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r1 1 i 1 1 i fri ri THE WEATHER Tartly cloudy; fair Friday, Complete fnrr? for trw a mrrounrlin nutrj on 2. All the News for All the Family HIV I II A II FIRST TWENTY-TWO PACKS rniCG TnniiK cents WATKKLGO, IOWA, TUUKSDAY, OCTOllER 31, 1910 ESTABLISHED 1S31 1 i I I I 1 1 LJ i i i In jh VA JZ1LZ -J I i Where Flames Charred War Offices Men CAPTURE IB Arm Calling eentt I 4 i I BY X. 'J Provide Funds for Housing Units inlova Ei 10 IT APRIL IF F. D. R.

INS, MILNE NII5 FIRST GROUPS MUST REPORT BY If. 1 8-22 Little Change in Battle Line After 4 Days of Heavy Fighting, Report. BRITISH TROOPS SAID TO HAVE OCCUPIED ISLANDS EVIrs. Brovder Ordered Sent Daclito Heds Washington, Attorney General. Thursday Announced that he had ordered the deportation of Raissa Berhman Mrowder, wife of Earl Browder.

communist candidate for president. The attorney general said that he acted on the recommendation of the immigration appeals board on the grounds that Mrs. Browd. entered the United States illegally. Jackson said the basis of the finding was the respondent's own testimony describing her surreptitious entrance in 1933.

She does not challenge either the Washington, l. (AP) Charles K. Palmer, defense it sing coordinator, announced Thursday that President, Roosevelt, had approved "immediate construction of housing projects in vital defense areas" with $45,762,500 of defense funds. This money, Palmer told a pros conference, will provide Tells Wilminaton Crowd If Plans to Induct 30,000 for Year's Service Training Before Dec. 1.

FIRST 1,500 NUMBERS ONLY LIKELY DRAFTERS He's Elected Plane Production Will Be Speeded. FIVE QUESTIONS FOR PRESIDENT TO ANSWER Aboard Willkie Train En Route Camden, X. J. (AP) After contending President Roosevelt's reelection might bring war by April on the basis of his "past performances and pledges" Wendell Willkie told a cheering crowd at Wil family dwelling units scattered thruout the United States. The ror.tracts will be handled by the federal works administrator, John M.

Carmody, he said. Cost $3,000 a Unit. The co-ordinator estimated that all the projects would be completed within 4 to 12 months. Congress provided a total of $290,000,000 for defense housing construction, he said, and estimates indicate that a total of $560,000,000 will be needed eventually to complete the job. Officials said the funds had been provided for construeiion of the following family units, chiefly for housing families of enlisted A roaring (ire at the war department-munitions building; in Washington destroyed a newly-built fourth floor addition and did extensive damage to sections bousing a mass of records, some of them secret.

This picture, made from the roof of an adjoining building, shows the charred ruins of what police said was the section which housed a message center from which the signal corps sent coded messages. In the distance is the Lincoln memorial. Athens, Creeee, (AP) Creek troops were repotted Thursday to have counter-attacked north of the besieged town of Joannina (Janina'i, and sources regard as reliable said they had stormed and recaptured a hill. The Creeks, rushing the hill under heavy fire, were said to have seized large quantities of abandoned arms and equipment from the Italian invaders. The Ioannina sector, on the western frontier with Albania, still wss the scene of the heaviest fighting of this four-day-old war, but there had been little change in the line.

Along the rest of the front, the Greeks said the action was limited to sporadic firing and skirmishes between advance units of the two armies. Both Italians and Greeks were bombing lines of communication behind the front. Wednesday night's Greek general staff communique said one Iave wgu Des Moines (AP) Iowa state selective service officials Thursday predicted that not a single Iowan would be called into military service under the national conscription act Nov. 18. And if the volunteer rate comes up to expectations, they said, it is probable that no Iowans will be drafted in the first six months of army expansion.

