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Newspaper Page TextBritain's Fliers Are Now Putting the Accent on the RAFIn the German Word Strafe, and Hitler's Nazi Halo of I nvincibility Appears Soon Due for a Fade-Oufj THE WEATHER By U. S. Weather Bureau Pnrtly cloudy tonight. Tiiosilay Ri-ni-i ally lair, Ixjwer tempernliiro lonlrln. Bco page 4 for statistics. HAS TIDE TURNED? Change In the war trend to favor1 Britain appears evidenced In the latent BiitUh air raids on en' my, territory. But tbe war may be fur from over. Axis retaliation may" make bis news. Watch (or It la tha NEWS-REVIEW. VOL. XLV NO. 167 OF ROSEBURG REVIEW ROSEBURG, OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 2 1, 1 940. VOL. XXIXNO. 65 OF THE EVENING NEW? 1 fcDfo) fcDfi urn? ISMPU 10) mm u 9 l fHt DOUGLSCOUNJY DALY 5M m G In The Day's News v. By ItltANK JENKINS TTIIK latest (iulluii iiiill. just is- sued, shows Willkie gaining J. lit still behind. If the time comes before clef, linn when the polls show Willkie nheiid (so that it won't look like sour grapes) this writer will say: "l-efa IK) A WAV with nil these m-hemes by law If neeessnry." Fundamentally, these public opinion polls, in spile of nil their pretensions to scientific method, are In the same eluss with touts lit a race traek. noni-: polities: Agriculture Secretary Wal lace, campaigning at I'arkersl.utg, West Virginia, says: "Agents for the dictators (Hit ler and .Mussolini) are working for the defeat of Mr. lioosevelt." (Continuing his Ihetne that a vole for Willkie is a vole for Jllller.) pnOI'HI.RROMK question: If Ilillor nnd Mussolini want Jinosevolt defeated, V.'IIV? It. must be hecauso they expect him, If he gets tho third term ho Mauls, lo GO TO WAI1 AdAir.'ST T1IKM IMMKWATKLY. MORE4olUics on the other side : Dewey, speaking nl Pittsburgh, pays: "Terrified by tho results or lis own policies, tin1 now deal 1s now borrowing 7lo million dol lars to build plants for national defense those plants which con. n ii.wio iii:i:n iiiii.t and operating during all of those de structive new deal years." TOIT must, take into consider,-!- lion, of course, the fact that this Is n political statement, lint remember this: In all these years the new deal bail its command nil the facilities of Ibe state depart ment and the army and navy In telligence to tell it, what, was coming. Hindsight tells us plainly thai it would have been immensely bet ter for this nation if in these years now- past the new dealers had been rnRT'AItlNti rou kvi::; TI'AI.TIKS instead or boond'oggl ing. T"1IK London air ministry (ells tis today (Friday) that an ac tual German attempt to invade England In September was brok en up by Tioyal Air Force al tacks on the German-held channel ports. It says: "On September 10. many German troops embarked but lat er were TAKKN OFF SHIP." What Ibis brief statement means Continued nn page 4) Annual Hi-Jinx At Roseburg High Set Rnsehurp Tilth sr-honl's nnnual fun frolic, the Hkllnx, will lie pre Ron (ml nt the high sHmnl nmli tnrium nt S p. m. Krldny. Oct. 25. Cooperating with tho student hotly will he tho Linns, Rntnry nnd I-ii-wanis tluhs, Heta Slcina Phi nnd Junior Women's Huh. tocotlior with the faculty, Pnndra PeLnyne's dancincr school. Allen Cordon, inn pician. talent from tho grade and junior hi eh schools, and numerous individual performers to make up a Fhowimr of the best talent avail able in Roseburg. Pome 2"i acts have been Pchedul cd. according to report. Anion the comedv a-ts will be n hula-hula by Karl Wiard. six-foot, six inches basketball ietternian: a girls gvmnusium class in "Wallow With Wallace," a remarkavle view of reducine possibilities; humorous skit by Maxine Pailey and Joanne Hume, other Fkits. as well ns de lightful dance numbers, stunt and music, and many other types of en tertainment will a!o be offered. The Hi -jinx each year attracts a capacity crowd and yields a con siderable sum to he used for stu dent body activities. Drawing For ' Draft Will Be Held Oct. 29 First Number in Lottery Will be Selected by Roosevelt; Estimates Set 2,806 Men To Be Called From Oregon. WASHINGTON". Oct. 21. (API President lioosevelt will draw :lie first number in the draft lot tery at noon on October I'll. I Clarence A. Dykslra. selec tive service director, made the announcement today after a con ference with the chief executive. Iiykstra said he tlid not know who would take over the bulk of the drawing alter Mr. Roosevelt had selected the first number, but that he thought the process would take at least 12 hours. The numbers drawn will corre spond with serial numbers as signed to more than III. .1(10.