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ALL-NICHT RAID
HITS CENTER OF
CAPITAL CITY

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upon the greatest symbols Of the
empire.
Palace Hit
Buckingham palace "a hit by
explosive bombs Downing street,
the home of Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill, and the length OF
Whitehall, the avenue of the king
dom's government, by fire bombs.
King George vi and Queen Eliz
abeth, themselves, were in the pal
ace but escaped injury when five
bombs fell.
Authorities disclosed tonight that
an incendiary bomb-quickly
smothered-had hit the House OF
Lords, noble chamber of parlia-
ment, in the youth wing Of the
houses of parliament. They did
not say exactly when this hap
pened. But today, fire bombs were
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
dropped on Downing street, where
lives, and elsewhere in the White
hall area, where almost all of the
governments business is transact
ed.
They nicked a wing of the ad-
miralty from which the operations
of the worlds greatest navy are
directed. Other bombs were looseo
upon a world famous square, and
very near to the Victoria memorial
post in front of Buckingham pal
ace, and in more humble quarters
about the city.
The only destruction of conse.
quence to these properties of en-
pire was to the palace. The pal
ace, home of England's monarchs
for a hundred years, was hit by
five bombs. Its chapel, where
many of the great events of a
royal family's life have been sealed
by the ritual of the church, was
smashed. Incendiary bombs
streamed down upon the grounds.
A water main was burst hundreds
Of windows were smashed.
King George and Queen Eliza
beth were in an air raid shelter in
the palace during the bombing. The
Princesses Margaret Rose and
Elizabeth were elsewhere. Three
palace. employees wer injured.
The king, who all during the vio-
let and almost endless assaults of
this week has gone about his bust
ness of cheering up his people,
thus replied to the congratulations
of his wal cabinet on his escape:
Like so many other people we
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GERMAN INVASION
ATTEMPTS FAILED
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dreds Of German bodies in the
waters near Cherbourg France).".

LONDON, Sept. 13.-LR-A
British military source said to-
night there has been absolutely
not attempt at invasion in any
size( shane or FORM"
Commenting ON a statement
in Jersey City, N. j., by DR..
Charles F. Bove, former Paris
surgeon, that the Germans had
tried to invade Britain several
times and failed, this source
added:
I'VE would be only too glad
to announce it if there had been
an attempt and we had repusled
it,"
Referring to DIR. B0ve's state
ment that he had seen hum
dreds of German bodies in the
waters near Cherbourg tFrancey'
this military source said it was
possible that a German trans
port ship had been bombed or
tOrped0ed.
The British censor passed DIR.
B0ve's story for publication in
the British Isles.
The Germans, he said, were cor
practicing for invasion a
the French coast-the prac
Lice including maneuvers in whic.
Nazi soldiers in full uniform jumpe,
from vessels an dswam long dis
-ances with all their equipment.
Other passengers would not com
ment on the reported invation at
tempts, but DR.. Bove's statemen
bore out similar reports received re
in New York from two French
officials.
These letters told of a German at
to land troops on the ives
coast of England that proved moth
short of suicide"
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JUDGES HITTING
SLOT MACHINES
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up the work against slot ma
chines."|
At Durham yesterday Judge
Henry L. Stevens ordered a round
up of the illegal machines by coun-
ty and city officers which quickly
resulted in seizure of 81 pin board
machines.
Judge Parker imposed a IL.
month prison term on j. N. Finch,
who confessed distributing t
machines for the Vending Machine
company of Fayetteville. He also
ordered Finch to pay the court
costs of $28.55 in each of 80 cases,
and to be on probation for a period
Of three years under a suspended
one-year term after completion d
the 12-months sentence. An alleged
contract between Finch and the
Vending Machine company was or
dered impounded.
P. E. Laing, of Raleigh, trading
a. the Capital Amusement COM
pany, was given a sentence of
eight months on the roads, placed
on probation for three years at its
expiration, under a suspended SEN
tence of one year, and ordered to
pay the court costs in each of 19
cases.
Finch and Laing served notice
of appeal.
Earlier John A. Ferris, another
confessed distributor, had e e n
fined $500 and placed on probation
for three years under a suspended
term of n year.
The jurist ordered So of the al
legged operators of the slot ma
chimes to pay court costs and have
nothing to do with slot machines
for two years.
Indicted with Calcutt and tn e
Vending Machine company were:
R. W. Boiling, identified in court
testimony as an auditor of the
firm, and c. C. Bishop, identified
as Raleigh contact man for the
company.
Judge Parker set bond for Cal
cult at $1,000 and for Boiling at
81, 500.
Calcutt, individually and as the
Vending Machine company, was
charged specifically with owning
illegal machines which were on To-
cation in Wake county. Bishop and
Boiling we're named in individual
charges of the same kind, and
also YER charged with conspiring
with Calcutt to distribute the ma
chimes. l
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NAZI WARPLANES
BACK AT LONDON
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pm. e pm. EST, and the rein
forced defensive artillery went IN.
to action almost at once. =.
Fly High
The course of the raiders could
be followed easily across the cloud
less sky by their sound, but they
were So high that they could not
be seen from the ground.
The explosions of anti-aircraft
shells raised a long, reddish rib
bon across the face of the city. In
one area, high explosive and in
cendiary bombs began to dop. In
that same area, the anti-aircraft
was most active.
A tremendous explosion was
heard from another section. Bombs
were dropping more and more fire.
quently and over wider areas.
The guns in central London sent
long rolling crashes of sound into
the sky. The splinters of shells
slapped upon the city's rooftops
and smashed skylights.
The defenders used single
search1ight beams instead of the
usual clusters as pointers to direct
the anti-aircraft fire.
Shortly before midnight, a single
raider a heard to crash in the
south, with shells exploding on its
tail. Then there was a lull.
Incendiary bombs fell on a house
in a southwest area square. Bus
drivers and conductors helped ex-
tinguish the fire.
High explosive hit a building in
the southwest area and the walls OF
a nearby block of apartments were
damaged.
The British Press association re-
ported that a bomb fell through
two floors of a house in the same
district, killing a woman seated in
a chair and the cat she had in her
lap.
A shower of incendiary bombs
feI on the fringe of central London.
Fire apparatus Immediately was
heard dashing through the streets.
Two heavy salvos of bombs were
dropped in south London. l
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COOKING SHRIMP