Washington. D. (AP) With army corps area commanders already caH'mi for the initial contingents of men, national seleclivc service officials concentrated Thursday on clearing the wav for local U.S. PREPARES Franco Enter U.S. of Nazis FBI Will Watch Chicago Voting Chicago UP Ten federal bureau of investigation agents will be assigned to- help guard against vote frauds in Chicago in the presidential election Tuesday, George F.

Barrett. Republican candidate for attorney general of. Illinois, said Thursday. Barrett, who has campaigned on a "stop the vote TD SEi 6 mington, Thursday that if he is elected president a British request for 12,000 American planes would be "insignificant" because, he declared, production would be geared to a new high. Speaking in bright sunshine to a crowd which filled city hall square, the Republican presidential nominee quoted President Roosevelt as saying he wanted sympathetic attention to such a proposal, "Well, who Willkie asked, "if you elected me president, such a request will not even be news, because it will be so insignificant.

"We will be turning out planes by the hundreds where we now are turning them out bv ones. mpn of the army and navy, at an estimated cost of not more than $3,000 for each unit: 500 in Iowa. Belleville, III. 100; Boise. Idaho 100; Savanna, 111.

200; Denver, Colo. 50; Lowry Field, Colo. 125. Rantoul. 111.

200; Corydon, la. 250: Leon, la 250; Fort Meade. S. 50. Co-ordination of defense bousing.

Palmer said, will assure adequate housing for army and navy men and workers in civilian defense industries. proceedings or the findings of fact concerning (lie circumstances of her entry or its conclusions of law that she is subject to dep'ortation, he asserted. Citizen of Russia. The attorney general said that Mrs. Browder is a citizen of Russia.

The ordcf calls for her to be sent back there at the expense of the American government. Testimony given before the Dies committee last year by William Nowcll. Detroit Negro, who attended the Lenin school in, Moscow in 1932. linked Mrs. Browder to the OGPU.

Nowell said that he had known Mrs. Browder in Moscow and that he had known her as an OGPU agent. Her refusal to give immigration authorities testimony concerning her communist connections caused them to deny her leniency plea, the department said. Married in Moscow. "The attorney general held that Mrs.

Browder's evasive testimony regarding her relationship to the Communist party had created doubt as to her eligibility for leniency," a formal justice department announcement said. Mrs. Browder is the mother of three American-born children, according to testimony she gave immigration authorities. She said she was married to Browder in September, 1926. She gave her age as 43.

Paris (Via Berlin) (UP) Jacques l)oriot, head of the French popular parfv and ID 111 boards to begin actual selection of. the 800,000 trainees who will be summoned by next Juno 15 for a year's military training. Just a few hours after Tues- day's historic conscription lottery: widely regarded ns a r-nni i 11 tr lender" of France, told the Fnited Press in nn interview I that France should enter immodi-! ately a United States of Europe, led by Germany. "Today," he said, "the victory of Long Range Guns ol London. Fire at Nazi Bombers President Tells Boston Crowd 12,000 Planes Next Step in Assistance.

I "Have ynu any doubt hat Wen-i dell Willkie, with the confidence of American labor, can do more than Franklin Roosevelt can to bring WILL HELP GIVE U. S. Greek tighter plane was lost Wednesday and a later report said an Italian seaplane was shot down over the coast. FIsewhere, there were no air raid alarms in Greece Thursday up to noon. Report British Landed.

Ky thr Pnr) Salonika, Greece Britain, invoking the power of her Mediterranean fleet, was authoritatively reported Thursday to have landed troops on strategic Greek islands as this little kingdom's hardy mountain men fought to stem Italian troops pounding at her northwest, frontier. For military reasons, the islands where the landings were said to have been made under the big guns of British warships could not be identified by name, it was stated. The number of troops involved and the nature of the equipment they brought with them likewise were thief" platform, said he had been informed by J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the FBI. that the 10 agents would be sent to Chicago from other cities to observe the balloting on presidential electors.

