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1 a 2 THE ST. JOSEPH -PRESS Monday, July 21, 1941 Official Weather Forecast tRy United States Westher Bureau.) Monday, July 21, 1941 Joseph and Vicinity- Generally fair tonight; Tuesday partly cloudy, alightly unsettled in afternoon. Missouri -n Gene fair and lightly warmer in the east. porton Tuesday cloudy, slightly unsettled in the northwest portion in Kansas- afternoon, Partly THREATENING cloudy, scattered thunder showers in the north-central portion, warp er in the south -central portion night: Tuesday partly cloudy and unsettled, widely seattered thunder showers and cooler in the central and northeast portione. Nebraska Partly cloudy, tered showers or thunderaterme in the east and central portions, cooler except in the extreme southwest portion tonight: Tuesday partly cloudy, cooler in the extreme enst, portion.

Town Partly cloudy, scattered showers or thunderstorms tonight and Tuesday: warmer in the east portion tonight; cooler Tuesday. Temperatures at St, Joseph This Date Since 1910 Highest 106 in 1934 Lowest 50 in 1915 One Year Age Today Highest 91 TO Temperatures and Humidity at St. Joseph Within Hours 6:30 p. m. 0:30 a.

m. Rry thermometer: 84.9 69.3 Wet 72.0 66.3 Relative humidity. 04 86 Precipitation This month to date 115 Same last year to date 1,32 This vear to date 20.81 Last year to date 17.83 Weather Summary Temperatures were near or alighttv above normal ever the entire na. tien except in the upper Ohio Valley and northern Appalachian regions. Stain was reported from the plaina states from eastern Colorado and western Canaan northward to the Canadian border.

Heavier amounts of precipitation had fallen in the Southeastern and along the middle Gulf Coast. Through the Rockies and westward and east of the Mississippi River akies were generally fair. River Stage at St. Joseph This morning. 7.7: falling.

Blamarek Pierre City Omaha Nebraska City EARLY PASSAGE OF PROPERTY SEIZURE BILL IS PREDICTED Administration Leaders Think Senate Will O. K. Measure Today or Tomorrow REYNOLDS VOICES HIS OPPOSITION TO PLAN Fears That Papers and Radio Stations Could Be Taken Over Under Law WASHINGTON, July Administration leaders seeking prompt senate approval of a bill which would permit government seizure of property needed natonal defense predicted it mage today or tomorrow despite Republican objections and criticlamps of Chairman Reynolds North Carolina, of the senate military committee, The committee approved the bill last week by a vote announced as unanimous, yesterday Reynoida disclosed he had declined to aign the committee report because feared the bill was so broad an to permit even the seizure of newspapers and radio stations, And a Republican leader of the senate said members of his party, wary of the legislation's provisions, would want to know whether it would permit the government to take a man's shotgun, sack of flour or automobile. Senators Barkley tucky, the majority leader, and Connally Texas, asserted, however, that bill would pass, and Senator Bafley North Carolina, said this: "Everyone must be willing In to give up his rights now in the interest of natonal defense. By that I mean everyone, We can't be seizing individuala' property and permit strikes in defense Industries to continue.

We can take our rights back after the emergency in over." The bill would authorize the president to take over for defense purposes up to June 30, 1943, any "military or naval equipment, supe munition, or component thereof, or machinery, tools, or materials necessary for the manufacture of such equipment, supplies or munitions." Well-advised congressional. formanta said that price, fixing legislation scheduled Introduetion this week probably would empt both wages and farm producta. RETIRED PUBLISHER DIES NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y. July 21.

Desmond Fitzgerald. seventy-six years old, retired pubHishera' agent and publisher of Juvenile books. died here last night. RULING ON OLD PAPERS Algeria has ruled that only "collector approved by the government may collect, buy, sell or export old papers. ST.