(1(10 men registered for selective mili tary service last week. Tho or der In which the numbers are drawn will determine the order in which tho men in each draft urea are called for service. Drawings will continue until numbers have been reached ex ceeding the highest serial num ber assigned in any selective serv ice area. The reason for exceed ing Ihe top serial number, lykstra said, is to "be sure that late com ers get u number." Bombsight Issue Raised Scnalor Holt (1)., W. Va.) call ed on Secretary of War Sllmsou today to say publicly whether Great llrilain had been given ac cess to the army's secret bomb sight and whether the Hrltlsh had been promised delivery, "tiller the election is over," on long-range bombers now In use by' the army. Speaking during a senate ses sion. Holt, told a hall-dozen or bis colleagues who were present that he was precluded from Introduc ing an Inquiry resolution because of the "g'-ntlemen's agreement" under which the senate will not. conduct business until alter the election. Later Holt, told reporters he bail received reports thai tin- Brit ish had been given access to Ihe plans of Ihe bombsight. FOIJT I.F.WIS. Wash.. Oct. 21. (AP) Fort Lewis officers and construction crews rushed prepara tions lo day for arrival next month of Ihe first wave of Paci fic northwest conscriptees. Preliminary draft estimates In dicate ll.llil men will he called to duty al Fort Lewis before next .Inly 1. The slate totals: Idaho, l.lirll: Montana. 2,r,(i:i; Oregon, 2.S0C; Washington, B.S21, and Wy oming l,nl7. POltTLAND, Oct. 21. (AP) - Itep. Homer I). Angell 111., Ore.), said today the national uetense urogram was not "clicking as it should." "I he best I can say for it is that tbe program is progressing only fairlv well." ho told nn inter viewer. Gun Mishaps Kill Three More in Hunting Season SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 21. ( AP The inland empire hunting season, half a month old. had three more human victims to Its discred it today, boosting ihe total number or fatalities in the western Mon tana, north Idaho, and eastern Washington area to an even dozen. Pert Kuesterman, IS, of Spokane, was fatally injured on a pheasant bunting expedition da miles south of here yesterday when his shot gun discharged lis deadly pattern into bis hack as he dragged it be hind him through a, barbed wire fence. Mrs. Ernest Froman. 30. Spokane, died three hours alter she was wounded In the neck by a rifle that discharged as she transferred it from one car to another. Donald Knapp of Missoula. Mint., paused In the hunt to eat his lunch and was killed outright by a stray rifle bullet. Motorist Killed in Crash Of Auto and Tow Car CHANTS PASS. Oct. 21. f,P Ktnniitt Jack Di. about 32. of Grants Pass, was falallv (rushed 'in the pile p of a tow car and nis wrecked automobile yesterday. Coroner Hull reported. I ix" automobile was being tow ed after striking a deer on the Tied wood highway four miles snu'hwet nf hpre. On ft downhill grade the damaged car v.enved. overrm the tow ehain and piled into th tow car. in which Pfx and his wife were riding. State patrol p'fin Han-ell said. Ionald H. How ell was driver of the tow car. Mrs. Dix suffered probable rib fracture. Spy Charge Hits U. S. A. Captain Captain Rufo Romere, above, West Point and University of California graduate, formally charged with a plot in Manila, P. I., to sell copies of a confiden tial military document to an agent of an unnamed power be lieved to be Japan. Romero was arrested after photographing doc uments from Fort McKinley at Manila, to which he had access due to his attachment to the 14th army engineers. Trio Nabbed With Suspected Booty Youfhs Wanted at Vancouver Arrested Here in Check-Up Of Automobile Licenses. Three yoiuiK St. Ixiuls, Mo., mon wcii) held In custody here today while Hlato police px:uniwd a lnrtfe since of lool nlli'Kedly procured in numerous liurhiites in Washing ton, Oregon ami California. Tiider anest are William J. I-andioina. IT; David II. lliuner. 