To clean cooked shrimp, wash
in cold water, take a sharp point
ed knife and carefully cut out the
black strip outlining the shrimp.
Chill until time to use :.
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cred with an additional S., 900
policy until after the fire."
On cross-examination he should
cred the blame for the additional
policy not appearing on the 1899
40 fisca lyear audit report and
testified that the policy had been
in force since 1929.
S. P. Douglas, an auditor of the
county books, testified he, had
never found a shortage in funds OF
the school office, but said he had
been Critical of methods used in
making up payrolls for construc.
ton labor and payment of invoices
and vouchers without approval"
The defense offered no testi-
mony.
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SCHOOL BURNING
CASE COMPLETED

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the jury to find facts to dislodge
the strong evidence given by state
witnesses.
In argument to the jury, Solici-
tor F.. Ertel Carlyle called for a
guilty verdict on the grounds that
all state evidence was unchal-
lenged. .....
The defense argued that the
state had failed to prove a motive
or that the little %one-story build
ing burned from an incendiary
origin.
In seeking a motive the state
placed c. L. Green, county school
superintendent on the stand yes
terday and he testified that he did
not know Liberty school was COW
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now have had a personal expert
ence of German barbarity which
only strengthens the resolution of
all of us to fight through to final
victory"
The government fatty accused
the Nazis of deliberate" attacks
on Conspicuous buildings irrespec-
tive of their nature"
The raiders struck the city three
times before tea-time. For the
most part they operated in small
groups, high in the gray clouds.
Two or free of them would make
a sudden rendezvous over a tar,
get, let go their bombs and roar
upward at once. Their planes were
half hidden in a gray camouflage
coat almost the color of the dreary
sky. ONE of them yer declared,
too, t ODE using a new sort of in
cendiary machinegun bullet which
pierced and then burst a split sec
ond later.
The attack on Buckingham pal
ace vas made by a dive bomber.
Witnesses agreed that as the ship
was over the center of the palace,
the motor va cut and the bombs
launched in a long, quick and al
most noiseless dive. l
In a nearby street, three bombs
pounded to earth amid hundreds OF
people who had no time to run to
cover. There were casualties
none knew just how many.
The Roayl Air force, desperately
busy here at home in almost end.
less defense of the capital, went
on with its counter offensive
against German invasion, and was
declared by the air ministry to
have struck great, Furnishing blows
at the key distribution centers'
through which the Nazis would
have to move men and materials
for the attempt to cross the Chan.
mel. l
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LITTLE
JUMPS TO A CONCLUSION

