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Heroes in Death
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Small British Unit Overwhelmed by Larger
Italian Forces But Duce’s Casualties Heavy
FDR NAMES
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Compulsory Service Only “Democratic
Way” to Build Defense, Hill Contends
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LONDON. (UP.) —A German
Heinkel ill bomber attacked a
British training plane over south-
west England today. The British
plane had no armament and was _
the mercy of the swift and heavily
armed German.
A moment later, the score was
5 to 1 for Britain. The British
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I asked a group of Albanians the
way to the Greek Consulate. They
refused to answer me until I ex-
plained in Italian that T was not
a Greek but was trying to locate
a house in the same street as the
Consulate.
In the little cafes of Tirana
Vas to obrrye damage done- to
wharves, airdromes and defense
centers in yesterday’s widespread
raids which, ’he Germans claimed,
resulted in thq destruction of 147
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U. S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt today. One
accused him of making statements “very, very little short
of treason” in his speech at Philadelphia last night urging
aid to Britain.
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BERLIN. (UP).—Germany re-
laxed the pace of her air bom-
bardment of Britain for a period
today and warned the British,
through neutral sources. that -re—
prisals would be taken if German
parachutists were treated con-
trary to usages of international
The official DNB news agency
reported that only a few air
battles were fought over Britain
during the afternoon. They de-
veloped, it was said, when strng
German reconnaissance groups,
protected by heavy fighter squad-
rons, flew over Britain to observe
Another lone German
similar tactics in the same
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rage balbons, oil stores, harbors
Jugoslavia and Greece, the Greek
claims appear most likely to re- 1
ceive attention first.
The Jugoslav siatuation does
not seem as pressing. I found on-
ly scattered Italian forces along
WASHINGTON. (UP)— Presi-
dent Roosevelt today nominated
Undersecretary of Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard, of Indiana,
to succeed Secretary Henry A.
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crew standing on
were no casualties.
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WASHINGTON. (UP)—Sen. Lister Hill, D., Ala., re-
opening Senate debate on the military conscription bill,
charged today that voluntary enlistments “place a premium
on slackerism and a penalty on patriotism.”
Compulsory selective service,^
Hill argued, is “the only demo-
cratic way” to build up the de-
fense forces.
Britain through Switzerland. It
Albania’s claims
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African protectorate was the first
portion of Britain’s overseas em-
pire to be lost in the war. Only
previous British territory to be
given up were the tiny channel
isles which lie close to the coast
of France.
The War Office announcement
said that British forces in Smali-
land had been evacuated safely
after fighting a rear action against
an Italian force which outnumber-
ed the small British garrison by
a wide margin.
Despite Italian superiority,
heavy casualties were inflicted
upon Blackshirt troops, the War
Office said—losses which it will
be difficult for the Italian Afri-
can Command to replace.
The War Office attributed loss
of Somaliland to the collapse of
France which blasted a joint
Anglo-French defense plan. It
said that the decision then had
Children of another southeast
const town had a narrow e cape
when a Dornier turned loose with
its machine guns. Bombs fell
close to an old people's home in
LONDON. (UP).
a life boat
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to mobilize 360,000 National
Guardsmen and organized re-
serves for military duty any-
where in the Western ' Hemi-
British fighters and
Italian and Albanian gendarmes Ciamuria region of Greece were j Whisky—and discussing the an-
were called out to guard the (being persecuted.
Greek Consulate General here and 1 I was booed and biased on the
other Greek establishments in Al- streets of Tirana last night when
bania as anti-Greek feeling rose -
to new heights today.
Precautionary measures were
taken in several southern pro-
BY UNITED PRESS
— North—Texans pulled npextnr
bed-covers this morning when a
sudden temperature drop brought
one of the coldest August days
in recent years and a 55-degree
range in the state's temperatures
within 24 hours.
The lowest reported today was
52 degrees at Childress, in North
Texas. The highest Sunday after-
noon was 107 at Mission, in the
Rio Grande Valley. Readings in
the 50‛s were common today in
North Texas and most of the state
felt 60-degree weather.
The U. S. Weather Bureau at
Fort Worth said that the unusual
range was caused by a great high
pressure area extending from
Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
At Fort Worth, today's mini-
mum was 62, coldest in August
for nine years and the coldest in
history for Aug. 19.