Lindbergh Says U. S. Following British, French to Disaster New Haven, Conn Col. Charles A. Lindbergh said Wednesday night, that the United States was "following a course alarmingly parallel to that of England and France in 1 038 a course which can lead only to disuster." In an address sponsored by the Yale university America First committee, Lindbergh said America's entry into the war would be a disaster for both this country and Europe 'a disaster for America STRONGEST AIR FORCE was completed, Maj.

Gen. George? A. Woodruff, corps area commander at Boston, called on the six New England governors in that area to provide 984 men by Nov. 18 under the selective service syl-tem. On the Pacific roast the Ninth corps area at San Francisco dispatched to the governors of seven far western states its opening requisition for a total of l.fi.10 men between Nov.

18 and 22. The Eighth corps area headquarters at San Antonio issued Best on Mass. AP frost- London (U.P) London's anti-aircraft, batteries hurled up a barrage of shells thru a cloud formation Thursday night as the night air raid alarm sounded. The anti-aircraft batteries went to work as rescue workers still dug for bodies in a block of apartments demolished by German bombs in Wednesday night's air attack. Miserable weather kept the British capital fairly free of bomb at- lent Roosevelt has given his -n pport 1o a proposed step Quints Reported in France; One Dead, Others Doing Well Vichy, France tT French newspapers reported Thursday that a miner's wife at Lens, near Lille, had given birth to quintuplets four boys and one girl.

The girl was said to have died but the bovs were reported doing well. The parents have three older children. notifications to the states in the southwest on the number of men thev were to furnish. about peace and keep us off this road of stagnation'1" he asked. Willkie also devoted further parts of his talk to a discussion of President Roosevelt's address in Boston Wednesday night.

Wants Five Answers. When he said he had heard Roosevelt's speech by radio, there was booing from the crowd at the mention of the president. "Don't trifle with a great name," the candidate said. In a parade thru the downtown area, the candidate was booed in a few spots but there was applause most of the way. Willkie Thursday expressed hope the chief executive would answer these questions before election; "1.

it is that after having spent 60 billion dollars, there are over nine million men still unemployed in the United States approximately the samp number as when he ran for president in 1936? "2. Why it is that we have stayed in a condition of chronic depression for seven and a half years when every other country in the world, prior to the outbreak of the world war, showed he said would let (Jreat lint a in order 12,000 more jmeriran planes and, by up production capacity, help snake the United States "the strongest air power in the world." Hp selected a political speech in 'he Boston garden Wednesday nipht i announce that he had asked the jlefense priorities board to give j' most sympathetic consideration" to British request for permission to i tacks during the day. Thursday night's barrage was con- i siderably heavier at the outset than i that of Wednesday night. The guns sent a steady stream of i shells up into the cloud bank. The explosion of the shells was impos- sible to observe from the ground Occupation of the islands, ever, presumably would give the Germany bestows upon her the mission (to form a United Stales of Europe) which destiny gave us in 1918.

"There is no clear-sighted Frenchman who would refuse to collaborate with them in such a plan." Doriot sharply criticized the United States and President Roosevelt and said that France should draw a lesson from the British attacks at Mers El Kebir tOran) and Dakar, and follow a "clear-cut" policy towards England. To accomplish this, he said, France should seek immediately good relationships with all European powers. Fraternal Co iiunity. Outlining his views for the future internal organization of France, Doriot said France should form her-self into a corporate state, in which a fraternal community of all classes, without class dictatorship, should be established. Such a government, he said, would "be on good terms with the regimes now dominating the continent of Europe: Germany, Italy and Spain." "One of the first arts of this totalitarian French state, he said, would be to "eliminate useless foreigners, ho are numerous" and to banish the Jews to form a nation of their own, somewhere in Africa.

Neutral observers regard Doriot's (Continued on pape 2, column 2) because it would confuse and aggravate our international problems, which are critical enough without war for Europe because I am convinced that the relationship of European countries cannot be solved thru American interference in their affairs. "I say it would be a disaster for all of us because from a purely material standpoint wc are in no position to enter this war successfully," he said. order the planes. because of the clouds. List 28 Missing, 16 Saved on French Ship Sunk on High Seas Gov.

