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GALE GANS W “Slacker Family, Says Minton; ‘Mudslinger,’ Roars Holt SUEZ CONTROL
FURY, SWEEPS ~ TOWARD TEXAS
Winds Exceeding Hurricane Proportions Possible, Gulf | Residents Warned. |
NEW ORLEANS. Aug. 7 (UG. P) High winds along the west Louisiana coast will strike inland between Sabine and Port Arthur, Tex., within the next few hours, the United States Weather Bureau said today. | The Bureau estimated the high | winds would attain a velocity of 90! miles an hour at Sabine, center of | the storm. Hurricanes are 70 miles an hour or more Port Arthur will have winds of 70 to B80 miles an hour and Beaumont will be in the path of 70-mile-an-hour winds, The hurricane northwestward at about 10 miles an hour, the Bureau said. It was central at 10:30 a. m. between Sabine | and Johnson Bavou, La. just off! the Louisiana coast Cameron—right on the gulf treme western Louisiana—was feet under wate! The Weather Bureau urged precautions against dangerous winds in | the area in the storm's path and | very high tides near and west of Sabine Lake,
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At Port Arthur state highway patrolmen began evacuating residents from beach settlements along the Gulf of Mexico. | f During the night the storm | whipped the coastal sections of | Louisiana from Morgan City to Lake Charles. Many residents fled The Greek freighter Oropos, which | had been in distress off the mouth! of the Mississippi River, notified the Coast Guard that its crew had made repairs and she was able to proceed The storm, which started as = tropical disturbance south of the Mississippi River mouth two days ago, aimed first toward the Missis- | sippi coast and swerved back westward. Late yesterday it began gaining in intensity. All rlong the Louisiana coast bayous and lowlands, residents left their homes The Coast Guard, state police and sheriffs sided in warning residents and taking them to higher ground. Hundreds were housed in courthouses, school buildings and other substantial structures Seventeen persons today by D West,
were rescued the Coast Guard in -Bavou off Barataria Bav south of New Orleans, and taken to Morgan City, La. It was believed to include the party composed of a priest and Bayou families
Plane Surveys Damage
A Coast Guard plane fiving over the Barataria Bay area observed sheds overturned and boats Sunk | but little damage done to partially | uninundated homes, As the storm went westward, gaining in intensity, damage to smaller structures increased. Automobiles on highways were imperiled, many of them overturned One young woman, Miss Helen Reed, 18, of New Iberia, was killed when che jumped from her automobile near Lake Charles early today. The Coast Guard seaplane fying over the Barataria region spotted a distress flag Hying from a cabin in the swamps along Bassabassa Bay. The plane landed: and left. provisions for a man and his wife Coastal highwavs east of New Orleans along the Gulf Coast were still under water today. MIAMI, Fla., Aug. 7 opical storm forging through Bahama Islands altered its course today, veering to the northwest. It! was centered about 275 miles eastsoutheast of Nassau, capital of . Bahamas.
DESTRY T00 ROUGH, DUNKIRK FILM 0. K.
ZURICH, Switzerland, Aug. 7 (U P.).—The American-made western ' motion picture, “Destiny Rides Again,” was banned after one day by Zurich police today on the | grounds that it displayed too much fighting and shooting News reels on the same program showing the destruction of Dunkirk were Pepmitied | to continue
HERE'S YOUR ROOM WITH BOMB EXPOSURE
NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (U. P).—A)} newspaper from Dover, England, which has been bombed heavily recently arrived in New York today. It contained this rooming house ad: | ‘Nice rooms with every con-| venience, facing the enemy.”
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Senator Holt | . . "When Administration wants mud thrown, you throw it.’
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JAN. TS URGED
i, Talk Is Heard As House Group Invites Woodring, Pershing.
FRED W. PERKINS | Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 fidence of the Senate that it can pass a conscription bill
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within two weeks was diluted today
by symptoms of support for a compromise Chances for developed, however, the House | side when the Military Affairs Com- | mittee voted today to reopen hearings and invited former Secretary Woodring, and others The committee vesterdav had voted 11 to 10 against inviting Mr. | Woodring, a conscription foe, ana Gen. Pershing, a proponent of the measure, Others who will be in-| vited to appear next Tuesday unde: the new agreement include Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, former | Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson and Brig. Gen. Hugh S
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Rep. Dewey Short (R. Mo.), vesterday was termed a fifth columnist because he wanted more witnesses to be heard.