PUEBLO. Colo. -R- Jacque.
me Wells is 4. She saw her first
rocco recently.
what did you think of it,
JACKIE inquired a friend.
'N~othing!"
Why, what was wrong
Just mans jumping over horses
Tho horses jumping over mans.
that's ALL" q
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ITALIANS MASS
FOR SUEZ ATTACK
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..,o,, will soon have plenty of work
do" and Sir Miles Lampsn,
eritish ambassador to Egypt, in a
.neech said Britain soon would
ia1nch a great counter-offen-
sive.'
Military observers expected any
1tslian offensive, however, to be
timed with the projected Nazi in
vasion of England.
In Rome Italian authorities said
fascist pilots e dealing heavy
h1ows to British posts. Such raids
we're considered natural prelimia-
ries to a ground offensive).
In northern Kenya, 1000 miles
south of the potential Egyptian
battle-ground, Italian forces from
southern Ethiopia already were on
the move on a 200-mile front in
an apparent thrust toward British
Kenya's capital, Nairobi. British
forces fighting a delaying action
inflicted heavy losses on the
italians, the British said. In some
places the italians were 12O miles
deep into Kenya, but still 300 miles
from Nairobi.
A British communique issued in
Nairobi said lone of our detach-
ments again attacked the enemy
successfully at Wal Quarts and
drove them from their positions
inflicting casualties and capturing
prisoners. Our casualties were
again slight" 8
The British in an official state
ment said an Italian attack may
come at any time but we are well
prepared for anything"
The spokesman also said 1T is
surprising that it is so constantly
assumed that only the Italians are
preparing for an offensive"
At the same time, the possibility
was raised that Italy was tighten
ing her Libyan defenses against
frequent British thrusts into Libya
which consistently have caused
the enemy casualties in men and
MATERIAL
An eaSterly movement of in
fantry with some armored fighting
vehicles and a considerable
amount of motor transport have
oeen Observed" the statement
said, but they do not indicate the
Italians have mounted their at
tack.
In the Sudan similar move
ments and concentrations of enemy
forces are reported from Kassala
which might be Used as a base for
the extension of their small pene-
tration into the Sudan. At the
same time there has been talk of
third possible Italian attack from
the southeast corner of L b a
across 400 miles of desert towards
Wadi Haifa in the extreme north
Of Sudan. Such an advance would.
however, only be one of several
possible diversionary movements
which would be undertaken by mi
nor enemy forces" l
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ASK INDUSTRY
SECTION WITH
TEETH in IT.
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gfammatical' was a "misprint to be
treated as SUCH" Senator Barley
Inc majority leader, ~contended.
senator Nicely DIV Va) brought
me issue to a head with a motion
mat the bill be sent back to confer
ehce. In vain, Barley pleaded that
70 Go so would make for serious de-
lays, that the proposal vas utterly
unnecessary.
No corporation" said Nicely, "is
gong to refuse t omake munitions
while YOUR boy and my boy are she'd
uins their blood for their country,
"hen il (its head) knows that his
refusal will cause him to spend three
years in the penitentiary."
Soon thereafter, the measure was
shipped back to conference.
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MORAL: BE

BELLE FOURCHE, S. D. u
Mrs. Frank Evans offered a re-
ward for the return of two es-
capped pets. The want-ad failed to
bring results. She tried another.
The pets-skunks-had been de-
scented, she assured readers. Re-
suits were better
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DUCKY IDEA

