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Sunday Mornin
PAGE TWO
Oil KRBC
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Sunday Morning, September 1. 1040
THE WAR THIS WEEK-
. Hitler Squelches Balkan
War Threat, Feels Rising
Power of British Airforce
Newest Theater of War? Bombs Wasted SUPOPIGE TIN DEADLIEST
IfDai juKrKIjt JilLL DEADLIDI
In Croydon Raid WEAPON DEVELOPED IN WAR
AP Feature Service
ITALY and Italian military
bases (in black on the map)
surround Greece. When Italy
^YUGOSLAVIA
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NTA
PAUA
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Black:
Sea
By EDWARD W BEATTIE JR.
Learning to
grabbed Albania—in 1939—
she got a perfect stepping
stone for a drive on Greece,
as the arrow shows. The Ita-
lian navy, built for serivee in
the Mediterranean, would
CROYDON, Eng. Aug 31.—(UP)
German bombers’ wasted many a
By EDWARD E. BOMAR
Associated Press Writer
The war that started just a year
By United Press
Adolf Hitler quickly squelched a
threat of new conflict in the Bal-
kans- but felt the growing power of
British aerial bombardment—espe-
cially against Berlin—as this week
ended one year of European con-
flict.
A suddenly called conference of
German. Italian, Hungarian and
Rumanian foreign ministers at
units, the senate passed the selec- have an easy time attacking
tive service bill which the house Greece. Notice Greece’s posi-
military affairs committee also tion near the entrance to the
passed, but after raising registra- Black Sea. Notice, also the
tion groups from 21-31 years of age scale of miles on the map.
to 21-45 years Italy proper and Greece are
The newly-appointed joint United less than 100 miles apart. Ar-
States-Canadian defense board held row indicates a possible in-
its first secret session at Ottawa to vasion route.
SL^^tctot
9 100 -zoo 3
MILES
CREI
map plans for defense of the entire *
North American continent against As American Writer Watched—
Vienna provided the most import-
ant news headlines of the week | attack Mayor Florello La Guardia
from the long-range viewpoint by
cutting another slice off the little
kingdom of Rumania. King Carol.
under threat from the axis powers,
was required to agree to cession of
about half of Transylvania to Hun-
gary and is expected shortly to
turn over south Dobrudja to Bul-
garia
Most important from 4 general
standpoint was the effect of this
dismemberment of Rumania on the
relations of Germany with Soviet
Russia: an effect that probably
cannot be accurately judged until
it is illuminated by future events.
But there seemed to be a wide-
spread agreement that—willing ly or
not—Russia was being shut out of
the Balkans for the time being
Meantime, war in the air raged
more furiously than ever over the
British Isles and over axis territory
Savage aerial warfare between
Britain and Germany saw Berlin
bombed four times, the first British
direct raids on the German capital
as German planes attacked London
and its industrial outskirts almost
every day of the week Germany
and Italy admitted important plants
head of the five-man American de-
legation told the press the conker-
ence had decided on plans “to
translate the Monroe doctrine into
action "
British air units showed an
increase in striking power by
extensive raids throughout con-
tinental Europe during the
week. Starting by a withering
series of attacks on all former
Allied air bases in France.
Belgium and Holland to crip
ple Germany's air striking
force, the RAF bomber units
crossed France and Switzerland
three times to blast at factor-
ies in the Piedmont and Lum-
bardy provinces of Italy dur-
ng whirl the Fiat works at
Turin, automobile and tank
factories in the industrial sub-
urbs of Milan were blasted. The
Italian communique admitted
hits had been scored.
Raids on Germany were claimed
to have caused serious losses to
Germany's gasoline and oil sup-
ONE YEAR AGO TODAY EUROPE PASSED FROM
TWILIGHT OF PEACE TO BLACKOUT OF WAR
Editor’s note: Today marks the
anniversary of the first year of the
European war Present in London
as English officials weighed devel-
opments which meant entry into
the battle against Germany was J.|
C Stark who has written the fol-
lowing story describing the events
for the special news service of the
Associated Press After covering the
early months of the war, Mr. Stark
returned to the United States and spoke in the house of commons,
is now attached to the APs Wash-Members were restive. Arthur
ington staff.) Greenwood, deputy labor leader.
