The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980, June 22, 1940, Page 1, Image 1

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    - A Crowing Nrwspaper
Tbe Oregon Stitesmaa is
m steadily growing, new-
- paper. Its readers know lh
reasons: It's reliable com-
plete, lively and always In
v - leather
Fair today "and Snndaji
' no change : In temperature
and tumidity; cloods or tog
on tbo coast.' Max. Temp.
Friday 75, MJn. 40. Hirer
-94t tU West-wind. .
teresting.
NINETIETH YEAR
Sdnu Oregon, Salurdoy Morning, June 22. 1S40
Pric So t?ws!anda 5c
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Hn 2Q Ear 1 .
-Pirol Tlauser Column
An old friend popped np in the
papers tb other day, .clad as us
ual in his black tunic and wear
ing the hat that p'-r,rff3
make him looks " C I
more like !
pnsncart peaaier u
than the Lion of ,
.1; :
juaan ana jura- '
peror- (presently
at liber ty) of 1
Vtliinnt. V
V
The-picture of
H a I le .Selassie,
for it was none
.other,, was eon
neeted with
some ragus and
h o pef ul reports
)1
that a revolution
Fsol H. HlttMf. it.
against the
benerolent. rule of
Greater Italy was stirrini? on the
fly-infested plains or the. ADyssin-ian-plateau.
MomenUrily it tirred some
thing in us. We had a flashing
Tiew of the tribes of Ethiopia ris
jf ing. in their might against the in
' Tader, sweeping through another
Adowa with Halle Selassie waring
the imperial sword of Judah and
scurrying on to upset the tanks of
the axis powers in Europe by pure
African fortitude. It was a fleet
ing glimpse and ended with Halle
receiving the homage of the King
of Britain and the League of Na
tions assembled and saying, "I'm
aorry we had to use force, but jwe
mislaid our sanctions." j
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QUAINT COINCIDENCE DEIfT.
tf (A star wm brewed section)
Bmmm a BoUr cMtias AItm
tor sa 4Titlmnt fr s
ma krtoi f tew ia Tte Krw an
ear yaoof mta t Sim IfatM, Cat,
a finds tlut th aft to Henro4 aal
MuiUa Mtt tctara stardom art
tetng pa4 (e aim.
Euren Dtly
BaciVM a HoUtwm casUaC
tr mw mm adTtrtlMaMat far a fmmoaa
srsa af int la ta Capital Journal .
aa errs yaaag aa f Ran Mat,
CaL, flaaa that ths tears ta HaUywead
and saaaiBla SMtUa plctara tardam
ara tetag apaaad for aba. . . i
bm CapiUI JournL
Nerer misa a bet, those scouts!
k -:-k .:...!.
Those perfumed advertisements,
upon which we commented once
before, . are 'becoming-mofeire-qnent
and we'rebegun, to worry
about the possible results. ': , We
cau picture trritic domestic roiri
aad eren brokeav homes . eeaiifig
from such an innocent source, old
pessimist that jwe are. p
You're a happily married man,
say, and ; you hare a head cold
and can't smell i a thing. One night
you eome bustling out of your of
fice, snatch a; paper from the
newsboy and unsuspectingly tuck
It- under your arm.. Whistling
merrily, you enter your little nest
all ready, for a welcoming kiss,
but just as wifle is ready to buss
you she draws back and sniffs
suspiciously. ! 1
"VYbaeaamatter'T yon say
with the air of the perpetually
bewildered male. ' : S
a "Knit d'Araoar, that's what's
the matter, she shouts and'
a; with, these cryptte words boun
ces an end -table off your nn
prepared sknlL "I'll teach you
to two time me, yon wife-beater,'
she says, firing a portable;
radio with unerring accuracy.
By the time yon come to she Is
packed and leaving for mother.
Two days later you'll pick up the
v newspaper and notice the double
t truck spread with smells adver
tising Knit d'Amour at yoor fa
vorite perfume counter. But by
that time the smell is gone and
try to jet her to believe that story.
V- -.i.v;-Tr.
- PROGRESS NOTE
The prowd- insignia ' of the
Fnted Statee - NaUoaialbank
" came down from'the four-faced
clock "at State and Commercial
yesterday sued waa replaced, by
toe
of the Pioneer- Trust
compuy. but we shall await
developments ..before "trusting"!
tha.t? clock any more than we 1
Ota rormeriy.
