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ASSOCIATED PBESS AND UNITED PRESS FUJJ, LEASEB WIRES THIS PAPER CONSISTS OP TWO SECTIONS VOL. XLVll FIVE CENTS A COPY MASON CITY, IOWA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13,1940 SECTIpN ONE NO. 29 R. A. F. HAMMERS ITALIAN FLEET,

ff if * # WRECK>'£, S 2 FASCIST BATTLESHIPS V * * *' Third Fascist Battleship Is Reported "Seriously Dajmaged nnm waw in Britishh Wiwinn rcjFEADR cARivrAnSABOTAGEc *-*--*_LI." D*i*n*n nf Dnum,- COLD WAVE TO Biggest Sea Balance of Power TIGHTEN GRIP; Fight of War IS ENDANGERING n Mediterranean By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert 15 BELOW SEEN Crippling of at least onc-tliiid DEFENSEOFU.S. of Italy'_b fust line battle fleet Changes as Result "All-Time Low Mark with damage lo other fascist war ' 10 Actifof Sabotage vessels at Taranlo by British | lor Mid-November bombers must rank as the most in Recent Blasts Victory Will Release Powerful Units Important naval success of Eu- i Set at Des Moines lope's war. The Britfeh victory is Charged by Dies of British Armada to Join in Hunt a direct result of Italy's invasion DBS MOINES, C Crete, now gives Great Britain caused estimated damage of *SL- Bj THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Moines early Tuesday to crack overwhelming predominance in Britain's royal navy "has struck a crippling blow at Uic the ^Mediterranean. Far reaching 000,000 in" the last-week. the all time low record for mid- * * * rfclurcd" above is the 35,000 ton Littorio, Italian battleship uhich may have been a victim ot the Italian tleet," the London admiralty repqrted Wednesday, November temperatures. The results :are certain to accrue to ferocious R. A. F. bombing attack at Taranto. The attack was admitted by Komc. seriously damaging two fascist battleships and probably a previous low for Nov. 12 was Britain's advantage, in addition The acls of sabotage in con- 6 above, set in 1819.. I IQ added security.- .• for- British nection with recent explosions third as well as two cruisers "snuggling behind their shore transports passing through the in -plants, working, on national defenses" at the Tavaijto naval base. The buieau also advised =lup-1 Mediterranean; defense orders \\tre charged by In addition, tv,p auxiliary warships there were reported pers to piotect consignments o£l .Representative St a r 11 n Dies, 64 Heroes of goods against possible 10 below Detachments fiom the Medi- "lying with their sterns under water.'' terranean fleet can now be made". chairman of the congressional Molotov, leadings in northeast Iowa and committee investigating sub- Report Prime Minister Winston Churchill told u cheering house, 5 below temperatures m tlie if the London admiialty desires versive activities. He did not British Fight of commons that "the result of the action decisively affects .southern half of. the state. for running down armored Ger- disclose where the sabotage.oc- Heports Wednesday averaged man raiders i—n the Atlantic---. Too, : the balance of power in the Mediterranean." curred, but said lie would- ask London naval experts said the victory would releaae about -SO degrees be!ovv normal,! greater protection can be given congress to appropriate 85,000,- Reach Canada Hitler in the weatherman said. ' supply shies approaching British 000 to continue his committee's Bremen powerful units of the British Mediterranean armada to join i^ if * -" ' I coastal waters, and it is possible Seamen Took Part in in a world - wide hunt for a* Sioux City* reported a~ minimum' 11he~ blockade -bf^the—Proneh-and investigations ,in an. effort to.. of 6 degrees below zero over Spanish Atlantic coast riiay be stop Oils menace to national de- • Battle'/^gjjinst Nazi - "phantom" German surface striking their ta'vgclt the inform- night. Hed Oak had a 5 below | tightened fcnsel ' Raider in Atlantic Parley raider — possibly the 10,000- ants .said. minimum and Mount Ayr 1 be- \ .Representative .7. P a i n c 11 ton pocket battleship Admiral Amid this icporled naval suc- *. * •Thomas (D-N. J.). a member, of Is Sunk By THE ASSOCIATED PBESS cess, apuareutly pliiicfimg Bn* The Taranto victory is the War's lovv.TtWas 6'above in'Des Moines ' BULLETIN BERLIN—Soviet Premicr-Foi Schecr or the L u e t •/. o \v^- at 9 a. m. Wednesday.