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MOCRAT JLJLJL Weather Indications. AND LEADER Fair and Slightly Wirmer. SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR No. 227. DAVENPORT, IOWA, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1933.

FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS: BAVENPOR! BE rislnilslrulsis Li liU Ll Isliu -4 Northern Iowa and Chicago Area Hit by Storms GOLD BLOC, ROOSEVELT RIFT WIDENS Dr. Paul Radenhausen, 75, Dead Here; Was A Former Teacher At High School Many State Points Have Crop Losses High Wind Sweeps Path From Estherville to McGregor. TWO MEN ARE KILLED Pre-Fourth Blast Kills Tot, Blinds Boy, Injures Man Waterloo. July 3. (AP) Three persons were injured, one fatally, when a homemade cannon exploded last night at the Charlee Wilt home here.

Wilt had emptied powder from firecrackers into the cannon, and was pounding with a hammer and cold chisel to drive the wad home, when a spark set off the explosion. Part of the cannon passed entirely thru the body of his two-year-old daughter, Catherine May. She died two hours later at St. Francis hospital. Wilt's left hand was shattered and Thomas Scarbourough, 10, a cousin of the Wilt girl, was blinded in the left eye by powder and fragments of the tube.

Dr. Paul Radenhausen, former teacher in Davenport High school, and for many year3 a leader in German activities and thought here, died at 8:30 o'clock this morning at his home, 418 West Seventh street. He was 75 years old, and his death terminated an extended illness. A native of Germany, and educated there and in Switzerland, Paris and London, Dr. Radenhausen came to Davenport in 1S82.

The first ten years here he was chemist for the Glucose Manufacturing company, and became instructor in chemistry at the High school in 1892, a position he held for 17 years. Always active in German affairs here for many years, he was also one of the founders of the Ethical society. Born In Germany. Born in Altona, Germany, June 23, 1S58, he completed his education and came to this country in 1881. For a year he was professor of chemistry and languages in a university at Hoboken, N.

then coming to Davenport. Here he was also associated with the late Dr. Henry Matthey and Dr. Karl Matthey, aiding them as a chemist. Widow Survives.

In Davenport, March 2S, 1SS5. he married Miss Mina Wohlenberg, who survives besides a daughter, Mrs. Viola Walker of Youngstown, Ohio, and two grandchildren. The body was removed to the Hill Fredericks mortuary, and will be returned to the family home Thieves Loot Local Store Safe of $150 Cash; Stocks And Bonds Are Also Taken Ask $75,000 Ransom for John Factor Payment Today Is De mand; Son Unable to Raise Funds. Chicago, July 3 (AP) The sum of $75,000 apparently has been fixed as the price for the release of John Factor, international speculator, and one time Chicago barber, who Is being held by kidnapers.

The payment was demanded by today. This was revealed by Jerome Factor, his 19-year-old son, who said he had received a telephone call which presumably came from his father's abductors, demanding the payment of the money in small bills Young Factor said that he be lieved the call, which came last night, was not a hoax, but that he did not know where he could raise $75,000. "The amount." he said, "will have to be considerably less. 1 wish the kidnapers would know that there's no use talking to me. Neither my mother nor I has access to my dad's securities, even if it could be raised." Factor was abducted by a gang of armed men as he left an outlying roadhouse early Saturday.

Speculating as to the Identity of his kidnapers, police Lieutenant Frank Freemuth said he "wouldn't be surprised if some of the Sankey gang, working out of Minneapolis or St. Paul, have Factor secluded in Minnesota or Wisconsin." He referred to Verne Sankey. who Is being sought In connection with the kidnaping of Charles Boettcher II of Denver. Captain Dan Gilbert of the state's attorney's police, however, expressed belief that members of the Chicago gang of Roger Touhy. were responsible.

Restaurant Men Assail Price Boost Pledge Support to Wallace in Fight Against Bakers. Des Moines, July 3. (AP) Opposition to the efforts of Iowa bakers to boost bread prices effective Wednesday began to be heard today as members of the Iowa Bakers' association pondered a warning from Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace. Wallace warned the group Satur day that price "increases" based on the processing tax leveled under tin farm act would not be tolerated and that any general increase by all bakers might evoke action under the Sherman anti-trust act.