Taylor Condition
Reported Bettei
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v ROME. June , tl-(JP-Myron C;
Taylor, president Roosevelt's rep
resentative to the Holy See, who
- baa 4een -seriously Ul in Florence
waa "-reported greatly - improved
tonight. v-, ::
Physicians attending Taylor
said he now was virtually free of,
fever."- - - .)
Mrs. Taylor is expected : te ar-f
rive at Florence 'by airplane to
morrow. She is believed accomJ
panted by an Americas surgeon;
who' previously - performed a n
operation on her husband. . i
flames Spreading
IttDeepSIdyou8
GRANTS PAJSSvjjune ll.-P
Flames spread over 1000 to 2000
acres in the almost inaccessible
enter osv the -SUkiyon national
forest today, the first major fire
of the season. J
Assistant Supervisor L. L. Col-
Till said a crack ! 4 -man tire-
fighting crew was en route to the
blaze while 40 specially - trained
CCC brush marines! were moving
in from Camp Gasq.net, Calif.
Our
Senators
T7cn G-3
Nye!Demar
FDR Q
Save
Bitter Debate Is Waged
in Congress as New
Cabinet Mulled
Nye Intimates Woodring
out for not (giving
Allies Bombs ight
WASHINGTON, Juie 21(JP
A demand that President Roose
velt resign lest his foreign poli
cies bring "disaster" upon the
country was made in the senate
today by Senator Nye (R-ND),
while at Hyde Park the chief ex
ecutive accused his critics of par
tisanship. .Nye.- an advocate of aloofness
from European affairs, also urged
that Harry Woodring, resigned
secretary of war, be called before
the . senate military affairs com
mittee for Questioning. He said he
would be "very much surprised"
if, the committee did not learn
that Woodring had been asked to
transfer ''national defense : secret
No. 1" a bomber sight to the
allies and that he had been oust
ed because he had refused.
This brought from. Senator
Berkley (D-Ky) the reply that
Major General Henry H. Arn
old had assured him that fat no
time or other had any considera
tion been given to revelation.
At Hyde Park the president
took cognizance of charges that
he was creating a "war cabinet"
in appointing Henry L. Stlmson,
to saeceed Woodring and Col.
Frank Knox, like Stimson a re
publican, to the post of secretary
of the navy. The chief executive
told reporters that there are some
people who think in terms of pat
riotic .motives and som e, who
think" With partisan motive.- M
Knox Asserts
Danger KSfK-';s ---.-H
Knox Inserted at Chicago that
the . country wasin - danger 'be
cause we are inadequately pre
pared" and that his only Sim was
(Turn to Jage 3, Col. 1)
"The Navy Knovs
No Party" -Knox
National Defense Isn't
Partisan Question, He
Says, Accepting s !
CHICAGO. June 21-(l)-i,The
"The navy knows no party,"! Col
Frank Knox, the 19 3 i republican
vice-presidential candidate, de
clared today in a statement on his
acceptance of an appointment by
President Roosevelt to be secre
tary of the navy. . -
Col. Knox, whose action was de
nounced by republican party lead
ers meeting in Philadelphia! pre
paratory to the GOP national! con
vention next week, asserted that:
"National defense Is not af par
tisan" Question." It should have
the-Jttnlted support of the people
regardless of party. Congress in
the past few weeks has acted with
substantial unanimity on every
national defense- proposal.' j :
. . Col. KhOXj who resigned today
as one of - the eight Illinois dele-gatesat-Jarge
f to the republican
contention; said:- H ; r f
- "The admlnlstraUon of the navy
department iaMn'no' sence poltt
icatrTbe : navy mows no party
At a time of tremendous naval ex
pansionalt ia vital that its manage
ment shall be wholly non-pollUcai.
The president has asked me to
serve am secretary of the navy on
that basis and on that basis I hare
accepted. : -, .,- '
,"W are in danger now because
we are inadequately prepared. Tbe
president has said X can help him.
If I can help him get us ready
for any emergency I must do so.