21. and Lloyd W. lluj'.hcs. 22. Serjeant Paul Mor gan of the slate police reported he had heen advised that two felony warrants for the three men are held at Vancouver. Wash. Part of the loot, Morgan said, has heen identified as coming from Grants Pass, where a house burglary was reported Saturday. Tho trio was taken Into custody late Saturday hy a patrolman en naiiod in routine check-up when the description on tho operator's li cense failed to aKree with that of the driver. The car in which the men were traveling, Morgan paid, was registered to Herman Robert Oast, St. Louis, and contained reg istration papers, driver's license and credit cards which the men told the officers. Morgan said, they hud used in traveling through 1S states since leaving St. Louis (Jet. 5. A half dozen suitcases found in the car were crammed with rings, watches, and a wide variety of jewelry and clothing. Morgan re ported. Republicans' Lead in Oregon Slashed to 6,000 SALRM, Oct. 21. (AP) An nil time record total of about GM.Oui) persons will be eligible to vote in Oregon's general election, compar ed with MS. loo in the primary last Mav and f..ri7.S71 in the HC1S gen eral election. The republicans will hold a lend of rhn.m(i to 2!n.UO0, smallest mar gin In tho history of the state, which always has been republican as far as registration totals are concerned. , Since the 1f)S general election. republicans have gained Zl.fMiO, compared with a democratic in crease of .H.ufiO. With reports complete from nil counties except flrant. the republi cans lead :tu2.7r,l to 297.S.12. Lineman Hurt Only 15 Feet From Bed in Hospital FKATTLK, Oct. 21 f API Ar thur Chisholm. 4r, lineman, was working on a street car trolley pole early today, (n front of the West Seattle General hospital, when the polo lurched and pinned his neck between a yard arm and a guy wire. Firemen released the critic ally Injured man, lowered him with ropes to the marquee and then raided him to a hospital window and he was put to bed not 15 feet from where he was injured. Hall-Sharing Bid Rejected By Roosevelt President Decides Hot to Talk In Baltimore on Willkie's Date; Address May be Given Instead in Brooklyn. WASHINGTON-, Oct. 21. f AP) President lioosevelt is not ac cepting Wendell L. Wlllkle'B offer to share nn auditorium with him in Baltimore October 30. Stephen Karly, the president's press secretary, said that rather than in Ilaltimore or Washington on that date Mr. Roosevelt probah lv would speak at the Acndemy of Music hall In Brooklyn. N. Y. Asked whether the chief execu tive had any disposition to accept Willkie's challenge to debate. Kartv remarked that it bad been a "pub lic" challenge. Then he added lo a reporter nt his press conference: "If I were going to Invite yon to my home. I'd send you tho Invitation, anil I don't think I'd aend it if I knew you weren't coming." Originally, tbe secretary explain ed, the president intended to speak on October III) in Constllution hall in Washington. Hut Chairman Kd ward .1. Klynn and his associates on tho democratic nalfonal committee suggested he make an address In Baltimore. Apparently, Karly continued, they did not know Hie only uvallabte and sizeable auditorium In Baltimore, already had been leased by the re publicans for that night. While Mr. Kooevell had said he might. talk in Baltimore, since then, Kar ly said, Klynn and others of the national committee had urged him to follow n tradition begun in 1032 of . making campaign addresses at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, "They are looking Into that," the secretary said, "and f think the president, will do what they ask him