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BRITISH REPULSE 3 NAZI ARMADAS
CITES PROJECT | Ww il [ Second Year of
AS ASSET 0 oo 108 JX ORE 0S. DEFENSE
HIS second year of war may bring the do-or-die Battle of Britain. After 12 months of conflict Germany and Italy are hammering at the bastions of the greatest empire since ome ruled the western world, " . ' The next year--whether or not it Promises Extension n may determine whether the British can: Address of Dedication at Chickamauga Dam, CHICKAMAUGA DAM, Tenn,, Nept. 2 (U. DP.) thrust-! utihity |
ends the war1. Win the Battle of Britain, stand off the AXis thrusts at key points of the Empire such as Gibraltar or Suez and avoid collision with the expanding Japanese and Soviet Russian frontiers Wrest the initiative from Germany and Italy and take the offensive in a drive to break Nazi and Fascist
military power,
President Roosevelt,
ing at the private
5 ” Nn n failed to whether the Axis powers can achieve their goal of breaking up the British Empire. But Britain, too, has yet to demonstrate that she can overcome tremendous Nazi-l'ascist gains, The second vear of conflict will not necessarily bring a final decision, but in the furious tempo of modern warfare it must at least provide the clues to the outcome of the campaigns in Europe and Africa. These clues may be found by a watching world in the struggle around the British and the Suez Canal and in the ability of Britain to strike back by air hombardment and blockade was broadens radio re at the fuel that runs the totalitarian war machines, The P esident praised the Demo- » » » » » » re oT and EE THE clue to the ontecome of the Battle of Britain— have hot the London Government must win to maintain the I rar REN British Empire in its present form—must be sought Pri= at work can do, of a! marily in the Royal Air Force. nd Naval power, coastal de and civilian morale will be of importance, but air will probably be the deciding factor in victory or defeat in the British Isles. If the Royal Air Force can hold out ny ‘this ‘valle against Germany's numerical superiority and if new do not propose planes can be produced purchased rapidly enough to goal that is directly | ojyvie the British constantly increasing air strength, the greatest opportunity of the AXis powers will have van
background of Wendell that
improve
his Republican | ® = I. Willkie, | A YEAR of war has the New| © and ex-
opponent show promised today
Deal would
tend its philosophy of puble development of national reas represented by the Authority, The occasion y the celebration of the completion of the $36.000,000 Chickamauga Dam across the Ten dedicated to United
sources
Tennessee Valley
nessee Rive hich he Isles “the total defens of the
States of America His
ich tl } which the which
eratie project was planned
‘these splendid changes
people uniting in a war waste and insecurity.”
food and war supplies power
fenses,
Promises Further Progress
“Today we see the progress that we have made. that we are making. ! and that we to continue to make,” }
he said 28 in the nation, we
propose
to abandon the eves either by sitting by going back.” addresses he Roosevelt hit | maintam he development of this enters
prise is not a proper activity of
the first of two ke today. Mi
at “those who
ished. The regularity and strength with which British fight-
er planes dispute the control of the alr with German
homber and fighter fleets in the coming weeks or months to the trend of
government.” He did not mention Willkie by name. but it appeared obvious that he was contrasting the New Deal's proeram { vardstick power” development ith that of the private utility company which Mr, Willkie
awmerly headed AS
will provide the mos! important answer The Nazis cannot claim control of the air over battles continue, Damage cannot
aerial war, Britain as long as inflicted by bombardment, necessarily shift the tide. of British fighting planes to dispute mastery of the skies would represent a dafinite turn in the war, Another indication of the trend of conflict sought in German preparations for or attempts to invade (C oniiwued on Page Three)
Willkie Asks Aid of Labor To End 'Stagnation' in U. S.