Aq even greater range wn1 re.
ported nationally. Bismarck, N.
D„ had a frigid 41 and Phoenix,
Aris., had a top of 108.
The temperature drop in Texas
followed a weekend of rains that
brought relief to many farms and
ranches not benefitted by rains
earlier last week. Rainfall re-
ports included:
the Jugoslav frontier. Most of
the soldiers in the passes on the
Albanian side were newly-recruit-
ed Albanians, not Italian regulars.
I obtained permission to fly
to Albania for this tour to la-
Senators D. Worth Clark, D.,•.
Idaho, Bennett Champ Clark,D.,
Mo., and Burton . Wheeler, D.,
Mont., led the denunciations of
Bullitt’s speech.
Clark of Idaho termed Bullitt’s
speech “a demagogic appeal to the I
American people to go Into war,
a war for which he admits we are |
not prepared. I say that Mr. Bul-
litt comes mighty, mighty close to
being false to the republic which
put him where he is today.”
Clark of Missouri shouted that
if Bullitt "succeeds in dragging 1
us into war, you can bet that he’ll •
succeed in finding himself a safe i
place to hide out for the duration 1
of it.”
"He did it the last time,” the
Missourian continued. "He was 26 ,
years old when we entered the <
last war and he found himself a 1
nice coffee-cooling job in the War ]
Department.” 1
He said that "the reason Mr.
Bullitt may now be roaming 1
in Missouri, and his family moved
to Newton, Iowa. Appleby at-
tended Grinnell College in Iowa.
Wallace, in a farewell state-
ment to employes today said that
the department "has a responsi-
bility to assist the nation’s agri-
culture to prepare for a variety
of serious results growing out of
this war.”
"I a 1 confident," Wallace said,
“that the department and all its
workers — the administrators,
scientific workers, the rank and
file of employes who have all giv-
en their best while I have been in
the department—can respond to
the new needs with the same ear-
nest concern for agriculture and
the general welfare that has
marked your efforts during my
period with you"
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Bomber to Ground
been made to evacuate the terri-
tory, if necessary, after; inflict-
ing as much damage on the Ital-
ians as possible.
The announcement did not in-
dicate where the evacuated Brit-
ish forces were' taken. It was
thought likely that they might
have been taken across the Red
Sea to the strong British base of
Aden or possibly to some other
nearby British African territory.
British forces, heavily outnum-
bered by the Italians, have been
retreating in the face of the
Italian attack and it had been
hinted in London for several days
that evacuation was imminent.
The War Office announcement
said:
"Enemy losses, particularly
among Blackshirt units, have been
heavy out of all proportion to
From 4,000 to 5,000 were home-
less between Emporia, Va., on the
Meherin river and Williamston,
N. C., where the flood was ex-
pected to reach its height late in
the week.
Many of the refugees were
rescued by U. S. Coastguard boats
by volunteers and by emergency
trains which ploughed through
water almost up to their fire-
boxes.
WEATHER
EAST TEXAS: Fair and cooler
tonight; Tuesday fair and warmer.
WEST TEXAS: Fair tonight
and Tuesday; not much change in
temperature.
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LONDON. (UP)—Great Britain today gave up British
Somaliland after a two-week African -“little blitzkrieg" by an
overwhelmingly superior Italian force.
The 68,000-square mile East^
nel where bombs were dropped
yesterday and to have photo-
graphed damage to airdromes. I sphere,
anti-aircaft emplacements, bar-
vinces, especially in towns and
villages close to the Greek fron-
tier
It was the first time that
guards had been placed at the
Greek Consulate.
Albanian newspapers carried
its greats, Walter P. Chrysler,
who died at his estate at Great
Neck, N. Y.. last night, old time
railroad men here recalled the
days when Chrysler was their
fellow worker.
Chrysler was brought to Child-
dress as a master mechanic for
the Fort Worth and Denver rail-
road company in 1905 by his
friend W. R. Scott. Scott and
Chrysler had met in Kansas.
Railroad men said that Chrysler
was brought from Kansas City to
look over a new type of locomo-
tive that wasn't doing what the
factory claime it would. He made
it produce more power than the
factory had claimed.
The old timers of the railroad
remember Chrysler best for the
comfort he gave them. He looked
over the old “hard” riders that
gave engineers and firemen head-
aches. Then he mtroduced the idea
of using rubber blocks under the
driver springs of locomotives.