- - -| Iiiit, ma;oi success, of _auplanes Ihe committee, said that three SAN FRANCISCO, «J P>—T li e tain's- command • of the -Medilci-- ovei heavily aimoied naval ves-explosions in Pennsylvania and Gcirnan liner Bicmcn, queen ot LONDONV" IUP)—The admlral- eign Commissar Vyacheslaff. Mo which attacked a convoy in raneun. waters" which Italians tali Only glinuner of hope for re- sels, it .'shows that, warships-'at New Jersey yesterday "can liai-d- the reich's merchant inaiine, which Iv said Wednesday that six lotov lield a foui-hour conteicnc mid-Atlantic 'Nov. -11. "mare nostrum—our sea,"-London lief from winter's first severe .anchor are vulnerable lo large ly be placed in the catogoiy oft dashed to freedom fvom New more merchant sliips from a Wednesday \\ith Adolf Hitler— Still another; British naval vic- raihlaiy quartet & announced an- prevue was the bureau's expec- bombs, aimed cffcctuely if the coincidence" and warned that at the outbiedk of the wai, convoy of 38 vessels attacked thqiv .second: — and informe tory at the expense of Italy was other triuinph'pii land,, in'llic fierce tation -that tlie weather would attacking planes die allowed tq otliei distucU might be expected the bottom of the Kattegat, by a German raider in mid-At- sources said that much of this tim reported by the London admiralty struggle in Egypt. not be "quite so cold" in the four miles off tlie cciist of northern lantic had arrived in port and \vas devoted to "negotiatiurii ' latei' in Uie day. The admuolty These sources-said British In- leach their taigelb "until the 'federal .government 1 west portion of the state Thurs- gets bard-boiled." Dcnmaik, atcoiding to vepoits ic- that only three were still miss- The nature of these ricgolia- said BiitMi wai. ships -fink cubsioii!> pic%iously ha atly nighl. cfasli in which the Italians "suf- periness in the vital necessity of protecting gioups or activities," he sjid. ' The PORT—Sixty-live seamen, most gtam of bO\iet-Nazi collaboiatiqn. lantic and Council Bluffs areas' I was sunk by a British torpedo. , of them ..wounded," were Canada's' With hcr.grovviiiff command of fered heavily." naval bases with defense planes federal government should co- A letter'to a member of .the and within 'cities and towns. j capable of driving off "attacking operate with the,employci-s'so.that heroes Wednesday—s,caucd, ex- *Foieig * u * M i n i b t e i the seas, the British noverhment .Reports reaching Lbiidoti •; from they can get tough about whom Scandinavian colony written by hausted ^survivors of .the armed Joachim von Ribbentrop and also announced the extension of Ihe 17 day old GieeR-Italian wai The patrol gave the following* ,.. ,. [n ,,.. a[r ,, relatives in' Denmark, lidded de- merchant ciuisei ^Jei\)s Bay, ReichsmJisjl Herman Goenng its blockade to three sides of tvont said Uje Haliant, weie .slill E they lure and fire." tails. ..The letter, said excursion early morning temperature aver-J De coinc confusea. vvluch saved at least*29 ship;, of A vveic among Hie Geiman dignitai- Africa, including Syria, French retreating from Korilza. 10 miles .ages: The thr,cc powder plant ex- tups to the ship aie available to convoy of 38 befovcb sinking, guns ies present. West, Africa, Liberia, Portu- inside Albania, abandoning equip- Northwest—Vicinity of Sioux Simultaneously with announce-' plosions occurred within an the public for the equivalent of 25 still xoarmg, in d mid-Atlantie Molotov spent the morning in cuesc Guiana, Madagascar and ment as they fled. hour of each other Tuesday; An cents, and that'.hundreds tide out While Ihese repoils wwc cabled City, a below; vicinity of .Storm merit o£ the Britis : h success in the : battle with a powerful German confeiencci with Goering and Re runiott