Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1941 — Page 3

THURSDAY, AUG. 1, 1041

SHIFT OF TIDE IN WAR SEEMS DUE

Time Believed Ripe Now For Decisive British Thrust at Nazis.

By DAVID M. NICHOL

Co ht, 1941, by The Indianapalic 1 ines nt Th e Chicago Daily New

BERN, A 7—A steady sireai of reports ing diplomatic circles here tells of unrest and countermeasures in the occupied areas from the Atlantic coast of France to Yugoslavia and Greece in the south and Norway in the north and ebbing morale in the Reich itself, as the Nazi drive into Russia drags through its seventh week. Neutral observers believe that the situation in many places has reached such a delicate balance that a positive. successful move on the part of the English might turn the tide definitely in their favor for the first time since the war began. There are ample indications—and almost no confirmed facts—to indicate that such an attempt may soon be

By PAUL

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made. The best barometer, it is believed | here, is the uneasiness in Vichy and! the urgency of the campaign against the Vichy government in the Ger-| man-controlled Paris press which daily is insisting on more complete] co-operation with the Nazis for See] defense of France's colonial empire | —Africa—and even the “lease-lend”| of the French navy to the German armed forces. British Ready to Move? Behind it, it is felt, is German pressure intended to head off some counter-stroke in the immediate fu-| WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U. P)— ture. The Senate was ready today to What form this might take has pass a bill extending to 30 months been the subject of countless ru-/the Army service of draftees, Namors and considerable speculation] tional Guardsmen and reservists here. The Tribune of Geneva|who originally were ordered to duty pointed out editorially that it might for a year. be directed against the larger possi-| Democratic Leader Alben W. bility of United States entry into|Barkley predicted passage by a the war, but that it might also be margin comparable to the 50 to 21 a defense move against a new Brit-/vote by which the Senate ‘yesterish campaign in North Africa. |day rejected a proposal by Senator Or, the paper said, it might even Harold H. Burton (R. O.) to limit mean a new Axis drive against the the total service to two years. British Empire which would require! Senator Frederick VanNuys (D. the fuller support of France as a Ind) and Senator Raymond E. beginning. | Willis (R. Ind.) both voted against Most of the evidence points to the amendment. British action in North Africa with Seeks Debate Limit

SENATE AGTS ON 30-MONTH DRAFT

Barkley Predicts Passage; Hoosiers Oppose Limit Of 2 Years.

feeling. He says it always happens. building is done for, and he’s waiting for the moment when he will take over the hose, a lot of unrelated incidents crowd through his

The time he fell out of a beech tree and broke his arm . . . hours he spent practicing at the piano, so young at the time his feet could hardly touch the floor . . . some day at Albert Hall keeping him practicing at the piano bench while his brother played outside with other boys.

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MANNING

Times Special Writer

LONDON, Aug. 7—Almost every one in England has a “blitzquirk”—some queer, inexplicable habit which grips him when the going really gets tough. Most people who know Harold Churchman say that his “blitz-quirk” is the queerest of all.

and wears glasses. Perhaps his long delicate hands. He's a mem-

ber of the London Fire Brigade and at almost any blitz fire his rou-

The last raid produced a good example of his “blitz-quirk.” It’s his custom when the flames reach their crescendo to take the fire hose and beat a slow retreat from the building, until the other two men in his unit get safely away—always the last out. when a department store was burning, was no exception.

The last blitz,

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HE WAS WORKING outside, stringing hose and helping to pour water into that blazing building, which everyone hoped to save. Then the water pressure began to fail and his unit began to lose It’s always at such a time, he says, that he gets a funny

When it looks as though the

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the thought of a concert debut

Yum- Yum!

