Sedalia Weekly Democrat from Sedalia, Missouri • Page 1

THE SED ALIA WEEKLY DEMOCRAT Democrat 1868 oluine 74 Serves itic I.Kchest aiul Most Protliictive Tcrritorv iti f.ciUrai Missouri Sedalia, Missouri. Friday Oviolwr 1942 40 Ihufspi rll Insporls Nalions War PlanI.s Find War Plants At Top Speed President Bark To After A isiting Them I WASHINGTON, Oct. Back from a 24-stale, 8.754-rniIe| swjng around the country. dent Roosevelt reported today be had found war plants operating at 94 or 95 per cent of efficiency, and both labor and rr anagement going along to.vard the objecti'e of maximum oulp it as fast asj possible. At the same time, giv ing impressions of the trip at a White! House press conference, the chief: said there was less wai spirit in Washington than in thfv rest of the country.

Factors Presented He said three factois were responsible: First, the tendency of members in congress who want to justify their vice to the war effort, to delve into things which" should be left to military experts. This has been going on. he said, since the revolutionary wai. and there are hundreds of examples of it in past history. Second, a minority of the which does not to know thej country and was apt, like congress, to think in local terms produce sententious news.

These' remarks, Mr. Roosevelt declared, apply also to the radio. A majority of news stories, he said, are all right, but some, he added, just aren't based on facts and do infinite harm to the country, 7'he greatest offense, he said, Is among commentators and columnists, both of the press and radio. He declined to give specific examples. Third, some people in the administration rush into print or hand out material when they may be the fifth people down the line Mt.

Raitle, a veteran of the 7 Ihe countv with information of a limited foicefnl speaker boards $1.00 Per Yea For Springfield SPRINGKTFLD, Oct. The S3.5n.0nn bond issue for the acquisition of anoliier n.cni- cipal a'Lport rarried by more than five to one in a special election todav. Japs Harri(Ml From Jungle And The Air Hardened Of Australia The was light but the returns uere decisiv e. A two- thirds ir ajot ity was necessary. A Chicago bond house already ha' contacted tor the bonds at 1.40 percent rate.

The city coi.ncl and the co.mty wiil meet tomorrow to select meeting Tlold Is The Stalin Command As Nazis Advance Make Bv C. YATVS. AlcDANTEL GEN MAC ARTHUR'S HEAD- Australia. Friday. anv opposition.

hardened four man board to select the site' for the port and manage it. "7 IT four, accorditiR to the' plan adopted. Will select a fifth member of the nianagei'ial board. Believes ai I In Risk Rates Menari. 46 miles north of Port Moresby, while allied heavy bombers destroyed a large section of the important Wairopi bridge on the Japanese supply line.

Gen- Mac Arthur annoimced to- aliaiit Drfrnse At Staliiifjrad As Siege Army Presses Atfaeks By EDDY GILMORE MOSCOW, Friday. Oct 2. (JP) German siege of jmcn advanced slightly in the northwestern outskirts of impenl- jled Stalingrad yesterday, but was out of another locality R. Bob Hill of Columbia, of the city, the Red high whose original fame 'command announced today on the 39th day of siege. In a situation frankly described Appeals For Siij)port Of Armed orces Hill Trip Kiwanians To Have Seeoml Front Here hrysler (orporat.on vas plant in Detroit where tanks are off assembly lines.

President Roosevelt scans a book which K. T. Keller, Chrysler president, uses in his es- Planalion. Roosevelt and Donald Nelson, (behind Keller). War Production Board chief, also are in the ear.

Siiprriiitnulnl Of Iiisiiraiire (rives Views day. The Japanese were being of Rotary International ried from the jungle and from thej and University of Missouri public mr by the allied offen.sive the relations man par excellence hasiment Gwen Stanley mountains. The ad- i as Stalingrad's most decisive mo- the Red army garrison vancing have hy his gracious, fought on in response to ed more than ten miles over master of cere-! telephoned command: Present War Fien er Than World War I Barile, A Speaks Al B. P. W.

Club first world war was a kindergarten cour.se in comparison the present war. which is a complete post-graduate Roe Bartlc, of Kansas City, told a laige audience at a dinner meeting at the First Christian church Thursday gi' en by the Se- Is No Aeiite Shortage In arm Lahor Siipi.lv Of For ploy nielli Is SAVANNAH. Oct. is no acute shortage ofj farm labor in Missouri now, but the supply of workeivs is dwindling steadily, draft officials from eight northwest Missouri counties agreed today as they conferred with Col. Claude C.