What happens to me is unimpor
(Tarn to Page 3, Col. S) j
Country
Peace,, Preparedness Issue
i m JJd to Pldnlters
By RICHARD L. TURNER i
ph riA DEL.PHIA. June ll.-Uf
-The slogan "Peace and prepared
ness" dominated repuDucan piai
form wrlterr today, with a contro
versy obviously arising aa to how
far the party declaration should
go -In endorsing material assist
ance to. the allies, i j -
Subcommittees, appointed to
deal with the ariou platform
subjects met. throughout the day,
including the group under the
chairmanship of Alf M. - Landon,
which is studying the problem of
foreign affairs. It, Landon said,
discussed the -.thorny - Question
committed to. it . at length and
would meet-again tomorrow, xti
' - From the other 'subcommittees
came word that the platform oth
erwise would closely conform to
the program submitted last I win
ter by the republican program
committee under the chairman
ship of Glenn; Frank, i
Meanwhile, it was learned that
some party leaders .were urging
that the - convention adopt two
platforms, out brief, concise and
pointed, and tJie other elaborat
Stormy Marine
General Passes
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GEN. SMEDLE Y D. BUTLER
"Fighting Quaker"
Urged Home Army
Got Congressional Medal
Twice; Organized State
Police in Oregon
PHILADELPHIA, June 21-yp)
Major General Smedley D. But
ler, S3, who retired from the US
marine corps atter fighting half
way round the world and spent
much time in his later years urg
ing that the nation keep its light
ing men home, died today in Na
val hospital.
"Old Gimlet Eye" the name
he got in the Mexican campaign
because he learned so much of the
enemy -succumbed today to a
gall bladder and liver ailment
that had put htn to bed a month
ago.
Since he retired In 1931, with
30 years service in the marines,
Butler took to the lecture plat
form with the same sharp tongue
that Aad often brought him. Into
the public eye daring his military
and i public sendee. He was . the
proponent t armed force only for
home defense he who had' been
a fighting man from the orient to
France. -"-
He ia one of the few-men who
Iwice was awarded the congres
sional medal of honor in 1914
for heroism in Vera Crux and a
year later for the storming with
30 men of Fort Revierl in Haiti.
In It IS he got the distinguish
ed service medal for his work
commanding the great American
debarkation port at Brest, France.
Three years later when he was
40 he became a br'gadler gener
al, the youngest general officer In
the corps. - -
In 1931 General Butler caused
an international Incident by re
ferring to . Premier Mussolini - of
Italy as sy "hit-and-run driver."
Henry L. Stimson,. then secretary
of state; and now appointed sec
retary of war, sent an apology to
the Italian government. General
Butler was ordered to stand trial
at a court-martial hut It did not
materialize.
A short time later the "fighting
Quaker he waa born of Quaker
- (Turn to Page 3, Col, 4)
Berlin Gets Taste
Of Bombings Also
, BERLIN, June 2 2.- (Saturday)
y-Three - incendiary bombs
wereIdropped on-the Bat.elsburg
railrcid Citation . in an: air taW
earfe this morning. -' Authorities
said that damage waa immaterial.
. tBabelsburs is a. western suburb
of Berlin; -which earlier"! In the
night had its first air raid alarm
since the Invasion of Poland last
fall. ' ' - ; '
' Brief hut heavy anti-aircraft
fire was said to have" forced the
raider to turn back quickly.
: Asked r whether the 'bombers
were English or French j planes,
the spokesman said,' "who else
could it have been than the Eng
lish!" ; - -
ing at some length on the points
made - in the shorter document.
The longer- platform It -waa sug
gested, would be based upon the
Frank report with few changes
made' - : . f; 'M. '"r
' Landon made it. plain that be
cause t the - uncertainty of the
situation abroad, he and the sub
committee were in no hurry, to put
their views into writing.- -.
rrh!s is a changing world. he
said, "and events are moving very
fast.' 1. - i. - ; , -
The events, he added, "might
have some Influence on the sub
committee's conclusions, : partic
ularly the nature of the French
peace ' terms ' laid down hy Adolf
Hitler.-''"-?'--1"' a- I :i .;' S'
i Candidates, speculation upon
the 'number Of ballots It would
take to reach - a nomination, and
the appointment of , Col. ? Frank
Knox and : Henry L. Stimson to
the - Roosevelt ' cabinet : continued
to - dominate discussions in the
fast-gathering convention crowds.
