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Parachutists Landed in England for Sabotage, Nazis Say

Here is one of the parachute troopers, thousands of whom were Parachute riflemen leap toward a contather of War apparatus, dropped from a fransport plane, These

The familiar Nazi technique of dropping parachute troops to clear the way for invasion is being used huge transports, carrving men and munitions, may Reure fext ih the attack nh England

Against Britain, Berlin reported today. Here German parachutists mushroom across the sky, dropped behind the lines during previous thvasions,

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CORN LOSS PUT Ss EWOODREADY “BRIAN HANTS "222%, 300 NAZI (RAFT

'| British Sense of Humor || | THE PROBLEM of the Works " . . | NEW YORK, Ate. 14 (UO ) Al $1. Board today was to open without Survives Rain of | WY SOLDIER ogg ng hn a key the box in which bids had knows when he's licked, pleaded t 1 ) higam:

eds heen placed for a street a I OMmos., guilty to a charge of in Brooklivn county court today while

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2 e Pardue Reports Huge Cut in bias in the locked box were as- There Will Be 6 Parades, LONDON Aw. 14 U.P) Its Equipment Reported Able to fhe two Mrs Branders fought i : | sembled for the letting. the little things that make a ne out in the eburt room State Yield: Hot Weather t "City Engineer M. G. Johnson 40 000 Autos and More Krieg worth watching, so todav we Support 400 Pounds One identified herself to Judge : | and Board Secretary Martin Wal- | 4 [give you "blitzquirks” in the news : ; Fdwin Garvin as Mrs. ‘Gertrude R. AF Pilots ¢ : a yp Ny. To Continue. | pole, young and strong, 201 a { Than 250.000 People. | » n » Found In Midlands. | PAR en GY A a hi Nh WN, | . 11ots ( "OSS Alpi mn 1 600) Mile F 1h

{ hammer and a wedge-shaped biock Visitors entering the British port 9 ~ “ yr a | = { vi . ul 3 n . , . 09 | x AR ef m i . 7) LOCAL TEMPERATURES of wood and went to work on the | (Other Willkie Stories, Pages of Dover were greeted hy a sigh! BERLIN, Aug 14 (U. ] Ger Tr rie a a Hie Yeiuvisey ['o Attack Plane Pla nts at Mila 1 .m ... 75 10am ... 88 | phox Tt resisted all their efforts | 5 and 11) chalked up on a lonely sentry’s post ‘man quarters said today that para The SeobHE Wakih her hat : Mh, ... 2% 11am 89 to open it ras jon the outskirts of the town. Tt : - . LRT \ . » m een 93 Seventy vour-ti Louis Brandt, | Br EDWIN (. HRINKE road: chutists had haan landed in Pngland | askew, and a lohg scratch dh her Turin, German Factories Hit m : “Welcome to Hell's Oarfier-—come (0 sabotage Brifish dafanse iy aid She Was Yio. Mraty Sh again.” he Darachutists informed ‘¢ Brandier, 25 BULLETIN T " » : RE py : |he hit me Arst the first : man quarters sald, wer landed % nama aratested ta the eonrt n . ] Puring the hight 101 bombs fell t vit the vietnirs f Manchest She's ; lin? hie othe; woman LONDON, Aug. 14 (1 v p ) Thon ante of RBritigh oh an 18-hole golf course along erdav in the vicinity of Manchexts; 1 an a f ’ 4 " : . Sing efenders tonight =earvhed the Baglish and Scotch enih.