The Iowa Restaurant Owners' as sociation thru its executive commit tee Sunday passed a resolution con demning the price rise and pledg ing the association's support to Wallace. The association pointed to widespread unemployment and the government's efforts to effect industrial recovery and termed the intended bread price increase at this time "an Injustice and hardship on the consuming public." Bert Francis, leading Council Bluffs baker, declared that grocers of that city would not increase bread prices, indicating that an increase in wholesale prices to them would be absorbed by a reduction in the retailer's profits. L. A. Uncles, head of a Des Moines baking firm, in seeking to clarify the bakers' action, declared that the move is intended to place a flat rate of a cent for each two ounces on all bread sold, "The 12 ounce loaf which has been selling at 5 cents will cost six cents in the future while the 24 ounce loaf which has been selling at 10 cents will be cut to 20 ounces and continue to 6ell at 10 Uncles said.

MEMBER OF U. S. TRADE MEETING DELEGATION ILL London, July 3 (AP) Ralph W. Morrison of Texas, member-of tlu American delegation to the world economic conference, was suddenly stricken with illness today. Some concern was expressed among Mr.

Morrison's colleagues over his but Senatoi James Couzens of Michigan after a visit to the sick man's hotel room said that his condition was not serious. A doctor and nurse were summoned, however. BOTH GRAINS AND STOCKS PUSH AHEAD Shares Up $1 to Wheat Closes Cent Over Saturday. New York, July 3. (AP) Heavy buying rolled into the security and commodity markets today in response to the dollar's decline to new lows after publication of Presi dent Roosevelt's note to the economic conference.

Stocks rushed to new highs for the year and by early afternoon many issues had recorded gains of IV to around $7 a share. Cotton jumped about S2 a bale and wheat rose nearly 5 cents on the Chicago board of trade. Sterling exchange rose 12Vi cents to $4.46 before subsiding several cents and the European gold cur rencies climbed to new highs. Speculative enthusiasm ran high on the New York stock exchange. Traders, reading President Roose velt's statement, noted particularly, the emphasis he had placed on the importance of maintaining the do mestic price lifting program, and volume of transactions reached large proportions.

U. S. Steel climbed more than $2 to while the preferred dis tinguished itself by selling at par. $100 a share, where it was $1.75 above Saturday close. AH Grains Strong.

Chicago, July 3. (AP) Grains prices swung sharply upward today on reports of continued heat and drought over the middle west and because of sharp declines in the dollar, compared with the British pound sterling. Opening prices were as much as 3 cents a bushel higher than Saturday and the mar ket later advanced about a cent more. Closing prices were gener ally a cent or more higher than the opening. Unofficial crop estimates which were released during the day indi cated the smallest wheat crop in the United States, both spring and winter wheat, in 37 years.

The average of the leading experts was 323,000,000 bushels. This compared with the official government esti mate of 341,000,000 bushels in June Dollar wheat was surpassed by the September, December and May deliveries with the July only 1 cents a bushel under at the day's peak. The May delivery surged up to $1.08 at its highest level but receded to $1.08 at the close, July closed at 98, September at $1.0074 and December at $1.03. All other grains also were higher Oats were affected by estimates in dicating one of the smallest crops in nearly half a century and pushed well past half a dollar bushel with May closing at 55 cent3. Cora crossed 70 cent; with May at 70.

Rye advanced to 6 14 on December delivery and closed at S57i. Barley was over 60 cents with December at 63 at the close Lincoln Winks On Bogus Bills Des Moines, July 3 (AP) Even counterfeiters must have their lit tle jokes. So Des Moines hankers are on the lookout for $5 bills bearing the likeness of Abraham Lincoln with a wink In his right eye. Bankers say the artwork on the bills is exceptionally good except for the frivolous touch. KANE, HAS A LIGHT SNOW Kane, July 3.

(AP) A light snow fell here today, a striking wintry contrast to the sizzling summer heat of last week. The snow flurry accompanied a drastic temperature drop to 40 degrees. The mercury had been hovering in the 90s all last week. Today's flurry was hailed as tbe first July snowfall within the memory of Kane's oldest residents. TWO HELD IN IOWAROBBERY Des Moines, July 3.

(AP) Arley Alder, 41, and Kirk Porter, 4', both of Maxwell, Iowa, were under arrest here today for Keokuk officers in connection with the $8,000 robbery of an elderly Oman, her two sons and a daughter last January. $2,000,000 DAMAGE DONE IN ILLINOIS Windy City's Municipal Airport Suffers Loss. WORLD'S FAIR TOUCHED Many Buildings Unroofed; Score of Persons Injured. Chicago. July A trail of torn and twisted homes and debris today marked the path of a violent wind storm that swept over a 30-mile course from' Elgin, 111., to Chicago.