Argues With Roosevelt Secretary Over Stettinius Report, Says President Does Talk About Pending Bills.
bhig-scale
however intensive,
president of But a sudden scarcity or lack he Commonwealth Southern Corporation, Mr. Willkie led the oppoto TVA until TVA and the communities it serves purchased
Electric
Sition will be Commonwealth I lessee Power Co. far £79 .800.000 Termed Defense Asset the thesis i hh ernment overs tepped its powers by developing x resources Mi Roosevelt declared that the great power development now represents "the nation’s greatest ot time of peril unmatched in th i ny of the nations of all
defense
the wor x here were and are those who
Continued on Page Two) | | RUSHVILLE. Ind. Sept. 2 (U. P) Wendell 1 Willkie | sed to enlist the co-operation of labor, industry and agriculture to overs
CONGRESSMEN TALK he nation's “present economic stagnation” and to arrest what he \ b } ¥ on Ss 3 SLAK LE . OF ENDING SESSION ine a Aven toward placing labor unions under Government
ontrol We must rely tremity.” he said. “I shall lend ever influence to establish forthright col= lective bargaining between manage ment and men upon a basis of good Alben will. conciliations and economic vol= he believed the free from interfer eaned up “all by about Sept were
the compulsion of the law only as a last ex
VICHY INSTRUCTS NEW U. S. ENVOY
Sept. 2 (U, 'P) Ambassador to
WASHINGTON. Sent. & PP) ninth
Congressmen bepinning then month of neal ontinuous session
adjournment
unon
began tal g today o
{1c lL.eaqer
untarism and VICHY ence.” The Republican Presidential can- Henry Have, new didate speat Labor Day preparing the United States son conference Thursday qav from Versailles
Josen Ww . oseph 99 He consulted with Marshal Henri
ance
that there arrived here to-
tecess ol
ny for a lunch with National Chairman Martin and representatives of states to discuss campaign plans Qixtv-seven Republican leaders were Laval and Paul Baudouin, Minister summoned for the largest Politi ul of Affairs receiving his conference Mi Willkie had sched- final instructions. uled since his nomination “Labor Dav should cause Barcelona tonight friend of American labor to remems- per for New York toward the end
casional recesses ber that in the totalitarian dictator! ¢ {he week ships of Europe they have liquidated
. ALIEN DROP SINCE 30 free trade unions, and have im- | b " 5 - Wo 0b 11] \ 13 alt IS PUT AT 3. 000. 000 prisoned or in some instances, JON a tar My Mis Xt 3 Ws
dered union leaders,” he said Britain is the onlv' obtaining at least a partial lifting The Justice Depart ment estimated great country where trade unions Of the British blockade to enable today that there are 3.000.000 fewer Still exist, true to their tradition France to maintain maritime com aliens in the United The British workers today are pers munications with her colonial emforming a service of greatest \v Bile pire
than in 1930 The Alien Registra as a vital partner in the defense ¢
migration ai
1yournment In tht Hous here was talk possible adiournmen by Nou 1 a few days | ] t Presidential elections 30 Xepublicans are on ed ord aga ‘ 1 urnment duit ing the present emergency They are said to be wil » permit oc
Foreign and was to leave
every for and by Clip-
One of Ambassador Have's prine
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UO. P) side of America,
States now
tion of the Im-
conducting he cunrent ‘wion| | Quete €3, 0 an AF, 91 © 320 British Children on Torpedoed Ship Sing ‘Oh ehoy and Tell Hitler to 'Go to Blazes’
registration ai thorized by Congress, «
arprinis au(imated that! "Leon Jouhaux, the French labor there now are 3.595338 aliens in the leader, said in his Jast message to] country compared with 6284613 in American workers: ‘Hitlerism and 1930. [free organized labor cannot exist in lthe same world." American labor, | By N realizing this fact. is determined to do evervthing to prevent the spread ey ” v of dictatorship in this country . And AT A NORTHERN BRITISH Ithere are indications that it is com. PORT, Sept. 2.--Three hundred and | ing to realize also that a free trade twenty children, rescued from a! union movement can survive only in British evacuation ship a German a free economy.” submarine torpedoed without warns Obituaries ... 10 He quoted statements from the ing in the dead of night, said today g American Federation of executive council, the late Gompers and Philip Murray Industrial
J. CUMMING
United Press Staff Correspondent
TIMES FEATURES ON INSIDE PAGES
Clapper Comics ok Pegler Bditovials .. 8 'Pvle Flynn I 8 Question i Forum 8 Radio 3 gress of Gallup Poll : Roosevelt In Indpls Serial Storm Inside Indpls [ » Gilance:
time for Canada and that Con- "Hitler ean go to blazes.” Organizations The children, ranging in vears vice president, on the necessity for from 5 te 15, and coming from voluntary co-operation between all humble homes all over Bnaland, froups to solve the nation's eco- Wales and Scotland, marched to Johnson Society 9 nomic problems, lifoboats in their pajamas singing] Movies Sports 1-5 During the week-end. Mr. Willkie “Roll Out the Barrel” and “Oh Mrs. Ferguson 8 State Deaths. 10 (Continued on Page Two) Johnny, Oh Johnny,
Samuel at any
’
{ today prom-|
Philippe Petain, Vice Premier Pierre
Labor that they were ready to start again!