the possibility that it might extend to Sicily and perhaps Italy itself | Senator Barkley planned to ask a| There has been an apparent in- | further limitation on debate to speed tensification of activity in that final Senate action. A prev lots region, including English raids on| Fig iy Jaited on the Bill Crete—the first since thev lost the or ebay ) pg pn A was un-| island to the air-borne troops of restricted. Hitler. Opposition to the service extenBritish Success Negative sion already was crystalizing in the! | House, where the minority adopted] The Italians, reduced almost to a resolution condemning “all execu- | collapse in the early spring, would tive acts and proceedings which! again be required to bear the brunt might lead to war without authori-| of such a move. | zation of Congress.” Gen. Erwin Rommel, the Nazi! The House Military Affairs Commilitary genius, who rescued Cy- ‘mittee planned a meeting at which renaica, at least temporarily, for|the Senate bill will be indorsed.! the Axis, is not believed to have House consideration had been schedreturned to his African command Uuled today but was delayed pending since he was called to Germany for|final action by the Senate. conferences several weeks ago.| , Ln Minority adopted a declaraThere are unconfirmed reports here tion of policy in the belief that “the that German troops in Africa are people of the United States are entitled to a definite expression of our being steadily decreased by illness]

and by withdrawals similar to those | Hho dy. RDA) Heise and) For in Greece and parts of the Balkans. Britain, so far, has been able to Repeats G. 0. P. Stand match the brilliant and smashing! The declaration re-affirmed the successes of the Nazis with only! Republican view that the United negative achievements of which its States should not become involved) very Se is one. {in a foreign war and that the deGen. Sir Archibald Wavell's cam- fenses here should be strengthened paign in Africa rocked the world |to the point that foreign aggression structure of Italy but was soon Will be discouraged. wiped out in turn. Syria and Iraq| Non-interventionists claimed that can in no sense be termed a true the vote on the Burton amendment test of arms or prestige. Sometimes, | did not reflect the strength of the apparent, success has been almost opposition to the Senate bill. They to vote against the bill itself also Many strategie B Retreats voted against the Burton amendThere is a report current in ment because they were against any

French official circles that had the] ‘kind of extension.

Phyllis Saylor, 11, of Zionsville . .

bite to eat—until the 4-H exhibit row night.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8. Weather Burean

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Fair to partly cloudy this afternoon over tomorrow; continued warm; temperature this

| afternoon, 9% to 95.

Sunrise..... 4:19 | Sunset TEMPERATURE —Aug. 7, 1940— BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m...30.11 Precipitation 24 hrs. endin Total precipitation since Deficiency since Jan. 1 MIDWEST WEATHER Indiana—Fair tonight: tomorrow partly cloudy; slightly warmer in north portion. Minois—Fair to partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow; a few widely scattered aft-

6 a.

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English been able to hold Crete for The Administration has agreed to two more davs the Germans would SuPport an amendment by Senator

ernoon thundershowers in southwest and near Ohio River tomorrow; warmer in

have withdrawn. For the most part Elbert D. Thomas (D. Utah), floor north portion tomorrow.

it has been a question of ° ‘strategic retreats.” These have been sufficient, how-| ever, to keep alive a spark of re- | sistance in most of the occupied ter-! ritories, and the inability of the, Nazis to come to grips with the] English has spread disillusionment] and doubt in the Reich itself. The checking of a blitzkrieg in the east has served to crystallize these feelings, according to reports reaching here. Norway fs under martial law.!

The Quisling party, says an account| (0 | operation between the United States] In a Swedish newspaper, has pub-/anq Russia in the task of mutual | lished a declaration finding it offi- national defense ana destruction of | cially “dreadful that a large part of the enemy which threatens “the se- | the Norwegian people would prefer curity and liberty of all nations.” an English-Russian victory to a “The Soviet people,” Pravda said, ! German one in this war.” “have greeted with unquestioned, Fach day brings new reports of satisfaction the establishment of a disturbances in Croatia, Montenegro {groundwork for fruitful collabora-

would limit the total service to 30 \ months.

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Party, said today that the ground- | |

and Serbia and the hunt for “Com-|tion between the Soviet Union and|Q

munists” which now covers anyone the United States, based on a comopposed to the Germans, continues munity of interests and answering in almost all the occupied and Ger-| the needs of the national defense man-infiluenced regions. of both countries.” In the Reich there is little pros-| Germany, said Pravda, “will spare pect of actual disorder of violence | no effort to subjugate the American but the fatigue and disillusion that/continent.” first made itself evident late last| It cited evidences of Nazi intrigue autumn apparently is increasing.!in the United States and South Its rate of growth constitutes one | America ana efforts of Germany to! more of the time factors in the obtain from the Vichy regime of Nazis’ grim race to establish the France “bases in the Atlantic for new order before their machine preparation of an attack on Amerfalls to pieces. ica.”