There were various estimates of the damage, some of them as high as 12,000,000. Along the Fox river valley between Elgin and St. Charles about forty cottazea were wrecked. Fifty others were unroofed. Huge trees in Chicago suburbs Glen Ellyn, Wheaton and othr localities were snapped In two like matchwood.

There were no fatalities, but approximately a score of persons were injured. In Chicago about 28 houses were unroofed, power lines were broken and more than 30 fires kept firemen busy. Hail added to the damage of the wind in some localities and much of the loss was due to ruined truck gardens. Striking early yesterday, the wind, which reached a Telocity of JT-miles an hour, apparently traveled from the northwest to the Southwest, finally spending its force in Lake Michigan. Planes Damaged The Chicago municipal airport was hard hit.

A score of planes were damaged. One was wrecked with a loss of J25.000, and an employe was critically injured. Officials estimate the total damage at The American air races, scheduled for Sunday, were postponed. The Elgin airport also felt the full force of the wind. The hangar was lifted and carried several hundred feet.

A watchman was injured. Chicago's Century of Progress Exposition suffered slight damage. A tent was blown down, Injuring one man, and a section of the wall of the travel and transport building collapsed. Two Critically Injured, One of the most critically injured in the storm was 17-year-old Curtis G. Babcock, a high school football player, who had taken refuge in the Elgin city pumping Etation.

A sliver of glass as driven into his brain when a door was blown against him while with employes he was closing indows of the plant. Raymond Snyder, 26, received a fractured skull and possible internal injuries In the wrecking of the plane at the Chicago municipal airport. He had climbed into the machine to set the brakes and head it into the wind a moment before it was blown over. Forecaster W. P.

Day of the local weather bureau, explained the storm ag the result of a mass of cold ajr in the upper atmosphere meeting hot currents which had prevailed over the region. The result, he said, was the formation of hail, heavy rainfall and wind. The storm caused Mrs. May Griffin, 29, Chicago to shoot herself accidentally. Carrying a revolver as she went about her home to close the windows she tripped over a rug and the weapon was discharged.

Inflicting a scalp wound. ANOTHER BOMB IS HURLED IN MINERS' WAR Springfield. 111., July 3 (AP)-Another bombing, the fifth in three days, was reported to police early-today. The latest took place at the home of Henry Gansau, a member of the United Mine Workers of America. Damage in excess of 000 was reported and Gansau was slightly Injured.

Gansau worked at the Woodside mine which was bombed earlv Sunday morning. The mine tipple was damaged. Repairs on the tipple were underway today and no work in the mine was expected for several days. Two other bombings, one of which could not be located followed the one at the mine yesterday morning. Saturday the home of another miner was bombed.

1 1 I it Mtez sr. DR. PAUL RADENHAUSEN. Tuesday morning. At 11 a.

m. Wednesday the body will be taken to the mortuary for services at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday. Friends will be welcomed at the chapel but services at the grave will he private.

The family requested that flowers he omitted. Ingenious thieves, who broke into the Huh Clothing 116 West Second street, some time early Sunday evening took $150 and some stocks and bonds from the safe and escaped. The men removed the roller from the lock on the front door to gain entrance, and then replaced it and barred the door to prevent disturb ance. They chiseled the lock off the safe and took all the money in it. Ed Moritz, manager of the store, said that the value of stocks and bonds was not great, He had not completed' a of their value.

Stock of the clothing store was not in any way disturbed. The robbery was first discovered by Frank Hastens, private night watchman, in the course of his rounds of the business district during the evening. He notified-the police and Lieut. Hennelley and Detective Phillips investigated. There were no finger-prints or other clues to the identity of tho robbers.

CALL CONFERENCE ON RELEASING FUNDS IN IOWA Dps Moines, July 3. (AP) First steps in the effort of the federal government to release money tied up in closed Iowa banks and those operating under senate file 111 were expected to be Initiated Wednesday at a conference of Dennis P. Hogan, president of the Omaha Federal land bank, with Governor Herring and Bank Commissioner Bates. The conference will seek to draw up a plan which will make between $60,000,000 and 170.000,000 available to depositors in these banks. The principal difficulty now lies, apparently, in ambiguity of Iowa laws on the problem of writing down the value of mortgages and deposits.