\ .. the wedge on the lock and tapped | Wendell rillikie and th ‘hole els, reducing farm mcome by t lightlv with the h . on 1 Winkie go Su Whole the southeast coast, and Birmingham to carry out saho 1t lgntly with the npammer, crowd of Republican big-wigs could es ‘ " ) tr 4 1 a : “The Germans are pretty had, tage inh that rich indusfr ge rveide for German parachutists an hints were LiIven

$7 200.000 at current prices, The box flew open. drive into this city tomorrow and «aid a greenskeaper who belongs Only a few parachutists were th . Patched » the res ts of Elw , We | ) TEN ¢ n \ t str ~ Heh Loy the U. S. Department of Ag- Tesiien 0 Elwood. who have to the home defense corps. “Par landed. it Was said. and “aMotal ARREST BENDIX . A Ho Sonar Ha hy air against Germany ever Q vt! " an aly are planned, ne Home Guard captured a Ger

The ND over hefore organized anvthing NN sf riculture and Purdue Univer- DRAFT NEEDED {bigger than the tomato festival | ™ on& > oo sources refused to give any informa . : ! J A tion concerning rem | x an 79 ; in baw se « sitv reported today. N Sh be darn near ready Sen ‘wills Wionk ‘the Const Wie Go PLANE WORKER man an‘man with oh thiured foot inh Sussex bot at least

Li 1pm 93 | Board president, got impatien Times Staff Writer | “You don't know how to do it,” | FLWOOD. hd 1 hhh . bt Artsy ahh! bi : A , 1d Aug. 14.--Leave Drought has cut Thdiana’s! je aie, ana took up the wooden |it to the 11 -Leure corn vield hy 12 million bush-! wedge and hammer. He placed [town to do the organizing