How You Can|
Battle Determine 1 Lurope s Warr?
» »
BOMB BERLIN, MUNICH, ITALY. FRENCH PORTS
London Press Warns Worse Is to Comey)
Bombs Fell Near Chartres Cathedral, Vichy Regime Claims By UNITED PRESS | Britain hurled fire today at three containing ‘than 200 planes and awaited intensification of ai on a scale limited only hy the Luftwafle's ground establishment:
Great terrific ba Fag Of anh aircraft more warfare
of the
German air armadas weather and the size on the channel, The London press warned Britons not to he lulls in raiding afternoon until this morning.
misled by, esterday, These lulls, it was said, ape parently are caused only hy bad flving weather or ne essity, in preparation for strike
Grorman such ag occurred from
for reorganizing German air unit: [ing
| The kevnote of the w ArNIMg wa
harder blows,
after his Spitfire plane
A British pilot (wearing the life preserver) being brought out of a lifeboat crashed into the North Sea during combat with Nazi bombers,
LABOR LEADERS ' Foir for Fair—
No Rainin Sight
RECOUNT GAINS:
Defense Commission Urges 40-Hour Week Retention | management and As Aid to Efficiency. Pr an nd
somewhat warmei tomorrow | WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U, P).| wax the afficial forecast Leaders of organized labor joined It's possible it won't even rain with high Government officials t0-| the rest of the there day in Labor Day reminders of isn't a bad cloud in sight. ac workers’ problems and responsibil cording to the bureau There the hands of Civil ities growing out of the prepared has been ho rain ness program part of the state Both John IL. Lewis, president of | few dave
authori tative London Times. German raids, the Times said, “will
he limited only ha Lhe scope of the Luftwaflie's ground establishments in northern France and other countries w ithe PLANE TRAGEDY. in striking distance.”
With German Saturday McCarran to Demand Action By Colleagues; Raps R. A. T. dorlin its
: in eight days, a 49-minute alert just midnight, Th Transfer of CAA, Yea id ” X 8 [German Version was | at haomber gol ovel the WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U.P). city although residents thought they heard bomb explosions he Senate w As uke | : hn enate will be asked to take | on the outskirts,
investigation of the nation's worst "ve 3 | 3 commercial airplane tragedy out of | I'he long-distance British airmen algo mashed at
Aeronautics Ate | , \ : 2 inspectors who searched a Munich, the shrine of Naziism, where an hour and 20-minute broken wreckage today for alarm was sounded.
