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o | wofil.\gfi \‘QIEE'K h"" A savage attack by a confidant felled the 60â€"yearâ€"old guiding genius of the Russian revolution in his home. An emergency operation and administration of oxygen were futile. He died before brain surgeons from the United States could reach him by chartered plane. _ _ The attacker was identified by police as Jacques Mortan Vandenâ€" dreischd, 36â€"yearâ€"old native of Iran. Bodyguards beat him off from the asnt;l‘:,ull;ut not until he had driven the axe into the exiled revolutionâ€" ist‘s L NAZI PLANES BOMB COTTAGES, GUN BATHERS ON BEACH LONDON.â€"German planes came over England again Wednesday night dropping bombs in a southwest town which struck a row of houses and killed several persons. _ â€" s The Nazi bombers dived low before unloading their explosives. Many persons were reported injured during this raid. _ â€" â€" Two of the raiders were believed to have been shot down by fighter craft. | s __ _Men bathing on a beach of another southwest town were machineâ€" gunned by swooping raiders. The home guard of a nearâ€"by cliff fired at them and received a farewell burst from the Germans before they escaped into the clouds. No casualties were reported. TUESDAY BRANTFORD FACTORY RAZED IN $200,000 FIRE BRANTFORD.â€"Damage of $200,000 resulted and two firemen were injured when an early morning blaze Tuesday destroyed the factory of National Canned Foods Limited on the highway just outside Brantford. Fireman John Bye, of Brantford, suffered a back injury in a fall and will be confined to his home for several days. Another fireman, Arthur Suddeby, had a narrow escape when a section of wall collapsed. As he ran for safety a flying brick split his helmet but he was not seriously hurt. ; MEXICO CITY.â€"Leon Trotsky died Wednesday after whispering an accusation that his pickâ€"axe assailant "most likely" was a member of the Ogpu, Societ secret police. _ _ _ _ Of this number, 300,000 will be given a month‘s training in the next twelve months. The first class will be called up early in October. Exee& for a breathing space during the Christmas holidays, training will continuous. LEON TROTSKY DIES OF ASSASSIN‘S BLOWS IN MEXICO NAZI INTERNED OFFICER FLEES ONTARIO CAMP SOMEWHERE IN ONTARIO.â€"Police seeking Warner Koche, 28â€" yearâ€"old Nazi naval lieutenant who escaped from an i;\it;l:m;éfiréa;n‘p Somewhere in Ontario on Monday, claimed that some workmen at the camp had been involved in the German prisoner‘s dash for freedom. . Workmen had been discharged from the camp for conversing in the German language with the prisoners, and it would be almost impossible for the prisoner to get timber to line the tunnel from which he escaped unless some workmen were involved, police said. OTTAWA EXPECTS JOB INSURANCE START IN FALL OTTAWA.â€"The Government expects the Unemployment Insurance Act will begin operation this fall, Prime Minister King told a press conferences Tuesday. The threeâ€"member commission, which will plan the machinery for collecting unemployment insurance, will be anâ€" nounced in a few days. OTTAWA.â€"Nearly 1,000,000 single men between the ages of 21 and 45 years will, officials estimate, be shown as available for military training by the National Registration, which closed Wednesday night. For his own success he had two explanations: That he was almost invariably lucky, and that he never forgot the lessons in human nature he learned as a boy of 8 selling newspapers in New York City. COMPULSORY TRAINING RECRUITS TO BEGIN SERVICE IN OCTOBER Labor Minister McLarty plans making a trip to Eastern Canada and likely will be in a position to announce the commission on his return. Later an advisory commission also will be appointed. MONDAY CANADA, UNITED STATES REACH MUTUAL AID PACT what quotations he wanted from testimony, when they were said and the exact wordinfi.nflis encyclopaedic knowledge of law caused 200 legal firms to retain him as counsel. OGDENSBURG, N.Y.