Island. Lake, zero. Mediterranean comes the official. explosion ;destroyefl a SlO.OOdT to bee the superstructure piercing raider. Deputy NJO. Paity Leader Rudolf from London, Ihc empire capital barrel oil storage tank in Can- up from the sea. London naval circles said the Northeast—Three above. British report of the attack in Hess, attack on Taianto made by twice underwent air-raid alarms Central—Zero. mid-Atlantic by the" .armed/British ton, Ohio, Tuesday night. Cause The letter added that swimming They were brought into port fiorn axis, vvarplanes, which loated of a 5300,000 fire .at the muni- Wednesday night, the Russian planes carrying aenal toipedoes, Southwest—Atlantic, i sbove; merchantman Jervis Bay: against had been .abandoned in the Ore- late Tuesday by a Swedish statesman and his staff will be which aie launched by dive across the channel m great vvav es Omaha, 3 above. an armored German raider, allow- cipal auditorium-national guard sund between Denmark and Swe- freighter, one of the convoy, hosts to the nazi leaders at a baji- and spread out over Ihe English ing 29 British ships out of a total armory in Atlanta was unex- eten,.at the lower end of the Katte- bombing, Oidinary bombfc, it was. midlands :nnd : Wales Southeast—Teii;. above; whose captain, Svcn Olander. quiet, rclutmng the honois ac- srud, 'would .have been ineffective Slues were clear over Jhe eulne cofwoy of. 38 to escape. The cour- plained. Emery dust was fount! gat; . because "hundreds of bodies went back after dark the night roi'ded to them Tuesday -night by against tlie heavily-armoicd Ital- "Thcie mutt hiivo been Iiuu- state Wednesday. A tiace of pre- age of the- Jems Bay, not pro- io machinery" at the Todd Se- die floating in the s,ound." This of Nov. 5 because "they did so thc iitivus';nt'.;i rit.ilc dinner. ian battleships. dicds of Ihein," obsciTCis said cipitation was lepoited at Charles* tected by ajmoii but engaging a altl.e dry.-dock, in Seattle, Where tended lo lend cicdehtc. tu icpotU vi ell Cor us that I did not like to Tht daylight raiders followed elm ln at (.lose i ange \ that the -Bremen-'hud been suuli * * * Taranto, dcscrl6cil up a nightlong scries of attacks, City. The states high Tuesday' ^ ' ^ two vessels are being converted leave." Offiu.il iiitlcs vvcir ulcnl on main sea base, lies ai llic "bi- "was 24 at Davcnpoit, " f-»n<5 fifihtin '. until bhe sank •' in j .into transports for the navv. \ulh 15.000 tioop'. ,ibo,iicl. The identity uj the I; tighter and the subjects cliscus-ed. hut in- [ sle»" of the Italian boot. In'vvhlch a. heavy German bomb flaines sho\\.s the moiale ol But-* In south San Francisco, a Riant — vvicckcel ,x crowded London iish afamen is [villy the equal of the nunibet of missing-ucw meu\- foi mod soui (.<>-, ^.titl it was oe-1 The admiully said Ihe ,auu,. movie Ihcalcr, killing many anil 1 crane collapsed in the ship- 'TrJc.nrifirFvA-7PnRr.rlv bo.rs 06 the 18-year-old, H.164-ton hev rd the ioiireicni;eh v,cie aimed thnuxina fiuitlt-* inoolli. Hull Says J)ies Must [British -aviators. „ I building yards of the Western laenuiy frOZCn DOdy Au»tialiaii hnei cunv cited into ;\ at-dcvctotJing a long-uiige pio- in buryliig others under the debris, |' U>f> ~AIf- •!X.- which the BuUsh Mcditeirancaii A ^ubvvay station, .in aa-iaid Pipe and Steel company, uheic ' f « lightly-aimed convoy guaidihip gi mail-Russian co-o(jt<~ fleet Iiai .sought lo engage tfic| Decide on Hearings ! The safe aurval in Biitioh povts ocean-going freighters are being I Of in wcio kept a rmhUiy set'ict. Also iitioii. Intoimants, declaied both •-iiLltei and tvvn Dlliei movie | of 80 per cent of the convoy dis- built for the United States „ „„- . the identity of Ihc i aider \sas un- Gcihian and Hussian bpeakcii, at Ihe^teis wcie alio hil. ipioves the German claim ot last maritime commission. The top- , CARROLL,. froieii known, but .some of (he suivlvoi-, tlie dinner given Mototov ^ About a thousand Lulidoneis of Germany's Agents week that the entire convoy had f Rome Admits RAF silting in one of the theatcis nai- pling crane killed two men and ] f.