JOSEPH Kansas City 0.0 OUSTED AMERICAN CONSULS NOW ARE ON WAY TO LISBON Officials Expelled From Axis Countries Will Sail for Home on Friday WASHINGTON, July More than 300 American consular officials and employes and their familles -ordered out of axisdominated Europe when axis were expelled from the United States- moved today toward Lisbon, Portugal, from where they will sail for New York on Friday aboard the navy transport West Point. The largest unit, totaling 234, comprising those expelled from Germany, Norway, occupied France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Yugoslavia, was reported con- STAY IN ITALY ROME, July 21-UP-Reluctance to leave her Italian husband caused Mrs. Emilio Rosano, a young clerk in the United States consular serve ice to remain in Italy today while a trainload of her fellow employes speed across France en route home to- America. After waiting for four days at San Remo, where Italian authorities held up a train bearing Ainerican consular officials and their familles ordered out of the country, Mrs. Rosano has returned to Rome, and friends said she had decided to assume Italian citizenship.

Indecision of the Americanborn clerk delayed, the consular train forty minutes last Tuesday when the group was preparing to leave Rome. Her husband is fighting with Italian forces in Libya. centrating at Frankfort, Germany. This group will cross the French border into Spain at Hendaye and go on to Lisbon by special train. While reporta of the concentration at Frankfort comprised the latest information available here, an embassy in Berlin said last night that the group left Frankfort yesterday by train bound for Lisbon.

En Route Across France. After some delay at San Remo, Italy, a smaller group composed of seventy-six legation and consular officials from Greece and consular officers from Italy, was reported 'en route across headed for Lisbon via Barcelona and Madrid. Both parties have been expected to enter Portugal at the same time the West Point arrives in Portuguese waters. To Pick Up Drivers. With the German group were several Americans who had been held prisoner by the Nazis but were released as a result of negotiations by the state department involving the release of some German nationals who had been held in this country, Among the Americans were Jay Allen, correspondent of the North American Alliance, who was captured when attempting to cross the border between unoccupied and occupied France without German permit, and Richard Hottelet, United 1 Press correspondent in Berlin, who has been held in prison for four months.

POPE TO TAKE REST Pontiff Is Reported Suffering From Nervous, Exhaustion. VATICAN CITY. July -Pope Plus XII was described unofficially today to be suffering from nervous exhaustion, and his associates were said to have prevalled upon him to spend the hot days of next month in a rustic house in the Vatican gardens, There in nothing alarming In the pontiff's condition, it was stated. but he has refused to leave the Vatican during the war and has had two years of heavy work without a real rest. To enable him to: spend more time- in the fresh air, the house usually occupied by his director of gardens, Augusto Issopi, has been prepared for his daytime use.

The pontiff intends to receive visItors in the papal palace, however, It WAS said. CONSCRIPTION NOT DANGER GROWING Continued From Page One, and three-fourths of officer personnel. The steps which the chief executive, took to underscore for the extend- administration's desire ed service during period of world crisis was considered to some extent an acknowledgment of a strong opposition existent in congress. Compromises have been advanced. But Mr.

Roosevelt said he was not asking congress for specific language in specific bill. He said that he hoped the legislators "will acknowledge either for this a national emergency speeific period or until revocation by the congress or the president." The objective, he declared, the all important Issue, The chief executive said he Was confident men in the ranks realIzed better than the pubile the "disastrous effect" which would result from permitting the present army to melt away and wet back the training, and expansion program six months. Could Be Extended. Noting that last year's selective service legislation definitely provided that the one-year training program could be extended by congressional action of national danger later existed, the president added: "I do not belleve that the danger to American safety is less than it was one year ago when, so far as the army was concerned, the United WAN In a woefully weak position. I do not believe that the danger to our national safety in only about the same an it was a year ago.

do believe--I know -that the danger today in infinitely greater, do believe- I know- that in all truth we are in the midst of a. tional emergency." Would Remove Limitation. In addition to recommending continued service, the president said he thought congress also would remove restrictions on the number of selectees inducted each year, The limit now 900,000. that also urged employer that be congress naked pro- to continue keeping Jobs for men who have been held in the army. In him message, the president emphasized that the national interest of the United States and the other American republics WAS "definitely imperiled" by the war weeping through Europe.