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Lower Michigan—Fair in south, partly cloudy in north portion tonight and tomorrow; scattered thundershowers in extreme north portion late tomorrow afternoon; warmer tomorrow. Ohio—Fair tonight: tomorrow fair in { morning, increasing cloudiness and warmer in afternoon. Kentneky—Fair tonight: tomorrow con- | Bisatee cloudiness with somewhat highler temperature and scattered showers and | thunderstorms in west portion tomorrow afternoon.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Bar, Temp. Amarillo, To y 29.98 2 ‘

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IN INDIANAPOLIS

MEETINGS TOMORROW

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MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and Addresses.

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from the hose receded to a bare trickle.

_ THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES _ Pianist’s Defiant, Losi Vinal i in Midst ,

Fire Is the Oddest 'Blitz-Quirk’

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the fire gain ground as the stream It took 10 minutes to hook

onto the emergency water tank. Then for a time the three men at the end of the hose thought the lost ground would be regained. But after a little you could see nothing was happening, so then they

moved inside the store. 2 8 2

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THROUGH CLOGGED aisles which had been Men's Furnishings,

and past lingerie counters they went.

Women’s Hats.

Finally they stopped alongside

Standing there in the hat section, they methodically sprayed water

through the ground floor of that store. It was getting warmer all the time and bits of plaster would

no use.

You could see, though, it was

keep dropping down from the ceiling above. Way over on the one side of the floor a staircase which led to the mezzanine crashed, a mass

of burning wood.

That was when the other two firemen began thinking about

getting out of there.

Mr. Churchman was thinking the same thing,

too. But at the same time he was thinking, his eyes were roving

around the fioor. they were leaving.

He was looking for the pianos.

The others shouted

Then he spotted the pianos and that's when the queer, disappointed feeling he always got vanished. A feeling, a fear almost, that he would not be the last person out of a building which had a piano.

Dropping the hose he raced

done the same thing 42 other times at blitz fires.

for the piano department. He'd Seating himself

before the keyboard of the most expensive piano there, for one long moment he played the last defiant bars of a military march.

That's Harold Churchman’s “blitz-quirk.”

Most everyone has one,

but they say his is the zaniest of all.

Yum-Yum!

. cake, cake everywhere, but not a at the Fair Grounds ends tomor-

4-H GIRLS SHOW PIES AND CAKES

But They Can’t Be Eaten Until After Judging; Open to Public.

The 14th annual Marion County 4-H Club Show in the Poultry Building at the Fair Grounds encugh to make anyone hungry—

and keep them so. There are tables and tables of blue ribbon cakes, canned vege- | tables and fruits—and not a bite to eat. Miss. Janice Berlin, county Vowel demonstration agent in charge of the girls’ part in the show, rea-| soned this way:

we judge them?” Open to Public Tonight The girls’ exhibits are being “prejudged” today. Tantalizingly, they will be on display to the public tonight, tomorrow and tomorrow night. Today, girls hold the spotlight Tomorrow 4-H boys will hold their competition for prize cattle, poultry and other farm projects. Their winners will be on display tomorrow and tomorrow night. Both boys and girls are participating in a rural electrification display project, sponsored by the Indianapolis Power & Light Co. Besides the exhibit of canning and baking, the girls have on dis-| play long racks of dresses, suits, coats and aprons, and home improvement units. Miss Berlin said she couldn’t esti- | mate the total of exhibits now in| the Poultry Building. The com- |

total passed 1000, she said. After the 4-H boys finish their competition tomorrow under direc-

tion of O. J. (Pat) Murphy, assist-

diana University Building at 8 p. m.

In 1935 Samuel B. Stewart, a little Negro boy with an infectious grin, was brought to Riley Hospital with one of the worst involvements of infantile paralysis of record there. He soon became a pet of the staff because of his unfailing good humor and because of his precociousness in art. They worked patiently with him, and sent him back to his Ft. Wayne home considerably improved, but still needing aid to walk. Today Samuel BE. Stewart has been selected for a full four-year all-expense scholarship to Harvard University and he was described by the Indiana-Harvard committee as “not only the outstanding candidate in this year’s group, but the most outstanding of any candidate since the scholarship was started several years ago.”