Maloaey Favors Wait
The compromise now by opponents of immedia conscription, with one from opponents of any peacetime conscription at all, is sponsored by Senator Francis T. Maloney (D. Conn.), usually an supporter
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Jan. 1 and encourage voluntary enlistments in the meantime- —by raising the Army's minimum pay to $30 a month and placing enlistments on a one-year basis Such a draft foe as Sen: - Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mon:.). who denies that a national ATA exists and who sees no justification for changing the traditional peacetime system of getting Army recruits, would accept the Maloney compromise—but would try to change it to forbid conscription until after a declaration of war Probability of strong support for the Maloney compromise or some(Continued on Pie 1 Teen)
STOCKS SLIP OFF; IGNORE GOOD NEWS
Du Pont, Westinghouse Gain; Steels Holding Up.
NEW YORK, Aug. 7 Wall Street ignored favorable domestic market news and continued |to trade in stocks on a small scale | pending further war developments |
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Stocks opened irregularly lower in dull turnover. After the opening, the list barely moved from initial levels By the end of the third hour a pre‘dominance of losses was noted. although steels seemed to be meeting (support. Du Pont and Westinghouse Electric showed losses of more | than a point, but elsewhere changes {were small.
NEW ALLISON GOAL IS 20 MOTORS DAILY
With the completion in the next few weeks of the $2.000000 expansion to its main plant, the Allison motor division's new production goal will be 20 airplane motors per
day.
The General Motors unit, which this week underwent a shift in executive personnel, is now reported
to be turning out between six and |
eight liquid-cooled engines a day. Engineers hope to reach the 20-motor-a-day goal within 30 to 60 days.’
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U.P. ~The feud between Senator Rush D. Holt (D. W. Va.) and Senator Sherman Minton (D, Ind.) broke out again on the Senate floor today when Senator Holt accused the latter of making a “venomous attack” upon his dead father,
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, AuR. 7.—~Both Senators Sherman Minton and Rush D. Holt were ready to renew their personal feud on the Senate floor today and thus continue what one listener termed “the battle of the stencherv.’ For not since the late Senator Huey P, Long was assassinated has Senate debate degenerated into such below-the-belt personal attacks. Conscription was vesterday afternoon Senator Minton (D, Ind.) and Senator Holt (D. W. Va.) who jumped in the fire over the matter Said Senator Holt-—-opponent of conscription legislation: “The alien doctrine of conscription came from foreign shores and was incubated in the banks and law firms of Wali Street.”
the subject and it was
Lown Firm Robbed of $730;
In the gallery, the crowd roared. Up jumped Senator Minton. “TI am sick and tired and impatient of being lectured by a member of a slacker family. When 1 was in France in 191% the father of the Senator from West Virginia was preaching that vou shouldn't raise food to send to me. That's the kind of patriotism represented bv the Senator from West Virginia.”
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“Whenever the Administration wants filth and gutter mud thrown thev alwavs turn to you.” “And when Hitler wants jt thrown, you throw it,” Minton retorted. During the verbal cross-fire Senator Minton had asserted Senator Holt's brother, who was of draft age. had fled to South America to escape World War duty, ‘ “Malicious hurled back Recalling that his father had been burned in effigy, Senator Holt said his father also was “knocked down by rocks thrown by men who claimed to be patriots —impelled by the same hysteria
that now is sweeping this country.” He sat down and cheerad again. Later the dispute fared again when Senator Minton read from the Clarksburg (W..Va.) BExponent of April 12, 1917, an article declaring that Senator Holt's father was cheered bv Socialists when he stated that his boy had been sent to South America so he would not become “cannon fodder.” “Those present can tell what is wrong with the Senator from Indiana,’ Senator Holt retorted “The last primary Senator Minton began again. “The newspaper story has been proved untrue, but of course, like lice, it continues to be carried by rats,” Senator Holt broke in “The truth of the matter is that the Senator from Indiana isn’t in shape to be on the floor.” “T want the Senator from West Virginia to say what he means.” Senator Minton shouted back angrily. Senator Holt did not reply, The West Virginian, who was defeated in the primary for re. nomination, declined to explain
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Girl Tied Up With Fishline SPLURGE IS DUE
At 8.15 this morning, the Irish eves of Miss Marv O'Gara were not smiling-—they were flashing like an air beacon. Because at that time, a gun was pulled on her bv one of two voung men who had come into the Used Finance Co. Inc. where she works, and asked to refinance a car. “Be quiet,” he said, “this holdup.” At 342 N Co. office
IS & Illinois St., the Finance has ceiling-high windows on both the Illinois and Vermont St. sides. The gunman and his companion ordered 18-vear-old Miss O'Gara to the rear of the office and into a little windowless cubbvhole The unarmed man produced some
fishing line,
“Sit down on the floor " he said Miss O'Gara sat down. He proceeded to tie her wrists so tightly that two hours later there were ugly welts where the line had been. “Don’t hurt me.” she said. “We won't one of them said, “We hate to do this, but we have to
live.”