WILLIAM PATTERSON DIES Wholesale Coal Dealer Was Sev. enty-Six Years Old. William John Patterson, ty-six years a wholesale coal dealer for fifty years, died this Tenth street. had been in failmorning at bis home, 707 North ing health for the last year. Mr.

Patterson was born in London, but spent most of his life in the United States, and for the last-three years had lived in 8t. Joseph. He in. survived by his wife. Mrs.

Gertrude Patterson and a diater, Mre, Charles Moore, Ottawa, Kan. He was a member of St. Joseph Lodge No. 78, A.M. A.

the Scottish Rite and -Molla Shrine, The body is at the Heaton-BeGole Bowman mortuary pending are I rangementa. The Thermometer 17 midnight 77 10 m. m. 11 12 noon mi. Relative humidity, 12:30 o'clock, S1.

Temperature, Rainfall United States weather tons for twenty-four hours ending at 7:30 m. m. Stations Min. Amarillo, Texas Boston, Mans. Brownaville, Texas Buffalo, N.

Butte, Mont. Chicago, Cheyenne, ill; Wye, Obie Columbia, Mo. Del Rio, Texas Denver, Colo. Dea Moines. Town Detroit, Mich Dodge City.

Kan, Duluth, Minn. IC1 Paso, Texas Fargo, N. D. Fort Smith, Ark. Fort Worth, Texas 68 Galveston, Texas Goodland.

Kan. Grand Island, Neb. Havre, Mont. Huron, 8. D.

Kansis City, Mo. Kirkeville, Mo. Little Rock. Ark. Los Angeles, Cal.

Memphis, Tenn. Minneapolis St. Paul. Moline, 111. Montgomery.

Ala. New Orleans, New York. N. North Platte, Oklahoma City, Okla. Omaha.

Neb. Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Pa. Portland, Ore. Pueblo, Cole, Rapid City. 8.

ST. JOSEPH, MO AIRPORT STATION Mo. Lake City. San Antento, Francisco, Cal. Seattle, Wash.

Sheridan, Wyo Blous City: Towa Spokane. Wash. Springfield, Mo. Tampa. Fla.

Valentine. Williston N. D. Rainfall Table Burwell 411 Holdrege Broken Row and Moon Sun rises seta Moon riaca tomorrow. 3:44 a.

THE TIMID SOUL MR. MILQUETOAST (S ALWAYS AFRAID OF POKING HIMSELF IN THE EYE WITH AN EYE DROPPER ENGLAND COUNSELS ARMY IN EUROPE TO WAIT PATIENTLY Unseen Anti-Nazi Legions Are Told to Be Prepared for Time to Strike LONDON, July Claiming army of millions mobilized throughout German conquered countries in a whistling, tapping, sign painting campaign aimed at Nazi nerves, British advised the unseen victory legion to wait patiently, ready for the time to strike. Colonel Britton, the man behind the B. B. C.

mike which dinned the victory mobilization broadcast In seventeen European languages throughout Sunday, appealed for more V's in sound and sign across the continent and declared: "We In Britain are with you. Now we wait quietly and patiently until the time comes." He said he: would broadcast again Friday, The Dally Herald threw. Rome light on the identity colonel by reporting that he is an tual British army colonel whose name In it may not be spelled quite that way." Twenty-four hours after he started his Sunday morning mobilIzation broadcasts by thumping the Morse code three dots and dash, on a big drum he declared the Nazis -bewtidered and the army swelling "beyond all expes. EMBARRASSING Continued From Page One. clared to have survived to reach cover.

