiucs I from ncxt day, McGinn said, arriving here in the evening.

She will be met by at i)es Moines mu- airport. As sho chooses, she will be entertained in a pri vate home or stay at the Hotel Kt. Des Moines. After lier address liere. she will fly to New York City.

N. to participate in a Ited Cross war fund rally there. PROUD OF HIM. W. W.

Waymack. editor of the editorial pages of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, will introduce Mrs. Kelly. "I am proud of him," Mrs. Kelly said when she was told tier bus-band crashed his flaming ship into the llaruna after ordering his crew of six to save themselves.

Captain Kelly, 26-year-old West Pointer, was awarded the. distinguished service cross for his valor in destroying the llaruna. President Roosevelt addressed a letter to the "President in urging appointment to West Point of his son, Colin P. Kelly, ill, lieu he is 16. An "all out-turnout" downtown for the parade and program Is planned with the co-operalion of the retail merchants.

enporter's skates rattled across a flat board track to set a world's record His time, according to Police Gazette statistics, was two minutes and 22 seconds. That's whizzing along when one considers that the bes time for the same distance In-recent years was two minutes and 51) seconds. However, that mark was set on a banked track. Locally, Towelson figuratively walked away with all races held here. During a week's program of contests held in the old Rock island rink, he won for three straight nights and then watched a teammate, Charlie Holm, capture the remaining three nightly races to give Davenport the championship.

Put a pair of skates on "Ilapiy," that's what habitues of the I tth house call him, and he'd again thunder across the boards at death-defying speeds despite fit) years of Fy by mainTaL phv 1 condition. He js great believer in water, suggesting that hydrotherapy is one of the most important of all natural agents for the preservation, restoration and Improvement of health. Lacks Privacy! Dea Moines, la. (AP) It's "no honeymoon" to visit your husband at an army camp, even if you are the camp's honored guest, Mrs. Kenneth Miller, 28-year-old beauty shop operator of Milford, has decided.

"You don't even get a chance to go for a moonligr.t walk," she said. Selected as the prettiest girl writing to a soldier at Camp Claiborne, Mrs. Miller left Des Moines Christmas day to spend three weeks with her husband ail expenses paid. "Oh, I had a good time. But there was something lacking.

Maybe it was privacy," she said. i I paid out of roouey earmarked for taxes anyway." He said be favored the idea because "I am fearful that many woikeri will not a tie in position to pay all at cure when the time comes." Heriiug added that he approved a general manufacturers sales tax. PAY AS WE GO. "We will fake in 17 billions a year under the present yetiip and are aliout i thre time that." he explained. "We ant to payas go as mu js irhut destroying.

In- dnstry thm probiWtiv! tax. Sen'! ni'-tit is in'ieaing in Mashingtun Many an upset provoked roars of laughter from audiences in all parts of the nation as Powelson (left) and his stage partner toured vaudeville circuits. rationing program and the new car limitation ultimately are expected to cut into revenue realized from the state gasoline tax of three cents a gallon. Some filling station men already have reported declining gasoline sale. FINANCES GOOD.

"Regardless of 1hse curtailments," the governor said, "tha Ktate of Iowa is in good financial condition and will meet its obligations. "These are some of the things we have been ready for. While we emphatically did not want war and were not pessimistic over the outlook, we laid the groundwork to guard against such eventualities. The state as a consequence now is ready, both financially and otherwise." The governor pointed out that the state general fund had an urn obligated balance of $10,500,000 last June 30. The final.

Dec. 31 figure undoubtedly will be SI. 000,000 or more higher, he said. "The Iowa legislature responded to suggestions and enacted the necessary laws to take care of any such emergency," he continued. "We consequently find ourselves strongly entrenched against any possible financial stringency.

I see no necessity for a special session," The next regular session will begin in January, 1943, a year from now. The governor said he would not be1 surprised if state income tax I revenue would decline next year because of expected reductions in the automotive group of taxpayers and in small industries adversely affected by the priorities pinch. The Immediate outlook in the sales tax fund is good, he said. The two per cent sales tax yielded a record $17,279,526 in 1941. compared with $15,391,951 in 1940.

The sales and income taxes together provide the revenue cut of which ol'l age pension and homestead tax refund allotments are made and also provide some of the money for state direct relief distributions. ROAD BONDS. The governor pointed out that a year will cover the principal and interest payments on primary road bonds, of which are outstanding. Automobile travel In this state would have to fall off considerably more than 50 per cent before the primary road fund income would fall to that point, he added. In 1941 the state collected a record $18,200,000 in gasoline taxes five ninths of which is earmarked to the primary road fund, and in motor vehicle license fees, nearly all of which goes into the same fund.

There is a ceiling, however, of S17.000.000 in the amount which may be used an nually for primary road purposes. The excess goes Into the state farm-market fund. The latter fund, consequently, would be the first lo be affected by any substantial decline in gasoline and car license Income. Des Moines, la. AP) Senator Clyde L.

Herring (D la.) believes In subtracting income taxes on a "pay as yoa earn" basis from the workers weekly or semimonthly pay checks. The senator disclosed here over the holidays that he will seek to have incorporated in a forthcoming administrative revenue bill a plan for withholding at the source a regular proportion of the wage rai ners salaries. "Th employer wnu'd remit the money to the federal treasury," Men In MplainedL "IKsnng tee lC'h month of the tat year the would f.ie an income tax SUBTRACT son. Thumb back thru pages of history pome 40 years and, in faded ink on paper yellowed hv, time, the record of LeRoy St. Clair, as Powelson was then known on the vaudeville stage, was penned via exciting somersaults and fancy spins.