â€"Coâ€"operation for the mutual defense of Canada and the United States which stops only short of formal treaty of alliance, was announced in a joint statement issued Monday by Pres'i_c_i_ent Franklin Roosevelt and Prime Minister Mackenzie King. "MILLIONâ€"Aâ€"YEAR" LAWYER DIES IN NEW YORK ____Steuer, one of the shrewdest lawyers ever to practice in New York, was known to have received as much as $1,000,000 a year in fees for a period of ten years. JACKSON, N.H.â€"Max D. Steuer, 68, of New York, one of the most noted American attorneys, died of a heart attack Wednesday on, the porch of Wentworth Hn_l{"wlgerg he was spending the summer. _ _ _ __One of his greatest assets was a phenomenal memory. He never took notes and apparently never referred to notes. Yet he knew exactly 1â€"For the establishment of a joint board of defense to be s®t up immediately. Each country will be represented by four or five men, most of them from the services. ‘The torpedoes were hurled, uhnhwith shriek bombs, at one southâ€" east town hu':"zfu a Rg‘{l o‘h ee'.llele- :-nnd-t:un attacks bt’er lone Nazi raiders w y ‘orce up its steady counterâ€"punching ntGermanbuu,-ndnthomedovmthhuenmvm A whole row of eight li workers‘ cottages was smashed into a tagle of debris where the to: were launched horizontally. Numerâ€" ous other residences were One old woman just put to bed by her son was in a house ripped to splinters by the explosion. The son alone crawled from the wreckage. Not one brick was left intact where the adjoining house had stood. The agreement, reached b§ the heads of the _t;ra--éi{fihâ€"tl:izé';'itting in a railway car on a remote country siding provides: â€" t 3â€"Its scope is so wide that it "will consider in the broad &ense the defense of the north half of the Western Hemisphere." 0 There were only 109 words to this statement that established the closest bond yet set up between the two great democracies in North America. There were no limiting clauses. _ 2â€"This joint board is to commence immediate studies relating to sea, land and air problems, including personnel and material. Two years a{o to the day, President Roosevelt, in accepting an honorary degree from Queen‘s University, stated: "I give you assurance that the people of the United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canad_ian soil is threg_teng_d by any other empire." To this assurance, Mr. Roosevelt today added the practical means of carrying it out. Any invader of Canada will now find that staff plans have been worked out in advance so that the armed forces of both countries can be brought into action in the most effective and speediest way. DUBLIN.â€"The collier Prestatyn Rose arrived here Wednesâ€" uymm%h.m&tfimmm bombing planes in the Irish The crew said more than fifty were dropped. None took eflec_}.‘hte;utthmlsl-tmflpmw&myfmm.. fre first officer stood on pouring rifle atuwmcageumhmvdw the action stations. INVADERS DROP AERIAL TORPEDO BOMBS oN COTTAGEsS LONDON.â€"Aerial torpedcesâ€"propellerâ€"stemmed cylinders of deâ€" structionâ€"were loosed by Nazi bombers Wednesday night in attacks which smashed houses by the row and buried uncounted vietims in the MAN KILLED IN WINDSOR HOTEL EXPLOSION WINDSOR.â€"Kenneth Scrum, 25â€"yearâ€"old food checker at the Norâ€" ton Palmer Hotel here, was killed and seven persons were injured when an explosion caused an inside wall to collpase in a basement dine and dance grill in E‘he‘_ l_2:sto_|:ey t_mtel _Satuljday night. Clarence Defields, Windsor fire chief, attributed the blast which shook downtown Windsor and caused damage estimated at $50,000 to the first three storeys of the hotel, to the ignition of gases which eseaped from a transformer room in the basement. FIGHT BOMBERS WITH RIFLE FIRE AND BEAT THEM NEW $300,000,000 WAR LOAN IN SEPTEMBER cationist, his associates aim of him thit he has an unusual underâ€" teaching dp::uie::‘ bu‘z'th: ben‘?mlh tr‘:inm 'd.i.