And the ladies and gentlemen of

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SOVIET HONORS 43 GUERILLAS

Medals Given for Fighting Germans ‘in Rear of Battle Lines.’

MOSCOW, Aug. 7 (U. P).— Russian forces were reported today to have mauled a German tank division, inflicting heavy losses on two tank regiments, and to have smashed a German infantry division, including two battalions of SS troops. Official reports said there was heavy fighting along the front, particularly in the Smolensk, Belaya Tserkov and Esthonian sectors, but no appreciable change in positions. A Russian tank outfit was said to have counter-attacked against a sector of the front which was held by the 20th Nazi tank division. The Soviet forces smashed across a river and inflicted heavy losses on the 12th and 59th tank regiments of the 20th division, the reports said.

Guerilla Fighters Honored

Another detailed account from the front said a “death's head” German elite infantry division (possibly the famous Death's Head Hussars) was cut to pieces in a three-day battle. Recognition of the increasing part being played by guerilla bands in striking at the Germans behind the advanced fighting lines was accorded today by the Supreme Soviet, which awarded decorations to 43 members of the guerilla bands. The awards were for “bravery in fighting the enemy in the rear.” Two of the men, T. P. Bumazhkov and F. I. Pavlovsky, were awarded the Order of Lenin and designated as “Heroes of the Soviet Union.” Moscow Beats Off Raiders Several waves of German planes attempting to raid Moscow last night were dispersed by Russian night fighters and anti-aircraft gunners far short of their goal, according to the Soviet information bureau. “A single enemy plane which penetrated the city defenses dropped incendiaries and high explosive bombs causing fires in dwellings which rapidly were extinguished,” the bureau said. “There were casualties but no military objectives were hit.” Six German planes were shot down, it has claimed, and one Russian plane was lost but the pilot

“If you eat the exhibits, how can]

was saved.

JAPANESE SHIP WITH AMERICANS MISSING

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. T (U. P.).—The $17,000,000 Japanese liner Asama Maru, with a $3,000,000 cargo of raw silk and 98 passengers aboard, was overdue and unreported today, increasing the belief that she turned about in mid-ocean and sailed back home. The Asama was scheduled to have docked yesterday, but her radio is silenced, and neither the Nippon Yusen Kaisha Line, her owner, vhe Coast Guard, nor Marine Exchange had sighted the vessel, or been able to contact her. Forty-seven of the passengers

Riley Hospital, him and en him and re-

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who worked with kh

are American, most of them Japanese born in this country. Shipping circles believed the Asama turned back, rather than risk subjection to the libels which forced her sister ship, the Tatuta Maru, to dump a $3,000,000 cargo in San Francisco, although Japa= [nese credits inh the United States are frozen. Two hundred passengers who

mittee stopped counting when the feared the Asama would turn back

|

ant county agent, prizes for both|San Pedro to apply to the State groups will be awarded in the In-| Department for export licenses to load low grade fuel.

and had disembarked at Honolulu, her last stop, arrived yesterday aboard the Matson liner Lurline. Two Japanese tankers arrived at

habilitated him, are quite proud of him and regard him as the out= standing “alumnus” of the institution. Had it not been for Miss Char= lotte Anderson, a therapist, the spectacular career of their former patient might have escaped the notice of the staff. She saw the story of his being selected, and wondered. Eventually she wrote, to satisfy her curiosity, and she received a confirming reply. “You never dreamed,” he wrote, “did you, when you used to give me treatments, that that queer little crippled boy would ever be asked to go to Hatv ard, with all expenses paid?” “Do you remember the first day you saw me—the day when you made an examination of my muscular system? I was a bit nervous then. Do you remember those exercises and swims that I had? “I can sense now my being swung on the lifts into the pool. I ean

"SMALL LOSSES’

But Casualties at Smolensk Are ‘Moderate’ Compared With Russia’s.

BERLIN, Aug. 7 (U. P). — The German High Command reported today that Nazi forces suffered only “moderate losses” in contrast to the heavy blows inflicted upon Russia in the Battle of Smolensk which was asserted to have ended in a Nazi victory. The High Command's statement was made in a special communique on the Battle of Smolensk issued over the German radio with a fanfare of trumpets and a long roll of drums. The latest in the series of special communiques which started yesterday was issued this morning after the ginterest of the German public had been whetted by special radio announcements that it was forthcoming.

