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Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
Senate Inquiry
Seen for Crash
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ing gear was down, but it appeared
that the landing flaps were not
extended and that the throttle was
wide open at the moment OF i'm
pact.
Estimates of the planes speed were
between 300 and $50 miles an hour.
The nose of the ship plowed out
20 foot wide crater. It's tail snap
ped over like a whip and scattered
luggage and wreckage for yards.
Watches worn by victims set the
time at 2.41 pm. Saturday.
A blinding rain prevented re-
moval of the bodies until $3.50 am.
Sunday.
Daybreak revealed complete dev-
astation. Broken shoes, hand bags,
Womens dresses and broken bodies
were scattered over the field. which
by then had been trampled under
the feet of thousands of curious.
Bodies of the 25 victims, includ-
ing that of Senator Lundeen, vet
eran midwestern liberal and isola-
zionist, were carried to the tiny
chapel in Union cemetery at Lees
burg, Va, 16 miles away. A squad
of Federal Bureau of Investigation
fingerprint experts with field equip
ment arrived and established iden-
tity of most of the victims, present
or former government employees,
from their files. One of the pas
sengers was an FBI agent.
Friends and relatives were urged
not to look at the bodies. Edward
Carson of Pittsburgh, father OF
SteWardess Margaret Carson, in
sisted on seeing his daughters body.
he was led to one end of the chapel
and officials turned back the oil
cloth covering over one of the VIC
Tins. He paled and turned away.
Capt. j. H. Carmichael, Pea vice
president, said the pilot, Lowell
Scroggins, was one of the lines
veterans and had flown the route
for the last II years.
He noted that this was the first
fatal crash Pea has had in its en-
tire 13 years of operations.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
Woman. 10. Slain
For Money
She Didn't Have

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2. (UP)-
It was common gossip along Meal
lister street that Miss" Jennie Flint
10 year old landlady of a rooming
house, was wealthy and that she
boarded her money in her shabby
quarters.
Miss Flint. who was known to
have had a husband who left her
many years ago, also loved cats
but only red ones and black ones
Mrs. Jennie Kiesow, missing her
daily visit from Miss" Flint and
recalling she hadn't seen her since
Thursday, knocked at the door yes
terday. The only response was the
yowling of the cats.
She summoned Lieut.. Frank Far
ley from the fire station across
the street, and he forced his way
in.
Miss Flint, who had befriended
and sheltered hundreds of tram
sients in her SO years as land
lady, was lying dead on a bed,
trussed hand and foot, and her be-
longings were scattered from one
end of the room to the other. She
had been strangled, possibly beaten.
At her side was a club she kept
TO frighten away inebriates who
sometimes sought lodging.
Police said she undoubtedly had
been murdered for the money that
was rumor, got fact.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
Hiram Johnson Looks Back on Long
Career in Public Service as Election
Officials Count Vote on Birthday

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 2 (UP)-
United States Senator Hiram john
son entered his 18TH year today as
state election officials counted up
the votes that gave the veteran
liberal his smashing reelection in
last Tuesdays primary election.
johnson was born in Sacramento
on Sept. 2, 1866, and practised law
here before moving to San Fran
cisco and starting on the political
career which carried him through
six years as governor, member of
the senate since 1917, and a con-
tender for the presidential nomina-
ton.
His regime as governor produced
probably more liberal reforms than
any other. He broke the domination
of the Southern Pacific railroad and
forced a hostile legislature to ap-
prove such measures as the initia-
tive, referendum and recall, direct
primary, woman suffrage, work.
mems compensation legislation,
women's wage and hour law. prison
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
Two More Years
OF War Forecast
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always promises quick success with
little sacrifice in order to stimulate
his fol,owersi When unexpected
obstacles are encountered, however,
and the carefully prepared prelimi-
nary plans fail to work, there is
natural tendency on the part
of the people to hesitate and begin
to count the cost.
In the case of Great Britain,
fighting defensive war, the con-
ditions are different. A nation will
continue to fight for its existence
longer than it will fight for con-
quest, encouragement merging into
disillusionment is more likely to
result in the ranks of a conqueror
than among people fighting for self
preservatiorS The British do not
have to make gains to find stimu-
lus for further effort. They are
heartened by being able to hold back
the enemy's attacks.
But Hitler and Mussolini are COM
PEELED to try to press forward, since
they are bent on conquest. Not to
advance is to admit at least more
secondary defeat. To confess after
the first year of warfare that the
expected victory is still two years
away is a confession that the ad-
vance has been checked.
No conqueror can predict success
two years in advance. An offensive
always suffers many more casualties
than the defense. The longer the
war continues, therefore, the weaker
the offensive nations should become
and the stronger the nation fight
ing defensively.
A point of economic exhaustion
for the offensive belligerents, cou-
Piled with weakened military morale,
always is a danger in prolonged
warfare. When that situation iS
reached, it is customary to expect
major counter offensive by the
defending side, seeking final victory.
That is how Waterloo was won
as 1t is now once again the basic
strategy of Great Britain. The pri-
mary condition is to keep the war
gong over several years That eX-
pectation seems now accepted as
inevitable by the totalitarians. as
ItalyS admission of two more COM
bat years seems to indicate.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
Baer Returns to
East Coast