From the headquarters of sev
eral candidates came predictions
. C (Tarn to Page 3; Col. 2) : a
Yes or No Beiimanded of
Talks. Carried
On m Old Car
Of Fdch Fame
French Emissaries Keep
in Telephonic Touch 1
With (Government 4
End of Resistance, Halt
of Aid to Britain Is
Part of Demands
i By LOUIS P. LOCHNER
jCOMPIEGNB FOREST, France,
JUne 21r-(jiP)A yes or no answer
unconditionally and now rwas de
manded of France tonight to the
terms of a conqueror's peace die
tailed by Adolf Hitler, in his hour
of! triumph.
The four emissaries who hold
the fate of the French in that an
swer remained in steady telephone
communication with their govern
ment. They conferred for a sec
ond time, too, tonight with the
representatives of the German
fuehrer.!
jWhatever their reply. Hitler
has ordered brought to Berlin the
lohg-enshrlned railway car where
Germany, signed an armistice in
sorrow in 19 IS and offered one in
victory today. '
- Along with the historic car. Hit
ler will take away the memorial
tablet that marked the spot, and
the monument the French set up
with the graven legend:
'Here, on Nov 11, 1918, was
frustrated the criminal arrogance
of . the German Imperial reich, de
feated by the free peoples which it
sought to enslave.".
RIltKa Mmrfrlnap Knot A ". :-
Ordered Uestroycjd -
VjSlahs marking where the tram
stood were ordered destroyed.
' , Hitler i personally decreed that
the monument to Marshal Foeh is
toj be preserved undamaged un
moved. i . w
a Broadly, Hitler has demanded
an! end to all resistance; that the
French give him "all guarantees
necessary for him to continue his
war against their ally Britain; and
the acceptance of "pre-conditions'
fo a new - European order ? de
signed above all to make "repara
tion of the wrong done to the Gen
man reich by force."
This was the heart of a long
preamble given to the French del
egates that ' a declaration that
Germany had no Intention of east
ing "aspersions against any enemy
so brave. 1
, ills specif ie terms - not an
nounced in detail pending their
acceptance or rejection were
left with the French in a meeting
that was S heavy with a sense of
history, history repeating itself in
reverse. ' i?
For he met the French in the
railway car in the forest of Com
plegne where on the morning of
Nov; 11, 1918, the Germans tha
vanquished then signed the arm
istice that ended the World war.
Car Stands on
Precise Boot, 1018
The - old car was pulled from
the special building in which the
French had kept ; it - proudly . all
these ' years to the 1 precise . spot
where It stood on- that morning of
German defeat a generation ago-
Inside it,' Hitler occupied the
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I.aib Sports
PORTLAND, Ore.; June
S4n Diego evened its current Pa
cific Coast ' league series at 2-3
with j the i Portland Beavers to
night as Wally Hebert bested Bill
Thomas In a pitching duel, 5-3.
Each pitched yielded 10 hits.
San Diego ..S . 10 1
Portland : it 10 I
'Hebert and Detore; W. Thom
as, Fallin (9). and Schultx.
SAN FRANCISCO, June llr&
Nlght. game: .. ,.; t-
Hollywood 0
San Francisco . ..... ...-.S 9 1
Osborne and Dapper; Dasso
and Botelho. . t ,
LOS ANGELES, June 1
Night game: . '
Oakland l'"".rvw 0 .
Seattle . , . tl 13 2
Schmidt, - Monger i (8), Mc
Laughlin (8) and Grflk; Barrett
and CampbelL . - .
Second game seven Innings:
Sacramento -0 , t 0
Seattle 3 ' 3
Cableh and Ogrodowski; WUkie
and Kearee. .
RENO, Nev, June ll.HT'r-Tl-ger!
Jack Fox,' 184, f Spokane,
Waah scored a technical knock
out I over Al, Delaney, 188, New
York City, in the ninth round of
a scheduled 1 6-round fight here
tonight. i - ' r I "" :.
; HOLLTWOOD, June 21.-C3V-Riehard
( Young Polite, New Or
leans negroy scoring a one-punch
knockdown in the fifth round,
went on to hand Toby Vigil of Los
Angeles, a thorough lacing in 10
rounds before 6,0 C Q in the Holly
wood stadium tonlgtt." '
i Polite ,weighed 1 3 9 Vigil 1 i i.