Repeat Yesterday's Claims

Of current operations against Russia, the High Command was again reticent, confining to the statement that the Luftwaffe had again heavily attacked Moscow, scoring many direct hits on industrial and supply establishments, particularly in the area adjacent to

the bend of the Moscow river and the region to the east. The Smolensk communique repeated the assertions of yesterday's communiques that Russian losses in this encounter amounted to 310,000 prisoners, 3205 tanks, 3120 guns, 1098 planes and inestimable amounts of other booty. By contrast, said the High Command, German losses were “moderate.” Rebroadcast All Day

However, despite the specific figures on Russian losses, no specific information was given on those suffered by the Wehrmacht. The High Command had claimed, in a series of four extraordinary communiques yesterday, that the first phase of operations in the

Smolensk sector, the central part of the 1500-mile Russian frent, had been ended successfully; that German successes had exceeded all expectations on the northern (Leningrad) and southern (Kiev) fronts, and that 895,000 Russian prisoners had been taken and 13,415 Russian tanks, 10,388 cannons and 2082 airplanes had been captured or destroved so far in the war. These communiques, rebroadcast at intervals alli day, had been supplemented by estimates from authorized military spokesmen that 3,000,000 Russians had been killed in the six weeks of fighting—a figure exceeding Russia's losses for the entire World War, which were estimated at 2,250,000 men.

Dispel ‘Wrong Ideas’

It was admitted frankly that the series of victory claims were made

to dispel any wrong ideas that the German public might have obtained during the weeks German communiques avoided specific references to the progress of the fighting. Today’s communique, like yester= day’s, made no claims of territorial gains which had not been made previously. It repeated the statement that Smolensk had been captured July 16, and said that it had been held against attacks since then. (As recently as yesterday the Russians reported dispatches ‘‘direct from Smolensk.”) Yesterday's 1200-word report to the public came after only 15 min« utes advance notice. Most persons had turned off their sets after having listened to the noon news broadcast when the usual program of martial music was broken off and the announcer said, “we are expect= ing a special communique from the Puehrer’'s Headquarters.”

Then the Trumpet Call

Those who heard the statement summoned their relatives and friends. The word was spread through office buildings and factories and there was a general rush for the radios. Meanwhile, more lively and triumphant military marches were being broadcast. The music reached a crescendo. Then came the familiar trumpet call, the quadruple orchestrated fanfares with long drum rolls. That fanfare compels restaurants to stop serving customers and keep them silent. There was a pause, then, in solemn, stentorian tones, the announcer began reading: “The High Command announces . ., .” The broadcast ended with the playing of “Deutchland Ueber Alles” and the “Horst Wessel” song. It was repeated at half-hour intervals all day. The morale-building campaign was taken up by today’s newspapers, which lauded the strategy, leadership, excellent weapons, discipline, good training and fighting spirit of German soldiers, the superiority of the German air force, and the organization of the whole war campaign. A military spokesman compared the current series of communiques with those issued June 4, 1040, at the end of the battle of Flanders, just before France's collapse.

Crippled Boy, Whose Grin Made Him Pet Of Riley Hospital, Wins Harvard Scholarship

the caress of the warm water as it gathered me in its folds. I cer tainly must have been a trial to you. May I offer a much belated apology? “In high school I went out for public speaking as an extra-cur-ricular activity, I have been a varsity debater; in this office I have traveled more than I ever had before. “I was also the winner of the state championships in the fields of ¢riginal ortatory and extemperaneous speaking. I also have won a couple of tri-state speaking championships, a bunch of school contests, and a few other awards. In other fields I won the state Latin contest in Ciceronian Latin. “Well, te sum it all up, I have graduated as the valedictorian of my class. “I intend to spend two or three years in post-graduate work with at least a year spent in Europe studying the developments of war

ear the creak of the winches as I was being lowered. I can feel

surgery and medicine. After tha who knows?”

’

“GERMANS ADMIT

E. H. Daniels

DANIELS TO ‘D0’ LINGOLN SHRINE

Local To Carve Biggest Memorial to Ex-President.