J Bv J C STARK demanded to know "how long we
WASHINGTON. Aug 31.——
The lights burned late, a year ago
tonight, in the dingy old White-
hall building in London that houses
the British foreign office
plies at gasoline dumps in Bre- | They shone through windows un-
men. Hamburg and the Synthetic covered by blackout' curtains
bomb on an open field today when
they attempted to attack Croydon
airdrome on the outskirts of Lon- ago with the sudden invasion of
don Poland has served as a continuous
Observers saw twc German planes demonstration that surprise is still
shot down as the formation fled the deadliest of weapons.
Statesmen, army general staffs
The prime minister warned Adolf ling most of the European con-
Hitler that failure to cease hostil-tinent, supported also by Italy,
ities and withdraw his forces would ’would have been denied by the
under British attac k after unload- ----- -
ing their bombs The Germans ap- and military experts almost with-
parently thought a row of obstruc- out exception have been as mistaken
tions were soldiers tents, as the man in the street in antici-
In the streets of this populous pating the conflict's course a
Even Adolf Hitler and his ad*
visers, who possessed the initia-
tive from the start, must have
been startled repeatedly at the
power of the military and psy-
chological forces they called In-
to being.
The prestige of the prophets has
gone with the reputation of the
generals who erred. There were a
few forgotten predictions of an
eventual burial of differences be-
tween the nazi and communist dic-
tators, but who aside from the
principals themselves anticipated
the actual alliance between Hitler
and soviet Russia's Joseph Stalin?
SURPRISE. SURPRISE!
Hardly a military man foresaw
area I found the usual story of
ruin—broken windows, smashed
bring Britain into the war.
That night. Britain was still at
peace technically but the •black-
out" began
CHAMBERLAIN DELAYS
The next day was Saturday-the
doors and jumbled shingles.
One bomb fell into a main street,
blasting the fronts oft two houses
and blowing a small motorcar into
a garden, where it burned.
In the rear end of another small
car there were 27 large shrapnel
holes. I saw one truck burning but
it was driven off a few minutes
after the air raid wardens had ex-
tinguished flames
Some of the houses bombed
today only last week had been
given new roofs and windows,
as result of an earlier raid on
the Croydon area. One woman
came out of her garden dug-
out with three small girls and
an infant and said “Our roof
With any degree of certainty the
destruction of Poland three weeks
after the first blitzkrieg was
launched last September 1. The
invasion of Norway was as com-
plete a surprise to the world as
large as it was to the unsuspect-
ing Norwegians themselves.
Not even the gloomiest of allied
cassandras voiced a warning that
the army of France, which neutral
officers often termed the worlds,
finest, would oe wiped out as an
organized force in less time than •
required for the conquest of Poland.
It la no secret that the fore-
most American army men were
as deceived as French and Brit-
ish leaders as to the striking B
power of the German army and
air force.
With the upsets of the last year
fresh in their minds, military men
are inclined with reason to be
cautious now. The greatest surprise
of all would be that there were
more surprises in store If Hitler's
bag of tricks should be nearing
exhaustion, stubborn Britain ap-
pears still capable of startling the
world. .
last day of peace
went on in Poland
The fighting
Chamberlain
are prepared to vacillate"
At 11 a. in the next day—
Sunday — Chamberlain broad-
cast the announcement that
Radio Man Becomes
Most of the houses which I saw
British and many Americans. has gone again"
Britain s chances of holding out
against such a combination would | damaged today were habitable and
have been counted less than they streets were cleared quickly of de- |
are tonay. bris Traffic was moving half an
The mass air raids so many ex-
peered last September have now
Big German guns just
the narrow channel on
hour after the all clear signal 'was
sounded
Realtor's Partner
Poole Robertson, who has been
JOHN SWANN
Expresses Thanks
come
across
French soil drop their shells on the
southern English coast.
