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I MEM 0 OF 0 1 NORTH IOWA'S DAILY PAPER EDITED FOR THE HOME VOL. XLVI ASSOCIATED PRESS AND UNITED PRESS FULL LEASES WIRES FIVE CENTS A COPY "THE NEWSPAPER THAT MAKES ALL NORTH IOWANS NEIGHBORS" MASON CITY, IOWA, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1940 MASON CITY THE BRIGHT SPOT THIS PAPEB CONSISTS OF TWO SECTIONS i i i up 1. tYLJ oCt-llONS BELGIANS, DUTCH MASS AT BORDER Hull Now Is Favored by Demos By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Columnist Leaving President Roosevelt out of consideration, as a drafted! candidate for re-election, chats I've had with a good many members of both houses of congress since the lawmakers convened Jan. 3 give me the impression that MARKS WORST AIR OFFENSIVE STAGED IN WAR Finland Fears Assault Behind Lines Designed to Break Down Morale ary of tff) The Russian a Cordell attacking again after un- Hull averages washing Sunday the worst aerial as the demo- of the Russian-Finnish crats' most pop- wal resumed bombing raids on ular 1940 pos- Fln land Monday, sibilily.

Two air alarms were sounded in Strong anti- Helsinki shortly after noon. No new dealers doubtless would pre- damage was reported downtown VlPR XT hllr VinwKf- fnll ii i Cordell Hull John N. Gar- ILC tiuiiii rv. tiar- ner, but they all say Hull will get skirts. their ballots, if he's nominated.

Senator Burton K. Wheeler has soviet planes flew high, a formidable liberal following. Some of the anti-new dealers also speak qualifiedly well of him, because of his senatorial opposition to various Roosevelt! an policies. Still, that's offset by New Deal opposition to him, for the same reason. All the same, he has a mighty long record as a near-radical.

He certainly couldn't class as a compromise. Essentially he's a leftist, unquestionably, though I'm bound to say that he's a surprisingly developing candidate. Paul V. McNutt strikes me as fizzling. It isn't so much that there's any violent opposition to him, but there doesn't appear to be any enthusiasm either.

"Nobody'hollers for Postmaster General 'James Farley, except perhaps vice presiden- tially. For one thing, he had the bad luck to have been chairman of New York's boxing commission. There's a widespread sentiment that anybody who ever was identified with the pugilistic game would be an undignified white house nominee. The rest of the bunch can be brushed aside rather unceremoniously. Wallace, Ickes, et cetera, evidently aren't to be taken seriously.

Well, then. It simmers down, according to my reckoning, lo Hull, Garner and Wheeler, in that order always eliminating a Roosevelt draft. The chance of a dark horse likewise is to be taken into account, but no such critter looms on the horizon at present. I surely figure McNutt, Farley and others as "also fans" at present. And I draw my conclusion from the dope of plenty of extremely crafty politicians.

Hull's a liberal conservative. It would be a desperately violent radical who could vote against him as a reactionary, or a fero- thumbs down on him as a leftist In short, he's a rational. Is Great Statesman He likewise is a great statesman. Heavy fighting, supported by The only count against him that he's too old--nearing 70. At aupyonea ny that, he's younger than Vice Presi- sovlet bombing attacks of the Fin- dent Garner.

He probably is older nlsh Ilnes was reported from the than any candidate the republi- Suomussalmi front, cans will put up against him, but lie's healthy; he ought to last out four years in the white house--if he's elected to it. From Tennessee, his geography isn't much good. He himself once told me that he didn't believe a southerner would his prediction. Off Political Map Nor is his geography worse Ulan Wheeler's in Montana. Montana is one of those western states, that hasn't enough electoral votes to signify.

National conventions, picking presidential candidates, like to choose 'em from doubtful, populous states--like New York. Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois or Indiana. On that ground Hull at least breaks even with Texas or Montana. Texas isn't doubtful: Montana isn't populous. sorne bombs fell in the out- It was intensely cold ahd the As a result of Sunday's widespread attack, Finns feared that Kussian strategy called for a powerful assault on behind-the- lines morale to break militarv resistance at the front.