Federal officials are now at work revaluating farm lands in Wisconsin preparatory to using federal funds to refinance mortgages and use money so loaned In paying out bank deposits. U. S. Flatly Refuses to Have Anything to Do With Old Standard. FAILURE OF PARLEY LOOMS" Five Nations Ready to Quit; Britain Seeks a Compromise.

London, July 3. (AP) Ram. say MacDonald as president of, the world economic conference, decided this evening after a meeting of British authorities with representatives of the European; gold bloc to summon a meeting of the bureau tomorrow to deter- mine the future of the parley in. view of President Roosevelt's rejection of currency All parties agreed that as a result of the American president's statement the whole Idea of im-mediate stabilization of currencies must be abandoned. By DE WITT MAC KENZIE.

London. July 3. (AP) Presi dent Roosevelt's flat and dramatic! refusal, contained in a formal state ment to London, to have anything to do with supporting the old fashioned gold standard resulted this afternoon in the European gold bloc's taking definite steps to makq good their threat to desert the par. ley unless it sailed under a flag of gold. In gold bloc quarters It was stated that some delegations at least expected immediate orders from their governments to return home, leaving only a few minor secretaries at London.

Should the entire gold group, consisting of France, Belgium, Hol land, Itlay and Switzerland, aban. don the conference it would virtually be paralyzed. Switzerland Acts. The first move on behalf of th gold countries was "made thru Switzerland. Walter Stucki, chief Swiss delegate, asked for and obtained adjournment until Thursday of an important drafting committee of the economic commission on the) eround that no further nrlr rnnlri be accomplished until gold bloo delegations should receive fresh in-structions from their governments.

A similar motion was expected ia other committees this afternoon, and if accepted, it would mean that a large part of the conference activities would be suspended. Predict End Near. Well informed persons close the representatives of gold securities said this adjournment of committees was merely the entering wedge and anticipated activities would not be resumed. Tho Swiss delegation was understood to be expecting orders tonight or tomorrow from Berne di recting it to return home, leaving only a few secretaries on the job. Other members of the gold group are contemplating a similar move.

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18 hours. i Two persons were killed, Kenneth Barclay, 1.1. of Chatfield. and Herman Knaack, 42. of Waterloo, a lineman.

Barclay received a fractured skull when the automobile in which he was riding crashed into a creek near Cresco after a bridge bad been washed out. Knaack was electrocuted by a high voltage wire while working on damaged lines. Mrs. W. W.

Mc-Mann of Gait received back and scalp wounds when struck by bricks from a falling chimney and Laverne Obermeier, 17, was slightly injured when struck by lightning while working on a farm near Charles City. Utilities Paralyzed. All train and telegraph service into McGregor was paralyzed for a 24 hour period and trains were being rerouted among the storm area. Serious crop damage was reported at Cresco, Hampton, Manchester, Mason City. Decorah, Nora Spring, Rudd and other points, with the total expected to run into hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Cresco was without electric light Sunday and water was being used sparingly because of damage to the pumping system. Telephone poles and fences were washed out in the vicinity with much crop damage reported. Mile Of Poles Down. Mason City reported the most severe windstorm in years with much damage to trees and crops by wind and hail. Bus drivers reported more than a mile of telephone poles down between Nora Springs and Rudd with the road rendered almost impassable.

Af Gait two business buildings wee blown down and the roofs blown from the railroad station and hotel- Near Hampton barns were blown down and many head of livestock killed. Thousands of dollars damage was done to farm buildings near Manchester. STORM PASSES OVER CUBA; HIT TRINIDAD HARD Havana. Cuba. July 3.

(AP) A tropical disturbance that resulted in 13 deaths and property damage set at $3,000,000 in Trinidad last week passed thru Pinar Del Rio Province in Western Cuba today and then hurried out into the Gulf of Mexico. First signs of the hurricane were felt in Pinar Del Rio city, capital of the state, at 1:40 a. when the chief of police telephoned here that it was raining heavily and that strong winds blew rooftiles from several houses. City power lines were cut off to prevent short circuits. Later telephone and telegraph officials reported that communication facilities were interrupted.