Sets Nov. 10-16 as Education Week When these orders were approved, he said adding "I hope they will be" Britain would have undertaken to purchase a total of 26.000 American planes; and still more new plant facilities would be needed. "The productive capacity of the Des Moines uns Gov. George A. Wilson Thursday proclaimed Nov.

10-16 as Amencnn education week and urged that appropriate ceremonies and study be arranged in Iowa schools, churches, and civic meetings. Political Writers See Close Contest O'tawa The admiralty listed 2fi men as missing and 16 saved Thursday from the commandeered French steamer St. Malo which was sunk bv "enemy action" Other army areas either were following suit, or planning to swing into action before Saturday. First Call for 30.000. This first, selective service call designed to bring 30.000 young men was in accord with the war department's previously announced plan of inducting approximately that number of trainees into service between Nov, 18 and Dec.

1. Most, if not all of this pioneer contingent was expected to be filled by selective service volunteersmen who want to take their year's training immediately, even tho their conscription numbers may be so far down the list that they might not be called for months or years. Such volunteers will be given priority over all other registrants in being certified for service. A second and numerically larger call for selective service registrants, it was indicated, will be forthcoming about Dee. 2.

(Continued on page 2. column 4) on the high sens 'last Saturday. It was reported that the complement I of the ship was Canadians. 158 Ahead of Draft States that I talk about, jwhieh has made it the greatest industrial country in the world," he 'said, "is not failing now." "It is going to make us, it is making us the strongest air power in the world." I A capacity crowd in the garden Wnt up a loud cheer when he Washington. D.

C. (U.R) A survey by the magazine Newsweek among a0 political writers showed Thursday that 27 of them predicted that President Roosevelt would be reelected for a third term while 22 believed Wendell L. Willkie would win. The other writer said he believed Uses Six Shooter wmii'u. "And that is not just a campaign News Feature Index the contest was too close to venture I a guess on its outcome.

All agreed that the race would be 1he closest since 1916 when oneCali- forma county turned victory into 1 defeat for Chief Justice Charles Ev Returns to Washington. The president n. turned to YVash- Tage "Believe It or Not" 8 British bases from which to launch the aid they have promised their newest ally. Reports from the war front. 100 miles west of here, meanwhile, indicated the Greeks were continuing to hold their own.

Keep Italians in Check. A communique said that Greek forces in the Epirus sector on the southern end of the Albanian border had kept the Italians in check all day Wednesday after "a slight withdrawal of their advance sections according to a pre-arranged plan." The Italian offensive in this area was reported taking the form of a two-pronged drive aimed at the industrial city of piannina, 30 miles from the frontier. Bands of irregulars, the hijh command said, were "collaborating" with the Italians. The nationality of the irrrguhri was not identified. Little military activity was reported elsewhere, tho i.no:f:n,d sources estimated the Greeks had captured approximately 800 prison-ers on the northern end tho front during tho I i 1 few days.

The h'gh command the Italian air force "mdisct iminately" and m.ich.'.i--gunning tho population, Air attack- on ''rion-mi! tarv -gets" at Rir.ii and ivp.n'los at r- -t the Gulf of from wh'Ch, one person kill---! five- wounded a'-o were Reinforcements Kiivliftt. r.itu.--.t nf 'hh ei'y tv rv available means of mm i lh' Greek t1-, lack of I'akiti aerial in t- in j-i-h m. i the front. Thus far S. nce -i a i i i for ire f.

-1. al 1 v. 15 nvh as i. With this call, ihe sizable flow rsf nrm.vnliintrrrc U'ns r-vnerlprt to When Song Refused Denver, Colo. (U.R' John Mikow-j ski.

37. of Buffalo, N. was sit-j ting in the Arcade beer parlor lis- toning to 14-year-old Mrs, Merialj Norman sing for a late crowd. He didn't like the song and told her' to try another. "But I don't know-; it." Mrs.