Old time machinists remember-
ed the automobile magnate as
“one of the boys.” For two years
he was in Childress and he and
his wife occupied a five-room cot-
tage without modern conveniences.
When Chrysler left a 8300 dol-
Anti-Greek Feeling Ri*e* to New Height* in Albania, Government Attacked by Newspaper*
foreign reports of an Albanian
uprising in which hundreds of
Italian soldiers were massacred
and Albanian villages burned by
the Italians In reprisal.
I flew from Rome to Tirana and
went to Scutari, commercial capi-
tal in the north, by automobile. I
drove through sections where up-
risings reportedly had occurred,
including the Burelll district
which is the birthplace of former
King Zog.
I saw not the slightest evidence
of any uprisings or of the burned
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official German news agency,
around asking sympathy for a
Nazi-Fasist ontrolled France may
be a desire on his part to keep
certain committments which he
may have made."
Senator Henry F. Ashurst, D.,
Aris., said he had “a certain
amount of sympathy for Bullitt"
because the Ambassador may have
had a lot of things “buttoned up
in his bosom which he couldn’t
hold any longer after returning
home from France."
“To imagine Bill Bullitt keeping
quiet is to imagine a silent bull,”
Ashurst said.
Rep. John C. Schafer, R., Wis.,
suggested in the House that "mul-
ti-millionaire New Deal war mon-
ger” Bullitt be “locked up.” He
CRYSLER,
AUTO MOGUL,
SUCCUMBS
of yesterday’s
I saw groups of Albanians,
garbed in white fezzes and white
woolen trousers that fit as
“front-page editorials attacking tightly as an old-fashioned suit 4 vestigate for myself truth of
the Greek government and con- . of wool under wear, drinking
tending that Albanians in the their native racky—a kind of
Curtice, president of the Buick
division of General Motors, were
among the many who expressed
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Hill brushed his argument
aside, replying that War Depart-
ment officials have urged that
.. , i some form of compulsory train-
telling । mg is required to furnish the
1e -e- . trained personnel for the
E, panded miltiary machine.
Fresh formations of Heinkel-1 Sen. Arthur Capper, R„ Kans.,
said he was opposed to peacetime
and trfisportation centers. changes in the, bill including
“ which would hayc made it
udeebut. ■"
Chrysler’s genius for mass pro-
duction methods enabled him to
enter the industry after it had
been pioneered by others and he
rose quickly to the top.
Chrysler was married in 1901
to Miss Delia V. Ferker,- a ehild-
hood friend. She died August 8,
1938. He is survived by four chil-
dren, Mrs. Byron C. Foy, Mrs.
Edgar W. Garbish, Walter P.
Chrysler, Jr., and Jack Forker
Chrysler.
NEWSPAPER
GALVESTON, Tex. (UP) —
Britisher Bob Hardy, who's heard
his share of screaming air raid
sirens, got fooled last night.
Here as a sailor on the English
ship Historian, he strolled down-
town, Wham! A hit-and-run driv-
er bopped him.
Someone called the ambulance
and it came fast. It picked Har-
dy up and sped to the hospital,
siren full blast.
The ambulance stopped with a
jerk. The siren died. They wheel-
ed Hardy out. Dazedly, he turned
to attendants:
"Is th. air raid over yett"
-day but up to
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The relaxation of bombing ef-
forts coincided with a British gov-
ernment decree naming all of
England, Wales and Scotland as
a single defense area subject to
dictatorial control by the Home
Security in event of invasion.
The slackened pace came after
the Air Ministry reported Ger-
many lost 141 of 600 planes
which blasted Britain yesterday.
The Ministry said the score for
the past seven days was 568 Ger-
man plane , 513 of which were
shot down by RAF fighters.
Today a single German plane
bombed a southeast coast area,
causing some casualties including
fatalities. It wrecked two houses
in a residential district and turned
its machine guns on the streets
from rooftop altitude.
House made several
Keeping England A “Tight Little Isle”
Ready with a hot reception for attempted German troop landings in England are the hundreds of British units guarding every foot of the
coast. Particularly anxious for "another crack at Fritz” are veterans who fought in France with the ill-fated B. E. F., like the men of
the Green Howard Regiment, shown above. Under lowering skies, they make a striking picture against the white sand of their seaside
post as they sally forth to pour fire from bqhjv every clirvp of benrh grass.