“ having been °x) as called to the bar in 1915 and having practiced law in Toronto for two OTTAWA‘â€"Canada will issue a second war loan early next month, seeking a total of from $250,000,000 to $300,000,000 for war funds, Finâ€" nnce__l%_ipister Iisley announced this week. Holders of Dominion of Canada 4% per cent. bonds maturing September 1 will be given an opportunity of exchanging their maturity bonds for bonds of the new issue. This will be in addition to the total of $250,000,000 to $300,000,000 in new money. DEPUTY MINISTE â€" °0 SUCCEED SIMPION it RONTO.â€"Dr. D McArthur, who m m umm'm A w@'%uum&ufim-i slated to.el:ntfr_}he Cab~ _ as Dr. Simpson‘s successor, it was reported & . ' 2 ul Coraner ols Seraren d I U WA The first war loan was issued in January when a total of $200,000,000 | "O:qitl,,e'm{‘,i" ”l was sought. The loan was heavily oversubscribed and the Government RO°"V‘Y acce (e‘? subscriptions for more than $300,000,000. \States to have g‘trms of the loan, it is expected, will be announced September 6.‘ case of attack WEDNESDAY Mr. Dietr had been a member of the Waterloo Board of Health since 1937. The flag above the town hall was at half mast in his memory. An internal abdominal injury suffered Sunday evening when he was kicked by a horse proved faâ€" tal to George Dietz, 56, of Albert street. Waterloo. Mr. Dietz died at the K.â€"W. Hospital Monday evenâ€" . The victim who farmed on the outskirts of Waterloo was standâ€" ing beside the animal in the stall when he was kicked. Mr. Dietz was not knocked over by the blow and walked to the house unassistâ€" ed. Later in the evening, however, his condition became worse and he was removed to hospital. Dr. P. D. Spohn attended him. Born at Rummelhardt, the deâ€" ceased had been a resident of Watâ€" erloo practically all his life. He farmed for eight years on what was known as the Shantz farm on Erb street and for a few years conducted the Waterloo Coal Comâ€" pany. For the last ten years he operated a farm on Albert street. In addition to his wife he is surâ€" vived by a son, Walter, at home, two brothers, John and Jacob Dietz of Rummelhardt, and two sisters, Mrs. J. M. Fleischauer of Milverton and Mrs. William Kimâ€" pel of Kitchener. George Dietz Dies Kicked by Horse Aged Man Steps Into Path of Car 89â€"yearâ€"old Herman Conrad, King street west, was removed to the K.â€"W. Hospital on Friday suffering from severe brain concussion, folâ€" lowing an accident near Frederick and Weber streets intersection. According to witnesses, Conrad, who is deaf, stepped into the path of a Toronto car and was struck down. The United States has obligations to defend the Monroe Doctrine and Canada. If for nothing more, such defense is necessary for selfâ€"protecâ€" tion. And the United States has been woefully short of footing for naval or aerial operations on the Atlantic coast, either of Canada or Latin America. Highly welcome, therefore, are Presiâ€" dent Roosevelt‘s negotiations with the Canadian ‘and British Governments to obtain air and naval bases. Mr. Roosevelt‘s railwayâ€"car conversations with Prime Minister Mackenzie King may mark a tirning point in Canadianâ€"American relations. They are to be followed by specific steps to inteâ€" grate the defense of North America. In addition to the coâ€"ordinating board, there should and unâ€" doubtedly will be staff talks. Most important possibly will be arrangements for the United States to have access to Canadian territory in Vol. 83, No. 33 Well Known Waterloo Farmer Active in Municipal Life; Succumbs in Hospital. _ The sound of throbbing motors increases daily over Canada Training Plan gathers momentum. An instructor gives a Canad structions before a flight. € The Chronicle Hemisphere Defense Breithaupt Leavine . Majority for Breithaupt, 427. Election Summary for Town of Waterloo Poll No.