Norinan protested. In a manner reminiscent of thei old days. Mikowski whipped out his six shooter and put a slug between her fret. The judge let I i take 125 days, in jail instead of a fine lie' idn have, ans Hughes, then the Republican candidate. HOOVER.

SMITH RIVALS AGAIN FOR RADIO TIME 'uigton for speech at 4:15 p. iThursdjy, dedicating the National Institute of Health, and a final brief interlude in pre-election cam-ipnigning before traveling -o Brooklyn for another political address at the Academy of Music Friday night. The Boston speech ided a day in which he campaigned in Connecticut and Massachusetts, which Chicago (1NSI Al Smith and Herbert Hoover are rivals again I Thursday. Twelve years ago they were ri have a total of 25 electoral votes, and appeared in Boston bofYne crowds which Police Superintendent Kdward J. Fallon estimated at begin.

Officials estimate that about one in every 20 registrants will be in uniform when the first year's quota of 800,000 is filled. "The Tirst 1,500." Draft officials estimated that men whose numbers were not in the first 1 .500 drawn in the lottery will have very little chance even of getting questionnaires, much less being called for service, at least as far as selection of the first 800,000 trainee- is concerned. 11 is rntirelv probable that some conscription cligibles may not receive questionnaires for a year or even longer. Based on the world war experience. Draft Director Dykstra 1 -I newsmen he expected there would be a number of lawsuit develop as a result of the drift.

vals for the presidency 01 inc United States. Thursday night they were to vie with each other for a radio audience, as botlv will speak for Wendell Willkie at 8 p. m. on different networks. 000.

Brady's Health Talk 4 Cedar Falls News 11 City in Brief in Classified Ads 18-1! Comics 17 Lditorial 4 Farm News 22 Markets .20 Merry-Go-Round in News 4 Northeast Iowa Events 13 Parsons' Movie Talk .....21 Trivate Lives 4 Radio Trograms 21 Serial Story 8 Society 10 Sports 15-lt; Stamp Stories 11 Theatre; Entertainment 21 I'ncle Ray's Corner 8 I'ncle Wiggily ..8 Winchrll on Broadway 8 Martin. King Kn-vard, Is.ihrla, 5 fni Sc. Emerson San F'ljrr. Uarvrtcr, 5c cKris (advertisement SOLD HOT WATER TANK Here is another ad that brought quick results for the; advertiser: HOT W.iicr Tank for Kirnacf. nr a Summi At.

You can rely on Courier Classified to sell anything of value Give thorn a try and be convinced. COUFJE3 CLASSIFIED CI.US Phone 5100. 4 In this address he denounced what he said war "the record of Republicans on larm legislation." and singled out for criticism their national chairman and house leader, Rep. Joseph W. Marl whose home state is Massachusetts.

ncpuhliran campaign orators ere "ridiculous," Konse.clt declared, "when they those eld crocodile tears over the plight of the farmer." "The American farmers will not be deceived," he asserted, "by pic- SAVE A LIFE IN 1940! Raymond L. Westover (riht), 21. of Warren, 0 was one of the. holders of selective srrvice serial number 158 first number dran but he hadn't waiied to be called for military service. He enlisted, before the conscription lottery drawing, for ti aiding as an air corps mechanic, then wrnt to the army's Fort Hayes recruiting station in Columbus.

O. "Open up," says Capt. James V. Vannctter, Traffic Toll in City of Waterloo This Year and Lat Sine tiamf Jan 1 Dale K'40 1BS9 of accident--. 273 2G3 Number in lured 100 89 Number killed 8 5 "LAST YET! RAN" HIES.

Storm Lake, la -Charles P. Matsoii, t3. brt Civil war vrti-ntn in Bue.ia Vi.ta county, dud at his home here Wednesday. til i 1 .11 i I i of medical reserves, as be starts Westovrr's physical evaiiiiin- Heft), tion. i (Continued on page 2, column 1).

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