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BRITAIN SENT Draft Bill Debate Is DEFENSE AREA
NAZI WARNING Re-OpenedinSenate PROCLAIMED
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this town, it was said, but no
flew over the channel at a great
height, DNB reported, and in
only a few cases were British
Spitfires able to engage them.
Near Ram-gate, it was reported,
two British planes were shot
down and a third was believed
destroyed.
The German planes were said
to have flown over Bristol Chan-
TIRANA, Albania. (UP) =--
The Senate met an hour earlier
than usual in an effort to expedite
consideration of the bill, which
leaders hoped to pass sometime
this week. Only a few senators
were present at the outset and a
half-hour was consumed in
rounding up a quorum. The gal-
leries were jammed.
Before resuming the debate,
which has largely featured anti-
conscription arguments, the Sen-
ate sent to conference the bill
authorizing President Roosevelt
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employer to refuse to rehire a
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hfs' uniforms and equipment for out the di fferences and send the
identification purposes. . billto President Roosevelt soon.
Tt said retaliation would beyho enjoys privileges'"eracit our
token agains t British airmen .Pris- . form nf government is obligated
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named assistant director of the I
North Central division. and direc-
tor of the division in November, 1
1936. He was appointed under- 3
secretary of agriculture by Presi-
dent Roosevelt on Feb. 1. 1940. h
A ppleby-wes a eoHege ctassmate—“
of Secre' try of Commerce Harry
Hopkins, and Chester Davis, mem-
ber of the President's national de-
fense commission. He was born
HOUSTON. (UP)— Dil
the Humble "Oil and Refir
pany today declared
cent dividend. totaling $
payable October 1 to sto
of record August 81.
Humble has 9,000,000
outstanding.
The dividend was the
the year, the two previe
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lateaftnoonat- White theautemebile industry to-
day was paying tribute to one of
the bomber.
The bomber crashed and
crew of five died. The British p
ot also was killed.
Humble Co. Declare*
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BRYCE'S Court House CAFE
Air Conditioned For Your Comfort
24 Hour Service
Adv.
GREAT NECK, N. Y. (UP.—
The automobile industry mourn-
ed one of its alger heroes today—
Walter P. Chrysler who gave up
a successful career in another
field to become one of its “big
three.”
Chrysler, 65, chairman of the
board of the Chrysler company
and builder of one of New York
city's three tallest skyscraper,
died of a cerebral hemorrhage at
his estate here yesterday. He had
been ill for two years.
Funeral services will be held at
11 a. m. Wednesday at St. Barth-
olomew's church in New York. He
will be buried at Tarrytown, N.
Y.
Expressions of sorrow arrived
at the estate from the leaders
of his industry and of business.
Charles F. Kettering, vice presi-
dent of General Motors, William
S. Knudsen, president of General
Motors. W. P. Brown of the Briggs
Manufacturing Co., Harlow H.
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RALEIGH, N. C. (UP)—Trucks
laden with food and blankets left
here at dawn today for North-
hampton county where record
floods in the Roanoke river valley
caused a food shortage among
thousands of refugees.
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Wallace, Mr. Roosevelt’s campaign
running mate whose resignation
he accepted a few hours earlier.
With Wickard’s nomination, the
President also sent to the Senate
the nomination of Paul H. Apple-
by of Iowa, former assistant to
the secretary, to succeed Wickard
in the undersecretaryship.
Wallace will leave the Depart-
ment Sept. 5, to begin active cam-
paigning for the Vice-Presidency.
The tone of Mr. Roosevelt’s letter
accepting Wallace's resignation
and the immediate nomination of
an Indianan to succeed him indi-
cated the administration attaches
primary importance to the farm
he vote, where Republicans made
cofisiderabie gains inthg 1938 qin--
gressional elections. Indiana is
the home state of Republican
Presidential nominee Wendell L
Willkie.
Wickard is 47 and has a farm
near Camden, Ind., which he be-
gan managing as soon as he was
graduated from Purdue Universi-
ty.
In August, 1933, Wickard be-
came assistant chief of the corn-
hog section of the agricultural ad-
justment administration. He was —
named chief of the section in Feb-
ruary. 1935. Following the inaug-
uration of the soil conservation
program in 1936, Wickard was
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