NEW YORK. Sept. 2. 6UP)-
Make Baer arrived from Saera-
mento, Calf, to-day to begin train
ing for his Is round bout with
young Pat Comiskey at Jersey City
late this month. He was accompa-
MED by Manager Ancil Hoffman.
Eaer and Hoffman went immed-
lately to the west end Casino,
Long Branch. n. j., where Make
will do roadwork for a couple of
days.
The official signing for the bout
is scheduled for Wednesday at New
York's Hurricane club. Promoter
Jack KearnS then will announce the
exact date, which is expected to
be Sept. IS.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
Driver Escapes
In Truck Plunge

REDD1NG, Cal. Sept. 2 tUPl-
Clarence Sherwood hung on for
dear life as huge chain broke
and his rs cubic yard dump truck
rolled down a mountainside at
Shasta dam.
When the big truck-three times
the size OF the normal dump truck
stopped rolling, Sherwood crawled
out with only minor back injuries
Fellow workers said it was a miracle
that he escaped alive.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
WIluKlE VOLUNTEERS
TO MEET WEDNESDAY

Young Willkie Volunteers of
America, political mavericks who
recently split from the Imperial
County Young Republicans to form
non-partisan Willkie organiza-
ton, will meet at p. m. Wednes-
day night at the California hotel
for their first dinner rally, club
officials announced Monday. Res
ervationS must be made before 10
a. m. Wednesday, the announce
ment said.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
NJ. Dominates

DETROIT. Sept. l CUP)-Somer-
vile, N. j., entrants continued their
dominance of the national amateur
bicycle championships Sunday to
sweep first places in the three divis-
ions.
Furman Kugler, l9, won yester-
days 25 mile point race while losing
the senior mile to finish with 10
points in the senior mems division,
nine ahead of second place George
Woof of San Francisco. Woof cap
tured the senior mile.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02

usually stimulates appetite and the
flow of gastric juice: so aids digeS-
ton; helps to build up physical
resistance to periodic distress for
many users.
Others, who take it a few days
before and during the time" have
found CARDUI helps ease their
periodic distress. Used so years.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
Women, Girls Learn
Merit Of "BuiId-Up"

A woman's periodical distress
from hearaches, nervousness, irri-
liability. cramp-like pain may be
due to this fault: functional dys-
menorrhea brough on by an under
.lourished condition.!
There's convincing proof of this
n the way so many women and girls
the helped by CARDUI. Because it
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02

reform and railroad regulation.
johnson swept the Republican,
Democratic and Progressive nomin-
ations last week with a simple cam
paign consistings of three radio
speeches from Washington. His
next term will run until 1916, when
he will be 80 years of age.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
Vegetable Laxative
Makes Happy Friends

Here's laxative that usually acts
thoroughly as harsher ones but is a
gentle persuader for intestines when
used this way: A quarter to a
half teaspoonful of spicy, aromatic
BLACK-DRAUGHT on your tongue
tonight drink of water. There's
usually time for good nights rest;
with a gentle. thorough action next
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
EIder|yMa Stays
Wife, Then Self

BERKELEY. Calf, Sept. 2. CUP
Peter Torchio. 70. and his wife
Elvira, were found shot to death
in their home here today.
Police believed Torchio killed his
wife and then himself. They learned
he had been i'll recently.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
British Repu|se
Fierce Thrust

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rifle. Several German planes were
seen plunging to earth. The raid
ers dropped few bombs inland.
The Germans turned and fled
homeWards. Their losses were re-
ported high.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
STOMACH RELIEF
OR MONEY BACK

Ada Tablets help bring quick re-
lief from an acid stomach, pains
between meals, indigestion an d
heartburn due to excess acidity. If
not, your money is refunded. At
Your Drug Store.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02

m ornin relieving constipationx
headaches, biliousness, sour stomach,
bad breath.
BLACK-DRAUGHT is a splendid
combination of vegetable ingredi-
ents, chief of which is an intesti-
nal tonic laxative" that helps i'm
part tone to lazy bowel muscles.
It's economical Is to 40 doses: Csc.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
PENZANCE REPORTED
TORPEDOED. SUNK