FRENCH FLEET TAKEN OVER
With the fate of the French fleet key problem with France's capitnlaUon part of the republic's naval
force are strikingly shown in above photo atari mg Mediterranean mameaverK Sailor ia dramatically
silhouetted in foreground aboard warship. Xne second largest fleet in Europe wae reported under
command of the Brttisl
arnes
Putiontbv Nazis
Correspondent Raised in
Saleni Given 24 Honrs
' to Quit Germany ;
BERLIN, - - June 21-ff-The
perman J government ..today, er-
i6XtA:MM'. Barnes ..and Russell
EUL . represintatlve of the New
Tork' Herald Tribune, to -leave
Germany ' within 14 hours. Au
thorities eaitl the action was taken
because; Hin and Barnes dissemi
nated stories capable", of "disturb
ing the friendly relations of Ger
many and other states.
Both ; men declined to comment
on the order. :i : ...
Before the expulsion order was
given Barnes and Hill were ex
cluded from all press conferences
of the foaeiim office and the pro
paganda ministry.
Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Barnes of
Salem, parents- of Ralph Barnes,
reported last: night that- they had
not been informed of the circum
stances surrounding the order of
the German government requiring
him to leave the reich without
delay. .: : j
They recalled that their son
has been Is I Germany for about
two months, after having been or
dered by his newspaper, the New
York Herald -Tribune, to write a
series of special articles on the ef
f e e t s of tie war on Germany.
Previously he had been attached
to the London bureau of the Herald-Tribune.
. . . i,., 'f., '
Within: the last two ,1'weeka
Barnes had been; a member, of a
select group of foreign journalists
permitted by I the German high
command to view the ruins of Ca
lais and Dunkerque, left following
the retreat of the Briti8h"a rmj
from Flanders.-Lii'--C'-i i"
At that time he wrote a serlei
of three ' highly Informative ar
ticles - which i apparently . passed
the . German censor without diffi
culty. Since that time he has filed
his dispatches1 in Berlin y ?
; Barnes i waa' his paper's correav
pondent in" the German capital
for a number of years prior to the
outbreak of the war,' and for sev
eral months before last Septem
ber had been stationed in Lon
don. Earlier in his c a r e e r he
served - ia -Moscow,, Paris and
other European capitals.'
;. His wife and their two young
daughters. Jean and Suzanne,
reached New York a week ago
aboard the S3 Roosevelt refugee
ship from Ireland. . ..
Mrs. Barnes had previously
expected to eome , west later this
month.' and it is not known whe
ther the order affecting her hus
band will cause her to change her
plana..-, ,; t
Beach Conger, another Herald
Tribune correspondent, was eject
ed from Germany several months
ago for reasons similar to bose
suggested in the Barnes case,; it
was recalled yesterday,
Sunimer Is Here,
But Time Differs
PORTLAND, June
Summer began today but you can
take your choice about the time.
: The weather bureau said it was
precisely 5:37 a.m. The navy hy
drographio -office, which also
knows something about the sub
ject, placed the time at Si am. -
Anyway," it was the longest day
of the year, with the sun. rising
at 4:1$) a.m. and letting at 8:05
P.m. '- L... r --.--- .
Ralph B
S
HONGKONG, June 22-(Sat-nrday
) -V.Military anthori
ties, of this British crown col
ony asutooenced today that Jap
anese troope had begwa to oe;
enpy areae of Sowth Chin eoav.
tlgnena to tbe colony's border. -A
4 communique -4. esnphaaJaed,
xtowever. , tttat there- waa no
casvse for alansw
t LOXDO, Jono : 1H-A
Reutere (British news agency)
dispatch from - Istanbul today
reported that six FresKk tank
ere anchored st the Twkuii
port had been transferred to
British wnershJp and had
hoisted the British flag.
HONGKONG. Jum SSH
Tbe eeatral Chxsteee news agen
cy reported today that Chinese
artillery had sunk one Japanese
destroyer and two gunboats in
tbe Tfangt river near Tnngllu.
