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THE
CAPITAL
PARADE
Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and
ROBERT KINTNER
Released by tha
North Amarican Newspaper
Allianca. Inc.
Washington, Aug. 19. Now
that Ambassador to France Wil
liam C. Bullitt has returned
lrom his rest In the north, it is
possible to tell a coherent story
of his role during the days of
the fall of France. It is a story
which does Bullitt considerable
credit, and explains several mys
terious points about his behavi
or. Yet for all its odd detail and
matter-of-factness of incident, it
is also a sad and terrible tale for
our times, enacted against the
background of one of the great
source-cities of our culture.
WHY did Bullitt stay in Paris,
when the French govern
ment, to which he was accredit
ed, had departed for Bordeaux?
This is the question which most
puzzles the professional diplo
mats in Washington. The answer
is fairly simple. He was asked to
do so, in order to serve as un
official governor of the French
capital until the German occupa
tion took place.
Bullitt's decision to remain in
the capital was made a week
before Paris fell, when the
thought that Paris might have
to be abandoned first became a
certainty in the minds of his
friends, the French leaders.
Naturally he had : already dis
cussed the possibility of the fall
of Paris with the president and
Secretary of State Cordell Hull.
DEING a fairly romantic fel-
low, he personally wished to
follow the example of American
Minister Gouverneur Morris,
who was the only diplomat to
remain in Paris during the ter
ror; of old Minister Washburn,
the only diplomat to hang on
thru the German siege in 1870
and the ensuing time of the com'
mune; and of Ambassador My'
ron C. Herrick, who stayed be
hind when the government fled
in 1914.
The point was not definitely
acttled, however, until Bullitt
discussed the problem with
French Premier Paul Reynaud
(Continued From Pas Four.)
BASEBALL
National
R. H. E.
Boston 3 9 0
Pittsburgh 0 8 1
Errickson and Berres; Bow
man and Femandes.
Score: R. H. E.
New York 9 14 0
Cincinnati 2 8 1
Hubbell and Danning; Der
ringer, Riddle, Shoffner, Hutch
in gs, and Lombard!, Wilson.
American
R. H. E.
Cleveland 7 12 2
Boston 18 14 1
Dobson, Humphries, Dorsett,
and Hemsley, Pytlak; Heving
and Foxx.
Detroit at New York post
poned; rain.
SIDE GLANCES
TRIEUNE REPORTERS
Socks Biddle and Elizabeth
Brown presenting an unusual
problem to a grocer when they
desired to purchase only half
a loaf of bread.
John Mofrat spending the first
day of his vacation cutting the
lawn and doing other out-of-door
chores.
Mrs. Nion Tucker and chil
dren Nan and Nion Jr., beini
the best looking and only fam
ily trio competing in rodeo af
fairs. Mayno Coleman getting a lit
tle gallant aid from Gene Ham
ilton when her horse became
frisky at sight of Rosey Rosen
baum's railroad tracks.
DIRECT INVASION
BY NAZI TROOPS
1 I
Britain Girds for Life-Death
. Battle New Defense
Order Fierce Counter Air
Attacks.
Berlin, Aug. 19. 0JP.V Ger
man sources tonight blamed
"bad weather" for the off-again
on-again character of the air
attack on Britain but contended
that the delay to German plans
was not serious.
London, Aug. 19. (P) The
war office announced tonigni
the British had withdrawn from
Somaliland. , "
The announcement' said the
withdrawal was decided upon
as an alternative to reinforcing
the British garrison there, with
reserves who would be of greater
use in places more important to
tha prosecution of the war.-
"All guns except two lost in
the early stages of the action
have been embarked," the an
nouncement said.
"A great part of the material
stores has also been evacuated
and the remainder destroyed.
Our wounded have been safely
brought away."
The Italian communique today
declared the British were with
drawing to their ships at Ber
bers, capital and chief port of
Britain's Somaliland protecto
rate. Italian "spokesmen said a i
"little Dunkerque was being
staged there like the British re
treat from Flanders under a
storm of German air attacks.
(Rome sources said the British
force in Somaliland was about
7.000, mostly Rhodesians and
Indian troops.)