But British officials speak con-
which began at 104 p m.
fidently of ultimate victory and The raid was brief The Ger-
man planes were driven off by
British fighters seven minutes after
| make plans for a long war
CASUALTIES IN ’
Germany had failed to answer
an ultimatum and Britain was
An air raid alarm sounded al- VEAD WAD
darkness outside, as most simultaneously, and London- I LAA VI VV AN
on the staff of radio station KRBC
At leasst seven German planes since it opened Oct 1. 1936, an-
participated in the raid on Croy-I nounced yesterday that he had
don which coincided with’London’s joined J L. McDavid, veteran Abi-
third air raid alarm of today, lene real estate and rental broker.
they had appeared over Croydon
and had encountered a terrific
anti-aircraft barrage.
were hit in repeated RAF bomb-
ardments of airplane and auto fac- oil plant at Leuna Germany ad- piercing the ---------,
tories. oil refineries and dumps as mitted the Leuna worps. which they have not done since, ers rushed to air raid shelters.
Across Downing street at No 10. They had come to expect an im- Casualties which have been ad-
the official residence of the prime mediate blitzkrieg. But this was mitted by belligerents in the first
minister there was late activity not It. vear of war include:
min-ste-erden Poland fell and many said “Hit- Great Britain - 92.000 killed,
to hithe just a quarter century i ^ will now turn west. But he wounded and missing on Aug. 20.
Store when s famous B didn’t. Germany—206,000 killed, wounded
Beforeas Viscount Grey spoke Came the long winter nights, the and missing on Aug. 31
statesman, viscount Grey spoke fog and rain which Britain counts
the words that have echoed through|a strong weapon of defense Ger-
the years:
“Th lamps are going out all
over Europe. We shall not see
them lit again in our genera-
tion."
A year ago tonight was the twi-
light between peace and war
Germany had issued the sixteen-
point demands on Poland — de-
well as airfields, but in turn claim- produce almost 2.000.000 gallons per
ed important damage in raids on rear had been damaged The Jun-
Port Said Haifa. Alexandria the kers plant at Dessau, an aircraft
Suez canal and many British ports factory at Leipzig canal and rail-
| being towed into port by the coast
guard cutter Pandora.
The plane carried no passengers
Capt. George Rummell and co-pilot
A. O. Fisher comprised the crew.
as a partner
Robertson has been commercial
representative of the local radio
station He has resided here since
1920. He engaged, first in the gar-
age business with his brother,
Briggs Robertson. He was connected
with the West Texas utilities com-
pany six years
McDavid has been in the real es-
tate business here more than 30
years. Their office is at 266 1-2
Cypress.
I take this means of express-
ing my
voters
again
of
gratitude to the
Precinct 4 for (
taking me their con-
stable. I thank you for your
kindness, ano assure you I
will conduct the duties of
the office to the best of my
ability.
JOHN SWANN.
(Pol Ady).
(This is another
articles written b:
the Reporter-New
ed in the Civil A
thority pilot trail
here).
By CHARL1
@Vhen you're prac
ings, you have to
lookout for probabl
planes that are also
to land one at a ti
nice.
By CAA regulatic
permitted to approa
nearer than 500 fer
tion flying has bee
So if you’re fol
that will bring yo
plane, the thing to
and come back ag
landing.
To help in or
for landings, re
flags are kept r
“where you’re to ci
white flag is ou
safe lane for lan
red one is out, g
way. •
You take off, wit
frying your inst
hind you. He tails
traffic course and
right behind you w
the motor over the
You look back a
following you thrc
cu? a 360-degree t
and you notice the
So you go away
again for another
He’s waiting when
SWIVEL-NECK
O’Did you ever se
little hoot-owls sit
prairie-dog town?"
"If you have, you
they keep their eye
Internatione
PEORIA, Ill, At
enlistment situatio
, army recruiting st
turned Internationa
Among recent rec
oynada. Samuel C
England and Willi
and industrial centers
GREEK CRISIS COOLS
road transport centers at Hamm and
elsewhere were claimed to have
The serious crisis between been hit, as well as factories in the
Greece and Italy which last week
threatened war quieted down fol-
outskirts of Berlin.
The British admitted intensive
lowing reports Turkey was ready to bombardments of Dover. Folkstone
back Greece, and especially due to
Portsmouth, Portland and other
Italy-2.052 killed on Aug. 17.