Then he tied her ankles together and they scooped up $729.06 from the safe and cash box, “Don’t scream when we one said, and thev left. About a half hour later a newshoy brought the paper into the office. Miss O'Gara called and he released her. Shortly thereafter the rest of the office force arrived.
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F. . R. PREPARES FOR NON- POLITICAL TOUR
Defense \wption May Include New England.
HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 7 P.) President Roosevelt made plans today to inspect another part of the national defense in a | political” tour that may into New England
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| Meanwhile, the Presicent arranged |
a strategy conference tomorrow with his running mate. Henry A. Wallace. and Commerce Secretary Harry L. Hopkins, During his visit here, Mr. Wallace probably will iron out final details of his acceptance ceremony. He has announced it will probablv be held at Des Moihes, Ta., between Aug. 22 and Aug. 29 Following up his disclosure that he is planning home guard units [formed around war veterans, the President is expected to leave the summer White House late this week to inspect Navy bases. It was believed that Mr. Roose- | velt would visit the submarine base at New London, Conn, the Navy {yard at Boston, Mass. and other! major naval establishments on the New England seaboard. It ‘until about mid- -August, an inspection of the First Army now maneuvering in upstate New York. The President has insisted that his defense inspection trips will be without political implications. The political campaign was beginning to make itself felt, however, in the seclusion of the summer White House. Tomorrow Mrs. Roosevelt be host to nearly 850 women political leaders of five mid- Hudson | counties at a tea. The President | |may attend, and, perhaps, make a brief yfvecr.
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‘NEW CHARGES FILED IN DETROIT GRAFT PROBE
DETROIT, Aug. 7 (U. P.).—A new indictment alleging acceptance of graft for protection of more than 200 handbook operators in the city was returned today against high Detroit and Wayne County officials. Those named, many of whom previously have been indicted bv the special grand jury investigating collusion between officials and vice operators, included former Mayor Richard W. Reading. his son Richlard W. Reading Jr. Prosecutor Duncan C. McCrea former Police Superintendent Fred Frahm, and {numerous minor police officers,
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nl of Millions to Be Spent in U. S. for War | Needs, Purvis Says.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 Arthur B. Purvis, chief British Purchasing Mission, day that Great Britain spend “hundred of millions lars” more in country tanks and field artillevy Myr, Purvis disclosed at ‘time that Admiral A. E. Evans of (the British Navy had been signed to the commission to vise it on “naval construction use.” He said Mr. Evans was specifically concerned, with proiposals for the sale of 50 World War ‘destroyers to Britain | “However, I hope this a dead issue” Mr. Purvis
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WILKE TO MEET LANDON NEXT WEEK
Back in Colorado. He Works be invested in new items, Again on Elwood Speech tanks and field artillery.” .