(Br the Associated Press)
London, Aug. 19. All of
Britain was made a defense area
today as the nation, already
fighting in history's greatest air
battle, got set for a life-or-death
struggle to defend its soil.
Zero Hour Near
With the Germans apparently
nearing the zero hour for their
attempt to smash Britain into
submission by direct invasion,
the British launched a thunder
ing attack against the Nazi-held
French coast and claimed their
air fighters were parrying Nazi
air blows with an increasingly
favorable advantage.
The British, warned that the
week to come may decide the
balance of air power, manned
their anti-aircraft defenses con
stantly. The order to make the isles
a defense area subject at a mo
ment's notice to drastic edicts by
closely cooperating civil and
military authorities was issued
as a "precautionary measure" by
the ministry of home security.
. Regional commissioners for
England, Wales and Scotland
will have authority, it said, "sub
ject to control and direction of
the ministry of home security,
to issue directions or orders re
quired for the purposes of de
fense within their respective
areas."
Until now, only a 20-mile strip
of the eastern and southern
coasts from the Scottish border
to Portland had been a defense
area.
Two-Way Bombing
Again today bomber traffic
over the English channel was
two-way after a Sunday ex
change of raids in which both
sides pounded at sources of
I enemy strength.
Apparently attempting to de
stroy or immobilize Britain s air
force, waves of Nazi planes
struck at strategically-placed air
dromes, twice causing Sunday
air raid alarms in London.
But, the British declared, the
Nazi achieved little success at
great cost, losing planes at a
rate of more than nine to one of
Britain's.
One German bomber was said
to have been shot down this
morning in the southwest.
But up to late afternoon there
had been only sporadic raids.
'German rrports said Nazi fliers
were engaged primarily In wide
spread scouting of southern
England. They declared two.
possibly three. British planes had
been shot down in "(mall'' air
fightsj
Perspiring Willkie Accepts
Beads of perspiration covered the forehead of Wendell L.
Willkie as ha made his speech accepting the nomination for presi
dent In Elwaod, Ind. A crowd eatimated between 150,000 and
250.000 persons heard him. - - . -
LAUDED BY COURT,
BUT PLEAJENIED
Seattle, Aug. 19 (IP) San J
Quentin penitentiary's public
speaking course came in for
high praise today in federal
court when a "graduate," Frede
rick M. Robbins, 32-year-old
Canadian, pleaded guilty for
entering the United States illeg
ally. Despite Robbins' half-hour
oration on why he should be
given a suspended sentence,
Judge Lloyd L. Black said he
could not suspend sentence be
cause of Robbins' prior record.
Robbins was sentenced to a year
and a day in prison.
Robbins recited that he had
just completed a four-year sen
tence in San Quentin for writing
a worthless $24 check and while
there took a public speaking
course.
Judge Black described the
prisoner's address as one of the
most persuasive appeals ever
made in his court.
Robbins said he believed the
sentence sufficient punishment
for both writing the check and
the illegal entry charge. He said
he had been further "punished"
by the death of his father while
Robbins was in prison.
"But," he said, "it was not the
greatest punishment I received
That came when my father died
last January. I know he died
only because I was in prison. His
death was a great blow to me as
he also had been a mother to me
since my mother died when
was young "
Chungking, Aug. 19. IIP)
, Japanese bombers attacked the
Chinese capital this afternoon
i the fifth time In three days with
a destructive intensity unparal-
leled since early June.
successive waves oi planes neara iaie in juiy out circuit
unloaded high explosive and in-1 Judge Calvin L. Sweek of Pen
cendiary bombs at intervals of dleton. who was appointed to
a few minutes for two hours hear the cae. continued tin
on about a third of the hitherto 'hearing so the court would pro-
untouched western residential
district.
Buildings
were destroyed or
damaged and fires began burn
ing in the densely Dobulaled
I downtown area.
CENSORS' HOLD UP
OF AIR PRAY FROM
AMERICA ANGERS
London, Aug. 19 (IP) The
censorship's nine-hour hold up
of descriptions of Friday's air
battles In the London area from
the transmission to the United
States and Canada drew editor
ial protests today from the
Times and the Daily Telegraph.
The papers asserted that what
they called "lying" German ac
counts should not be allowed to
gain the main attention in the
press across the Atlantic for lack
of news from Britain.