LONDON, Sept. 2. (UP)-The ad-
miralty tonight announced that the
hrltish sloop, Penzance, 1925 tons,
nad been torpedoed and sunk by h
German submarine.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
Collins Returns
From Eighth
Kansas Jaunt

c. H. Collins of Imperial has re-
| turned from his annual jaunt TO
Kansas where he visited relatives
and friends in his home state. This
was Collins eighth trip, and among
others he visited brother and two
sisters at Lincoln, Kans., relatives
at Fort Dodge, and Yates Center.
Lester Knapp and daughters
Delta and Beverly returned this
week from WOODBURY., Ore, where
they spent the summer in their
former home. They took in the fair,
visited the big trees at Sequoia
ara Grants national parks, spend
ing several weeks at the beach in
San Diego before returning to the
valley.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Broyles are
enjoying a brief vacation in Sar
Diego. They plan to return Tues
day morning.
The Joe BradshaWs are among
the many Ell Centrans enjoying
a September vacation. They left
Saturday for Hawthorne and will
return the latter part of the month.
DR.. George w. Thomas and Mrs.
Thomas will return Tuesday from
two months vacation spent il
San Diego, Los Angeles and Glen
dale, where they visited their sor
and his family.
Mr.. and Mrs. S. NJ Frost of
Holtville are in Texas. where they
are enjoying a leisurely vacation
trip ard visiting relatives of Mrs.
Frost, who claims Texas as her ma
tive state.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ne1 Roberts re-
turned this week from a trip in
the southwest, visiting among otter
interesting places the Carlsbad Ca
verns. They will leave again shortly
for San Francisco where they will
take in the fair before considering
their vacation period over.
Mrs. Guy Anderson and two sons
Roy and Orville, returned this
week from a fortnight spent in
the comparative coolness of the
San Diego mountains.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
Red Cross in
CaIexico Closes
Swim School
-CALEXICO NOTES
(By Mrs. H. L. Glasby)

The local Red Cross chapter re-
Gently closed successful Life
Saving and Swimming school under
the leadership of Karl Edmunds,
chairman.
Richard NeWmeyer, coach of the
Bakersfield swimming team, gave
the instruction. He is member of
the Red Cross Life Saving staff.
At the close of the contests Mrs.
Argyle. McLachlan, treasurer of the
local chapter, presented badges of
honor to the following:
Beginners "B' division-Jimmie
Graham, Donald Graham, June
Glass.
Beginners "A"-Raymond Mum
ion, Ruben Servin, Richard Elias.
Girls forty-yard swim-Raquel
Encinas, Gloria Worthy Ann Vier-
hus.
Boys forty-yard sWim-Calvin
Stevens. Jimmie Roberts, Elmer
Magin.
Boys 1OO-yard swim Arnold
Searcy, Robert Simmons, Roger
Stevens.
Pigeon race-Robert Simmons,
Calvin Stevens, Arnold Searcy.
Diving contest-Jimmie Roberts,
Jimmie Dove, Arnold Searcy.
Mrs. A. v. Vierhus, president
29th District PIT. A. and Mrs. R.
l.. Glasby, president tuberculosis
association, conferred with Mrs. w.
j. Meagher of Ell Centre on matters
pertaining to the seal sale confer
ence to be held in CaleXico Oct. Z.
Representatives of five counties
will attend the luncheon and con-
ference.
Mrs. Adolph Binder spent sever
al days with friends at Laguna the
early part of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Dove and
children returned from Los Angeles
Saturday after spending some days
in the metropolis.
Mr.. and Mrs. Luis Alvarez and
children returned from vacationing
Monday.
Mr.. ana Mrs. Henrfy Crosse Of
FIT. Orchard, Wash, are visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Crosse at
Boulder Oaks. The Crosse family
| formerly lived in CaleXicO.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02

Mr.. ana Mrs. Henrfy Crosse Of
FIT. Orchard, Wash, are visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Crosse at
Boulder Oaks. The Crosse family
formerly lived in Calexico.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Luis Alvarez and
children returned from vacationing
Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02

Mr. and Mrs. James Broyles are
enjoying a brief vacation in Sar
Diego. They plan to return Tues
day morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02
WEA 7 HER
FORECAST

Southern California - Fair Mon
day night and Tuesday but over
cast in morning near coast; gentle
northwest wind off coast.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02