as 7 » 113 Re ‘ " ba crash that Killed 25 Reports from Vichy, the the Congress of Industrial Organ It'll eget a today Person: ' when the
3 3 4 izations, and William Green, pres than maxi Senator Pat MeCarran (D. Nev British ident of the American Federation] mum was 77 degrees at 2 p. Mm. [who authorized the frst air safets hase lof Labo issued Labor Day mess and the minimum 59 at 5 a.m after the death of his C () | | {sages ealling for an end to unem The average vesterday was three nl ABBA . 4 oatnearal, ploviment through increased pro- | below normal, Bue roo Le ol New! duetivity : to the burea ¢ ago, announced | ; . | Ig to e bureau that he would insist on a Senate | y Later in the da) the two labor investigation of the crash near! R Lovettsville, Va, Saturday, in whieh Vichy
sounded hy the
|
raiders comparatively active sines
with
Nn
night the Roval Ai ‘sweeping raids over Cermanv, Italy and I'rance
Raid Berlin After Midnight
bombers gave
LOCAL TEMPERATURES NN 57 Ram, 64 Bm. ., 80 Sam HB]
Force pounded hack
WEATHER fore State Fait
thousand of
A PERFEC
cast greeted the . sixth air raid
warning altel
| PIA {OMmo none of the
week y
reported in any thority for the past [pile ol Ase of (he | aid that the German aie
from the famed Chartreg
I'rench capital little warmet where there is a large
100 feel
vesterdan hombed Chatres, The bombs fell only
legislation
Halian Industries Raided
degrees accords
A, FF. bombers also raided Boulogne and Che Hour, [onghish side of the for hours
attack was
asserted, Residents along the arcratt fire
British
iw flaghes of hombs and anti Imtensive France British region in Noi
Othe
had hombed
thern Italy and
Varese industrial
site of a large Malian air base,
planes
down in these and
leaders, and Labor Sacretary Frances a pk 11Y A %0l v1le n perkins were scheduled to make ad- Senator Ernest Liundeen (F'.«] : wd | 1 1 ( Minn and 24 others died channel al Th eliense omm : th J een "we Ni Wp i Senato MoeCarran WAS A never last night indicating that an i Sok nl { i ITS \ NE A a YAR . labor policy, called on industry to A MAY FALL dO a Fascia Roose ade on the German bases in ike “all reasonable efforts’ to velt's Civil Aeronautics Authority s or i vin he 20 hour ‘work week reorganization under the Commerce In Rome it ws admitted that the namtain the nou t hp i Department loday he blamed the) dandard in the interests ol ; yoth the production eMciency and rete ne Annual Labor Day Program crash ol the giant Penns Yivania Se ' 1 yee unemplovinent The Commission Central airliner on that action Sardinia, British ate indorsed the Roosevelt Administra-| Attracts Many. l Er ty owt a A tacks were made on Harmil Island, in the Red Sea, and Assab | (Continued on Page Two) ie sai 1a 1a¢ 1e ( oe |, Ny bhoansy Th a V Y 3 . , a) y : b | The combination of fair weatha (Continued on Page Three) in kritrea, I'he Italians claimed five British were | | J . fand (he Labor Dav holiday sen shot attacks that Italian airmen had Milk, Cherries thousands of Hoosier families to “HOLIDAY DEATH TOLL | countered with a raid on a British base near Kassala, the Indiana State Tair toda: . Eh E “wopa basis Ws Jan Do Go To ether an assault on the all-time attend Soren had three air alarms yesterday, the last ending | g ance records ALREADY PAST 200 { 2:45 p. m. The sirens were then silent until this morning The early attendance indicated ; whe minute i 1 was given at 8:08 a. n a rs last vear's 102.000 Labor Dav crowd ha 44-minu le in Kl I | i. In a raid at least would be equalled, and the and the mayor
alltime record-—nearly 114,000--0t two vears ago might be approached
DEL MONTE, Cal. Sept. 2 (U P) If cherries and ice cream or lobster and milk don't agree with vou, charge it up to a personal idiosynceracy Mrs, Evelyn Mueller cisco dietetic consultant, told the California Dietetic Association ere Oa JjIRL She pete er tendance thus far to 97.500 spread oanard that should be re- Among today's program highlights day week-end traffic ntalities | | are the horse race program thi ene raf fatalities futed brought the total number of lives
Europe: Sept. 2, 1940 She cited the dietary delights of (Continued on Page Two) violence to more than 200 |
famous people to substantiate her | us the nation observed Labor Dav Scale of Miles Arctic Ocean kJ
argument, William Seabrook, she KNOX TO VIEW NAVY At least 16 died on the highways, |