He made light of statements of 7 American defense experts that the COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. United States would not be able for Aug, 7 (U, P.).—Wendell L. Willkie Some time to produce enough war settled down today to winding up his ‘planes to supply the British with their announced quota of 3000 a formal acceptance address, of which month sections dealing with agriculture | Optimistic as to Output and military conscription have not been fAnished. “T have lived here for 25 vears | When the Republican Presidential 8nd no one can tell me that such a nominee compieted his speech. his production rate is impossible in the | to ig States.” and | Purvis confirmed London inHe titi that the technical adweek O. Ps
Ber Purvis was accompanied hy Gen. D. H. Pratt and Michael fore British tank experts who reSoy arrived in this country to as- | purchasing commission in wl problems in connection vid the new program.’ r buying program increased.” Mr
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map his campaign itinerary make other final preparations. has arranged to confer next with Alf M. Landon, the G. 1936 Presidential candidate | Mr. Willkie's aides said ‘probably would also see former President Herbert Hoover, possibly in a Montana hunting lodge, before he left for Elwood, Ind. to deliver his speech, Aug. 17. | The candidate returned to Colo{rado Springs late yesterday by airplane after a vigorous sally into the home state of Henry A. Wallace, | Secretary of Agriculture, and the Demcratic Vice Presidential nominee. Mrs. Miller Hamilton of Indianlapolis, a sister of Mrs. Willkie, | joined the candidate's party yester- | day in Des Moines and will remain here for several days.
NEWS BROADCASTER DIES | DETROIT, Aug. 7 (U. P.) —Curtis C. Bradner, regarded as one of the! nation's first news broadcasters, died at Alexander Blain Hospital today | after a brief illness from a collapsed ‘lung. He was 62.
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increased soon. He said stood that “there are perts on the wav here.” | Arthur Greenwood, minister without portfolio in the Churchill Government, told the House of Commons at London earlier today that purchases of American war materials were being stepped up and that additional technicians were beling dispatched to this country Mr. Greenwood also told Commons that British bombing raids had heavily damaged German industrial areas and “seriously interfered” with production for Nazi war machine, He said that the Government was acting to make certain that the |Germans would not draw sustenance from fen Sources,
that he
SOVIET NAVY BEGINS Wa LONDON, Aug. 7 (U. ~The | British Broadcasting Co. hi today that Radio Moscow reported the Soviet fleet had begun “big scale , maneuvers’ in the Pacific ‘Ocean.
Bearing Children Chief Role of Girls
Under Plan to Make France Great Again TENT BEER PARLORS | BARRED IN ELWOOD
VICHY, France, Aug. 7 (U.P) .—!sity of reforming its ways of the The future role of French girls will dving,” he said. “There are villages
“ i which once had a population of Be 0 Swear Children 50 His, France 3000, but are now down to 1000, and may grow great again,” according
there are places where deaths outto Jean Yharnegary, Minister of number births three to one. Youth and the Family, " “There are many reasons for this | Announcing some of the principal falling birth rate, but one of the reforms which the Government will worst is divorce. For the past 20 ‘put into effect soon, M. Ybarnegary vears there have been 20,000 diindicated there would be strict con- vorces annually.” trol of divorce and an effort made Ybarnegary indicated that to keep women from factories by, lereation of graduated wage scales lon the basis of the number of children in the family. |
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participate. “Girls in the schools will learn adopt athletics preparing them for can be sold for “off the role in, life—to bear |
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he meant although pressed to do so by Senator Minton, Tt was thought that he meant Senator Minton was drinking=-which was not the case Senator Minton went on to advocate the draft bill, because of what he considered an international emergency “If the time comes that Congress shall vote another war, and it becomes my dutv to do it,” he said in an emotional voice, "T will stand up and do it like a man but God forbid that 1 shall ever have to do it But if that unhappy time comes, T will walk out of mv door, and take my bov's hand in mine and we will go down tn the recruiting station together and do our duty as American citizens.” Senator Minton was an infantry captain in the A. E. FP. Senator Holt said he planned to have copies of Senator Minton's charges and his reply printed and distributed in Indiana, where Senator Minton is up for re-election In a radio address last night, Senator Holt charged the Admin istration with a program of “subterfuge and hypocrisy” to “get us into the Buropean war.”
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First the Nazis, Now Burglors
HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 7 (U.P) The Earl and Counves, of Jersey, who recently Inst their Bnglish Channel Island to German: have suffered a further loss in the theft of $2000 worth of jewelry be. Innging to the Countess the former ac~ tress, Virginia Cherrill Miss Cher rill, divoreed wife of Cary J ¥ SN oan “Holy. Miss Cherrill wood hone was burglarized when she and her husband were nattending a theater performance Monday night
WARMER AGAIN : AND NO RAIN VET =
Cooling Breve et Night Raised False Hopes, Armington Says.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES 62 10 a. m. 11 a. m. 12 (noon) 1pm...