He flew thru the air, in those days, with the greatest of ease and did so without benefit of a trapeze. His performance in-olved a long frame slide, 70 feet high, down which he roared on roller skates, somersaulting at the base of the incline and then, almost without effort, regaining his eliding stance. The act. known as "The Great Rollo Dive," often was varied, fow-elson sometimes plunging into a tank of water as a grand finale to the -daring stunt. MANY SPLINTERS.

To be sure, many an Ignoble splinter was removed from Hoy's pant3 before he mastered the feat. And, too. many a backyard in Davenport was cluttered with boards erected by ambitious youngsters, all eager to imitate (lying feats of the dare-devil. Powelson, who traveled from coast to coast, thrilling thousands of gaping spectators, has long since laid aside the roller-skates, substituting the more lucrative and less dangerous task of operating a bath house and massage parlors. Until flames wrecked the Perry apartments last March, lie held sway over towels, steam tables and light cabinets there.

lie has since moved to 101 Main street. During; the course of over 40 years as a masseur he served many notables including Jim Farley, Gene Tunney, Howard Taft, Theodore Iloosevelt and fackey McFar-land. The Powelson says, was the most interesting to converse with, the former lightweight boxing champion of the world it- eraHy bursting with itticisms and clever stories, It is a far cry, however, from roller skates to massage tables hut it is the little twirling wheels, Powelson's first love, that today bririz back fondest memories. One night in Pittsburgh, that as back in 'M), the slender l)av- in favor of a manufacturers sales tax. "We have such a tax now on cer-lain items in the various excise' levies on such things as jewelry, cosmetics and the like.

It would be much fairer and simpler to spread it generally." I'nder a manufacture! sales tax, he explained, the levy would be collected from the producer at the tim th goods fro into distribution channels. The ffet of the sueeestej fax noii'd about the same as that of the Iowa slate pal tax. the fnntor ai4. lie was governor 1 hen th ta tag was el in the Wks 1n K't. TO BE AVAILABLEil0.

M.eel Boy TV zPMli diV, vr. LAW ENFORCEMENT FINDS WAR HARD Pes Moines, la. (AP) War is hard on law-enforcement, tqo. Sheriff Vane B. Overturn declared here that handcuffs, guns and holsters are difficult to buy.

He did not say it police were experimenting; with substitutes. MATRON RETIRES AT O. E. S. HOME lioone, la.

fAP) Miss Kathryn Arnold, matron for 20 years at the Iowa Order of Eastern Star home here, is retiring to become hostess. She will be succeeded hy Mrs. Hazel Zwanziger, who came here from Waterloo, and has been i serving as assistant matron. iGirl Unable He Iowa While She Goes to Camp for Visit, He Arrives in State. Osage.

la. (AIM It was a dis- tinct surprise, no less, wjjen au osa(je gj, arrived In Camp Bowie, learn that the fiance she intended to visif was back in loa jns to see her. happened this way; MarJr Ann Gilchrist a telegram from fx.vle Owen savinc he was being transferred and that she should accompany bis parents, Mr, and Mrs. Carl Owen of Kan-daiia. to Camp fcowie.

The party hurriedly started by automobiie. Meanwhile, Owen learned be wouldn't be transferred fur a few days. He secured a leave sent a telegiam tiome and was off for Iowa. It all ended well, however, because Mary Ann ami the Owens got back Iowa in time for a brief visit ith tha soldier they expected to see in Texas. lingtoii but will Lea Iwn to build ers in other cities and tous, and iu rural areas.

iu rii.v nead sail Hart Bi' estimate a to in of house whiih c-I'kiMp tn b- 1 compiled under the uew vxdtr. Advertisements (above) plastered the countryside as Powefscn traveled from coast to coast, thrilling thousands by daring feats performed on roller skates. TAXES From Paychecks, Urges Sen. Herring FOR I0WAH0MES Residences Started ini Non-Defense Areas to) Be Completed. Des Moines, la.

(AP) lowans in non-defense areas who bad homes under construction prior to i Oct. a. 1941, now can obtain neres sary matetials for their compie tiou, T. J. Nolan.

Iowa FIIA duec- tor, announced Saturday. Priority preference ratings now can be obtained for these home which will enable builders to get plumbing supplies, hardware, wir- ing and other materials which heretofore have been available only in the four defense bousing i areas of the Mate. Nolan said the new order applies to any house for which the founda-I tion had been completed by Oct. 9. i He stated sl.o that the order includes such houses regardless of or typ of financing.

In order get the priority I rating, a contractor or builder must apply for form I. 1). 125 at the state KHA off.ee here, and must return the completely filled in form to Nolan before Feb. 1. Nolan said the order will not i affect hrm builders in the four Iowa defense arras Ie Council Kluflu, Davenport and Pjr i return and would make su adjustments as necessary after receiving credit for his installment payments.

In some cases he might have to pay a little more. In other be might receive a refund." MIGHT OBJECT. The employ eis riiitrit object to the system because of the additional clerical work involved, the senator conceded. "Th of keeping such records by and large would be part of th expanse of operating a b'lsi- ne." he commf n'ed. "The gov cm ment is g.

rig to take a larz part buslnes profits in this rnir frrn r. how ever, that mn-i of this cost i.Iiiniateiy In;.