sald, served Sardines with jam; 19 drowned and 62 were Killed in Gertrude Stein cooks agacia blos- GAMES AT HAWAII miscellaneous aceidents soms: John Steinbeck soaks beef Twenty-five persons including | in vinegar before boiling | WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U., py. U. 8 Senator Ernest Lundeen of | “Many old ideas such as that of Navy Secretary Frank Knox. fast Minnesota were killed when al not drinking milk with cherries, [paaamine “the traveling seeretars Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane have no foundation.” Mrs, Mueller will leave tomorrow for a Aving trip crashed near Lovettsville, Va. At | said. "For some peope such & |i Hawaii to po with the fleet on a least five more were killed by a! combination might have ill effects, |poeaday maneuver in the Pacific. He hurricane that swept up the east | Hungary and but these would be due to personal |ayqn wil] jnspect shore facilities in | ern coast and disrupted communica- | Suvexed uiea idiosyneractes rather than to the | yawaii and San Diego and San tions, flooded railroads and high- | / ic O v mixture itself Pedro. Cal ways and burst dams in New Jersey Atlantic Ocean Mr, Knox. at his first interview A mother and her haby daughter | > SHIP? LOSES PROPELLER Latter becoming a member of the were drowned when the dam near WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (U PY. lc sabinet in July, said that he ine! Mickle Lake, N, J, gave way, two, The Coast Guard today dis-| tended to become familiar with men were killed in an automobile | patched the Triton from Gulfport, every feature of his department, in-| accident during the blinding rain at | Miss, to aid the Brazilian steamer cluding shore stations. Already he'Camden and another man was | Camamu, 5546 tons, which lost her has town to Florida bases and ac- | drowned when a boat taking him | propeller about 80 miles southeast companied President Roosevelt on and his family from an inundated | of the Mississippi River mouth. an Inspection in New England. home capsized Six more were! — killed and nine others were in-| | jured when two tanks filled with® (Cc UN on Page Tver) | |
NAZI PRISON FOOD | BAD, HOOSIER SAYS
VICHY. Sept. 2 (U. P.) =Louis Wehrle, Pt. Wayne, Ind. and Albert They had been drawn mostly from "Ri wvmond, Chicago, American volun- | teer Amublance Corps members [captured in France by the Germans, |
on a southeast town two persons were killed
116 Listed as Automobile and his wife, among others, were wounded More than 66,000 paid admissions ’ It was noted that new German tactic: [vesterday represented a gain of 15 Victims; 19 Drowned.
vO . 0m Ap he Si a 000 or 20 pel cent over the am By UNITED PRESS day last vear and brought total at
of creasing the cut the
San Frans
pursuit plane protection of bomber squadrons has
(Continued on Page Three) The e¢rash of an torrential rains and the usual holi-
airlines plane
lost, hy
Russia and annexed areos
Italy and occupied areo
Baltic
Love” after they had been awak-/they learned exactly what to do i [ened and told that their ship was! gisaster came. [sinking | The ship did not sink, however, | land the children and 500 other pas. State-aided schools in sengers and crew members were cities of England, Wales and Sq Ot= arrived today from a Cierman prisrescued. There was one casualty, /land as Manchester, Birmingham Lon camp. i (Purser R. Baron Schiedam, who| Cardiff, Bristol, Southampton, Dun- My. Wehrle said thev were held | {missed his footing as he fried to! dee, Glasgow, Inverness and Aber- at a camp Yor officers 40 miles board a lifeboat and plunged into! deen [northwest of Dresden He sald he | [the sea, Efficient organization and the !ljpst 30 pounds in the camp | { The refugee ship was torpedoed bravery of the children resulted in “The prisoners are badly fed,” he about 11 o'clock Friday night. Those their being out of their beds. in said, “They get just enough to stay | rescued arrived at this port yester-| their life belts and at their assigned |alive—~FErsatz coffee in the morning | day, the children still singing, life boat stations within 3'; minutes! with a spoon of jam, half » cup of | Most of the children were in paja-/ of the alarm that the ship had been! soup and a few potatoes at noon, mas when they took to lifeboats | torpedoed [a slice of sausage and a teaspoon They had gone to bed at 7:30 n. m., The clamor of alarm bells and thelof lard or margarine at night with after several life-hont drills in which (Continued on Page Three) a filth of a loaf of bread.”
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RUMANIA YUGOSLAVIA
London, such
‘SPAIN BULGAR
O°
Mediterranean Sea
September, 1940, finds the black shadow of totalitarianism far flung across Europe. Twelve months of war have seen the subjection of 11 nations to the military or political conquest of three major age gressor nations and a coat-tail rider. Britain alone is left free and fighting to buck the dictator-dominated continent mapped above,