â€"1 2 3 4 5 6 78A 8B 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Total icdes EDITTORIA LS 67 55 76 51 67 70 83 36 56 86 87 84 76 so 61 61 95 88 65 1353 58 76 30 33 42 70 47 33 54 40 55 49 66 55 53 31 42 45 46 926 Minister of Education in the Hepburn Government, who died Sunday following a heart attack. Death occurred while he and Mrs. Simpson were visiting at Picton. Scots Fusiliers Back From Camp members of the Scots Fusiliers of Canada staged an impressive parâ€" ade here Saturday noon when they marched back to the King street armories after detraining from Lonâ€" don at the C.N.R. station. The group, the first half of the local militia unit to attend two weeks camp at Thames Valley miliâ€" tary camp near London, was cheerâ€" ed by the large crowds which gathâ€" ered along the line of march. The returning group was headed by Lieut.â€"Col. H. Ballantyne, O.C. Col. Ballantyne will carry on as head of the battalion, at the same time adâ€" ministering his new duties as Camp Commandant of the militia training centre opening at Knollwood park here October 1st. 1,000 compulsory training recruits will be given 30 days training in classes. KITCHENER.â€"300 well tanned Dies Suddenly DR. L. J. SIMPSON eases daily over Canada as the British Commonwealth Air instructor give$ a Canadian student airman last minute inâ€" i_ * E? The Week in Pictures Warer1oo, Oxtiamio, Frwar, Aucust 16, 1940 The leasing and development of air and naval bases in British lands would double the present power of American defense in the Atâ€" ‘lantic. It would be like addimg a hundred ships and a thousand planes. Possibly the only deâ€" fense measure more immediately useful would be some moveâ€"say the sending of fifty deâ€" stroyersâ€"to help preserve that most useful of all outposts defending America â€" the British Isles. Joint defense plans can hardly be attacked as entangling the United States. It will be an unusually blind isolationist who will contend it would be no concern of the United States were Canada invaled. It will require a new extreme of appeasement to say there should be no oppoâ€" sition from Detroit if the Nazis were to occupy Windsor, or none from Buffalo if they were to camp in Niagara. Rather will Americans apâ€" plaud steps to set up defense posts outside the borders. RLOO CHRONICLE Collect Guns Offered by Farmers Any farmers having firearms which they are willing to loan to the Ontario Provincial Police for the duration of the war to equip local home guard units are asked to contact provincial police headâ€" quarters at Kitchener and a car will be sent out to pick up the weapons. Wellesley Plow Match, October 19 The council‘s grant was part of the $46,000 voted to aid in the Doâ€" (Continued on Page 4) The Wellesley Township Plowâ€" men‘s Association at a director‘s meeting on Saturday evening seâ€" lected Saturday, October 19th, as the date for the annual plowing match. Waterloo and Kitchener civil guard units must function as one unit, local headquarters have been informed by Toronto. Commander James H. Wheeler will head the joint units. ~of any Waterloo County Weekly Newspaper TO BE K.â€"W. CIVIL GUARD of the Week ously regaling themselves in the colorful c}lll;‘iices of the gay Seven successive showers, deâ€" scending upon our local countryâ€" side last Sunday afternoon, punctuâ€" ated harvesting o(:rentiom with a pronounced period of inactivity in the fields. Just before nine o‘clock Saturday evening, another star was momentâ€" arily added to a polar constellation, when the identically appearing starâ€"like h%:'tx of a northeasterly flying aeroplane passed through the lower bowlâ€"area of the Great gladiolus. Dipper. i ied en near| [N075" ine month sull had thirty ;isagfi}l;iw th‘eargoo‘t‘){l t::et'il ';ea;'days. Augustus wanted to make the autumaniel a uino becaur:e i?.s it equal in length to month of July times of risingglg ourfiorthern lati.| Which honored Julius Caesar so he tudes succeed j iadded an extra day and took it tarda _eacthhontnher wxlthlmmaluch away from February leaving that }'cls;:urés 'mt‘;onterm a:(l:; in En5?