°n^t° \ ' t. ^ , thought possibly she was a 10,000 night cniphasued the friendly na- WASHINGTON, (U.PJ—Sectetary been destroyed. There it. evciy injured lwo:6tliers. Coi onei A N ith that of, pocket battleship, the Admiial ture of . relations -between, tlie Ivv'o lowly escaped death \vhcn a bomb of State Coi-dell Hull has advised ieas>on to accept the British vei- James Conway. about 55, of St. nations. Raids on Bases i-maijhcd thiougli the loot of Uio_ tion talher than the German. Not Fourteen persons wcie Killed Joseph, Mo , was found in a stalled Scheei-; or the lAietzow. ROME, (Pi—British planes at- oiche.stia pit and exploded below" Chairman Martin Dies ot the and at least 26 were injured in the flooi- levet. house committee investigating un- only do the- British details seem truck- '• near here Tuesday. The Suivjvors ol the fighl—of which The avenue. leading'from the tacked three big Italian naval convincing' but also past experi- the powder plant coroner said -that Conway' appar- Bellevue palace, vUiere Molotov bases at Brtndtsi, Bar! and Tar- American "activities that he must ence hah shown that though the] ently-crawled into the cab of- the the world had its, fu-st inkling last anto, the Italian high command In Home, Viigmo Gayda, t^^ct^t decide for himself whether to hold x week when distiess calls crackled is staying, .to the chancellery British admiralty sometimes con-] , f?' , and U\o men ucie truck dining the <.toi m and fell vsas, guarded closely bv police as reported Wednes^ai. editor who freqaentiy acls as Pie- public hearings on the achvjties Killed m a blast at the United out ovei the Atlantic—told how niici Musaolim's, "mouthpiece.'' of German consular agents m tins l^.hvay {the Jcuib, Bay headed without the Russian statesman 'was i _.. Signal corporation in! escorted, to his second day of — — brfid Gel-many and Ilaly had dc- n"ounram'cnts*"Tl7e B7iUih"~peo"piel Woodbndgc. N. J. A blalc mspec-j hesitation into the "hopeless fifilil, Itahan fleet in open battle, "piob-'cidcd U) pool their Mibmaniie closed Wednesday, - tor sai ) laid a smoke suocti undci which, conferences uilh na/1 officials. would not tciletale any such de-' " "Into definitely \v,ts sabn- Gabby Hartnett An unusual' "Eight to Bcilmci< ab)y" left only one-hall u! thc'ifoiccs for a concentialcd new at- cepltons. • ....A. n FB..«I. agent vvas bent | Ihc convoy .scatlcicd and ploucd>vu|. s tl)c fascist navy's six capital shtn^i t.tckxon Btit^sh shipping in the CHAMBERLAIN' CREMATED fhcic as an "obbeuei" .illnougn Fired by Cubs flhiongli d sloim tjl shells sltaiglit i mpl1 "Umbci blill effective _' * 'Noitfi Atlantic.. LONDON, (/Pi—T1) e body of Virginio Gaxla. Ita1>'s unof- the plant WHS nol vvoikmg on i toi tlie laidci until sh e vvas --unkf A t: , i ¥ ¥ ^ With besieged Britain 1iolri)»c ficial spokesman, v^riting \Vcd- by the latteiV povvci. CUIUHI-- cmvd 1tn( Neville Chamberlain, foi mcv 1 government co.iitra'cts. fjont of the ' Royal n.uy plane-, flyin'a iiom out at home and in the MedUvr- pume minister who died Satuiday. nesdav stale ; that "the decisive j undisclosed Jjasci I'uuirci out the lanean .fiicl the Italian ,uniy war against England's empire is Three nien were killed at the Capt. E. S. It. Fegcn remained was "cremated Wednesday.at Gold- Allentovvn, Pa., plant of Hie i asbault on the night of Nov. 11-12 .-•laltcd by the decks on the Al- eis Green moituary in Noilh Lon- essentially naval." This asser- iji command "with one arm al- Ritiki and the freighter Couiis-h i the admualty .said. banian fiontrei. niaily obsciveis tion is absolutely true, but it Trojan Powder company.-work- most shot away," even though City, «ho~c disti;e.ss calls wcic, Bnti.sh admiiattv don There was no ccieinony. must have been written before ing on contracts totaling S200.