Earp, slate director. gii' Harvest S( iap To Beat Axis War Plants IMa.sses Of Sleel And Oilier Metals Piled I tuous terrain since they dislodged when Bette Davis, movie iFFEERqriv ruwv i Japanese from their advance came to town, was back (in. Oct. point only 32 miles from Port Insurance vSupcrintendent Ed-1 Moresbv. Sedalia again Thursday noon.

w'ard L. Srheufler said tonight he; forces continued to an imnwdiate eut in the! progress north of Nauro toward to be a Sedalian in- i state's fne insurance rates was: General MacArthur's stead of a Columbian, prin- j.justified by findmgs of an said today, gation ('onducted by hi.s depart-! The communique gave no indi- firm! Put down an.v The German gain in the northwestern industrial suburbs, the second reported in 24 ho resulted on the sixth assault of the day, a midnight communique said' after the sixth attack the Germans succeed in ad- cipal speaker of the Sedalia Ki-jvancing a the con munique this occasion Bob, who meni. cation of the exact distances the warns cluh meeting in course of this fight- Scheufler made the observation Austialians al the close of a have advanced al- hotel. Abe Rosenthal, program losses the enemy suffered heavy I 1 L- 1 1 On one sector alone our public hearing Ihough il wa? less: chairman, arranged to have Hiflente-" reopening the question of fire in-jthan the previous day. the club.

jsurance prenuum rates- a prob-; Nauro is 42 miles north of Port Reds Gain To South jlem marked by courtroom clashes Moresby and Menari is four miles Inspiring Talk The Rus.sian iccess south of and political scandals for 20 years, north of Nauro. Bob gave one of his usual jn.j^^-^ijngrad resulted in the ousting Allied heavy bombers and spiring talks. His appeal was fioops from a populat- Paul W. Terry, liianager of the Missouri inspection bureau and the communique said. Ohe men at home who form a By THE PRESS representative of most of the 202 "execuiea a series of coordinated second front to support the Americans, brewing a mass of doing business in the Wairopi the armed forces.

The s'atc, told Scheufler he had been partially repaired; mendous task of providing ed place in a battle in which 300 a series of coordinated! second front to support the ete killed and six guns, ten machine guns, P'S trucks and tiT-e, or possibly publicity seekers, do not have a loiinded viewpoint Sometimes they make speeches which seek to be picturesque, the chief executive declared. Women, girls and bo.vs under; declaring a holida.v effect on fire losses, should dalia Buunoss and Professional dreft age wull have to wmrk in; so merchants couid get o.l and Women-? -1 lb. fields in increasing numbers, i search to offering i they predicted. Mi. Rartle, I Iir V.

ah-eadv have w'ere 4 4 -4 LuiQ ocneuiier ne sriouiu neL. cuu; 4 steel destruction for the axis, to- the night, making direct paying for the tools of war day had cooked up individual hits. their responsibility. Leading up! ways of harvesting vital metalj on rate changes. "A large section of the span lo his appeal he told of personall (rennan aUcmpts to scrap for the war furnaces Sees Greater Risk destroyed by high explosives; experiences in a world tour Their collection schemes ranged ''ei'e started by incendiary 193,5, a tour which included Ro: tary visits in Shanghai, the Phil- Dispatches late also I reported the recapture by the Red ice cream for A spokesman said the bridge ippines, Singapore, Hong thiee Rumanian held taken into consideration, he bottleneck and of the impressions he ob- 7 7 Japanese forces from Oinpd then of the impending war overworked nachineiy, indiffei- niain base at Buna.

in the Far ingtad on thp service. begun to; plates contributed. fccp 8 id. "In some places we have erv of old to plant cleankness since the Japanese hav East. In kept up 1935 the American people failed flank was still going on.

and sometimes they act in a belief that their special fields are not being proj)erly emphasized. is at lota! war. he said. Mr. Roosev elt said his first two! and it is the boys of 17 and 18 factors were more important than; years who are going to fight it the third, and wmuld not agree with a reporter who suggested of international reputation, paint- reach into war plants to find men ed a picture of the world rondi- to fill their quotas, and are notify- tions toda.v, not a pretty managers that tiain- but one made up of facts as they of older men lo must be laced by tlie American younger wherever reported.