The Daily Telegraph said
The Associated Press -
filed its first dispatch on Friday
at 12:23 p. m. Six others on at
tempted raids, all giving the
facts and showing how German
raiders were driven back, were
filed later.
"None of these was released
until 9:22 p. m., nine minutes
after the official account was
issued to the press some
time after the last editions of
American evening newspapers
had gone to press.
Lord Beaverbrook's Evening
Standard said that Associated
Press dispatches on the Friday
raid "are a fair account of
events, containing no informa
tion who were to blame. The
trouble lay in the absurd system
of coordinations between the
ministry, the service depart
ments, and the ministry of home
security. Administrative anar
chy!" ON FEHL, AUG. 27
Salem, Ore., Aug. 19. UP)
The final hearing in the haheous
corpus case of Earl H. Fchl,
former Jackson
county judge
seeking release from tha state
hospital, will be held here Au-
gust 27.
I The first part of the case was
vide an examination of Fehl by
Portland alienists of his own
The report of the alienists
i will be given at the August 27
'bearing
RE!
PLEDGES TO STEM
THREATS OF WAR
Home Folks Told Ready to
Make Personal Sacrifice
Ickes Talks Tonight.
Rushvllle, Ind., Aug. 19. (IP)
Wendell L. Willkie told a
"welcome home" gathering today
that while bombs are raining on
England "I will do anything to
preserve at all hazards the kind
of life we have here in Rush
county."
Speaking at the Informal pro
gram arranged for himself and
his wife, whose home town this
is, the Republican presidential
nominee added:
"People who live and think
as we do are being destroyed
in their habit and their way of
life.
"When one in mV Situation!
realizes tnat he is being called
upon to play a part in keeping
that holocaust from coming to
this country, you must realize
how deeply I feel.
"I am ready to make what
ever personal sacrifices may be
required of me, or whatever long
days and sleepless nights."
Washington, Aug. 19. (IP)
Secretary Ickes will open the
democratic fire on Wendell
Winkle's acceptance speech to
night, and capital politicians ex
pected him to answer the pro
posal of the republican presi
dential nominee for a series of
joint debates with President
Roosevelt on campaign issues.
Ickes will broadcast an ad
dress, arranged for by the dem
ocratic national committee (at
8:30 to 9 p.m. EST over NBC).
The republicans, meanwhile,
selected Senator Bridges (R-
N.H.) "to polish off Ickes" later
this week.
ON AERIAL LOSS
(Br tha Associated Press)
The box score of conflicting
claim, of P'nJ"tro,y.ed '"lh!!
eight days of heavy air fighting
over Britain:
German Claims
Brltuh Oannan
LoattS Lom-
- 4B 10
as at
as 34
1J3 38
- 38 13
-143 33
- 93 31
147 86
T73 194
CUIms
Oarman Brlttth
Loatee Loaaee
- 80 18
63 38
63 11
71 11
11 T
ISO 14
Tl 13
144 33
.. 699 153
Aug. I
Aug. It .
At. 13 .
Aug. IS .
Aug. 14 .
Aug. IB .
Auf. I .
Aug-. 18 .
Total
Aug.
Aug. II .
Aug. 12 .
Auf. 11
Aug. 14 .
Aug. 15 .
Aug. IS .
At. 18 .
Totals
On the omitted dates Aug. 9,
19 and 17 there were no heavy
raids.
NATION'S LARGEST
Ogdensburg, N. Y-, Aug. 19
(IP) The largest peacetime
"war" In the nation's history
opened In Tiorthern New York
today with defending American
"Blue" and foreign "Black" In
vadcrs fighting with flreless
arms, blastless bombs, pseudo
tanks and blank ammunition
for the gateway to vital indus
trial centers.
By S . m., zero hour for the
mock "M day," many of the
90.000 troops through stealthy
night maneuvers were arrayed
along a 33-mile front stretching
southward from the St. Law-
rnce and sparring lor an open
Mng blow
AMERICAN VESSEL
Radio Tells of Action Off
Acapulco Early Today
No Official Report.