An Indianapolis sculptor has been commissioned to create the largest sculptured Lincoln Memorial in the world by the State Conservation Department and the Indiana Lincoln Union, The sculptor is E. H. Daniels whose commission calls for the carving of five Indiana limestone panels eight feet high and 131% feet wide depicting phases of Lincoln’s life in Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Washington, The panel carvings, covering a surface of 540 square feet, will be placed in the cloister of the new memorial building being built at the Nacy Hanks Memorial Park. At one end of the cloister will be a stone building called the Nancy Hanks Hall and at the other end will be the Abe Lincoln Hall, an auditorium seating 300 people.

Lincoln Hall will be Mr. Daniels’ head of Lincoln carved in Alabama marble two years ago. It is called “Lincoln in 1840.” The sculptor who works in his studio at Jasper, 20 miles from the memorial site, has studied the life of Lincoln for the past five years and is said to have spent nearly two years designing the Lincoln panels. Mr. Daniels was chosen for this task because “of his ability as a sculptor and his fine interpretation of Lincoln's character and environment,” according to announcement by the Conservation Department and the Indiana Lincoln Union. The work is expected to be completed by 1943.

STATE MAN ELECTROCUTED

FT. WAYNE, Ind, Aug. 7 (U. P). —Herbert M. Grotrian, 44, Ft, Wayne, a neon sign manufacturer, was electrocuted in the basement workshop at his home late yesterday when he accidentally touched a

Man Commissioned

The central shrine of the Abe

FALLS HAVE RUN DRY

NEW NAZI PEACE PLAN RUMORED

May Be Offered When and If Germans Occupy Russia To the Urals.

ANKARA, Turkey, Aug. 7 (U. P.). —Certain diplomatic channels today were circulating what purported to be the text of a peace offer to be made by Germany if and when Nazi troops occupy Russia as far

: las the Ural Mountains.

It was claimed that under the purported peace plan, Germany

|would cease hostilities on all fronts

for a time after obtaining her obe jectives in Russia and count upon United States public opinion to force Britain to halt the warfare on the following terms: 1—A 25 years German occupation of Russia as far as the Ural Moune tains with a semi-autonomous Uke raine. 2. Establishment of a semi-auton= omous Poland, generally consisting of the present German-occupied Poland, including those parts of the country which were seized by Ruse sia in 1939. 3. British and American recogni« tion of Germany's right to freedom of action in Eastern Europe under a plan which would give the Czechs restricted autonomy but not reunion with the Slovaks. Rumania, Hune gary and Bulgaria would be ree garded as under German protection. 4, Parts of Jugoslavia and Greece would be given various degrees of restricted autonomy. 5. Germany would evacuate Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France, retaining only Alsace and Lorraine. 6. Italy would regain Ethiopia, retain Libya and obtain Tunisia from France. 7. British territorial possessions would in no way be altered. It was reported that Baron Franz von Papen, German ambassador to Turkey, was seeking to establish contact with the British ambassador to persuade Britain to disassociate herself from the Russo-German war,

CANADA'S HIGHEST

QUEBEC CITY, Que, Aug, 7 (U, P.) —The Montmorency Falls, highe est in Canada, ran dry for the first time today. Normally, millions of gallons pour over the 276-foot falls each minut but the prolonged dry spell has reduced swift running rivers to tiny streams. All dams on the upper river feeding the falls were closed to preserve water for power turbines, and the Quebec power company was using the drought period to repair the dams.

VANDERBILT DIVORCE ASKED

NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (U. Po Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 28-year« old heir to the immense Vandere bilt fortune, has been sued for divorce by his wife who claims he misconducted himself with two young women, it was disclosed to-

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OVER HERE .. LAR VALUES.

CAMEL & WOOL COATS . AND FINE—SALE PRICED

A REASONABLE DEPOSIT holds your coat for later delivery. CHARGE PURCHASES on these overcoats will, upon request, appear

on October statements MAILED NOVEMBER 1.

SALES are not a habit

with us! We present them only at such times .. . in public interest . . . when they can provide financial advantages to This . . . is the time!

as they are

L. STRAUSS & CO. nc. THE MAN'S STORE