Armed with Tommy guns, revolvers, tear gas and hand. grenades and with the rain increasing to lower visibility, the Americans rose from their positions and rushed a sentry guarding a gap in the wire. He was overpowered and ruled dead, The Americans, poured through the gap; tear gas bombs through a window and knocked down a door. While halt the guardsmen watched ever the staff, others dashed upstairs to seize mapa which they said would be invaluable in actual battle, orders and other army documents. "We had to give them back their maps and orders," an Amerlolin chuckled, "so they could continue the The Americans.

organized months ago and regularly drilled. made only home guard unit participating in widespread maneuvers, of which the ful attack on the airdrome headquarters was one phase. Some of them paunchy, they gathered to enjoy the spectacle of British officers being trussed up, The British protested that the attack "came too early." The Americans quoted field orders showing that they attacked at the first moment permissible under regulations governing the manedvera and said, "The Germans will not wait either. The argument hatted by word that one of the imitation explosive grenades had set the headquarters on tire. This blaze was under control when high staff officer rolled up to find out what was wrong.

When he learned that the quarter had been captured he praised the Americans as being enterprising as we can expect the Nazis to be, but ordered the maps and orders returned "so we can continue the exercise." The Americans withdrew while. ting "Yankee CONDITION Board President Undergoes Operation, JEFFERSON CITY, July 21. (U.P.) Ira A. Jones. St.

Charles, president of the state eleemosynary board, was reported in condition today at St. -Francis Hospital where he underwent an emergency appendectomy Saturday night. Women, Not Men, Spend Most of Money in U.S. Continued From Page One. love toward God in the heart of the Individual concerned.

or easy are relative terms. For Instance, even examination may be hard to one individual and easy to another. The difference is not in the examination but in the individuals taking the examination: To the poorly prepared the examination is hard and to the one prepared and ready for examination is easy. "So with the service of God. To the one whose consecration to God is faulty and whose love to God weak the service of God is bard but to the one whose consecration to God is complete and whose love to God is full and strong the service of God is easy, "The service of God 18 profitable in material things," the minister declared.

olden times God promised material blessing and national prosperity to the people of Israel if they would walk in His way and keep His commandments. And He fulfilled His promise. He: bestowed abundant material blessings, upon the people and made of them a great nation. Service Is Profitable. "Jesus said, 'Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto Jesus taught the doctrine of material blessings as a byproduct of righteous living, which doctrine is substantiated almost anywhere one would care to "Such results are reasonable because of the cleaner living, the higher ideals, the nobler purposes and the greater ambition on the part of those who give themselves to the service of God.

the service of God is profitable more especially in the realm of things spiritual. It involves the presence of Jesus Christ. "The Master promInes His presence those who undertake His Such servIce brings also the sense of divine approbation. It affords peace, happiness and satisfaction. It brings hope of reward in the life to come.

"So the service of God, while costing the expenditure of effort and the pain of self-sacrifice, is nevertheless productive of great blessing in the life of the Individual servant; it is highly profitable." LEAR IN GOOD HUMOR Praises Regiment as Best in 2d Army CAMP ROBINSON, July 21- all has been forgiven by Lleut. Gen. Ben Lear, who disciplined the "yoo-hoo" battalion of the 110th quartermaster regiment two weeks ago for yelling at shorts-clad girls on a golf course. The 2d army commander -inspected the regiment today and described it as "the best regiment in the 24 army." POWER POOLS SET UP. Networks to Supply to Aluminum Industry WASHINGTON, July Establishment of two vast power networks in the South Central and Northeastern states to provide sufficient electricity for the new aluminum plant construction program was announced today by the office of production management.

OPM also announced the creation of a power unit, headed by J. A. Krug, OPM power consultant. Krug said at a press that the new interconnecting links would provide 1,000,000 kilowatts. The plant construction program is designed to add 600,000,000 pounds of aluminum annually to the country's defense supply.