Civilians of a score of southern Finnish cities and towns surveyed the tuins of homes and public buildings caught In the sweep of Sunday's far-flune air raids. Vasa, important coastal city on the Gulf of Bothnia and railroad center, suffered the severest damage among the larger cities. Business structures in the city of 32,000 population were destroyed and at least 12 persons were reported dead. -believed- nearly-2 0-toSvns and cities were bombed; The Russians dropped hundreds of incendiary bombs and along the Turku-Helsinki railway and elsewhere were reported to have swooped low to machine-gun civilians. A Finnish communique reported that 15 were known dead, "several dozen" wounded and that many private homes were destroyed by fire.

Raids which drove residents of the capital to cover twice during the day killed three persons. The former residence of the United States minister was damaged by bombs in a resort town west of. Helsinki, but nobody 'was Xhe American minister. It. F.

Arthur Schoenfeld, and his legation staff had moved a few days ago to larger quarters. Observers believed the soviet airmen mistook the legation for a Finnish headquarters. Fires still flared on the seacoast city of Hanko and 20 homes were reported destroyed at Tammisaari. Other centers raided were cious conservative who turned smaller towns with inadequate anti-aircraft defenses. On the eastern front, the Russians were believed to be bringing up reinforcements for a new drive lo cut off Finland in the "waistline" sector, scene of the defeat ot the 163rd and 44th Russian divi- sions.

Favors $401,444,660 for Flood Control WASHINGTON, CU.R)--Maj. Gen. Schley, chief of army en- be elected, in his time, to the Sincere, told congress Monday that cutivc mansion. It would be funny nc federal government can spend if his own experience disproved profitably during the next fiscal year, beginning next June 30. on flood control and rivers and harbors projects.

The recommended spending i fl- ighted Schley's annual report. I was less than the estimates submitted to the legislators last year. FOUND DEAD IN HOME FORT DODGE, was a suicide. Injury Toll Rises This is the car in which four JIason Cityans were ridinir Sunday evening when it struck Chicago Great Western viaduct on Twenty-fifth street northwest. Lloyd Rozcn.

assistant service manager of the S. and K. garage, is shown cheeking the damage. (Lock photo, Kayenay engraving.) This is the stanchion of the Chicago and Great Western railroad viaduct on Twenty-fifth street northwest which has been the cause erfOUS accidents in llle Ja and a half years. Miss Will Ella Copas, 224 First street Southwest, was critically injured here Sunday evening when the car which she was riding with three other Mason Cityans bit the viaduct.

The Mason City-Cerro Uordo safety council Saturday requested railroad authorities to take steps to remove the danger spot. 4 MORE INJURED Cold Wave Forecast; North Iowa Roads Cleared of Snow Shippers Warned to Protect Against 15 Below in N. Iowa AT VIADUCT ON 25TH ST. N. W.

Woman Is Reported in "Poor" Condition; Fear Skull Is Fractured The toll of smashed human beings which the Chicago Great Western railroad viaduct on Twenty-fifth street northwest has exacted in the past five and a half years rose sharply Sunday evening when four persons were injured, one of them critically, in another accident at the underpass. The condition of Miss Will Ella Copas, 224 First street southwest, was described as "poor" by Park hospital authorities Monday. They said she had cerebral contusions a probable fractured skull, a fractured jaw and other severe injuries. The viaduct is now turning out injured faster than they can recover in local hospitals, it ap- peared Monday, for Miss Leone Geary, 419 First street Mary NEW CABINET IN JAPAN FORMED Present Diplomatic Policy Toward U. S.

Will Be Continued TOKIO, Japan's new moderate premier, Admiral Matsum- asa Yonai, completed a cabinet Monday which it was said would continue Japan's present diplomatic policy toward the United States. Admiral Yonai, a former Japanese fleet commander and former naval minister, chose as his foreign minister the veteran diplomat Hachiro Arita, who will succeed Admiral Kichisaburo Mo- The Weather FORECAST mura. Shunroku Hata and Vice Admiral Zctigo Yo.shida. who were war and navy ministers, respectively. in the outgoing cabinet of General Nobuyuki Abe.

were retained in their old posts bv the new premier. HEAD OF COMPANY DIES DES MOINES, (If) Funeral K. services for Charles Taylor t-t i A rtViyr rHJWTM' Mayer, 49, Badger, Iowa, farmer, itt. who died in Pasadena Cal was found dead of a shotgun will be held here Thursday' Hev- wound in the head in the basement itt, president of Charles Hewitt early Monday. Dr.