Mr.. and Mrs. Leslie Dove and
children returned from Los Angeles
Saturday after spending some days
in the metropolis.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02

Mrs Guy Anderson and two sons
Roy and Orville, returned this
week from a fortnight spent in
the comparative coolness of the
San Diego mountains.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02

The Joe BradshaWs are among
the many Ell Centrans enjoying
a September vacation. They left
Saturday for Hawthorne and will
return the latter part of the month.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02

DR.. George w. Thomas and Mrs.
Thomas will return Tuesday from
a two months vacation spent il
San Diego, Los Angeles and Glen
dale, where they visited their son
and his family.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-09-02

Mrs. Adolph Binder spent sever
al days with friends at Laguna the
early part of the week.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
New Deal Wins
Treaty Battle

WASHINGTON-The senate Fri
day afternoon defeated. ~ 10 IL.
the Pittman amendment to the
reciprocal trade agreements law.
WASHINGTON-Defeat Of the
Pittman proposal to require SEN
ate ratification Of reciprocal trade
agreements appeared certain Fri
day when two more Democatic
senators-Harry II. Schwartz Of
Wyoming, and Vic Donahey Of
Ohio-joined administration forces
fighting the plan.
Sen. Lewis b. Schwellenbach, D.
Wash. whom Democratic leaders
counted as being opposed to the
amendment but who had not stated
his position publicly, told the SEN
ate he has concluded the agree
ments are not treaties, and. there
fore. ne viii vote with the admin
istration-
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People in the News

Clark G2bIe and Caroie Lombard
observed their first wedding ami.
verzary a. Hollywood tk<isy. 10
celebration was planned. because
Cabs Nzs IN Ma shirt sleeves
working As an oil driiier IN a bona
fide Oh field among greasy dsrrieks
and stezfnlng boilers making an
Oii picture
Joseph u. sbeshAn, 81 prea6eni
u American President Lsns. e.@d
a. ia home In san Kafasl. Calf /.
apparently Of heart attack
AbrAm u. Gilehrisf tod author
ties a. Oakland. Calf. ihsi hs rad
murdered a man In a Florida
tarpennns camp - SsAzs aga Ia
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

surrendered because hia eonecieBes
~as b>DtbsslDg him
Private funeral services NlIi b.
held a. Hollywood today f0f Jane.
GowAn. 81. former exseaiiss ~
Waiter wzagsr pfoasetions. shs
died q fsssFt silHsnt Tuesday
Al Lake City. ARK a cliy lail
prisoner named Alfred HeetSf,
charged with burglary and grand
larceny. climbed out 81 his jail
cell through a hoie h SO ceiling
while officers we're osst hunflng
witnesses When the offLeera net
Hector walking down the main
street. b. explained just ran cat
o. tohaceo and went 10 get sofne
L<ts 20 szck % sAAi" -.
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Stadium Student
Hurt in PLUNGE

Failing 20 feet from a stairway
leading to an elevated railroad coal
bunker, Dick Reynolds. 15-year-old
Stadium high school student, was
injured critically Friday.
The accident occurred a few
minutes before noon, when the boy
and several companions climbed
the stairway inside the huge red
bunker near Sperry flour mill on
the waterfront road.
Hemorrhaging badly from the
mouth and thought TO have sus-
tanned serious internal injury. he
was rushed to Tacoma General
hospital by police. Officers believed
a broken rib may have punctured
one lung.
Hospital attendants said an
emergency examination revealed
he was seriously hurt. The youth
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hervey
E. Reynolds, 1905 No. 7th st, and
a 10th grade student His father
is a foreman with Pacific Fruit
and Produce Co.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Queer Wreck
browns Nine
Pilot Croft Loss
Is Unexplained

HALIFAX, N. s. - Nine men
were drowned early today when
the pilot boat Hebridean was cut
down by an inbound steamer from
Newfoundland off the mouth of
the harbor.
The pilot boat went to the bot
tom Immediately and not a trace
of wreckage was found by rescue
craft which covered the area for
hours. ...-. ..-..
Only seven men who had been
on the trim auxiliary schooner.
used as a floating headquarters
for the pilotage service, were
saved. Three had left the Hebri-
dean in a dinghy a few minutes
before the collision. One of them
Continued on Page 5, Column 81
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Cyclone Kills
80 Persons

sAFOf.kO&tfLkk. Ia. More
thsn 70 pessona ~ess rspeFtea
allied aAoat nsoa friday ~ .
eyelons which ripped lsFoaxh the
aftls fisiing and nsess picking
sestlsmsaE % i'ssEFspeFt, "A miles
sest q hsfs.
Reports reaching Leader store
hsss saia fhe f1ls1sF struck about
II - =. A.. smashing the fiimey
snaeks ard cutting Nizie sxstn
u destruction Ambuiaaee9 ffaln
fhibodaax and Lahaiseyllls spsd
through here "a ho,4f lalsf toward
the settlement.
Besides the aead. scores sess
reported Injured PleFseparf has
a population * 500.
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Contempt Citation
Voted Against Red

