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No. 138.
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THE
CAPITAL
PARADE
Br JOSEPH ALSOP. and
ROBERT KINTNER
Released by tha
North American Newspaper
Alliance. Inc.
Washington, Aug. 29. No
matter the outcome of the war,
feeding Europe is likely to be
a major issue in this country.
Before emotions are too much
aroused, it is pertinent to ex
plain the present situation, as
reported by competent authori
ties in close touch with the
American Red Cross and with
diplomats in France. In essence,
it is that this country will send
no food that will aid the Ger
mans; the British will not lift
their embargo, and the Germans
themselves want no Red Cross
representatives in occupied
France at the present time.
Rather naturally, therefore,
the Red Cross is doing little
work either in free or occupied
France. As it happened, how
ever, one of its ships, the Mc
Keesport, landed in France at
the time of the German victory,
and its 245 carloads of goods
were speedily distributed In free
territory, in station wagons car
ried on the ship This cargo of
food, clothing, drugs and other
medical supplies, in the opinion
of the Red Cross experts, for
tunately took "the edge off" the
most Dressing needs of free
France until late fall.
Neither the president nor
Chairman Norman Davis of the
Red Cross seem disposed to send
any sizable supplies to free
France for the time being. But
it is hoped that in a few weeks
some additional milk and cereal
may be dispatched to alleviate
the needs of children. While
the British remain firm on the
blockade, the Red Cross be
lieves that permission may be
obtained to land these limited
supplies. Free France not only
has the problem of its own
citizens but of 4,000,000 refu
gees, whom the Germans refuse
to allow to return to their
homes in occupied territory.
UNDER orders from Washlpgton.
none of the McKeesport supplies
vaa transported to German-occupied
territory, for It was a 09 to 1 chance
that the goode would never have
found their proper destination. This
rule was relaxed a bit, when It was
(Continued on Page Ten.)
REPORT GOERING
SHOT
Berlin, Aug. 30. W In re
sponse to reports circulated
abroad that Field Marshal
Goering had been shot down in
air combat, it was stated offic
ially Friday night that he is
alive and in good health.
SIDE GLANCES
br
TRIEUNE REPORTERS
lorente Lainu cooking cook -
ies for her sister Kate Wilson so
that she might feed them to the
chipmunks at Lake o' Woods.
An old friend making Inquir
ies as to the present where
abouts of Elsie Brown.
YValtov FraTor Rmivn hpinff
desirous that his name be t
spelled Walter Frazer instead of
Walter Fraser as it usually is.
Clarita McCormick being en
thusiastic about the new McCor
mick home on the mighty
Rogue, her room being located
so as to afford a dive out the
window into the mighty Rogue
which she admitted not having
tried as yet.
Beulah Fabers marvellous
wit causing a friend to flee from
her side because of too much
uncontrollable laughter at
semi-solemn occasion.
Leah Inch Emmens whipping
out into society n' looking u':tra
fashionable in a huge black hat
with a white ribbon bow.
FURIOUS FIGHTS !l
RAGE HIGH OVER
BRITISHJAPITAL
All Attacks Repulsed Shop
pers See Sky Battles and
Dives
Aug. 30 (tPi The fourth
of the day's air raid warnings
was sounded tonight in Lon
don. London. Aug. 30 P The
Krupp armament works at
Eisen and other military tar
gels in Germany, Holland.
Belgium and France were
raided by British bombers in
attacks last night, the air min
istry reported tonight.
The night raids followed
daylight forays on airdromes
in Nazi occupied Holland and
on convoys and shipping along
the Dutch coast, it said.
(By the Associated Press)
London, Aug. 30. Furious
dog fights raged high in the
skies over London today as
waves of German bombers,
some of them dropping bombs
in dive attacks upon the out
skirts, struck again and again
at the British capital.
Three air raid alarms kept
the city running to and from (
air raid shelters irom just De-
fore noon until nearly 8 p. m.
(9 a. m. PST) when the clear
signal of the last alarm sounded.