One of the power 1 areas will cover Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louislana, the northern part of Texas, and the southern part of Kannne and Missouri, taking in both public and private utility establishments. The other will -link in vast transmission network the New England states, New York, New Jersey and the eastern part of Tennessee. KEEP YOUR WIFE COOL GET A FAN Water Coolers, Freezers All Sizes al Low Prices, 12 NEUDORFF'S HARDWARE. 114 8. 40 OF COURSE WHAT'S I SMOKE MORE, IN THE CAMELS.

THEY'RE SMOKE OF COOL -EASY ON CAMELS THERE'S MY AND TASTE LESS SO GRAND NICOTINE THE SMOKE OF SLOWER BURNING CAMELS CONTAINS, Less Nicotine than the average of the 4 other largest-selling cigarettes rested less than any of them- -according to independent scientific rests of the smoke itself. The smoke's the thing! CA CAMEL' THE OF COSTLIER CIGARETTE TOBACCOS NEW YORK, July 21. UP most of the money in the United -Nationally, women control 70 Their estimated collective Women spend more than consumer goods. BIG TEST FOR TROOPS 500,000 Will Engage in War Games in September WASHINGTON, July (P) September war games Involving 500,000 troops in Louisiana will be RO realistic that even newsmen, photographers and radio reporters covering the armies will de subject to capture and detention lest they disclose operations secrets. The games will climax a summer training program for which congress, provided $25,000,000, and the war department announced yesterday its determination that the nation "get its money's worth out of the rather expensive training operation." The troops will maneuver Sept.

1-30 over about 20,000 square miles surrounding Beauregard, under supervision of Gen. George C. Marshall, war department chief of staff, and Maj. Gen, Lesley, J. McNair, chief of the army's general headquarters.

For the first time new army and navy dive bombers will operate with the 1st and 2d armored die visions formed in the last year and the 501st parachute battalion, a pioneer unit, will see its first action. Because of equipment shortages many dummy weapons will be used. The forces will be divided into red and blue armies. The campaign has' been devised primarily to test the skill of rival commanders. Disclosing that correspondents would be subject to capture and detention for tw hours, the department continued: "If a newspaper or other agency of public information wishes to cover both sides, it will be necessary to assign two correspondents, one to cover the blue and one to cover the red force." REVISE LEGAL SETUP Anti-Trust Division of Justice Department Reorganized WASHINGTON, July Thurman Arnold, assistant attorney general, has decided to reorganize his anti-trust division of the justice department to expedite handling of a heavy calendar of cases, officials said today.

A major step has been the establiahment of. an eleven-member board which makes recommenda: tions to Arnold on policy questions and prepares detailed statements of policy for the guidance of the staff. One of the board's first major moves has been development of program for streamlining procedure. One executive explained it this way! Under the present setup A plaint goes to the complaint section, is studied' and investigated, and then passed on the trial section for handling in court. Thus a case moves from the to supervision of one section head another and, in case of an appeal, to third, although for the most part the work is handled by the same lawyers.

Women, not men, own and spend States. per cent of all private wealth. holdings are above $210,000,000,000 two-thirds of all money expended for SOVIET ARMY Continued From Page One. large concentration of Nazi intantry. Moscow had a forty-five-minute air raid alarm starting at 10 a.

but no bombs fell. From the Kremlin, Premier Joseph Stalin's high command reported violent overnight battles on the north, central and south war fronts, and it was indicated that the three Nazi drives pointed at Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev had been stalled. Pursuing "Defeated Enemy." In the southern theater, the Nazi high command said Rumanian and Hungarian troops are pursuing the defeated enemy" in a drive into the soviet Ukraine. "Throughout last night, stubborn tighting continued in the Polotsk-Nevel, Smolensk and Novgrad Volynski red army communique said this morning. "On all other parts of the front, nothing of significance occurred." The Russians declared officially that a soviet.