DISINTER BODY OF AMES MAN FOUND SLAIN Nevada, July 3. (AP) The body of Fred M. Hollingsworth of Ames, who was found shot to death June 13. was disinterred under a court order obtained last Friday by County Attorney Hnneen. The disinterment was made to ueiermine the size and character of the Shot which raneod Mnllinire.

death. It was found that a charge rroni a 12 guage shotgun inflicted the fatal wound. Cecil Olson, soldier stationed at rowa btate college, is being held in default of $20,000 bond on murder charges. Plane Race Pilot Dies Of Injuries Russell Boar dm an, in Crash Saturday, Succumbs in Hospital. Indianapolis, July 3 (AP) Rus sell Boardman, 35-year-old Boston, sportsman and aviator in jured Saturday during the Transcontinental Air race, died this morning at City hospital.

The o. time co-holder of the world's long distance non-stop flight record succumbed to injuries which included a fractured skull, a broken shoulder and a punctured lung. Among the few persons permit ted In his hospital room before death came were Mrs. Boardman, who flew from Providence, and his brother Earl, who came from Albuquerque, N. M.

In Accident Saturday. Disaster ended Boardman's II-year flying career Saturday morning as he lifted his tiny plane from municipal airport here with 200 gallons of gasoline, to continue his New York to Los Angeles dash in a $10,000 prize race. Twenty-five feet from the ground, a cross wind caught the stubby little craft. It flopped over, hit the ground and bounded about like a wounded bird. Boardman dropped unconscious from the cockpit when ground crews lifted the overturned ship.

Many Narrow Escapes. Boardman had had many narrow escapes during a career that included motorcycle racing, speed boat piloting and trans-Atlantic flying. His greatest feat in the air was the flight from New York to Istanbul, Turkey, in 1331, with John Polando of Lynn. as co-pilot. They made the 5,000 mile journey In 49 hours.

It stood for some time as the world's long distance, nonstop flight record. Recently Boardman and Rosetta Valenti, Italian aviatrix. announced plans for a nonstop flight to Rome late this month in the same plane used in the Istanbul hop. Cement Co. Head Dies.

Chicago, July 3. (AP) Theo dore G. Dickinson. 77, president of the Marquette Cement company and a leader in the cement industry, died Sunday morning at the family home in Suburban Lipertyville. OUR WEATHER MAN TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY Jester- fester- today day day Noon i 1 Dry bulh 74 76 5 Wet bulb fif 68 62 eRl.

Humidity 79 68 62 Sunset today 7:42 p. m. Sunrise tomorrow 4:33 a. m. Weather Forecasts Till 7 P.

M. Tuesday. For Davenport, Rock Island, Moline and Vicinity: Generally fair weather tonight and Tuesday; slightly warmer Tuesday. For Iowa: Fair tonight; Tuesday generally fair and slightly warmer. For Illinois: Fair, cooler extreme south portion, tonight.

Tuesday fair, slightly warmer north and central portions. River Forecast: Stages of the Mississippi river between Dubuque, Iowa and Keithsburg. Illinois will rise somewhat during the next two to four days, Danger In Air? Edmund Matucha, an aviator with the N. A. has flown over 1,000,000 miles in seven years without an accident.

Sunday afternoon he took his regular trip from Kansas City to Chicago via Moline, and arrived in the Windy City airport just a split second before the storm broke. He sat his plane on the field, discharged his passengers and then cast a weather-eye at the clouds. It was an inauspicious moment for upward glance for just then a large hailstone, about the size of his fist, hit him in the eye and knocked him unconscious. This morning for the first time in his career with the N. A.

Matucha was unable to take his plane on the daily trip. He was confined to his bed, his In jured optic considerably swollen, BAD WEATHER DELAYS CHICAGO BOUND PLANES Londonderry, Northern Ireland, July 3. (AP) Unfavorable weather today delayed the departure of Air Minister Italo Balbo's armada of Italian flyers on the 930 mile hop to Reykjavik, Iceland. After a long sleep, earned In the quick flight from Amsterdam, General Balbo and his comrades were up early, ready to leave, but a haze hung over Lough Foyle, and weather experts reported flying conditions were bad. Consequently it was decided to interrupt the flight, which started Saturday at Orbetello, Italy, and has Chicago for Its destination.

Italian Ambassador Grand! and Finance Minister Jung, who had come to see the aviators, left for London. Signor Jung being anxious to attend the afternoon session of the world economic No Issue Of The Democrat 4 Tuesday Independence Day In order that the employes of The Democrat and Leader may enjoy the holiday with their families, publication will be suspended for July 4. Your next paper will reach you on Wednesday as 1 usual..