San Francisco, Aug. 19 (Pi
MacKay Radio company an
nounced today message had
been received from the Amer
ican freighter Herman Frasch
stating it had been stopped and
boarded bv officers of a Mexi
can gunboat, off Acapulco, Mex
ico. The radio message was ad
dressed to all stations and all
naval stations, MacKay re
ported. It said "stopped and boarded
1520 GMT (720 a. m. Pacific
Standard Time) by Mexican
gunboat G22, 70 miles west
northwest Acapulco. Not al
lowed proceed. Now being
hnarrimt hv irmnl fnrrra
MacKay said the message was
received direct by the freighter
Panaman, which routed It to the
SS Socasta, from whence it was
broadcast to all stations.
The Herman Frasch was en
route from Pacific coast ports
to the east coast via the Panama
Canal.
Acapulco Is on the Pacific
side of the lower coast of Mexi
co. The ship is owned by the
Union Sulphur company of San
Francisco, and has been en
gaged in freight trade between
east and gulf ports and tha west
coast for more than ten years.
Customarily, she picks up sul
phur at gulf ports for the west
coast, and carries lumber and
general cargo east.
The Herman Frasch left San
Pedro Aug. 13 for New York.
She carries a crew of 35, is 356
feet long, of 2.641 net tons.
The vessel was built in 1920.
TO
Washington, Aug. 19 (IP)
Strengthening of the Hatch poli
tics law at points recently in
volved in controversy between
Democratic and Republican
party leaders was proposed to
day by Senator Hatch (D-NM),
who also asked that primary
elections be covered by the act.
One of his amendments. Hatch
said, would "make it clear that
the aggregate of political contri
butions which may be made by
any person, directly or indirect
ly, on a sing' calendar year
may not exceed $5,000."
RUMANIA REJECTS
Turnu-Severln, Rumania, Aug.
19. (P) The Hungarian-Ru
manian dispute over Transvyl
vania appeared near a deadlock
tonight.
Rumanian negotiators, reject
ing Hungary's demands for near,
ly two-thirds of the agricultur
ally rich province, offered coun
ter proposals which the Hun-
garlans apoarently regarded as
far from satisfactory.
Klamath Falls Noise Parade
Puts End to Socialist Talk
Klamath Falls. Aug. 19. (IP)
John W. Aiken, socialist la
bor party candidate for presi
dent of the United States, com
plained today about a "noise
parade" he said virtually broke
up a meeting he held on the
courthouse steps here last night.
He said the meeting was dis
rupted by about 20 persons who
drove their cars around and
around the courthouse blowing
their auto horns and creating
other noise. Aiken said the horn
blowers msy have thought they
were "real American'' but in
Oregon Gains
133,931
Washington, Aug. 19. (IP)
A 14 per cent population
Increase was reported today
in Oregon by the census bu
reau bringing the total of 1,
087.717. The state's 133,931 gain in
the last decade was spread
over nearly all its counties.
However, the changes ranged
from a decrease of 21.8 per
cent in Sherman county to an
Increase of 73.8 per cent in
Malheur county.
Changes in Oregon's cities
of 10.000 or more population
varied from a decrease of 2.4
per cent in Astoria to an in
crease of 17.2 per cent in
Salem. Portland, largest city
in the state, with count of
307,572, was 1.9 per cent
larger than In 1930.
NOMINATED FOR
WALLACES BERTH
Vice-Presidential Nominee to
Start Campaigning Sep
tember 5.
Washington, Aug. 19. (IP)
Claude R. Wickard, Indiana far
mer, was nominated by Presi
dent Roosevelt today to succeed
Henry A. Wallace, the democra
tic vice-presidential nominee, as
secretary of agriculture.
Since last winter, Wickard
has been undersecretary of ag
riculture. Mr. Roosevelt also sent to the
senate the nomination of Paul
H. Appleby of Maryland, to suc
ceed Wickard as undersecretary.
Appleby has served as an assis
tant to Wallace since he entered
the cabinet In 1933.
Hyde Park, N. Y., Aug. 19.
(IP) President Roosevelt today
accepted the resignation of Hen
ry A. Wallace as secretary of
agrlcultu'-, freeing his vice
presidential running mate to be
gin active campaigning for the
new deal on Sept. 8.
The secretary had Informed
his chief in a letter of resigna
tion that he believed thorough
ly In Mr. Roosevelt's "unique
capacities to lead the American
people in these troublous times
when experience and wisdom
are so essential. "..Therefore, he
id, he approached the work of
the campaign with eagerness.