to on that." DANGER OF ONE-MAN RULE STRESSED BY WILLKIE ABOAItl) WILLKI10 T1IAIN KN TtOUTIO TO MILWAl'KKIO. Oct. 21. fAP) Wendell L. Willkie. at tacking President Roosevelt's third term candidacy, declared today that under "one man rule" the first' things to be curbed are labor un ions, churches and education. "The precedent once established, even assuming that the president man has the noblest motives, will be used by some successor to take away this life oT ours.' the repub lican nominee said at Wausaii. Wis. He ipioted letters from Thomas Jefferson in support of his conten tion -that the iwo-lerm tradition should lie preserved. Jefferson, lie paid, once wrote that should a presi dent ever consent to be a candidate for a third term, "I trust he will be rejected on this demonstration of his ambitious views." There Is great danger, Willkie contended, that once a president has been elected for several terms, he will seek the office for life. By the Associated Press The history-making 1940 cam paign hit the "big push" stnge to day, with both major parlies readv for a concentrated drive that will carry through the last two pre-elec tion weeks and up to the eve of vot- fContinued on page fl Plane, Parachute Tangle; Six Killed in Crash MAUIANNA. Ark., Oct. 21 fAP) The civil aeronautics ' au thority planned today to InvnMl gate a mid air accident in which six persons were killed after a sightseeing plnne became en tnngled In n stunt man's piirnchiiie at nn air show and plunged fico feet to earli. Kvewltnesses said the plane was circling slowly armind the descend ing parachutist yesterday to give four passenger a close un view. The craft became enmeshed In the parachute's shrouds and plunged downward, carrying tbe parachu tist with It. The dead: Paul Kalejawa. 30. Browervllle, Minn., the parachut ist: George 7orn, .10, Greenville. Miss., the pilot; Lawrence Te Mnrke, 30. Mariannn laundry own er; Paul Bowie, 35. former mnr sbal at Brickeys. a nearby town: ,T. M. Cook, 55. a plantation owner who liver near Marlanna. nnd Joe Campbell. 3L Forrest City. Tackier Crashes Into Referee, Breaking Leg PHILADELPHIA. Oct. 21. MPM peferee .Tnhn Chnnman In advertentlv cot between the runner nnd n tackier during a semi-pro footall rame. The tackier misled the ball carrier, but not Chapman. whose leg wan broken In three places by the impact Death, Damage Rained on Berlin, Oil l Refineries, Krupp Plant, Wharves '. : . r Hit-and-Run " Blows Dealt By Germans Scattered Attacks on Britain From Air Draw Hot Fire . From Defense Guns; U. S. . Embassy Damage Revealed. LONDON, Oil. 21. (AP) Nnzl nlr raiilers, roaring arrona the coukI alxivc nn uitusuttlly lieavy antf-alrcrart liamtKP, Tanneri out today in ftcatterud liit-aiidruii ut laekH on llrilain. Alarms Hounded twiro in Tyin don before mid-afternoon. Two liombs fell on the capital just be fore the sirens shrieked the first time uud the throh of tho Invad ers' motors was heard during the seoond alert. The all clear signal nunounccil the end of the second raid about mid-afternoon. In the first raid, tho Germans again sent over fast, single eu Kined planes lo inn the Hi'lllsh anti-aircraft fire In one's and two's. At times, the bnmiKo was ns heavy as during some of tho big gest night raids. Hrltlsh balteilos thundered along Ihe Thames eslu ary, trying to pick off Invasion planes dodging low to take cov er among clouds on that, aerial highway to London. Wltl-arrcrart The bagged one raidnr a few miles from Ipswich, near the coast norlh of Ihe mouth of the Thames, the Tress associa tion reported. II said the crew bailed out. Three bombs fell In the London area early in the afternoon, dam aging some dwellings and break ing u water main. Other Areas Hit Four persons wero killed when a plane, diving out of Ihe clouds, dropped three bombs III the sec ond raid on one northern town In ;pi hours. Liverpool, llrllaln's chlor wesl coast port, also was a target of Ihe daylighl raiders. Ten persons were Injured and one worker was believed killed 111 a bombardment of a northwest town. Kive workers were killed in n soulh