| month with but twentyâ€"eight days. f - E.l The American Indians called land, where the latitudes are so August, ‘The Maize Moon", for it .gl:t:::mt;\ a:,e:: I:tl;ltng gSt}zl::g 3::! is then when the hay and grain bright full moon came up each|fields have turned from green to night in time to enable the harvestâ€" YellOw. The air too is full of the ers to continue their work by its mOnotony of insect music and unâ€" light as far into the night as theyl cultivated meadows are aglow pleased. As our local harvests are , With masses _ of _ goldenrod usually gan‘:'ered ere the end of sprinkled with the contrasting i Cns aintrinely nppbu t |burple of the wild aster. The spe the lunar brilliance recently light. ; Cial flower of August is the poppy ing up our stookâ€"mottled nocturnal and the special gem is the sardoâ€" "The polling shows a complete endorsation of the Mackenzie King (Continued on Page 6) landscapes. CITY OF KITCHENER . TOWN OF WATERLOO Mr. Breithaupt at 32 was elected Kitchener‘s youngest mayor in 1923 after serving four years as alderâ€" man. After filling that office again in 1924 he retired from municipal affairs exee?t when he served as president of : the board of trade. He is married and has four chilâ€" dren, Louis, Mary, Sally and Herâ€" Poll No At 6.55 p.m., less than one hour after the polls closed, Dr. Leavine conceded the election to Mr. Breitâ€" haupt, who led by about 2,500 votes. The vote was the smallest in recent years. The total vote polled was less than that cast for Mr. Euler in March when more than 14,000 persons endorsed him for reâ€"election. Poli No Monday was elected to the House of Commons for Waterloo North with a majority of 3,424 over Dr. S. F. Leavine, Conservative, in the byâ€"election caused by the elevaâ€" tion of Hon. W. D. Euler to the senate. Mr. Breithaupt polled 8,840 votes compared with 5,416 for Dr. Leaâ€" vie. In March Dr. Leavine was deâ€" feated_by Hon. Mr. Euler. Poll No Defeats Dr. S. F. Leavine By Majority of 3,424 Votes Poll No The expression "Harvest Moon" L. O. Breithaupt, Liberal, on (By J. F. Martinson, Special Wallenstein Correspondent) Total Vote Polled Smaller Than Winner‘s In March 26 General Elections; New M.P. Follows In Steps of Father and Grandfather. Detailed Vote in North Waterloo Newsy Notes 10â€"Breslau Road Totals 1â€"Mrs. I. Groff home .. 2â€"Ruppel & Co. Store 3â€"Dreisinger‘s Store . 4â€"Geo. Bulgin home .. 5â€"A. Dreisinger home 1â€"New Germany 2â€"Bloomingdale ... 3Aâ€"Bridgeport . 3Bâ€"Bridgeport :...... 4â€"Bridgeport ... 5â€"Buck‘s Hill ... 6â€"Rummelhardt . 7â€"Petersburg Road 8â€"Centreville 9Aâ€"Sunnyside 9Bâ€"Sunnyside 3â€"Linwood .. 4â€"Linwood 5â€"Hawkesville 6Aâ€"St. Clements 6Bâ€"St. Clements 7â€"Bamberg 8â€"Wellesley 9â€"Wellesley 1â€"Kingwood 2â€"Crosshill Zâ€"Conestog 3â€"St. Jacobs District 4â€"Elmira District 5â€"Floradale 6â€"Heidelberg 7â€"West Montrose 8â€"St. Jacobs Village 1â€"Winterbourne Totals Majority for Breithaupt ... / 3424 Totals Totals WELLESLEY TOWNSHIP WATERLOO TOWNSHIP WOOLWICH TOWNSHIP TOWN OF ELMIRA Conntz News l hyx. month. It had but twentyâ€"nine days but when Julius Caesar reâ€" formed the calendar he extended it to include thirty days. Not long after his reformation Augustus Caesar was given an opportunity to select a month to be named in his honor and he chose the one following July because it was asâ€" sociated with his triumphs and hoors. The name Sextilis which was now the name of the ‘eighth month was changed to August alâ€" though the month still had thirty days. Augustus wanted to make it equal in length to month of July which honored Julius Caesar so he added an extra day and took it away from February leaving that month with but twentyâ€"eight days. __ (By Chronicle Correspondent) NEW DUNDEE.â€"As the end of another August is fast approachâ€" ing it may be of interest to note why this month has the same number of days as July. In the old Roman calendar August was called Sextilis and was the sixth Caesar Responsible For 31 Day Month L. 0. BREITHAUPT Who successfully contested the North Waterloo riding for the the Liberal party in Monday‘s byâ€" election. Wins Seat Breithaupt Leavine 4997 3701 . 1363 930 318 165 85 30 36 53 61 79 41 85 30 27 69 761 30 61 115 82 57 75 79 115 73 62 749 652 33 67 76 67 81 146 46 67 72 71 62 86 5416 190 270 12 182 143 32 10 32 32 30 13 19 28 31 26 22 20 37 33 10 10 17 31 12 31 13 12 14 16 38 n W M