J. and Sons company, wholesale Forbes, Webster county grocers, was 92 years old and had the death apparently been in failing health for some time. IOWA: Generally fair Monday nisht and Tuesday; colder Monday night; continued cold Tuesday. MIXXESOTA: Generally fair Monday and Tuesday; collier in cast and extreme south Monday night; not quite so cold Tuesday in west portion. I A SHIPPER'S FORECAST For Monday Night: Northwest, la below zero; northeast and southwest, 10 below; southeast, zero.

IN MASON CITY Globe-Gazette weather statistics: Maximum Sunday 10 above Minimum Sunday night 2 below At 8 a. m. Monday 2 below YEAR AGO: Maximum above Minimum 13 above Snowfall figures for Sunday: Maximum Saturday 18 above Minimum in above At 8 a. m. Sunday above Snowfall 5 inches Precipitation .50 of an inch YEAR AGO: Maximum 32 above Minimum 15 above Precipitation .06 Snowfall .75 inch southeast, a victim of the last accident, is still a patient in Park hospital.

Miss Geary was injured last Oct. 16 when the car in which she was riding smashed into the center pier of the overpass V- The accident followed on the heels of an attack made on the viaduct Friday evening by members of the Mason City-Cerro Gordo county safety council when they instructed the presi-x. dent of Ihe council, C. LY Murray. to write the proper authorities urging removal of (he menace.

Others in the accident Sunday evening, none of whom was ser- 'y hurt, were Robert Nelzer, i Maryland avenue southeast driver of the cur, John Suyder, 1309 North Federal avenue and Betty Littiefield, 405 West State street. The Neizor car was proceeding west on Twenty-fifth street at the time of the accident. Netzer told officers who investigated the that the wind was blowing snow which obscured his vision and that, not realizing the stanchion was there, lie turned his head to speak to someone just before the cor hit the pier. Netzer was arrested by police following the accident on a charge of operating a motor vehicle without a driver's license. His case was continued until Tuesday in police court.

The present toll of the viaduct since June, 1934, is 17 persons injured and one killed, records of the Mason City police department snow. The personal injury records extend back only as far as 1932, Numerous property damages in which there WHS no" injury arc also known to have happened according to the police, but their files do not carry (uil information in this respect. A recapitulation of the accidents is as follows: June 20, 1934, two persons injured. Dec. 25, 1936, two persons injured.

Sept. 21, 1938. one person injured. July 26, 1939. four persons injured, one killed.

Oct. 16, 1939, Jour persons injured. Jan 12, 1940, four persons injured. A bitter cold wave Monday night in Iowa was predicted by the weather bureau as North Iowa's roads were reported clear of snow which ranged up to 9 inches in Winneshiek and Allamakee counties. The mercury in Mason City managed to struggle up to 1 above at 2 o'clock Monday, the highest reading of the day, after a minimum of 2 below was registered Sunday night.

After the first Heavy snowstorm of the season, a stiff northwest wind Sunday drifted the powdery snow on the highways almost as fast as the state highway commission plows cleared them. The wind moderated somewhat Sunday evening and gave the plows an opportunity to make some headway. Monday they had the paving clear and were pushing snow from the shoulders the Mason City district office of the highway commission reported. Ice which made the roads particularly treacherous under the dry snow Sunday had practically all scaled off Monday morning it was reported. With the sun shining and good visibility travel returned to normal during the forenoon.

Snowfall was heaviest in the southeastern part of the state. In North Iowa Emmet county reported 1 inch, Kossuth Cerro Gordo and Worth, Brcmer Two Men Injured as Vehicle "Fishtails" to Ditch, Hits Tree Icy condition of the highway was believed to have caused the accident in which Llovd Cnrr. attorney at Webster City, and W. H. Fnrbus of Water-town, S.

suffered bruises and facial lacerations when the car in which they were riding left highway 20 six miles east of Iowa Falls at 7 o'clock Monday morning. Driver of the car was Herbert Lund, son of Frank J. Lund, Webster City attorney also in the auto. Mr. Lund, the driver, said that his windshield was frosted.