IDUCKY IDEA
PIERRE, s. D.. -4RH G a m e
Warden George Woods used a new
technique to csc ducks threat
ened by a drying pot hole. The
mother couldn't move her brood
through dense weeds separating
her home from a nearby pond. So
Woods had a farmer NOV a swath
through the tangle. Mother a n d
ducklings waddled right down the
lane to the next pond. 4
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WEATHER
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WASHINGTON, September 13.1RE
weather bureau records of Temperature
n rainfall for the 2 hours ending S
p. M In the principal cotton growing
areas and elsewhere.
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pay for its waste and extravaganza.
These things are all apart from the
fact that dangerous radicals, crack
pots, "fellow travellers" and others
having little sympathy with, or a real
antipathy for, American institutions
and ideals have been placed in high
government position, clothed with die
tatorial authority, and permitted to
"bore from within" to their hearts
content
BRIDGES CASE is
AN EXAMPLE
Madame Perkins is a striking ex-
ample. Thru her intercession the no.
torious Communist Harry Bridges
was saved from deportation and so
great stencil has her handling of the
immigration Service created that
even the aloof nostrils of Mr.. Roose-
welt were finally penetrated by it and
he has nav asked that the Department
of Justice take over the Service, to
what advantage, judged by the prey
ious attitlde of Attorney General jock
osn toward subversists, it is difficult
to forecast.
The one instrument of government
that has honestly endeavored to seek
out and to curb Fifth Column activ-
tiles, the Dies Congressional Commit.
tee, has met only with open rebuffs
and hostility from the President him,
self and has failed to receive the prop
er cooperation from the Department.
of Justice and other government agen-
cies due to this Executive antagonism.
Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt has also
sought to cast discredit and ridicule
upon the Dies Committee, and while
she has espoused and sought to aid
financially the admittedly Commun-
list tinged American Youth Congress,
even going so far as to entertain its
leaders in the White House itself.
Now, belatedly, Mr. Roosevelt and
the New Dealers generally are raising
hue and cry over the Fifth Column
and are creating a public fear and
frenzy that may well cause needless
riots and bloodshed, the while for
seven years they have been engend-
ering and encouraging the very dam
gers that now cause them ostensibly
to quake in their boots.
Yes, verify, the New Deal consti-
tutes the Fifth Column we have most
to fear.
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ACCIDENT


hDNA f1SSo III L4OCSti NiiuI SliSo
Zion Evangelical Lutheran-Sun-
day school, $3.50; divine worship, at
l0:30 A. M.
Church of the Brethren-Sunday
school, $3.50 A. NJ; divine worship with
sermon, 1920.
st. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran-
Sunday school at $3.50; divine worship
at l0:45; Luther League at 800 P. NJ.
Planning for the Fourth
Plans are progressing for observ-
ance of the Fourth of July, when two
bands will be present. Ball games,
addresses, etc, are on the program.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. Alex. Georg and Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Keller visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Milton Bennett and William Belt
eel and Miss Hazel Bennett at LaVale
on Sunday.
Mrs. Allie Speicher, Mr.. and Mrs.
Foster Yost and Mr.. and Mrs. w. W.
Dewitt and family were guests Of Nh.
and Mrs. Clayton Speicher in Oakland
on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Richter and
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Kahl were visit
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Burkhard on
Sunday evening.
Miss Hazel Brenneman spent the
weekend with her parents at Bittin-
ger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall Spoerlein, Of
New Windsor; Mrs. Sadie Taylor, of
Baltimore, and Mr.. and Mrs. Clark
Schlossnagle, of Hoyes, were Sunday
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Howard
Schlossnagle.
Aubra Goehringer and family were
visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Shank
at Deer Park on Sunday.
Miss Kathleen Miller spent the past
weekend in Baltimore with friends
and relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Wright, Addison,
Pa, were visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Wal
ter Fratz on Sunday.
L. j. Lohr left here on Sunday by
motor for Boston, Mass.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bickford and
daughter were visiting Mr.. and Mrs.
Peter Bickford in the Swanton COM
munity on Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Smith, Rcd
House, and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Nc,
ROBBIE, Oakland, were visiting rela.
tives and friends here Sunday.
Mrs Floyd Groah, Connellsville, Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Alexander over
the weekend.
Mrs. w. A. Speicher had as guests
on Sunday Mrs. George Wahl and
daughter, Mrs. William Miller, Mrs
B. o. Aiken and daughter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Marvin Calls and daughters,
Mrs. Walter Bowman and son and Joan
Glotfelty, McHenry; Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Zehner and son, Grantsville.
Mr.. and Mrs. DeLeon Rush enter,
tanned at dinner on Sunday Mr.. and
Mrs. Mitchell Rush and family, Mrs.
Glenn Andrews, Mrs. Martin Rush,
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Rush and daugh-
ter, Miss Julia Silbaugh, Mrs. Emma
Speicher and Mr.. and Mrs. Dwight
Speicher and family.
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the past seven years the Communists
of America have played the Trojan
horse game with this country more
effectively than ever it was played
before. AS the Dies committee proved,
they have been boring steadily from
within. And they were able to do this
because they called themselves Glib
erals" and thus appealed to the radi-
cal group among the New Dealers.
###
That was disturbing enough when
the only threat to the country was
national insolvency. But now, with a
great war, in which we may become
involved, blazing abroad, it is intoler-
able. 1t is all very well to talk about
steps to nullify Fifth Column activi-
ties, but that does not make sense
until the Administration cuts every
Communist jobholder. 1t particularly
does not make sense if people promi-
nently connected with the Admins
tration are going to attend meetings
and hold memberships in organizations
even suspected Of being Communistic.
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE. That the sub
seriber hath obtained from the Orphans Court
of Garrett County. Maryland Auxiliary Let
tiers of Administration on the estate of
HOWARD L. BOWMAN,
late Of Somerset County, Pa. deceased. All
persons having claims against the deceased are
hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the
vouchers thereof duly authenticated, to the sub
scriber before the 18th day of Deem
Der, 1910, they may otherwise by law be eN
cluded from all benefit of said estate. All per
sons knowing themselves indebted to said es-
tate are requested to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this llth day of June,
1910. SELMA BOWMAN,
Salisbury. Pennsylvania,
Auxiliary Administrative,
ERNEST RAY JONES. Agent
Oakland Maryland
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the sub
scriber hath obtained from the Orphans Court
of Garrett County, Maryland, Letters of Adj
minstraton the estate of
RICHARD w. BECKMAN,
late of Garrett County. Maryland, deceased. An
persons having claims against the deceased are
hereby warned to exhibit the same, with the
vouchers thereof duly authenticated to the sub
scriber on or before the Both day of November
1870 they may otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefit of said estate. All persons
Knowing themselves indebted to said estate
are requested to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 18th day of Nav
I94O. MARY f. BECKMAN
Administrators,
Swanton, Maryland.
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Poem Is Accepted