i' on and a lack 44 the Rirssians d'd not mention While the three-week collection' fu ana a lac long efforts to repair the bridge, to understand and prepare for, drive under the leadership of the nation's newspapers, went through of knowledge of necessary fire aiu'oss the Kumasi river. The al- what was coming, lies have been hitting at it from woiKcrs should begin to turn a possible, the officials the scrap their elders may have Eoda.v's meeting vas the eighth Next Mondav Jn.nno.noo school for us. He admitted that at I tiii'ie he was oplinustic concern-' of a series of district sessions I scheduled by Col. Earp and his Board officials from Atchison, Nodaway, Worth, De- rev ersed. Reviewing his tihp around the rounlry point by point, he also gav to his press conference the ov er same general impressions he had mentioned earlier to leporters W'ho had accompanied him.

While criticizing a minorit.v of the press in some particulars, he took the occasion to praise it highly for withholding publication of new's about his trip until he was safely back in Tour Success Mr. Roosevelt said he regarded his tour of war activities as so that he was thinking of making another one or two, possibly next spring, to areas through the center of the country which he did not visit this tin e. Except for highly confidential matters, Mr. Roosevelt remarked, there no suppression of news on the trip, and the three rep- escntativ es of major news serv ices vvlio accompanied him. he remarked, were given complete freedom.

jany nevv ground gains. Five Ger- hnan tanks, two artillery and three Alpntionpcl Men 'mortar batterUrs however were In the course of his ported silenced bv Red artillery- bombed four times yeslerday Mr. Hil! mentioned the numer- men. ous newspaper men he met, menj German tanks and automatic who had graduated from the Mis-, riflemen also failed in an at- The iiw ranee expert teMUied ely litiJe ac- souri School of Journalism. He, tempt to raid Sm iet rear positions, Sl of all rocordod paid tnbute to them and to communiqi.e said.

Six more 4 Terrv sa.d juio'nies had made anu it replace P'ans were being: rtiffici.lt for con.panies and con.lanlly and anny whose eager eve. ll'" U'' fortresses. paratus. the fire, Action t'U'k. n.

111 St; Ji, itucl vv Vv i i 1 1.4 I orvn i 1 that perhaps the order should be mg Americas place the world Andrew Ualdwell and Ulin- on a nation wide. supply installations at Sala- .4 4 A iNctiu, 1 I tT cl 1U JI dllU V. 1 i II 'VUn Ctotcn T-atP war. He thought that if the United counties attended. ever went to war with Japan it be a iiialter of not three months until that were shaiply critical of yoimg who drift about from plant to plant, at good countiy Would be wiped out by.

meanwhile avoiding mili- the Americans Unfortunately, heiiarv because of their es- contmueri. we have learned the Jajianese are powerfully equipped and trained. for Hitler, he said. detest him. but he will go down in history as the greatest military genius of all Duty Of To Do Part now' knows what it is to lose, he because we must sentia 1 i nd usi ri a 1 empi oy ment.

Scrap Melai Piles iiig Cu children, trained by tneir teachers. area nation's press on the occasion ofjNazi tanks and 300 automatic and posters hung in classrooms on Mac Arthur said allied this week's oh.servance of National riflemen w'ere reported to have how to looK for metal jonk. will ZZ, strafert ronimunications'Nev. spaper Week. been destro.ved in tliat venture.

IHU- I Ilf UII.C MU' MIC- icitc 4 sanctioned endorse-. Hold At Mozdok Front organized scale. hUe. of .1 'dl-vear- cannon and inaehme in favor of. The Russians sa.d their Tau- Here were some of the things ed No.

1 easian armies fightmg at Mozdok that happened or were going to 2 I dun.ps November ballot. This and of Kovoro.ssi.sk on happen as householders, farmers. ru ti nn uisi an gj Buna, the Japanese base for m. i un 4 E- I noi fiuprl thp r8lr sli ho 4 a- lolfitos to 3 iocrI tno RiHcIn still woro factory hand.s and bosse.s came up muon ik move into Gi.inea. euhrvpi et r- i inrpp nn vvitn scrap that can be translated Aaoo iol i vanguard of the allied cx i I 4 ner cent which woi mean an rr 4 i was explained to the armored cars and 20 trucks by a mill into planes.woiuu nwan an offensive that had oveiTun uoc-xz w.um a I- till.