The car struck at patch of snow on the road, going about 45 miles an hour, and "fishtailed" into a ditch and hit a tree. The front end of the car was badly damaged. The injured men were taken to Ellsworth Municipal hospital at Iowa Falls. Humboldt, Wright and Franklin, Floyd and Chickasaw, Howard 7,, and Fayette, 8. Snow started falling about I o'clock Sunday afternoon in the eastern counties.

started Saturday and fell at intervals during the two days. The highway commission I Mason City had four plows at work most of Sunday, clearing the main roads. The commission also had two maintainers scraping snow from streets in Mason City, over which state highways were routed. Principal Cerro Gordo county were open Monday noon, according to 17. E.

Robertson, county engineer. Isine LOOK INSIDE FOR- REPORT FRONT QUIET BERLIN. U.R The German high command's communique said Monday that "there were no particular events'' on the front. Plow Opens 16 Miles of Road to Get Boy to Hospital RAPIDS, gency appendectomy at St. Luke's, ids was impassable CEDAR RAPIDS, action by the highway patrol and stale highway commission in dispatching a snow-plow the 16 miles to Mount Vernon Sunday afternoon enabled Robert Anderson.

18. DCS Moines. Cornell college freshman, to undergo safely an emer- gency appendectomy at St. Luke's I ids was impassable followins Sat- hospital in Cedar Rapids. ns oat When Dr.

W. G. Kruckenberg was called shortly before noon to he found ai urday night's blizzard. I After he had been called by Dr Kruckenberg. Scrgt.

Clarence Day of the highway patrol notified after rescuing numerous stalled cars on the wav. 300 Japanese Believed Dead as Fire Rages TOKIO, Fire raging uncontrolled Shizuoka. southwest 01 Tokio, was believed Monday to have taken 300 lives and destroyed 1,000 homes. Domci, Japanese news agency. said half of the city, the center of Japan's tea shipping industry, had been destroyed by 3 p.

four hours after the fire was discovered. It reported the flames spread on a strong wind despite attempts to dynamite firebreaks in its path and had consumed the railroad Taking tiie youth in his own carj sllltion Postofficc. some munici- Dr. Kiuckenbcrg followed the and highway No. 30 to Cedar Rap- city about plow back to Cedar Rapids reached the hospital abo operation They county highways in pal buildings and many railroad cars.

An airplane pilot reported he felt the licat of the conflagration Hying over Shizuoka at a height of 4.500 feet. plows wore working on the 1,000 miles in the county system, he said, and it was hoped to have all roads open by evening. May Drop to 15 Below in N. W. Iowa The a bureau warned shippers to protect fur rciidings as low as 15 degrees below zero in northwest Iowa Monday night, 10 below in the north- cast and southwest portions and zero in the southeast, according to the Associated Press.

The mercury stood at five degrees below normal Monday morning after dropping to an official low of four degrees Sunday night at Mount Ayr. Windup of the weekend snowfall struck the eastern part of the state late a bringing amounts ranging from half an inch at Kcokuk to more than five inches at Dubuquc, the bureau said. Strong winds drifted the fine snow into mounds that readied from two to 15 feet in depth, with the southeast flate bearing storm. two-fifths the brunt of Ihe of Die J. EDGAR HOOVER Announces Arrest of 17 in Anti-U.

S. Plot PAGE 2 Goldfield Institute Short Course Is Held PAGE 8 Mason City Cagers in Tuesday Night Scraps PAGE 9 The liiRh'way patrol said all highways in the vicinity of Iowa City were blocked and those in the vicinity of Cedar Rapids were "uncertain." In southeastern and south central Iowa motorists were warned to use caution as those highways open were restricted to one-way traffic in places. Highway 63 was reported blocked north of Oskaloosa. Highway 220 was blocked west of Iowa City, S3 passable but "very bad" near Waterloo, 202 was blocked. 284 blocked west of Lamont, 52 and 61 south of Dubuque questionable.