Homer Capehart, chairman of the ) five others wore believed hiding ih the woods,

ALE araas of Q ing their 't is 's wal , Although some areas of the state ‘committee in charge of the notifica- mao, I Foes I Parachutes Found in 't good crops because of local ti } LD ATER ? Sensi report good crops because on ceremont ies Srirda and Nis whan the Arst bomb comes whistling Two Areas of Britain showers, the hot and dry weather corps of townspeople have Whipped |g wy the sea gulls bagin screaming . Ke UNTIVH PRE 4 } i J a ile J : y 1 . \ . : J \ responsible for damage to corn and w—— the ‘million and one details attend- lp,4 the sounds they make sound DONDON, Aug. 14 (U. P rhe Suspect Denies He Sent Q ps Is conti ih ing with ‘ho ant Ea He task 3 ne Care something like “fish, fish, fish"—ol Ministry of Home Security reported A 300-plane other cro § nui of a residential candidate making «hie y Thai 1 le Te ! » 4 promise of relief the report stated Tells House Group U. Si} acceptance speech and the 050 ig h they Hay: had Den She today that parachutes, apparently Drawings to Moscow; at Dover and the routheast British coast today as Britain v eo pe oy rs «nh the rermans began bombing ie General showers and thunder- {000 to 350000 per Dee dropped from aircraft, were found WH Iv ham} [ » ’ revlon ap an ® {00 3 ) persons expected to harbor waters savagely bombed Ttalizn plane works and Garn mes Ah storms predicted for last night and Faces Most Serious [listen harbor wate ih to Siens ‘of Breland wiki Ot of Plans Recovered. 4 f a0 Al and ai jalize i 1e- | i > ustrial centers, today failed to materialize in bene tid. bd , Ev : “ SG thin Scotland last night : . : ken very Ste overe , an ast nign © Tere ON ‘1 ficial intensity except two Spots In Crisis in History. | bX : A fisherman wandered out hd Phe mipistry said that widespread Oy BEND. Hig. an The battle aver the chalk cliff: Dov f ‘ht the State—Notre Dame, with 143 | Tt all seems simple now, They the Channel to do a bit of fishing caarch of the two areas had not dix- |. Frank Lipke, 33, Was charged wel » Chalk ciifts o1 viover, Tought among inches and Wheatfield with 26 of WASHINGTON. Aug. 14 (U. P).— know to the minute what time between air raids. Before he could |cjosed evidence that any parachitists ry Kath BE Is ht ih joe. low hanging clouds, was thought hy obrervers to have heen an inch. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox Wendell Willkie will arrive in the get back to shore two German Air- aotually had landed but that the Prints for a new airplane carbii- ( f the atest aij { f %) 3: 1 ~ ~; : > y $ v 0 rot " v . > Te { yo y ho) y v In Indianapolis, the East Side was told the House Military Affairs Com town where he was born men came down in parachutes be-'weapeh was continuing DE yet ww Pen HH nme « 1¢ greate an ehgagement of the war, . ) i hn Q ’ vhi : : y > = " < « ‘ . v yr 3 ' sy fhe flex o the e X rodncts | atl . treated to a 10-minute shower while | iad | They've ‘got every step covereq, Side his boat. He dragged them irne parachutes which were found 0° pi eT TIopUlls Karly London reports claimed a dozen or more German the other parts of the City either mittee today that conscription fis The stands are up and nothing re- iD One of the Germans sald 1h ware hoihe examined by aviation ex- ©OrP | had } } : he ) ) got no rain at all gr merely an un- needed because the United States is mains except to put up the bunt- English \ perts. Eleven of the parachutes I'he Boyt a eo ge (planes had heen whot down in the furious dog fight Firat aI rinkle 2 ah i : CTR ar is ad r every Ry.” SATA \ \ : turing airplar ‘arburetors for use NF . Ye oid . measurable sprinkle . s.. facing “the most serious and the ing. The official program has been J a =e _ Ve dss were said to have been found in the aks Ae defo xe HIE Bevlin reports claimed 22 British and five German planes Nor are immediate prospects for ; wr we : » ‘mimeographed. The spacious Calla- The fisherman retorte : midlands region in the natic hal ns pi gram : ; vain or, cool weather good. The MOSt grave crisis In our history. Wav Park nds have be eeh Pro- “Yep, you never know what you're ‘tn the vicinity of another north Police said Lipke admitted he wax were down and nine balloons of the famous Dove barrage \ J ’ badd ke vay Ik ou S ave bee Ci ves V . \ : { LIA - Y a ti Weather Bureau predicted the pos- Secretary