coast town when n twin-engined nazl bomber unload ed five bombs before fleeing from a Hrltlsh fighter. Bombs struck also on it largo residential estate near n public park In nn outlying London uioa. One house as destroyed and lliree persons injured. U. S. Embassy Damaged Windows were smashed. In the l ulled Slates' big new embassy building on Orosvenor square In a recent nazi uir ' raid, but I n-s (Continued on page ) Volunteers Asked for Parachute Battalion WARHINOTON. Oct. 21. (AD Wanted :i Parachute troops. The V. S. army Is looking for 412 volunteers to form the nation's first parachute troop battalion. The men must ne from the 21 Infan try regiments of the regular army; no draft trainees need apply. Parachute battalion volunteers are promised extra pay and unusual chances for advancement. They must, he between 21 and H2 years old, unmarried, nnd have "agility, intelligence, initiative and daring." The volunteers w ill join a small experimental detachment already In service at Fort Ilauiiing, (in., to form tho Hoist parachute battalion. Hesidcs the HOlst, anolber para chute battalion Is planned. Recre lary of War Stlmson announced yesterday. Bullet Kills Klamath Man on Hunting Trip KLAMATH FATJ.R, Oct. 21. fAP) A wound from n hunter's bullet pro-ed fatal Sunday for Ira .1. Newrfll, 44. The source of the bullet was not determined. Newell. Klamath Falls oil man. was buntine- with his son, Marvin. 10. In the Strawberry flat area in tbe mule deer reserve area Sunday afternoon when a bullet ricocheted nnd struck him In thn abdomen. Tbe bov fired all the shells in his (run before attracting the two other memberB of the party, Cecil and Al Stuart The wounded man was bromrht to a hospital here but died an hour later after an emergency operation. Nazis Will Meet Match If They Come To Frontier, Turkish Press Warns ISTANBUL, Turkey. Oct. 21. (AP) The Turkish press reiter ated today its previous challenges to Germany a ambitious in south- eastern Kuropo and also comment ed bitterly on Bulgaria'a altitude as allegedly reflected in Sofia newspapers. Turkey wants peace, said nn editorial in Yenl Snbah, hut n bit ter struggle Ik preferred to "pence gained dishonorably." The editorial criticized nn edi torial In the Sofia newspaper Mir which reportedly suggested that German victory Is inevitable and urged mat small nations capitu late without resistance. "Mir suggests such a common, humble low course that It dishon ors the Bulgarian pride and patro- tlsm w liavo learned to know, Yeni Sabah continued. "There Is no Turk who would not agree with Hitler thai people who do not de fend their country's Independence with all vigor should he looked down upon. "If (icrmnuy comes south alio may find Bulgaria bowed before her, but when she arrives nt the Turkish frontier alio will meet her mulch, which Is the reason she probably will not como here." An editorial written for the newspaper Tan by a deputy In the national assembly, stated: "(lermany has become Tiussla'H Graft Trio Denied Conviction Review WASHINGTON, Oct. 2t. (AP) Seymour WcIsh, one of the chief political lieutenants of the late Huey P. Jaiuk In Ioulslnnu, failed today to obtain a supreme court re view of his convlcliou on u charge of using the United States mails In a scheme to defraud Louisiana Stale university. Two other defendant n T.ouis Tjcsnge and J. F.mory Adams also were denied a review. The three were convicted of selling to the state university for $75,000 the fur nishings In a New Orleans hotel which tho institution nlready bad acnulred In purchasing the hotel. Weiss, New Orleans and New York hotel executive, was sen tenced to serve 30 months and was fined $2,000. Iesago. former assist ant to the president of the Stand ard Oil company of Louisiana, and Adams were sentenced to a yenr and a day nnd fined 1,000 each. Among other action today, the court: Honied a review to Morton Bnvld Bluestone, n Pittsburgh law stu dent who contended he was denied registration for the state bar ex amination because of previous membership in organizations hav ing communist members. Refused to pass