The first two waves, per
haps 400 in all, were turned j
DacK auer nerce duuics.
But in the last attack, the
sound of dive bombers could
be heard at a distance in the
outskirts, and the sounds of
motors indicated there were
large numbers of them.
Barrage Helps
British sources said the third
attack too was turned back by
the British fighters aided by an
intense anti-aircraft barrage.
First reports indicated that at
least three of the bombers had
been destroyed.
At least 20 bombers flew at
a great height over one district
in London during this raid, but
a swarm of British fighters met
them and split up the forma
tion. Heaviest fighting occurred
over a London suburb where
hundreds of afternoon shoppers
saw a force of British fighter
planes pounce on a formation
of more than a score of raiders
flying in the sun.
The planes swirled and dived
and looped in a virtual free-for-all
as the formation broke
up.
Some of the attack bombers
dumped their missiles in their
flight.
A moment after the forma
tion was broken up, one bomber
was seen falling with two fight
ers swooping down on its tail.
Two others crashed near
where the first one fell.
There was an unconfirmed
rpport that at least one other
' also may have been shot down
in another London area during
the fight.
The sound of diving planes
was followed by the explosion
of bombs, indicating that some
dive-bombers got in their licks,
In earlier tries to break
1 through London s defenses, me
Germans lost 19 bombers. mak-
. ing an indicated total cost of
today's smash at the capital li
and possibly 23 or more.
While the third raid on the
London area was in progress.
the Germans, using dispersion
i tactics,
were feinting other
areas In the southeast and
northwest.
Berlin Report
Berlin. Aug. 30. PI DNB,
the official German news agen
cy, said nazi bombing squadrons
attacked airdromes in south
England late today, especially in
Hampshire, and shot down a to
tal of SI British planes.
Fifteen German planes were
acknowledged missing.
Highway Tragedy
Kellogg, Idano, Aug. 30. (VPl
Donald Hawks wood. 16, of
Salt Lake City, was killed and
four other persons were injured i Portland s outskirts today, re
when the truck in which they 'moving several homes from the
were riding struck a soft shoul
der and rolled off the highway
near here today.
Norwegian Princess, Children in US.
Norwegian Crown Princess Martha, (rear, center) and her chll-
dr,n ar( ghown as they reached
York after their arrival from the
transport American Legion. The children, left to right, are Prince
Harald. 3; Princess Ailrld, Si Princess Ragnhild. 10. Carl J. Ham-
bro. ex-president of the Norwegian parliament. Is shows at right
in background
BASEBALL
American
Boston 5 11 2
Philadelphia 4 8 0
Ostermuellcr, Heving, and
Foxx, Peacock; Beckman, Ba
bich, and Hayes.
National
Brooklyn 6
11 0
10 3
Cincinnati 2
Hamlin and Franks;
Thomp-
son, Beggs, and Lombardi.
BENTLEY SHOOTS
73 TO QUALIFY
Mid-afternoon qualifiers In the
Southern Oregon-Northern Cali
fornia Golf tournament at the
Rogue Valley club saw Sid Mil -
ligan of Eugene and Hubert B.
Bentley of Ashland. 1937 cham -
Dion, card 73 s: Ken Omlid of
Eugene shoot a 78 and Don Leal
of Eugene register an 00.
(More golf on sports page)
LCLAI
L
BERLIN. Aug. 30. Ger
man sources declared tonight
that 80 British planes had becndier,
destroyed in extensive Nazi air
j raids on airports in southern
j England. Twenty-one German
, planes were acknowledged miss
ing.
I The announcement said there
were numerous "surprise raios
ion Britain during the day most
of them on airports and other
! Royal Air Force facilities.
Numerous air battles took
place over south England and
the channel.