It'll be hot, but not muggy today And there will be no rain. J. H, Armington, Weather Burea head, said the temperature will mount into the high 80s and may go into the 90s, The forecast is fair tonight and tomorrow with warmer weather tomorrow,
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Although the prospects are for no extreme heat, the cooling breezes of
'ast night do not presage any break in the hot spell. A wave of cold air preceding a high pressure area swept, over the state last night bringing temperatures as low as 58! degrees in many parts of the state, "he lowest here was 61 at 5 o'clock this morning GGoshen and Lafayette were the coolest, spots in the state last night where temperatures were down tn 58 degrees, Ft. Wayne and South Bend recorded 62 and Terre Haute 63 To alleviate dzmage to state crops
and threat of worse to come, only | in a
scattered light showers fell few sections Only Evansville reported rain in any proportions, shower was reported there yesterday,
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LONDON, Aug. 7 (U, P.).— Survivors disclosed today that the Pritish motorship Accra was sunk off the Irish Coast on July 25 by a submarine, Authorities denied that the 9337-ton ship carried any | refugee children.
hygiene and child welfare. We also are going to select peasants to teach peasant children in the schools and they will teach the children the things they should know regarding the soil, harvesting and wine making so that when they
grow up they will be better peasants i+ wae decided not to issue any tem. | [local press at his suburban villa at
and happy to stay on the farm instead of going to the city. “We will institute a reform in sports, and, instead of a few, all
posed educational plans would be French youths will be encouraged to quencher can be For the girls we will premises and seven places where ft
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3-MONTHS GAS PROFIT. TRIPLED
_~ Our Net $44,600; By-Products Sales Almost Equal Meter Income.
i Profits A Coke Utility for the guarter sneaing June 30 were more than three timeg lor the same
of the Oitizens Cas
| preater than those period last vena The directors [the City | profits, after provision for | | tirement, at $135,643. The profit, for [the same period last year was $44» 624, and for two years ago it wa: £29 258 Improved business eandition: Jue in the utility's gross nope g revenues of $1663349 up | $184 Ron over last vear and $379,000 [over (Wo vears ago Contributing te the improved SHOWIHE was a 875.000 increase in sales. 8706018, and a $01.000 gain in coke sales.-8§622.526
Operating Costs Increase
Sales of other byproducts, $74 826 were down a few dollars, while mis. cellaneous revenue, such as gas ap[pHance sales, showed a handsome RAIN Total operating |
quarterly report
Controller today listed net
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for $90,000,
costs [quarter increased about ($1,157,228 A study of the report reveals that pas sales were only $100,000 higher than the income from hyproducts, [such as coke, tar and ammonia | The income from byproducts, together with gas appliance sales and miscellaneous revenue, was $71,000 greater than that from gas sales, The over-all picture for the first half of the present year shows gross income up 21 per cent and net profit up more than 200 per cent, Tn dollars and cents, the comparison shows a gross income gain of $608, - | 000 and a net $204 000 | During the second quarter, the utiiity paid $25,009 to the Civil Cit) and $40,000 to the School City In (© pgs on Page Three)
CALL FOR NEW BIDS SAVES CITY $1664
Low Contraction Pures Sum
From Original Proposal.
[ The City saved $1664 hy enfore‘ing a technicality today | The saving was accomplished through the opening of new bids on | the reconstruction of the big White {River interceptor sewer, after bids ton the project were rejected last (week. Low bidder today was the [Columbia Construction Co. of Tn-
|dianapolis, which submitted an esti- |
imate of $39977 for the work In the previous bidding, Columbia also was low bidder, but its price | was $41 641, | The first bid was rejected by the Works Board after the Columbia bid was received without a state‘ment of the company's financial leondition, which is required under
=== City bidding regulations,
The City decided to reject all bids [in order to give the low bidder an{Tver oH.