on tho convic tion of two nien calling themselves "Jehovah's witnesses" on a charge of breach of tho peace at Drayton, S. 0. Then men J. I. Lnngstnu and H. F. Godwin contended they had been deprived of freedom of speech and of the press and of ihe right to worship God. Tippling for Raid Shock Costly for Aged Widow U)NION, Oct. 21. (AP) A 71-yenr-old widow. Mrs. Atnclpn Gniham, was fined .20 (about $H0) und cosls in court today on a charge of driving while Intoxl ented. Her defense was that she drank whisky on her doctor's advice be cause of air raid shock a table spoonful every four hours. Oregon Fair's Manager Injured by Gopher Gun SALKM. Oct. 21. f API Teo Spltsbarl. manager of the Oregon State fair, was In a Salem hospit al today after his gopher gun went off while ho was cleaning it. Phy sicians removed 21 shots from bis face, hut thev said the injuries probably would not prove serious. Oregon College Prexy Fractures Leg in Fall ASHLAND. Oct. 21. (AP) Dr. Walter Bedford, president of the Southern Oregon College of Kdit- callon, broke his leg In a full you-terday. greatest enemy. Tho tripartite. pacC ulmH oponly at substituting tho fascist world order fur tho no Viet world revolution us a world Ideology." linDAPFST, Hungary, Oct. 21. (AP) Reports Unit soviet Russia-Turkish military talks had been instituted unit that Turkish military preparation was Increas ing along the strategic Dardan elles gateway to tho near east wore beard toduy In the Hnlk ans. At the sanifl time Rumania in augurated a blackout for Iluclinr est und nearby oil fields. Travelers from Turkey said in Alliens that railway linos to Adrlanople, a Turkish city ill ter ritory wedged botween the Itul garlitn und Greek borders, were Jimmied with troop trains, while a bair a million Turkish troops were said to bu already ill tho region of the Dardanelles. A rumor that Sovlot-Turklslt uillitury talks were under way In Adriaiipnlo was curried by a Hilda peat nowspuper, while other un firmed reports said tho Turks wore building now fortifications and communications. The Turkish press, predicting that the axis would attempt lis next push in the near east, play ed up Hrltlsh maneuvers to count er such a drive. Pact Aimed at U.S., Knox Tells Navy W'ASIIINflTON, Oct. 21. (AP) Tim United States fleet was re minded today of Us responsibility as Ihe nation's "first lino of do fenso against nllnck," and lold that tho unwIy-coucliidiMl Home-Herlln-Tokyo pact was directed at this country. Navy Secretary Knox, In his message to bluejackets and offic ers for Navy day, Oot. 27, urged that tho fleet he kept "strong, ef ficient and ready" ill "this serlotiB time In our nation s history. "Tho outspoken aim of the mili tary alliance recently formed by (ierinany. Italy and Japan Is the application of pressure on all lui Hons not now nt war, Including our own nation" suid Knox In the message released yesterday. "In Kurnpo, Aula und Africa wars aro being fought for world domination. Those wars uro pro secuted to destroy democracy und the free processes of trade and culture. , . ." This year, as last year, no gen eral navy day visiting of fleet un its or bases will be permitted "In the Interest of national security." Roseburg Hunter Object of Search LA (IRANDIC, Oct. 2T. fAP) Searching purlieu scoured tho re. mole upper Mlnam canyon today for a llS-yenrold HosobUrg innn missing slnco Siilurdny evening. Constable John Cnilkshnnk, El gin, said the man's nnnio was itiimp anil that ho wandered away from a hunting camp. He was onn ot a party of six Hosebitrg men. Kearclinrs sought the man nil day Sunday and a new party left hlgln this morning. Ffforts of tho News-llevlew Isle this afternoon to gain Information concerning Ihe missing man proved futile. The only known person of that surname in this locality re sides on Deer creek, nnd his ago Is believed far short of that given for the lost hunter. Two Nominations Sent To Senate by Roosevelt WASHINGTON. Oct. 21. fAP) President lioosevelt today nominat ed Wayne C. Taylor, former as sistant secretary or the treasury, to be undersecretary of