NASHISGTON--The house, By
voice vote. with virtually no de-
bate. Friday approved = resolution
bringing contempt citation
against James n. Doisen. 65-year-
old Pittsburgh Communist. for re-
fusal 70 answer Dies committee
questions.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Slayer Given
His Freedom

BOIsf. iss---tJsy sslson. ean.
yletsd ~ FIRST dsKfse murder In
1874. WA = free man today sftss
spending hAlf his iifs hshind Nnlls
u faAts penltentlsfy.
Feiloe 80 bic ifth appearances
ia ss4feh ~ . pafa0a. tfeiaoa wVn
ffe4.1osa ssis Thursday - - 4
sess n ths state pardon board.
'fhs S1yeafsaid pfieoneF waa
ssntsneea . afe Imprisonment fof
ne naafdsr n atsphsa a. BFe3n-
inR. icabo Falls groesEymaa. ~
ysasx Axe.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Britain S SYli Hero
Will Head Air Force

LONDON Marshal Of the Royal
Air Force. Sir Edward Ellington
Is vaeating the post Of inspector
general Of the air force at his
own request. the air ministry an
nouncec
He viii be succeeded by All
Chief Marshal Sir Edgar Ludlow
Hewitt whose bomber command
carried out the recent air raid on
Germanys air base island Of syli
off North sea coast
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30

day. II w1li hfsiys IN fssTaIlap
A. b -. and A,smoes ~ J.
Ina parade viii start 81 TIA
sna Broadway. asees North an
broadway 10 eth. 4ewn ssh -
faeifie ana soufh 70 psysiisp ave.
There tls Efeups eiieh sia sp-
psss w ne other ts4e cities nsli
rsfefm sa5 esnflnss thssF fesafnsg.
Qsassn aaFss I sna her tNo ~.
ssnaanss. f.lillAh KELSEY ama ETA
ltanfinaea 90 fsnes J. colama u
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Mrs. F. D. in Seattle

SEATTLE Mrs. Franklin p
Roosevelt Wsk here Friday 70 cels-
orsfs the FIRST birthday Saturday
Of Der ninth grsndonlld. John
BosIlgeE i.
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Young Franklin Pays

WILMINGTON, Del - Franklin
D. Roosevelt. Jr, son Of the presi-
dent. vas fined SO and So 80 costs
lsts Thursday here foT zposding
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
ALL and Clio PlywoOd
Workers Join Forces

SEATTLE Warning All. and
cTO lumber vnlona gslrs1 forces
to-day IL = president SCATTERING
move - obtain . bl&nAot agree
meat covering ~ pig~eea instsss.
~ ia OREGON. Washington. ana
Idaho
The Go plyNos>d counsel and the
All. Lumber ao1 haNmiu Work
ers union snare Jurisdiction 10 ina
Northwest plyNo<s4 if,dssstEy. Rep
fessHtatisss 81 ms Industry con
fsffsa separately vita aniDallais
from each group.
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GET Week Vacation

All next week viii be Epring
vacation for Tacoma public school
pupils Classes viii resume or
April s.
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No p@skiax ~sII ~ slIs~sa
.. nss@awsy fss. ~ 10 iTfh
and 90 f'.sisIs fss<s sfh -
rs,@ffsp sss. s~tass@S unssI
sfs~f she p~se<s.
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Parade Saturday
To Start al 10

All Taeoms ana Pierce estlntr
are lseskias forward 70 ths hiK
f,affotii festival psraa< vhish ~iii
start Ia Tseoma Al n, :. ~. aafnf-
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-03-30
Fighter Sunk
And 6 Ships
Are Bombed
Europe Is Excited
BY Story Germon
Fleet Coming Out
AIR AND SEA WAR

A German high command COM
munique asserted today German
planes had attacked and dispersed
a British convoy near the shet-
land islands. sinking one warship.
setting fire to one merchantmen
and striking six other merchant
men.
Earlier the official news agency
had asserted the German planes.
in addition TO attacking the con-
voy and hitting severa, ships, had
attacked a French destroyer in the
English channel.
All attacking planes returned
safe. il was said at Berlin. but
two planes which had reconnoitered
ever France and England had
failed to return.