Unofficial estimates of casualties
man planes occasionally flew over in other countries included:
northern and southern France — 60,000 killed: 300.000
Scotland.
the serious Rumanian situation, towns. The Germans claimed ex-
Tension between Italy and Egpyt tensive damage was caused—at
almost reached breaking point, and Bristol Cardiff Liverpool, Birken-
official Italian writers warned head. Coventry, Sheffield and Nor-
Egypt for permitting British forces wich during raids. But the raids
to operate there against Italian were described at being of a
colonies wearing down" type rather than
An exchange between German "blitzkrieg," that is concentrated
and British coastal batteries along more on productive and port facil-
the channel and RAF bombard- ities rather than at defense ob-
wounded. 958,000 captured.
Belgium - 7,500 killed, 35000
fare was intensified. The magnetic wounded 500.000 captured and miss-
England, sometimes dropping bombs
on or near port sections Sea war-
mine appeared — Hitler’s secret
weapon." some said—and was soon
mastered, the British claimed
Laymen talked of the “sit-down”
merits on gun positions st the be- jects.
ginning of the week silenced the ------------------------
German batteries, causing predic- ti • I T
tions that an invasion would notNo Thirc Term
be attempted immediately Reports NU-TIHU-TCTII
from various occupied countries in-
dicated Germany was preparing for Demos to (non
a second winter of war. UCTOS 10 Upci
Despite repeated air raids over
British towns, damage was reported H oucton O-riro
to have lessened in mid-week and 1 IVUjIUll VIIIIC
the blitzkrieg tempo of attack to
have slackened, but on Friday and
DALLAS Aug 31 — (UP) — State
Saturday fighting was again in- headquarters will be opened in the
tense * next few days probably in Hous-
A movement in France's col-
onies to rejoin the Allied side
in the war made progress, with
the African French colonies of
Lake C had. French Cameroon#
and French Equatorial Africa
declaring they were on the
British side to continue war
against Germany.
Gen Charles De Gaulle, head of
a French war committee in Lon-
don. received Col De Laremon,
former French commander in Sy-
ria and then sent him off or. a
secret mission reportedly to try
to convince other French colonies
to rejoin the British in the war
German reports accused De Gaulle
next few days, probably in Hous-
ton bv the no-third-term demo-
of Trying to turn French
North
mands which Berlin said it re- war grew impatient for action,
garded as already rejected. Now al- were assured by British officials
most forgotten, so tremendous have that time is on our side." War
been the events that followed, the I preparations went on—not fast
ing
Norway—4.000 killed. 5.000 wound-
ed 50.000 captured and missing.
Netherlands—5.000 killed, 20,000
wounded: 300,00 captured and miss- |
ing.
Poland — 50 000 killed. 150.000
wounded 400 000 captured and miss-
ing
Finland — 15,000 killed 35 000
demands and the manner of their enough, some said ._____
issuance in Berlin seemed to make Jokes about the inaction on the.
war inevitable. __western front became popular, wounded: 3.000 captured and miss-
But crises had come and gone Britons sang about hanging out ‘
with such regularity that no one their washing on the Siegfried line
could be sure.
RUSSIA ATTACKS
ing
The British foreign office
summoned a midnight press
conference. In the antique-
looking taxicabs moving at a
pace that seemed to lag behind
the onrush of events, newsmen
went to Whitehall, past the
Cenotaph which commemorates
Britain’s World war dead, into
narrow, short Downing street
and then up the stairs to the
foreign office press section.
The writer was among them
It had been a long day. heavy
crats of Texas. C C Renfro of Dal-
las said today.
Mike Hogg of Houston permanent
chairman of the organization which
was formed here Wednesday night. .
has been workins with Steven with suspense and the threat of
Pinckney Renfro and Allen Wight war Evacuation of 3 000.000 chil-
of Dallas in selecting a 31-member dren and aged and sick persons
executive committee from London and other large cities
Twenty committee members who was ordered
have been selected and have ac- The British navy was fully mo-
cepted their appointments, were bilized army and air force re-
R T Jones of Houston Sam serves were called up. The supreme
Lipscomb of Beaumont A A White soviet ratified the soviet-German
of Tyler: Maj L A Mass of Clarks- pact
ville. Dr Walter H Drane of Sher-
man. R A Kilpatrick of Cleburne.