commerce. Taylor Is a Chicago hanker. Mr. Roosevelt also sent to tho senate the nomination of represen tative John J. Pempsey of New Mexico to he a member of the fed eral maritime commission for a six vear term starting last September 20. Dompscy, who was an unsuccess ful candidate for the democratic senatorial nomination In New Mexi co, will succeed Rear Admiral H. A. Wiley whoso term expired Sep tember 2ti, Alps Crossed To Bomb North Italy Region Only ,"Fortastt of Gathering Air Strength" for Planntd Offensive, Britons Warn; ' Big Guns Rear In Channel. LONDON, Oct 21. (AP) Twal nlr raids on Berlin, damaging blown olaewhere in Germany and a foray Into northern Italy demonstrated last night to both ends ot the axlM the royal air force's "gathering strength," the air ministry newa service reported today. Ono British dive-bomber scoreM a direct lilt which set fire to an un. disclosed but "important" target "in tho very heart ot Berlin," It Willi. Another British pilot, It said, re ported what he thought was a hit on n "largo warship." IRoyal air force formations worn repnrtod also to have blasted thn Krupp armament works, oil refill' orles, naval (locks and wharves In Germany. In northern Italy, the roport said, thoy battered factories on a 1,600 nillo non-stop flight to Turin anil Milan which entailed crossing ami ro ci'ossluR the Alps. Only a "Foretaste." , ''Both ends of the'Tlomo Borllrl nxis nail a lorotasto ot the gather ing strength of tho royal air force Inst night," tho news service said, "when the capital of the Clerman rolch nnd two of Italy's great indus trial centers wore simultaneously attneked by aircraft of the bomber command." This omplinsls on growing Brit ish u I r might coincided with pre diction's by two cabinet members) that Britain soon mny be waging of fensive war and with sloppcd-up. at tacks on the nazt-hcld "Invasion coast." I Aftor n lS.OuO bomb night .raid, which left the shore opposite l)qver glowing with flame. British bomb ers were believed to have return ed to the attack today in daylight, hammering at Boulogno nnd Calais. Explosions were heard from across the strait and later heavy aircraft, identified ns British bomb ers returning homo, streaked in land. "Offensive" Neara. "Tho day we can take the of fensive approaches steadily," Colo nial Secretary Lloyd declared In Glasgow. "Wo have to carry this fight into the enemy's fields. We must not find ourselves up against a, position of stalemate," declared A, V. Alexander, first lord of the) ad miralty, i 1 To Britons,' their words stlrjred 135-year-old echoes of Lord Nelson who laid down his life at the bnt tlo of Trafalgar October 21, 1805. to secure this island kingdom from tho forces of another continental conqueror, massed then as now, across tho channel. It wns Hint battle off the Spanish const 1!lf years ago today whlcli smashed Napoleon's fleets nnd set tho Htage eventually for Waterloo. Duel Over Channel. An the ministers spoke, German giilis wore pounding the Dover shores tiresumnblv In ronlv to It Kin bninhn-mlnute nlr raid last night on tho same bases across thn Knglnnd whero Napoleon's barges; were massed. The severity nnd breadth of thn raid. In which British warships and bind guns also were believed to hnve Joined, could be recognizee! on this side of the channel today. Long after the sun had risen, 'ti red Klow resembling a great prai rie fire could he seen plainly across -the water. It stretched In an un broken line for miles and gave tho Impression that a great oart of the French coast, not only was In ruins hut also still was . blazing; fiercely. Tho glow was vlslblo through tho channel haze up to noon, itho result of nn "avalanche" of deadly steel In which the British Press as sociation said 16.000 bombs fell In two and a half hours. Berlin, other pnrts of Germrmy nnd northern Italy were targets of British night bombers engaged in "extensive operations." the air ministry reported. The attack on Berlin was said to have heen the 1-1 til since Septem ber 1 and 225 British planes were said to have dropped 200 tons of (Continued on page 6).