Knox testified at con- tusely spread with calcium chloride going to drag in When you gO Out tO midlands village between 15 and 20.2 member of the Proletarian sibility of local thunder showers to- (inyed House committee hearings to lav the dust catch a ‘mess of fish lopen parachutes were found after Party.” which they said wax one of morfow. but said there will be lit-), { 1at t 1 i The food and drink are ready for | AAT several hours of Crerthan air activity the Communizt Party fronts | Wellsinformed Berlin sources claimed that German tle change in temperature. On all While the Senate entered its fourth 1he ands ig ute id ite Justice Hawke, presiding at & lip the vicinity Lipke, a mechanical drafisthan in : but three days this month the tem- day of debate on the issue. The (Ne thousands re vast par WH trial ih mn southwest coast tOWh, | ‘a farmer who found Several on | (he Bendix lant, Was bound over to parachutiztz had been landed in =mall number in the regisn perature has gone above 90 and H bedi fy te i grounds adjoining the park are laid was forced to adjourn court and Kis ang = i had *e trace the grand jury by City Judge George ‘af M } { i } Yk \ i ; rat S RO x ouse was scheduled to debate a out to the inch If the parking A ; . i : 1 10 =ald he had =zfen no trade gran 0 ancnester ans Birming 1am vesterday with in fictions every observation station in the companion bill, already passed by bovs do as thev've been instructed. | flee, With attorneys and court 'af any parachutists. Seven of the A. Schock under a felony section bf ' . : \ iy : : v i 3 J X \ p i ' \ A } | , & v ve 1 ' state reported above normal tem- the Senate. authorizing the Presi- there'll be 40 000 automobiles aches 5 Ja cells Bo] group of parachutes found around the petit larceny statute He wax CO CANTY Out Acts of mahota age, ra tur + last week ‘ ¥ ‘ \ \ >| ho POO e removed his wig, iy . x Village Were ap 9 peratures for last week dent to order the National Guard parked {here And that’s 160000 | « n 1 : RB. this north midlands village were ih free oh $2000 hond " B00 Mi " raged along with corn are po- ; rim LE . spread out his legs, stretehed his . y > One Wax fauna x 9 PPR top [Pa vy 9 Milex Over Alps Jamag' g 1 and Organized Reserves into active <ons. figuring four to the car i a nearby hamlet Mn a= founc He wax arrested af Bendix p . tatoes, sov beans, tomatoes, sweet service for & Solar i person B! i 2 3 E al b judicial robes from knee to Knee iy (he eonter of a ‘orioket Aeld and lide Teceived Bh HHOAVINDIK Teter corn and tobacco, the report stated.’ Kt ‘the iy i o Sort Witkile Indiana State Police ana he HY and oh this makeshift bridge fable apather was draped over a rambling acciising hith of =tealing the bie : } Sé 1 » nator Rq I , 1 eo ve ’ h “ hy . = 2 Purdue estimated that potatoes, hit A Taft (RO We Sup partes Ofmclas Re oh Mi eo he, the sheriff. and two 3 Pop ie S rose bush on the side of a house brints th ¥end th the Baviet (Fov- had heen direoverad in the Midlandz region but it was said : 3 11 a n} 5 . (x, Ui i I's ars y ce y y . \ especially hard, will average only 85 of ‘tire conscription bill A 40, oa a Bt Rr Tow ehjoyed a game while the battle It was said unofficially that the ‘ernment at Maseow bushels to the acre with a state pro-. Treks Wi v 1 delay. h usan O I $ | raged. parachutes were of a type which Bendix police and South Bend : { 1.500000 bushel ing hysteria for creation of a huge (Continued on Page Three) » » » } : \ : duction of 1.500, bushels, aint ‘nneede Af was capable of supporting 400 'oficers searched his home and said 1h Belgium and the Netherlands Tomato picking is under way * ry, rr : A southeast coast drug store re- [yond they found the blueprints and a fs ; with many, reports of sun scalded Criticizes Stimson I | ported a rushing business as a re- lquantity bf “radieal litera tire | "he Britixh raid on Ttalian aircraft plants was ane fruit and no new blooms. Soy beans Senator Taft fired a barrage or DEAD, 4 MISSING | oY the HY rele _— pro Lipke denied sending copisx of of the maoxt xpactacular of the wai Heavy bhambers Rew were reported Sod Du rrepar- eriticiom wi Seofetary ‘of ‘War Hetry pr ¥ or reporte : a Eh the hliueprints to Moscow and told 1800 ‘miles across the ¥pow tanned Alp ‘to Domb the a gblv damaged bv the drought : persons were coming in complain police He had taken tHe Prints for M | an