Infantry division surrounded and wiped out a "large enemy motorized formation," destroyed 100 German trucks, and captured 189 others, five tanks, four armored cars, two planes and quantities of guns. In another action, the Russians were reported to have wrecked 300 trucks, slaughtered two battalions of Nazi infantry, and taken priseners and booty. Red Guerrillas Effective, Behind the Germane lines, marauding soviet guerrilla bands were said to have cut tions, ambushed Nazi troop columns and raided supply depots: "Querrilla detachments are inflicting heavy losses on the enemy," A red army bulletin said. Berlin reports pictured German armies mopping up soviet forces trapped behind the Smolensk wedge toward Moscow, menacing the big port of Odessa in drives across the Dniester River from Bessarabia, and closing in steadIly on Leningrad. down the Karelian Isthmus and northeast from Estonia.

FARMER KILLS SELF Kansan Takes His Life After Shooting Sheriff SEDAN, Kan, July 21. (U.P.) -Dr. Carl M. Smith, county coroner, said today that Charles Beck, thirty-nine years old, farmer, ape parently shot and killed himself after shooting and wounding Sheriff John Smith. Smith went to the Beck farm to investigate a complaint of 4 a disturbance.

As he stepped from his can he was struck by a blast from shotgun from thicket. Other officers were summoned and a short while later Beck's body was found in the thicket. The sheriff was not serioualy wounded. They buy 90 per cent of all food 95 per cent of all furniture, per cent of all clothing, and ever 63 per cent of all men's ties. In Their Names.

than 65 per cent of savings accounts are in their names. They own 40 per cent of all rea estate, 23 per cent of all stock shares. They inherit half the money left in estates. They are beneficiaries of 80 per cent of all life insurance, recelv ing annually over $1.000,000,000 In benefits, Dr. James Madison Wood, presi! dent of Stephens College of Con lumbia, can reel off facti.

like these to you by the yard. Stephens Is a junior college. for young women, and Wood, since he assumed the presidency of the school back in 1912, has been contending that the knowledge of how to handle money is in reality, as important to women as men. "Woman's Responsibility." "Money is woman's responsibility, and women must be for the job," says Doctor Wood "It' has been said that womer spend $1,000 a second. Can we be certain the average housewife is spending as wisely as she would if full educational facilities were open to teach her sound prin: ciples of budget making, home f1 nances, and the practical side of economies?" At.

Stephens, where in Doctor Wood's time the enrollment has grown from fifty-two girls to 1,700, 4 study of women's- educa tional needs has 'been going on intensively, and in the past twen. ty years economics has beer slanted more and more to praci tical everyday needs. The Students Stop. Ecanomica at: Stephens, say, Doctor Woods, opens with a study of consumer problems. The stul dents shop.

They study advert tising, learn to appraise They learn to discount salesmanshiplearn the difference between fluffy sales talk and the real merit product. They keep "thrift in which they account foi every penny of their spending while in school. Earning a living and wise of leisure time are studied real istically. MRS. KEATING HAS 43 St.

Joseph Golfer Is Among Tel Contenders for State Medal. JEFFERSON CITY, July 21- (P)--Mrs. Cheater Keating of thi East Hills Country Club, St. Jos eph, made the turn in 43 here early this afternoon to be among the leaders in the qualifying round 0. the seventh annual women's Min souri state golf tournament.

Mrs. P. L. Pepper of Kansas City, the defending champion, led at the end of nine holes with a 40 four strokes over women's par. The only other scores lower than Mrs.

Keating's were the 414 posted by Betty Jane Haemerle St. Louis, and Iva Mae Plicher Mexico. Mra. Fred Hoffman of St. Jos eph Fairview finished the round with an eighteen-hole card of 99 likely good for a berth in the flight in tomorrow's start match play.

Semi-Annual Sale Manhattan Shirts and Pajamas THE CLOTHING CO Pre-Inventory SALE Entire Stock SUMMER SUITS for Men and Young Men Up $30 Values to '19" Up $30 Values to at. $2273 Values Up to $39.50...... Slacks up to $10 Tropicals Plenty of and $685 Worsteds and Gabardines Mohairs River.

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