A New York publishing company
announced this week it had accepted
the poetry Of Mrs. Catherine Nethken,
of this county, for the 1910 edition of
The Worlds Fair Anthology of Verse.
Her poem was entitled Autumn
Reveries." The acceptance makes
her eligible in contest with 500 as
first prize winner.
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Murphy, returned to her home on Sun
day She motored there with DR.. and
Mrs. Oscar Hall and Mrs. Bessie
Zahan.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Frame and little
daughter Linda spent Sunday here
with Mrs. Allie Raymond.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of Mickey s
Band at Loeb Lynn will conduct ben
eft card party in the Loeb Lynn band
hall Wednesday night, June &c. The
committee in charge includes Mrs.
Darwin Martin, Mrs. Clyde Shipley
Mrs. Lyle Weeks and Mrs. Edgar
Smith.
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LOOKING FORWARD
By FRANKLIN MAILMAN
Publicity Director, Republican National Committee

Americans are Mortified over the
tragic events now taking place in Eu-
rope. They also are bewildered over
the apparent impotence of the French
Army to stop the onward march of the
Nazl forces in recent days.
We had understood that the French
had the best army in all Europe. We
had been given to understand that the
Maginot Line was impregnable. What
then has happened? This is question
that frequently has been heard in
every town in our land.
Well, one answer is that France, toe,
had New Deal The French did not
call it that but the Popular Front of
the Socialist Blum government was so
much like the American New Deal that
they had the appearance of the Siam
csc Twins. 1t will be recalled that the
sit-down strike, which was given en-
enlargement by our New Deal, origi-
mated in France under the Blum
regime. The latter also sponsored u
40-hour work week, took control of
the marketing of wheat, placed restric-
tons on banking, devalued the frame
and Mathematical the munitions indus
trV
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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN That
] am not a stakeholder in the Wesley
Harvey Sprayer, nor will not be re,
sponsible for any damage that may
result while the sprayer is moving
over the roads or otherwise
ALBERT N. BROWN.
Bayard, w. Va, June /, 1910.
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