“ , . NT a L. Stimson, Assistant Secretary of “air Yl) I mT us al ains ill hep, ‘bu the Navy Robert P. Patterson, Col IN SOUTHERN FLOODS ing of “air raid strain”—pains in future reference in order to be able plant at Milan and the Fiat works at Turin as well as othey (Continued on Page Three) 5 | their neck and eves from looking to show possible future smplovers Julius Ochs Adler and others of the | at air battles, He sold them sun | the type bf work he had been doing adyacent military and industrial ohjsctives

Nr CNA Wu ‘Military Training Camps Associa-| . . ' SPENCER SCOTT WINS 'tion which sponsored the bill Ih ERRSSge., The Air Ministiy in a detailed report of the valid de0 i ““hey ate deliberately inipiring RIVERS Overflow as Heavy ® a | ® , HAMBLETONIAN HEAT! hey are eli Srately JShifing British hewsies ‘With their little Firm S d 20 Million weribed huge fires and heavy explosions yexulting from the a nation-wide propaganda,” he said, : oh black . © keeping score oh air n I Th B S Hh } . |“and 1 may say that their action, Rains Follow Hurricane. Te hing, Se 34 Re pe e DOX DCoOre lengthy attacks through the early hours of the morning. GOSHEN, N. Y., Aug 4 U.P.) —|of course, deprives of all force the Gb i ‘ used to do oh the cricket matches. Dollars on New Plant. BY ONT RNS C. W. Phellis’ odds-on favorite {inspired communications which! ATLANTA, Ga. Aug. 14 (U.P) “8 to 13—-Rain stops play,” one \ wclic ; ta . Spencer Scott won the first heat of congressmen hereafter receive.” | Floods brought additional death and ui. 40r chalked up in reference to SANTA MONICA Cal, Aug. 14 Opposing claims ih Thies the attack xcored direct hits, and said one pilot crossing tha the $43,000 Hambletonian Stake to- No Early ‘Attack Expected jsuffering to the Southeast today 2S yactarday's raids (U.P). —The Douglas Aircraft Co day's air battles over England 1 Alpe on his way home said that he could wee the dull glare day with Harry Shorts Remus and arly ) {rivers left their banks under the Another, before the official esti- today was planning to spend $20 and German-occupied Europe Dunbar Bostwick's Kuno second and| President Roosevelt was advised burden of torrential rains that fol- 'piates were ih, wrote 000.000 on a huge. new plant at Long German ¢lalth: 132 British third in the field oo Pai. Hie 'f by Congressional leaders that the lowed a tromien hurricane heh “Only 38 down. Extra time being Beach, Cal, and immediate addi- Diajfes oy down; 24 German “Ttalian defensex apparent] wore taken complete] I The time was 2:02 flat, the fast- Senate probably will complete action Struck part of the area Sunday With ‘played tions to its Santa Monica and El planes los odsituin tciudiiee : hh rand A est mile turned in by a 3-year- -old on the conscription bill next week. 8 loss of 35 lives : |” ‘Later. He ‘added Segutido ‘factories to ‘meet “the Nu British claim: 78 Gerthah surprise, the minixtry said, Anti-aircraft fire war scanty trotter this season | “We hope to finish up with the Floods took at least five lives in| «g1 after extra time.” [tional defense emergency Plates ig down; 13 British and ineffective.” planes 1o= 22 Killed, 52 Wounded, Rome Says

Ee sr te Na [bill hext week—mavbe the middle of Tennessee, North Carolina and | "Pye pd] desi h vide He 0c 5 : ‘ he . . hte Rub ry on u plans, designed to provic iss SEYiCR His POLE | the week,” Senate Majority Leader in I i Ml Lively unofficial gambling inh Army ahd Navy with tN IN MONDAYS BATTLES OGANS . Ind, Aug. 14 (U. Alben W. Barkley said. DOI AT: 1£30C ; ki “Messersehmitts” diverted atten- production necessary to complete : : " in oi . P.).—— Wayne Reed, 31, of Logansport. The Republican Navy Secretary | A Dash flood receded at Bliz- | tioh of the stock market from the present requirements by ADH 1 fin halth: ig nL Rome announced that at least 22 persons were killed died today from injuries suffered said the need for conscription was Ren BE aie AN blitzkrieg influence today. Prices 1942, have "heen approved by the kid Font. dowh; 24 ‘German | und ‘fore than 52 wounded in the yaids $ ht when the truck in which two-fold: rt St ers : in the general market improved | Assis Waadetaiy ‘of War dnd t 5 3 . : gli riding struck a utility pole, | TT A “psvohological” heed for | SINESport and Greenville and emer- | rq). ‘the second day ’ Nwthonn) Dero Wary COM British chim: 61 Coan Pilots returning from vaids over Germany asserted ; wm - ; crews reinfore ams x Op 2 | e 3 . vex shot down, 13 tis ' | id Lid Xie ita) a end ye a xajers Sbened Docks in (tee, Donald W. Douglas, compan) irk tot 4Gwh, 13 Bik that hundreds of aquare miler of Germany's No, 1 industrial es hr : » | Messerschimitts, quoting odds on |nprasident. said - p cand " 4 TIMES FEATURES SO on " ¢ Be. WinVtosinlic Gt the number of Cerman planes iP New ‘tuchinesy ulfeady Had Bosh IN BUNDAVE BATTLE areax have heen devastated, A captured German pilot was rovernor Burnet R. Maybank of | shoei down. ‘The term Messer= [ui : a " vod | 4 i Lov ir Farce ¢ 8 its BETHLEHEM LEADS South Carolina declared a state of | Sohmitt ih uke for The Pook ih= Pur Mi DI EH German claith: 92 British qunted AR ¥AVINng if the Roval Air Farce continues its ralds > I Ol A : plates and eight barrage bal- oh Germany on the same scale ax how the war soon will be