Ted M. Gribble of Waco Hubert A
Womble of Caldwell Elwood Fouts
Africa against the Petain govern- of Houston Claude McAnn of Vic-
ment at Vichy
The foreign office spokesman at
the midnight conference discussed
the 16 points, told how he said
| they had been read at machine-
. .gun speed the night before to Brit-
toria. John F. Fuchs of New Braun- ish Ambassador Sir Neville Hender-
U. S. PREPARING fels. Ralph W Moore of Granger.
Further giant strides toward pre- W. E Hall Jr of Temple, Joe B
paredness were taken in the United Hatchett of Wichita Falls James
States as the president signed the H Beall of Sweetwater. Al Buch-
bill authorizing mobilization of the anan of San Antonio. O W. Kellam
Russia
against
launched the campaign
Finland Britain made'
Russia — 50.000 killed. 160,000
wounded. 10,000 missing.
Plane Down at Sea
ready to send some troops to help y
the Finns, refrained because they MIAMI. Fla Aug 31—(P)— Pan
said Norway refused to grant pas- 1 American airways reported today
sage A Russian-Finnish peace was one of its oldtype amphibians,
signed. ': forced down off key west on a
: Still the war in the west waited flight from Merida. Mexico, was
Some said the country was losing
interest, that an air raid on Lon-
don might be beneficial
| Then came action—not an at-
! tack on the Maginot line, nor on
1 the Netherlands. Belgium or a
blitzkrieg against the British
Isles, but a German push into
Denmark and Norway
The western offensive was to
come later engulfing the low
countries then crushing France
and pushing the British back to
their own tight little isles
A year ago a prediction that
Britain would now be fighting
alone against a Germany control-
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The conference over, he was
asked privately his opinion of what
might be expected
INVASION PREDICTED
"I think the Germans will
march into Poland tomorrow,”
he replied. _
He was right.
Early the next morning, the
writer’s telephone rang and an
editor in the Associated Press
office said “bombs are falling
In Poland ” The general land
attack followed.
War had begun—a war that has
gone contrary in many ways to, pre-
dictions by experts
London crowds on their way to
Wau. the army maneuvers at-------—** ′*′ work read newspaper placards:
caused plenty of verbal shoeing Court at Coleman Britams decision seemed clear
Tt seems the army was fighting She. with France, was pledged to
the way kids do when they go 1 go to Poland’s aid in event of an
around pointing fingers and ahout- COLEMAN, Aug 31—Spl). Only attack. Amid ministerial confer-
ing “Bang! You’re shot!" Tanks 34 cases—ten of which are suits for ences. King George VI, reverring
were army trucks with big signs divorce—are scheduled for trial at an age-long tradition went to 10
which said This is a tank gas -the fall term of District Judge E J. Downing street to. call on Prime
pipes were anti-tank guns broom Miller’s 35th district court which Minister Neville Chamberlain
sticks mefe rifles and fake mor- opens here Monday morning,
tars were loaded with empty beer Sept. 2. , .
cans which were supposed to be The court term is for only three
shells. i think the idea is won, weeks with the first week to be
derful. It would make a very hu- devoted to civil, non-jury cases and
mane war—however there’s always to the meeting of the grand jury
the danger vot might run up. Cases now docketed include: Two,
against an enemy without any im” on the Jury docket 1 «" the non-
agination . ! jury docket. 12 on the appearance
-* docket, and two on the criminal
docket There are several charges
to be investigated by the grand
jury, such charges having been,
filed in the office of Justice of the
Peace Barclay Martin Sr. since the
last term of district court here
national guard and
NEWS
VIEW
army reserve of Laredo Dr C. O. Terrell of Fort
I Worth. Roger Gillis of Del Rio and
Miles Bivins of Amarillo
All other committeemen have been
| appointed. Renfro said but an-
I nouncement of their names will
I await their acceptance
i The executive committee will be
called into session in Houston as
soon as it is completed to author-
ize launching of a forceful no-
third-tern campaign in this state.
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