Sowtli AnhrweJ province, on Jane
18, killing many ef the crews,
LISBON, . Jane 22P)-The
three children ef King Leopold
HI ef tbe Belgians, arrived last
evening: at Gaardav Portagal,
where they spent the night sua
der the care of Paul Van Zee
land, fornaer prime niinister of
Belgium. The party was expect
ed te eontJawe today to Coim
bra. - '
The Belgian royal children
Princess Josephine Charlotte,
: IS; Prtaco Bandota. O, and
Prince Albert, e-bave been In
Prance since shortly after the
German invaaion of their coun
try May 14V -n i
Q
uestion
On French Boats
French ships- now In "American:'
waters,- Including the great liner
Normandle,' aad some of ber les
ser sisters, atill fly the trl-color,
hot If this 'ensign comes ' down
-i-rat 'emrfgn 'will 'go npf
I One authority on International
law aaid today it wae entirely pos
sible, that, the ships might be
come American property a n d
thus fly- tha stars and stripes. ' :
. Bat the tventnal answer de
pends upon the . treaty makers,
the .vicissitudes ef ' war,'' or the
rules of the law aad the Ameri
can ports. " -
Congress Toils
Before Taking
i WASHINGTON, June Sl-CP)-Congress
toiled at a half-doxen
lsst-mlnate - tasks tonight after
leaders set midnight tomorrow as
the deadline) t e r beginning a
week-long reeeaa. -:
This lay-off. designed to en
able republleans to attend their
national convention at. Philadel
phia, was decided upon as a com
promise between' administration
lieutenants and a substantial bloc
demanding that congress remain
constantly-ia session to deal with
defense and ether questions born
of the European eriaia. ,-
Although exyresElng confidence
that congress could recess tomorrow-night,-
leaders made it
clear, that there .would ha active
sessibs next week unless pend
ing ... emergency j legislation was
disposed of. V -. K- -r :1-
. The senate and house gave
Quick approval to the 1918,528,
418 farm bill, and sent it to
President Roosevelt. I The house
approved a compronlse U.157,
711,257 relief appropriation.
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British now Hold
French Varcraft
So ; Sources Say , VS Has
. Ueen Advised; Planes
Also Taken Over -
WASHINGTON, Juae Jl.-iSJV.
Authoritative sources aaid tonight
that this: government ad been
advised that f the "hulk of the
French fleet had heen taken over
Intact by Great Britain.
Aisovit was reported, a large
number ' of .French planes had
been flown to England as well as
North Africa to get them oat of
the hands of the German army.
The information received here
waa that one battleship. v thought
to be the Jean Bart, which waa to
have been commissioned by the
French next month, was taken
from ; a French- navy ' yard . and
towed to an English port.
; This capital also heard, with
out confirmation, that some
French warcraft under construc
tion but not advanced - enough
to tow as in the case of the bat
tleshiphad been destroyed by
the French before the advancing
Germans took over yards at Brest
and several other points. - -
Defense Tax Bill
Passage Certeih
Conference Group ; Agrees
on Measure to Yield
Billion. Year ,
i WASHINGTON, June Zl-VPy-Passage
of a defense revenue bill
boosting lntonttf-taxes and adding
about : 2040,0 00 persons io the
ranks of filch taxpayers became a
virtual certeintyvtonight -when a
fenate-houae conference commit
tee agreed -odhe measure. '7 -
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The - Tesaitlng.aeglslation, ' aV?
eady passed'-by senate 'and bouse
n differing lorm, " is expected - to
fee finali ratified by both cham
bers tomorrow and sped to the
White House. Rep. Cooper : D
Tenn) . estimated it would' yield
$1,000,000,000 a year. " ' ;
- Personal exemptions for mar
ried persons will be lowered from
82500 to tioeo and for single
persons from 11000 to 1800. In
addition a ''supertax. wll be lev
ied, amounting to 10 per cent of
the ordinary tax on all individual
and corporate income. '
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at Last Jobs
Weehs Recess
- joint eonf erenee committee
sought -to- adjust major senate
house difference ever defense
tax legislation.' These differences
Included provisitaia C o r r excess
profits and war profits taxes
which the senate inserted into
the I1.004,000,e0 bill approved
by 'the house. , - -
If, as la expected, eonrresa re
cesses for the republican con
vention,' leaders flan to quit also
for the sweek starting July ' 15,
when - the democrats will' be In
session at Chicago. A back-log
of . non-emergency legislation hsa
been piling up ever since Presi
dent Roosevelt started his. series
of requests for additional defense
spendingr and, regardless of the
E aropean ; situation, a - summer
long session appeared likely. -
i -The farm bill, in addition to
the 1918,628,418 In appropria
tions, carried $160,000,000 in
loans.-" ;
Bi-gest Item in the bill was tbe
1440,000,000 for soil conserra-
- (Tarn to Page 3, Col. 4) .