ON INSIDE PAGES emergency at Folly Island, resort | cludes all types of Nazi airplanes. |. ot MARKET RECOVERY spot off Charleston Which was hard- | ~The stock exchange committee | 1c, MOS extensive unit of its type || Joos shot down; 17 Cietthah ih the industry ahd at the sathe plates lost fime give America ah aerial defense British claim: 65 Certiah Greatext damage was zaid to have heen done at Hamm {that probably will be ihe largest planes =hot dowh, 26 British ‘ i » he ns Es | pirvately-owned aid managed af blames ‘Jost vital rail junction, at the huge Kipp armaments works 2 “ket in afternoon trading today. A for aitinl Taw ‘Wak ‘de= - craft facto ih the world u ) | ASKIONS ++» 7 Bye uaa 11 (NATRE J rm of martial law was 3 ae \4 . | ry TOTALS seh and at the Dornier plane works at Wanzdai e Fe nen ...» 13 Questions .... 11 Volume was light after the $1 to $6.1. 04 at Port Royal, near Beaufort, AR ES rE PABING | Mr. Douglas said the companys HE i tie FIVAD «veers 12 Radi vvvene 13 markdowh in prices yesterday, center of the hurricane area. The | WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 (UP). Iparsonnel and payroll would be rerthah celal: 313 British Ruthy induxtrial region war said to have heen rvetematically FAYRD voor 2 Ms, Roosevelt 11 | A majority of issues showed action was taken hy Sheriff Edward James A. Tumulty Jr, hdepend- “more than doubled.” The company planes and eight barrage bal blasted, mile hy mile. hn Britizrh hombers Gallup Poll... 4 Scherrer ..... 11 small gains as the market turned wWeTeer of Beaufort after a dispute ent candidate ih New Jersey's Sena- how pays 18.000 emiplovees more 1ootis shot ‘dowh; 85 ‘Certhah Hons ' SalluD * wlsenar Story. 17 into the fourth hour. Bonds Were guar patronage for relief jobs, torial race, today petitioned the than $28.0600 000 annually planes lost | I'odas x hattle over Dever wax oh A Massive scale, Th Inside Indpls. 12 Side Glances, 12 irregular with U. 8, Governments, Red Cross units from Charleston | BSehate Oampaigh Expenditures| Douglas Aircraft hax a backisg of RD niin: 201, Clarita the ‘midst of ‘the f x4 fr Yu BW a” I ards . % [Society oe ®, 7] lower. Wheat was off around ' to were sent into the Bennfert area to- | | Gommittee ta go to Jersey City, N.'more thah %135000000 in orders planes shot down, 52 British I 8 { hi fighting Mix Junke hi { wanpad down and NRE § 0 % cent ahd corn off about “4 to ': day to make a check-up on the sit- [J and investigate alleged Pagtingl toh the United States, foretgh gov- plates lost, Sk a lightehip, Barlier two British destrovers reported

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