In response, tht president as
serted: k
"You and I are content to
leave determination of the la
sues In the campaign this year
to the calm judgment of the vo
ters. Under our form of govern
ment there Is no higher arbitra
ment than the bar of public
opinion."
CANADIAN OPEN
Toronto, Aug. 19. IP Sam
Snead, long-driving Shawnee-on-Delaware,
Pa., professional,
today won the Canadian open
golf championship, defeating de
fending champion Harold (Jug)
McSpaden of Winchester, Mass.,
by one stroke in the 18-hole
playoff. Snead scored a 71, Mc-
Spaden 72,
fact they were attacking tha In
stitution of free speech and thus
making themselves members of
the "real fifth column".
Persons at the meeting, at
tended by about 100, said there
were frequent shouts at the
speaker from the audience ad
vising him to "go back to Rus
sia" and calling him a "Hitler
lover". It was after 10 p.m. that
the horn blowing parade
formed.
In his talk. Aiken attacked
the Dies committee on un-Amer-
Ican activities.
SENATOR ASSAILS
BULLITT'S SPEECH
AS 'NEARTREASON'
Envoy to France's Prediction
of Hitler Invasion Stirs-
Called 'War Monger-ina'
Washington, Aug. 19. (IP
Senator Clark (D-Idaho) told thj
i senate today the address of Am
Ibassador William C. Bullitt,
I predicting a German attack on
I the United States If Great BrW
tain is defeated, was "very, very
little short of treason."
Bullitt's speech, Clark added,
amounted to "an appeal to tha
American people to go into an
unprovoked foreign war now
for which he says they are not
prepared."
This he asserted, "c5mea
mighty, mighty close to being
false to the republic which put
him where he is."
Bullitt, ambassador to France,
made the address yesterday in
Philadelphia. He urged adop
tion of conscription and sun
ported aid for the British fleet.
Clark said Bullitt had sua
gested "dictatorship" as at
means for furthering American
defense.
"Any man who purports to
put up a dictatorship , ha com
tinued, "comes mighty close ta
being false to his country."
The Idaho senator added Bui
lltt's speech was "not only an.
proved but Inspired by the state)
department."
Senator Clark (D-Mo.) asked
Ashurst whether ha had given)
any thought to the possibility
that "the reason Mr. Bullitt i
roaming around the country
now asklnj for recognition foe
the fascist controlled French
government of Marshal Petain
Is that he is anxious to keep tha
commitments he has made)
from coming out in tha French)
war guilt trial."
Ashurst did not reply to this)
question, but remarked "how
difficult It is for an American
ambassador to keep quiet when
he should keep quiet."
Under tha circumstances, he)
said, "to Imagine Bullitt keep
ing quiet would be to imagine)
an iron balloon."
Clark of Missouri observed
"if Ambassador Bullitt did suc
ceed in getting up a war, he)
would find a safe placa to hid
during its progress."
"That's what he did in the)
last war", he added. "He found
a safe coffee-cooling job down
in the state department. That'a
why he looks with a good deal
more equanimity on going to
war than those who actually
took part in the last war."
Clark of Idaho broke In at
another point to remark that
Bullitt "obviously didn't write"
his speech "and obviously
couldn't write H, because it was)
a masterpiece.'
War Bulletins
Athens, Greece. Aug. 19
Turkey was reported In in.
formed quarters io have pro
mised Greece today to coma
la her aid In tha event this
country la threatened by
Italy.
A Southeast Coast Tewa of
England, Aug. 194P) The
Royal Air Force appeared to
be battering the German-held
French channel port of Bou
logne ionlght for tha fourth
time within 41 hours.
New York, Aug. l.VP)
British broadcast, heard hero to.
day by NB's short wave service,
said German Industrial produo
tion in the Ruhr and Rhine dia
tricta had dropped more than
30 per cent as a result of British
air raids.
London. Aug. 19. (IP) Tha:
air ministry announced tonight
that British planes last night
bombed Italian aircraft factories
at Milan and Turin, aluminum
and chemical works in Germany,
Boulogne harbor and airdromes
at Frieberg and Hamshelm, Germany.