Eastern Coast
Area Strafed
In Lbng Raids
Bombs Fall, , Midnight
, to Dawn ?. in "Widest
Attack of War
British Fighter Plane-s
, Artillery - Keep Nazis
Flying High
LONDON, June J2-(SaturdayJ '
(ff) Wave after wave of German .
combers blasted at Britain from
the southeast to the northeast in .
midnight - to - dawn raids today, ;
showering . down ; incendiary and
high explosive bombs in the third
and most widespread attack ii
four days. N:.-lM"
; With dawn's arrival, the raid
ers fled the threat , of Britibh
fighters, and the alarms that snt
thousands to shelters were Jif ted. '
- Despite the number of bombs
dropped,, no fatalities were re
ported. ; ' ' J- ;
. ? (The British' recently replied -In
kind with a raid on 'Berlin,
where an alarm was in effect for
36 minutes and anti-aircraft gune
around the capital fired at invad
ing -craft. No bomb explosion
were heard in Berlin.)
' The, .hark of anti-aircraft guns, '
the chatter of machine guns and
the challenging whine of British,
fighter planes' made an ear-splitting
overtone to the sound of the
raiding planes .and the intermix
tentthud of the exploding bombs.
Air Raid Sirens ,
Shrill lat Approach
.Air raid alarm shrilled with
the aproach of the first attackere
and the . civilian population
crouched in shelters, while the .
battle raged on. ; . - l : c -
. One 'salvo of i high- explosiT -bombs
i truck a lumber yard la an
undisclosed eastern ares, shatter
ing windows in the Immediate vi
cinity and shaking buildings as
far as three miles away, i i ,
Report from the ; attacked
area - said that as coon as tfce
ominous drone of the nasi craft
became audible, their . motors
were drowned out by speedy Brl?-
Ish' fighters darting Into tLe
skies to the attack. "
.The Germans attacked ote
northeastern locality in relay for
more than two hours, dropping
bombs. . . -. ' -. I
: In one area the bombs-fell "
wide of any mark that they! were
believed to have been jettisoned
by an enemy: plane seeking to
outrun the hot - British, pursuit.
: Some bombs In an eastern, lo
cality fell into, fields. f
Searchlights Probe
Sky for Raiders 1 ? .
Explosions occurred Intermit-
tently for more than an hour in
one northeastern inland ' area.
Searchlights probed the sky for a
high flying raider which lattr
headed; out to sea. -. .
. Flashes were seen out at s-a
front one northeast coast district.
Searchlights picked up two Brit--ish
planes,; flying low, apparently
having -chased the raiders sea
ward. -4. v -', -1 . ....
H Little BriUsh Spitfires -climbed
into the pre-dayrn dark te meet
the Invadersv in vthe. air The re
peated drone of motors Indicated
wave after wave . of , nasi squad
ronsr flying; high. and .fast, crossed
the easterns. and southern ; coast, .
All headed inland. - -JThe
shefctof explosioha was
felt ln-sHji'e partis of a widespread"
area: even .before the firstl shriek j
of the air raid sirens. . -
. C Censorship did not permit dta- ;
closure of the Specific area raided
except that it was eastern and
southern England,)
; . Flares were dropped at , Inter
val for more than an. hour la
one southeastern section aa the
invading planes groped toward
their targets. )
Searchlight beams cut pattern
into ; the darkness . wherever the
drone of motors was heard.
Heavy Blasts Heard
In All Directions ' .
-The sound, of 'heavy explosions
came repeatedly. ' ,
'In one area in the east of Hsr
land where' heavy detomtior:
were heard, residents who ventur
ed out fcr the chance of a glimpse
of . an . air battle reported that
fighting planes of the RAF were
"very active." '
The German planes apparently
fanned out before reaching, tLe
EflgliBh coast and spread over ait
extensive area. ' -
-Warntag signals were sounded
In some -towns near the north
eastern coast and half an hour
later bomber were heard over
head.' No bomb were dropped !.i
this section. British planes were
seen in-the air. - - j
; Bombers of the naval air force
struck' today at the positions
Calais of -big German guns witit
a range of 30 miles or more w hi :i
point .at this Island across 12
miles of .the English channel.
These "successful" attacks, 3
the air ministry described then,
were : carried rout at about- tv.a
same r time that royal air foro
fliers dropped more than 40 0 hi
cendlary bombs on the airdrome,
at Rouen,- France, itself a Ger-'man-KiccnpIed
port on " tfce C':i:i;
estuary more than 150 -eII-.i
down the channel from Calais.