London Aug. 30. (VP)
Fom"two German planes were
brought down over Great Brit-
ain today and 10 British planes
were lost, ine niniiowy ui m- .......
formation announced tonight, i ing S. Jones had been im
Four of the British pilots es- mersed in an irrigation ditch an
carwd. the announcement said,
The figures were on air fight
ing over Britain in which the gen after Mrs. Hensley restored
Germans three times tried to, respiration by the mouth-to-break
through the aerial de- mouth method. The Jones fam
fenses of London up to 7:30 ily came here recently from
I p. m., (10:30 a. m., PST.)
Portland, Aug. 30 iP Fire
men checked brush blazes on
- : danger of destruction- One
' curred in the northeast district
land two In the southeast.
"
the Waldorf-Astoria hotel In New
old world aboard the U. S. army
EIGHT OF FLIERS
BALE OUT SAFELY
Kalama. Wash.. Aug. 30
Eight army fliers who baled out
of a crippled twin-engined bom
ber in the dense woods of the
Columbia river country were
found safe today.
Kalama, Wash-, Aug. 30 IP)
An army bomber crashed in
wooded country east of here to
day and shortly afterwards Mc
Chord field reported that a twin
motored Douglas plane from the
73d bombing squadron, carrying
eight men, had been overdue
i since 10:30 a. m.
Jimmy Brattche, a farmer
iwho lives in the rugged country
'east of here, said he saw two
men parachute to safety. One of
the army men also made his
way to a telephone and reported
that he believed all of his com
panions had baled out safely.
The public relations office at
McChord field listed the men
aboard the plane as:
First Lieut. Jack N. Donohew,
a West Point graduate, the pilot.
Lieut. Henry P. King, co-pilot.
Staff Sergt. H. A. Davis, crew
chief and engineer.
Sergt. D- T. DeLong, bomba-
Privates T. H. Stitt, W. L.
! Huntley, H. W. Dullingcr and
! W. A. James.
LIFE INTO BABY
r.r.n. t... a,,, tn (.it.
-Mildred Hcnsley blew the
breath of life back Into Hazel
Annie Jone, Thursday after-
noon after the 17-months-old
j estimated three minutes. The
- icity resusritator supplied oxy-
Durango, Cal.
Punta Delgada, Azores, Aug.
30 ip) The British steamer
Ilvington Court, S.187 tons, was
torpedoed and sunk by an un
identified submarine 150 miles
; off Santa Maria, it was disclosed
'today.
ENGLAND ABLEl
TO LAST TO OCT. 1 GOP. WIN WILL BE
SHE MAY WIN WAR;HELP FOR HITLER
Bad Weather Due Then
Morale of British Under
Bombings, Vital.
By DeWltt MacKensie
The battle of Britain now has
reached a period where we can
pin down almost to the day the
time when it will be possible to
assay the outcome with far
greater confidence than we can
just now.
If England can hold out one
month more against the intensi
fied bombing, until October 1
approximately the beginning of
bad flying weather and rough
seas in the average year I be
lieve she will have established
her right to claim that she may
win the war.
If she cracks up before this
fateful month is passed obvi
ously Hitler has his conquest in
the bag. We shall be smart, too,
if we recognize that his position
is so powerful he may achieve
exactly that though he may
not.
There's one vital thing lack
ing to make it possible for us
to give a close estimate of what
may happen in the next month
and that is how much damage
the British isles are suffering
materially, and how much in
morale, if any. The British gov
ernment won't give us the an-
awer to that and the Germans
are unable to, for airmen can't
make accurate estimates of their
work while miles high.
It would be hard to believe
that the material damage isn't
heavy, but, I believe more de
pends on the condition of civil
ian morale. England can stand
to lose a lot of homes and fac
tories before her situation will
become desperate. Public mo
rale, though, not only must be
high but must increase with ad
versity. Indications are that the mo
rale of the British isles is riding
high- A striking picture of Eng
land's will to win is painted in
an article carried for this morn
ing's papers by the Associated
Press from E. A. Montague, an
English newspaperman in Lon
don. His theme is that he is happy
and "Britain today is a happy
country" because she at last "set
to work to make good the years
that the locust had eaten" dur
ing the period of appeasement
and indifference, and is deter
mined "to fight back until either
this nation or Hitler is de
stroyed." HOUSE BILL AIDS
LA
Washington, Aug. 30. iT)
The house has completed con
gressional action on a bill
(S927) giving the court of claims
Jurisdiction on the claim of Sun
crest Orchards, Inc., of Med
ford, Ore., for damages from
the government for alleged
wrongful seizure of 60 carloads
of pears In 1926.