lanmal samnes of about S600 000 t)y Haiiy Bi unkhorst and I. itoops and ammunition were ships, bombs, helmets. janm.ai anom pnemy fortifications at loribaiw i onn a A 11 lit 1 1 ici PS 1 1 pci Hnci wOO on A scrap holiday will hp souii poi ndge of New' Guinea and the 1 tvt a i rxa TXT 4 1 1 41 4 a -Il i CtiiosIs Arrhias tY.o scctois of the Alozdok front, ed in Martinsville, next Wed-: thatcned village of Nauro, ten wpip. n. Arcnias.

ano lia Spnior vith Arthur YhPe another 500 of thp enerov miles bevond, W'cre campaigners tviang, from the Middle Rast. Svria and Powell, Kan.sas City, III Still the scrap metal pours in as citizens of Sedalia and county cooperate with nesday at 1 p. m. So every busi- FN'PS Blininl ness those engaged' a i in the war plose its; A Ballrrv doors. J-pte.

They had stolen a leaf from and L. Pringle, with Ray Hunt; J. H. AIcQuiddy with S. (J.

Rent- adn.it we hate lost, and it is in supplying Pettis employes and will: tactics bv mfiltrat- W. H. Doss, St. Louis their shops for scrap and i -S, outflanking and fanning out Wilks; Kiwanian C. ving vast ch their 7 to rout the enemv so that nvxn fiotv, when a battery he was checking Laushlin: Tom Ulonev and po.utions.

4 of in uni- hOUSes from I'OOf 1o cellar. duty of every man, woman and aiLcles in col Arkansas a lot of ice cream! getting along satis- child to do his and her part help keep Anmiica free. paign to help feed the steel fur- Thcre are four fronts he ex-i the pioduction of planes, plained, the fighting front, the tanks and weapons needed for the prosecution of war. The drive is being handled transportation front, the production front and the home front, eac'h worker in every one essential to the activities of the others. FNxplaimng that he was understanding of the plant workers school authorities.

The scrap piles at the Sedalia schools, as well as the county schools, are steadily mounting, with the pupils collecting the' consuiued for, through his outlet stores in that state, a Memphis ice cream manufacturer offered a pint of ice ci'eam for each set of 1941 automobile license plates donated to the scrap driv'e. Observe Fire Preven lion All Next Week valuable supplies in his flight. The Khaki uniform? of the 4 Aussies had been dyed green, working on ifoiming fine camouflage in the, at his service i clad mountain- Hamlin was battery in a cai station. 200 West Third street, when the battery exploded throwing add into eyes, burning- the eveballs. He was taken im-! Twenty-Nine Roys Killed were reported wiped out below' Novorossisk.

On the northwestern front ahnt a oscow', the communique said. ermans were killed ssault.s on Red Tom Cloney and Charles Van D.vne. he Riis. ian stand at gratified all Rii.asians, but source? here made no atteivpt to minimize the giavity of the Bothwell Hospital Notes L. H.

1215 West er city's position. Fourth street, admitted for sur- Havoc And Ruin gery. Official said R. W. Kidw cll, 320 North Quincy mans were advancing painfully problems, ot the need for unions, He said that he bimsdf had hate brot ght about read ex ery story they had written for workers, he said i household or business; and had deleted nothing, and that; 3 he felt the stories contained no 3 in a heretofore re-: Citizens of are called: which would hate been eon-; plant, helping to by Mayor H.

Wilksi sidered dangerous. walked oft the medals an active part the na-' Asked whether the 3 prise the salvage collections, obsert ance of Fire Preven- who went along on the trip were; hundreds Week, starting October 4. mediately to a doctor for treat-; Oct. The avenue; Mrs. Nancy J.

the of the city, licre a few mcnt. death toll at a school in 1.528 East Fifth street; George' dvizen yards, there 2hi) yards. eyes are still somewhat in- southern England which was de- iMajor. Hoiistonia: Mrs. l.eonora' All around them there vva? the flamed, but he is able to spend! niolished by a heav Cierman Gantert, 1004 South Missouri hav oc and ruin wrought by 600 part of the day at his place of bomb Tuesday had risen today to av enue, all admitted for medical! to 1,000 Crerman planes each day.

business ,29. 1 treatment. Scrap or Horace Maun Sduud Schools, hospitals, the public library, the university and the palace of physical culture were piles of rubble; hundreds of civilians had lost their lives. This is an annual observance to censorship." the chief ft i pounds of valuable metal. and walwed ott in retreat.