- the fore parl of the bridge was 1 A commuin-, believed y -was seeking 000 for the army ami nav.v. The htard in the United States the Ruvsian support, or at least ap- f-*~lj TIT 1 Signer Ga.ycla had heard of the blown Jrom under him'.' He .'went lught o£, the attaik ,is the Lnnvoy Bomb hits caused .such havoc* pioval for axis ambitions m Ihc I 11/7 \\l ClOT" r\ CiV , Taranto engagement and the FBI recently' made a plant sur- dovv n w ith the blazing ship, ,,.„as, steamin,.„, g fium " Canada to Balkans and neai East. J- lit, VV C«.L1JLC1 , v\av the Jervis Bas saved the vey of the Trojan company to A Bnti,sh admiralty communique | England. aboard two of the battleships British convoy. determine Its protective facili- they had to run ashore \a pic- Turkcj v\-a(ched anxiously ci edited the saving of three-louvthb | * . •# # ' vent sinking. One of llicst, be- believing her pro-British status FORECAST t H is unloituruttq (or Geima'ny! of the convoy, VAhich the German'; i "It v\at a sunny evening \vhcnt longing to the 23,622 ton Contc was one of the main topics in IOWA: Fair "Wednesday night t that the two incidents ot sen, so; repoited completely destroyed, i we nicked up the (German) ship-! the Berlin round table. cials said first report!! indicated laigely to the ^very gallant ampn ,011 the poit sitlr .it 4-50 o'clock,' Uc Cavour class, was under and Thursday; not quite so cold favorable to Great Britain, lo-i jhcre vvas no evidence of sabo-- of the Jeivis Bay. \vatcr "from her slcrn up. In- In the Greek-Italian war,- thr west portion Thursday after- tgcthei with Signer Gayda s con- vaiti one of the Jeivi= B»y officer Greek high command lepoited an tagc. v cluding the after turrel." 1 noon. [fession, come at ihc moment when j ^ **' SUl V IV Ol S Anothci battle-hip of llic 35.- incieasing number of piMsonci : (Commissar: Molotov is in Berlin.i II said lhat despite ''gicatly in- i "She vias .< long oil". 1 sli earning b.itlc Io GieeK cann>^ Tin EC men wcie Utllcd at the fcrlor armament" the .Jervis Bay < don't Lnnu 000-ton Littorio class vva- "oadlv 'MINNESOTA: Generally fair He cannot fail to vv eigh_ the new [ v,11(ch of the irom the-Epirus fi'ont, on the• It- Wednesday, iiieht and Thurs- 'facto against \vhdtever ajai as- Burton powder works of the! ^cantinued to engage the rn othci fust Siic opened fnc fiiat ' American Cyanamici corpoiotion] aftei i-he had been severely hit forccabllc ° under water and a alian right Wing, and Italian forcci day, , except occasional light , Durances arc given..him concern- nigh. hc.jvy list to staihoard ' were said to have; been driven s n o vv northeast • .Wednesday 1 ins the future outcome of the war. at Kdlnbm-g, Pa. This plant ha4j and way buinmg funously," and "She closed to-gct Into range, back into Albania all along the night; not quite so cold extreme , The Russians have shown.reaJ- no govermnent contracts .but an exploded alter a two-hour fight. _ and we closed, loo. leaving the Tlanes cailying aeiial loipcdoe-^ flout except foi one thallov. sal- southwest Thursday afternoon. 1 ism and strict imperionahty m -FBI agent, vvus: sent to -Edinburg j convoy. We got between the made Ihe .attack, it uas icpoitccl i-cnt. the various developments I to ncf as i"1 observer nt the.local Twenty-four ships In the con- - pttcmy ship and the convoy and in naval c'iix-lr> It reported also that a.lull.coin- of the wai It it. no! to be --up- investigation. voy Were reported lo have ' dropped smoke floats lo screen It Is impossible. Ihcsp sonrcds jfcn.v of Albanian troops had sur- IN MASON CITY posed they will neglect to take Tlie thtcc p,i\\dci plant e\- reached ports, five others' were said, that bombs couli! have 1 ( thr merchant ships from the clone enough damage to a rendered to tlic Greeks. Globc-Gnzcm weather slalistics '-crious- -note- of die'- -s'ii'd d en plofions ocoui'i;ed :tv,-o monlh? !o CHICAGO, —Owner. Thil reported .safe and, llic admiralty Wednesday: j raider." heavily armnrcd battleship of ttrcnglhening of British Meditcr- • tlie day iiftcr . ;i- mysterinivs cx- K. Wriglcy of the Chicago Cubs added, "it Is possible that some Captain Olander ol Ihc rescue the .-T-iltorio class to force her Maximum Tuesday H i,m(.l pci-oji'-