The fruit was seized and held
for inspection by department of
agriculture agents and subse
quently was released. The com
pany claimed the delay made
the fruit unusable.
ne auncresi urcnaras were
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?'ACID HURLED AT
GREYHOUND STAGE
Eugene, Aug. 30 OP) A south
bound Greyhound passenger bus
was pelted with missiles and
acid as it sped along the Pacific
highway about two miles north
j oi z.ugene last night, city ponce
I were notified.
WALLACE CHARGES
Appeasement Issue Injected
Into Campaign in Accept
ance Speech.
Des Moines. Ia.. Aug- 30 UP)
Henry A. Wallace Thursday
night called upon the voters of
the United States to curb Hit
ler's "designs against this hemi
sphere" by re-electing President
Roosevelt.
Formally accepting the Demo
cratic nomination for vice-president
in a prepared address here
in his home town, the former
secretary of agriculture charged
the Republicans with being "the
appeasement party in the Unit
ed States today."
Titling the speech "the new
fight for freedom," Wallace de
clared this nation "must face the
fact that the dictators have def
inite designs against this hemi
sphere."
In a speech formally accepting
the nomination here last night
before a crowd estimated at
7,000 persons, Wallace declared:
"Powerful elements in our op
position will, if the Republicans
come into power, force us to
make one economic concession
after another to the totalitarian
countries.
"These appeasers will have
their way if the Republicans
win, because they have contrib
uted largely, both politically and
financially to the Republican
cause. These people believe the
Republicans in power would
give - them profitable business
with a German-controlled Eur
ope at the earliest possible mo
ment." Addressing an enthusiastic
crowd of fellow townsmen,
Iowans and farm delegations
from several other midwestern
states, Wallace was applauded
when he expressed belief that
the American people would not
"turn their backs on the man
that Hitler wants to see defeat
ed." President Roosevelt has be
come "the symbol of democ
racy" particularly to the nations
of North and South America, the
speaker said.
"Hitler must not be permitted
to break the solidarity of the
Americas," he continued. "If the
Americas present to the axis
powers the same divided front
as the democracies of Europe
presented to them, we shall as
suredly walk the same path of
destruction and lost freedom."
The nominee charged the "dic
tators have definite designs
against this hemisphere" and
said "they hope to get rid of the
unyielding Roosevelt in the
coming election.
"They know that a political
campaign is distracting to our
people." he added, "and they
know that in the many months
that would elapse before a new
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Berlin. Aug. 30. (T)
Authoritative sources an
nounced tonight that Britain
had notified Germany that
British sea forces after today
would refuse to give the pro
tection accorded by the Red
Cross to German hospital and
rescue ships operating In the
English channel and North
sea.
The Germans promptly de
clared that if any such vessel
were attacked there would be
reprisals.
NAZI TROOPS TO
GUARD RUMANIA'S
EASTERN BORDER
Yields Transylvania for Pro
tection Guarantee Axis
Faces Russia.
By the Associated Press
Bucharest, Rumania, Aug. 30.
Rumania, obeying the orders
of Germany and Italy, gave up
between 17.000 and 21.000
square miles of her territory to
day in a swift drama of power
politics that will permit Nazi
soldiers to occupy her eastern
frontier and stand face to face
with the restless Soviet armies.
Confronted with an "or else"
ultimatum from the axis, she
agreed to suffer one more dis
memberment to hand over
about half of the World war-
won province of Transylvania
to Hungary with the under
standing that what Is left of the
country will be protected by
Germany herself.