4 exec-utite replied in the negativ Mnerica and weighing will not the people fire prevention tvh.le repeattng he had but; the man the plant end of ne.xt week. 1 here throughout Ihe entire year. Pres-' is no estimate so fa? of the Roosevelt has appealed to anything out. Asked whether he had added anything, he leplied that thought he had added several touches. give r- ch as he physicallv can, 4 iusi a does the soldier in the scrap piles.

A large the nation at war to safeguard its he 4 has been as.semblcd on the j. 03 ources against destructive tires. ai .1 ntains v'oa pcwj Fweiilv-lwo Die In Pian (Irasli JUAN. co. persons all on board kiFed today in crasr- of a U.

S. rt piane noiJhwest of t.e in moi'ning, ine ai' nighi. l'he na res ing notificai United States. were a i piane U'd ta if. I' anh ng partv a 1 ne d.ffi- 4 tue i.G in Ile fietd.

Fear onditinns Re Worse tis a track field of Smith-Cotton high pgg stressed the danger of sa- school, and all other schools have botage and has called upon lai'ge collections. goveinment and private agenciesj 4 44 ix uu a Individual city may be effect upon all citizens and' wo.se. I ad(ic and 1 am called by persons having contri- organizations to prevent fliest pP 'P ZZ buttons and city Iri.cks, as well ji-Qm hindering our war effort. P'-i' 3 te indus- McLauglilin has been ap- I '-P" try, will be sent for heavy items, pointed chairman of Kire Preven- fron the wav vo-Ne a dep.cssm vh as the ha- never known, and it prepare young noday to eet those ST. LOUIS.

Oct. 1. A si.ut conditr ns. he told hearers to recover three tores trie amount Sues Rreuxer For Tire need to- -lead ate feudal rue e. Ot 4 a a Bart e's a eiiv-c -a alleged overcharge over a lea-n- ceiling price was filed in Jns- Enghsh who co i Karwas Udy rrwn Robert Loose'' a i pen- are a ui his Ton that he bougnt tv Vised tme (.

.1 ing t'' I L. 't a vUlc giil 11 the 3 Ea-r A St. pay'ng S9.40 ceiling pi ce. iney i were seeki'''g a judgment oi Hivx. a'l of the $56A0 and costs.

mJtee of tue Under the on eg- p-! r- and Pi oe-s al Wo- a.t. e.xp t.r‘s ho pre- ycr may At a Ev ans, co a ef -i-jp tion activities in Sedalia by idcnt Charlc? Van Dyne of the Chamber of Co' merce. Alonday ill be a day for window' displays and other meassires tied in wuh fire prev tion. Tuesday wud be rlcan- tp day fac'O les and sto es. VVednesdav w'U be clean-i day for the (i'V Yards, alleys, lots, gutters and streets are to be cleared and cleaned.

Friday il be Scho'1 Foe enTon day and fo ention Will be featimed in ail Sut be lOvieu and parade day. FT.eu.en v. lil de-. or- tc surate ihe'r a-rd ge. 1 i be ade oi weex's ac- I.

np.ei me gpi Roys and girls in the neighborhood of the southwest part of the city are responsible for this pile of scrap in the vard of the C. E. England home, South (irand avenue. Using a horse and cart the children drove all around the neighborhood, making many trips back to the England yard to unload. The scrap heap will be taken lo Horace school, the proceeds from its sale to go lo the Parent-Teacher Association of that school.

Shown in the picture are: ramer and England, on top of the wagon: arl Whiteman, sitting on the pile to the side; England on the ground, and two little girls. Shirley England and iarohn Rose k. who alone brought in four hundred pounds of the (lollrrling Rent For USO Building cm The special arlivities rommU- lee of the of CoVimcrre bs starting a canvass of the Sedalia business and professional men, asking them for a speriifird sum each month to up the amount needed to pay for a building for the USO. The USO fUnJed Organizations) whif'h provides a place for the men in the armed forces, pays aT expen.ves of the local institution, wuh Toe excep- lion of rent. T.

Walch ha an of this committee. Other members Earl PAan.s, Abe Silverma'i, Sam Highleyman, K. Richard Rattles. Rav Jicdel and R. M.

Bates. Any person, ko may hp by the couimTuv, and is 'Aunng to make a donation monthly, is asked to call any member of the group. icr de-y scattered hght thowers in ea.st poi I.on iday. Tuttle change.