Beer parlors in tents will be conspicuous hv their absence at the Willkie notification ceremonies Aug 17 in Elwood The State Alcoholic Beverages Commission announced today that
porary permits for the occasion. There already are enough regular ‘beer sources in Elwood, with 20 [places where the foamy thirst drunk on the
consumption, said Hugh
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ITALY'S AIM ON
AFRICAN FRONT
or s War Machine Eases y | Air Attacks on Britain: Spain Hints Entry,
BULLETINS R10 DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Aug. 7 (1, PP) =The newspaper A Noite reported today that cannonading | haf heen heard af sen northeast | of Rio De Janeirn and that it was
assumed that British and German | armed ships were ongaged,
LONDON, Aug. 7=The Al Ministry satd tonight that British hombing planes had raided Le Bourget Alrdrome at Paris and attacked ofl plants, supply bases and factories in Holland and Ger. many, starting many fires andl tloing much damage,
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By JOE ALEX MORRIS
United Press Pareizn News Bditay
The Axis Powers chal lenged the British Empire's armed forces in the Mediterranean and Africa today, but ‘sought to reassure the Amer. ica that war operations would be confined to the Eu
ropean side of the Atlantic,
| On widely-seattersd African fronts ane in hombing expedition: against the vital British bases at Alexandria i Baifa, the Pascist armed forees ware reported cautiously punching nt enemy defenses, with control of the Suez Oanal as their ultimate ohierctive Adolf Hitler's war machine res mained momentarily in the backs ground with continued sporadis aerial raids on the British Isles, but there appeared to be an increased agitation regarding possible partici» pation by Spain on the side of the Axis Powers Spain “on Verge nf War”
Rome, reports ware pers
mittee to circulate that another bombing attack on Gibraltar might have involved Spanish plans: and at Madrid the Falangist newspaper Arriba asserted that Spain was a “moral belligerent” and ‘on ths verge of war” against Britain | The Palangist party 13 a powsy in Spain, bit the Spanish Govern ‘ment has sought to maintain an
"outward position of neutrality, Res
peatedly there have been reports that Spain might join up with the Axiz Powers in order to get Gibraltar from Britain. but these usually havs baen discounted because of the eountry's economic position. On the other hand, the ¥Palangists have sought to aid the Axis propaganda onslaught against the British In regard to the Americas, the Fascist, newspaper editor, Virginie Gavia, wrote that the Axis Powsrs have no intention now or in the future of spreading the War Across the Atlantic His editorial was sharply critical of what he callsd “alarmist” statements hy United States Secretary of State. Cordell Hull and it sought to soothe any war fears that may exist in Latin America aly Takes Offensive
Ttalian operations in Africa aps peared to be preliminary to an oMensive from Libya against Egypt as well as drives already in progress (into Kenya Colony and British somalilanc Sun~bakec desert land where the [temperatures mount to 120 degress the British Navy which was Ye ported steaming along the Egyptian coast, and British African armies were the foes of the Fascist fighters, but go far the war has been fought most furiously in the air
Deny Thrust Into Egypt
There was little definite regarding operations of the three Ttalian cols umns that advanced into the dry and burning frontisr of British Somaliland (home of the famous British Camel Corps), in an effort to cut a path to the Gulf of Aden entrance to the Red Sea Italian airplanes, however, bombed Berbera, the chief port of the Brit ish territory, and also attacked the important port of Aden, across the | Gulf One British plane was shot down, the communique issued at Rome sald. Farther north, the British res ported that big Italian forces wers concentrated on the Libvan Frone tier (where the Fascists vesterday said they had crossed into Egypt land defeated a British patrol) but [that the only Ttalians on Egyptian (Continued on Page Three)
U. S. WAR WITH REICH SURE, TROTSKY SAYS
| MEXICO CITY, Aug. 7 (U, P.) == Leon Trotsky, exiled Russian gens eral, belteves the United States may become “the legitimate inheritor” of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and “a little bit of Latin America” with= out firing a shot, but facks inevitable .
(war later with Germany and Japan. .
Trotsky received the foreign and
Covoacan. He sald he believed the United States would smerge as the most imperialistic nation in the his tory of the world because of the influences of the war which is prompt ing the United States to build a
military force of wunprecetiented trength, . ;