The Iowa highway patrol issued the following report at noon Monday on the condition of main traveled roads: No. 6--B 1 i open clear across state, may be one-way traffic in places. No. 218 also open across state, but snow i i badly in places. Dubuque highways blocked, -now i i badly: TO MEET ANY THREAT BY GERMAN FORCE Million Men Ordered to Posts; Report Nazis Concentrating Troops AMSTERDAM, vir- ually complete mobilization, the u-mies of Belgium and the Neth- irlands were massed Monday be- lind frontier defenses to meet any German threat to the lowlands' icutrality.

Nearly 1,000,000 Belgian and Netherlands soldiers were already it or ordered to positions along he border--a 300-mile wall hrough which Germany would lave to smash to outflank the British-French allies on the western front. in the past lias denied planning any such maneuver). In Belgium, there were reports of new concentrations ot nazi attack troops, while in the Netherlands, a government communique spoke of '-certain less favorable symptoms in the international situation." The semi-official Belga news agency, however, issued a note in Brussels denying what it called "alarmist stories" being spread in Belgium and abroad" and additional mobilization was proof, only of the vigilance of the government. It was confirmed that Belgian Premier Hubert Pierlot conferred with Foreign Minister Paul Henri Spaak, Saturday night and received foreign diplomats for exchanges of information. A full cabinet meeting has been called for Monday.

trucks rolfctl (hrough Brussels Sunday toivard the frontier, while messengers summoned officers and men from their homes, churches, cafes and theaters. The Brussels jrovernment put into force "phase of her mobilization plan, fitting in the ranks of skeleton units with machine Runners, artillerymen lank drivers. The final step for complete: mobilization would be enforcement of phase E--likely onlv iti event of an actual outbreak ot hostilities. Belgian officials would hot disclose the number of men under arms, but under phase Belgium considers herself on virtually a war footing. As though to clear the ground for any eventuality, an exodus of civilians from border provinces was started.

Phases A. and of Belgiiim's mobilization program were effected last September after Great Britain and France went lo war with Germany. cannot Delaware and Clayton "plows clear." counties--Highways open but one- way traffic in places. Hardin coun- "--Highways open to DCS Moines. Mason City district--Highways open but icy in spots.

Cedar Rapids district--No. 11 open from Cedar Hapids to Independence and No. 13 from Cedar Rapids to Manchester. No. 30 open from Cedar Rapids to Marshalltown but blocked in the vicinity of Clarence.

No. 151 open to Monticeilo and probably to Dubuquc. No. 14D open from Cedar Rapids to No. 6 but drifting badly in vicinity of Fairfax.

No. 38 closed north of Stanwood but open from Stanwood to Tipton. No. 38 blocked from Tipton to ao. 6.

No. 63 open from No. (i to Minnesota line. Snowstorms Leave Midwest for East By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) Snow storms moved eastward from the middlewest Monday threatening to bring ice as an aftermath to gale-blown rain that -slashed the east Sunday. Communications linc.s wrecked by a 50 rnile-an-hour wind in many sections; shipping along the seaboard was disrupted- the rain turned into ice in various areas, but brought some relief to New York City's water supply which had been dwindling undcr drought conditions.

Six persons were killed and a number injured when tornadoes struck lo and 80 milct southwest of Montgomcv Sunday. (The lowlands' defense measures were characterized in Berlin as "another fear epidemic based now i i badly: ra othcr mH: based keep thoroughfares sc 1 1 Informed quar- RL-P nnrl p. tcrs there said reports of German military moves along Ihe lowland border were "so much nonsense that it is doublful if an official denial will be Some military experts suggested the reported German concentrations might be merely a bluff to keep the British and French from sending aid to Finland, but, they added, the low countries could not afford to take chances on thai. Tile Netherlands ordered the cancellation of leaves after a special cabinet meeting Sunday morning. The week-end tension broke a period of watchful calm in the low countries which follower! similar reports in early November of German concentrations on the Netherlands' border.

At that timr, I special precautions were taken, 1 including the flooding of strategic I areas. Informed sources at lirusscls said Belgian secret service reports inspired the hurried defense measures and one observer added a German troops miffht move within the next few ilays. Paris Blamed by Nazis for Scare BERLIN, W)--Authorized Germans charged Monday that thp present war scare in Belgium and the Netherlands was "made in Paris" and asserted a Germany to her of I-announced Snow storms whirled over I i of'Vhc war.