The effect of all this was not
only to lengthen greatly the Nazi
line of troops across southeastern
Europe a line that could be
come instantly barrier to Rus
sia but to improve Hungary's
own position in the same con
nection. For the part of Transyl
vania given back to her encom
passes the Carpathian mountain
region which ia her traditional
barrier against invasion from the
east by Soviet Russia.
The negotiations were carried
on at Vienna, in a meeting head
ed by Joachim von Ribbentrop,
the German foreign minister,
and his Italian colleague, Count
Galcazzo Ciano.
All during last night they
went on, while here in Bucha
rest King Carol received a long
line of distinguished advisers
who one after another told him
that there was only ona thing
to do, . ,
Just after midnight, accord
ing to authoritative accounts of
what went on in the palace, the
king got an urgent telephone call
from Vienna. He was told that
he had five minutes more to de
cide. The Rumanian high com
mand reported It could not pos
sibly defend the country against
three simultaneous thrusts, and
Rumania capitulated.
bare yon been, en relief..
Kwpaper Polls of America, Ine )
FDR. STATE VIEWS
ON PLANT DRAFT
Says Wallace and President
'Misrepresent' Charge
GOP. 'Appeasers' Hit.
Rushville. In.. Aug. 30 IJFi
For the second time ln 24
.hours, Wendell L. Willkle call
ed on President Roosevelt to
I day to state his views on con
Iscription of industry for na
tional defense.
The Republican presidential
candidate was told Mr. Roose
velt had refused at Hyde Park
(N. Y.) press conference to com
ment on the Overton-Russell
amendment, which would let
the government under certain
conditions take over factories
for defense production.
The president asked inquiring
reporters if it was customary
for the chief executive to com
ment on measures before con
gress. ,
"I cannot believe that the
president meant to say that he
has never commented on pend
ing legislation," Willkle said in
a statement.
'"Did he have nothing to say
about the legislation packing
the supreme court while that
legislation was pending ln con
gress? Did he not tell congress
to pass the Guffey coal act ir
respective of doubt about its)
constitutionality?
"If my memory serves ma)
correctly, the president has
commented many times on
pending legislation but even if
ha has not, I think it is the
clear duty of a president of tha
United States to state his posi
tion on important pending leg
islation. "Again I ask tha president
without regard to my motives
is he for or against tha Overton-Russell
amendment. Was it
introduced ln the United States
senate with his knowledgo and
approval? Does ha believe ln its
principles?"
"The president Is correct in
his statement about me if ha
meant to imply that I am doing
my very best to induce him to
state his position on problems
confronting the American peo
ple. I think It tha duty of
man running for president to
state his position on such prob
lems and doubly so when ha
Is seeking a third term."
"As I previously told corres
pondents with reference to that
portion of Mr. Wallace's noti
fication speech having to do
with appeasement, Mr. Wallace
was one hundred percent wrong,
and now the president is one)
hundred percent wrong in Im
plying that the Republican
party is the party of appease
ment. The reverse is completely
true.
"The president announced to
the press at the time I delivered
my acceptance talk, that he did
not have time to listen to It
I know he Is very busy but
before commenting on the Re
publican attitude toward such
subjects as appeasement, per
haps a perusal of the Republi
can platform and my talk would
show him that both he and Mr.
Wallace have made a misrepre
sentation." The president said today Wal
lace's speech spoke excellently
I for itself. Wallace called tha
GOP the party of appeasement.
"It may be that the Ameri
can people want to socialize and
Soviettze our system of free en
terprise," the Republican presi
dential nominee told reporters
, yesterday.
"If they do. that Is all right,
but that is one of the funda
mental issues of the campaign
and I want to debate it"
Hyde Park. N. x., -ug. 80.
p) president Roosevelt
charged today that efforts were
being made to involve him In
a political controversy over a
provision of the conscription
bill authorizing the government
to take over private Industrial
plants.
, He declined at a press con
ference to answer Wendell L.
Willkle's demand that he state
his postion on the provision,
asserting that an attempt was
being made to Involve him In
1 a political discussion.