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Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13

The British public was warned by
the London Daily Express that the
"blitzkrieg is on" but official OPP
inion was that the full fury OF
German air assaults had not yet
been reached
Today's attacks were on larger
scale than Sundays. But London
officials believed that even greater
attacks still are to come.
They pointed out that despite
heavy German plane losses and the
interference with production caused
by strong RAF bombing raids there
still is a vast pool of planes upon
which Germany can draw.
1t was believed here that Germany
can afford to send a thousand
planes a day against Britain IN ar
effort to smash her way to all
superiority. At present the daily
figure is around 500
However. British opinion was tina
formations larger than that OF
200 planes which was reported u
have made yesterdays attack owe
the Isle of Wight and Portsmouth
are not likely to be employed. L
was believed instead that such ZOO
plane formations probably will b'
launched agains wider and wide
targets.
G,ondon dispatches did not speci
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
War Expert Believes Air
Attacks Show Germans
F ceiling Out Weak Points

Germans to withhold truly major
offensive until they have expert
mented further with their large
squadrons. This form of war is new
and the Germans themselves must
learn by experience how to plan
an attack involving thousand or
more planes.
There is no indication that the
present bombing is preliminary to
an invasion. The Germans could not
assemble secretly the great fleet
essential for transporting an army
to the British coast and British
reconnaissance planes have report
ed no such concentration.
The Germans announce damage
to towns. ports, and airdromes but
do not mention attacks on British
defensive coastal positions. If the
Germans could dominate the air
over the entire British coast and
maintain their control, an invasion
might possibly be ordered by Hit
Ter. At present, however, much of
the German bombing is against
inland positions.
Berlin's unofficial claim that the
Germans have control of the air
over Dover would have major i'm
portance if an invasion were being
launched against the almost i'm
pregnable cliff coast of Britain.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13

Today the attacks were described
as continuing necessarily and with
ever increasing intensity"
The statement that I'VE have won
air control over Dover" attracted
great attention since similar an
nouncements were preludes to the
great German drives into Poland
Scandinavia, the low countries and
France.
Neutral expert sources pointed out
that it would be practically i'm
possible to establish a bridgehead
on England at any point without
first gaining control of the all
over it.
Today's high command communi-
que was regared in informed quar-
ters as the forerunner of "really
big developments"
Also, it was noted, the official Ger
man news agency D. N. B. now is
publishing practically a play-by-
play account of air raids on the
British Isles. Hitherto it has car.
ried only the high commands com.
munique and an amplification of il
daily.
For the first time since the wal
began D. N. B. started today with
dispatch declaring that German
bombers now are en- route to Eng.
land" Until now all air force
movements have been guarded witt
the greatest secrecy.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13

But with the air battle moving
quickly from place to place, con-
troll of a small air area means al
best no more than temporary abil-
ity to drop more bombs. 1T is not
the same as control of a city by
an army during land operations.
The Germans are not concentrat-
ing on specified areas as would be
the case in land fighting. They
have taken all Britain as their OBJ
iective and the channel as we'll
This would seem to imply continual
ton of efforts to feel for undis-
closed British weaknesses and I'M
certainty by the Germans as to
the proper positions where their Of
fensive might be centralized.
Last week the Germans seemed
about to concentrate against con-
voyed channel shipping. Their lat
est report of channel operations,
however, states that out of a con-
voy of 70 ships only three were
sunk. Following this announce
ment the new intensification OF
bombings over Great Britain began
while attacks on conveys have les
sened.
1t would thus seem that the Ger
mans have not formulated a plan
for concentrations of their offenS-
i've.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Decisive Bo{{Ie NBesGn: r,v!
British Newspaper Warn

LONDON, Aug. l3. 'Uf)-Ger-
man airplanes, their attacks growing
IN intensity each hour, rained death
by bomb and machine gun on towns
and villages of England, Wales and
Scotland today.
The newspapers, under blazing
headlines, warned the people that
the decisive fight for their free
dom and their homes had begun
at last.
The German planes were at
tacking with increasing fury all
over the country, reports indicated,
They resumed the use of the scream
ing bombs with which they had
terrorized people on the continent,
and few of them dropped not
bombs but more of the leaflets con-
tanning extracts from Adolf Hitlers
Reichstag speech inviting the peo-
pie of Britain to surrender or die.
Raids centered still on England
and especially in the southeast
coast region, but they extended to
Wales and Scotland.
More than 200 high explosive and
incendiary bombs were dropped on
one southeastern England are a
Three cottages were demolished and
several persons were killed.
Eight German aviators who para
chuted from two crashing planes
over one southeastern England town
were made prisoners.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Three Australian Cabinet Ministers,
Chief Of General Staff kiIIedin
Air|iner Crash; New Chiefs Named

CANBERRA, Australia, Aug. 13.
(UP)-Three cabinet ministers, the
chief of the Australian general
staff, two other passengers and a
crew of four crashed to death in
a royal air force airplane two
miles from Canberra airport today.
Other cabinet ministers were at
once sworn in to fill temporarily
the posts of the key men who
crashed-the ministers for army
and air and the vice president of
the executive council.
The crash, a national tragedy,
came as the planes was about to
land at Canberra, the capital, tc
which the ministers we're on their
way to a cabinet meeting.
The dead:
Brigadier G. A. Street, army min
lister.
J. v. Fairbairn, air minister.
Sir Henry Gullett, vice president
of the executive council.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Italians Hurled
Back kinAttack on
British Positions

LONDON, Aug. 13. CUP)-British
general headquarters in a commune
que from Cairo, Egypt, said that
British forces had repulsed an Ital-
ian attack today on British posi-
tions covering Jugaran Pass in
Somaliland.
The attack, supported by low fly
ing airplahes which ''intensively
supported" the italian ground fore
es. was turned back by British
artillery and small arms fire, the
communique said
In one case the enemy attained
small local advantage but were
Immediately counter-attacked," the
communique added
One large Italian bomber was
shot down by British infantry fire.
The communique said there was
nothing to report on other fronts =
Jugaran Pass is an important
British defense line south of Ber-
bera, capital of British Somaliland,
against which Italians have been
moving for several days,
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13

Lieut.. Gen. Sir Brudencll White,
chief of the general staff.
Col. I. F.. ThornthWaite, of the
general staff.
r. E. Eldon, Fairbanks secretary
The crew of four.
The plane was heading for Cam
berra airport, flying low, when it's
motors faltered 1t started to roll
on its ends. Apparently it pilot
tried to make an emergency land
ing. 1t crashed into a small clear
ing between trees. A few moments
later the plane burst into flames.
All that was recognizable of it was
small part of the tail fins when
the flames burned out.
ut is a great national calamity"
said Prime Minister r. G.. Menzies.
Every man aboard was doing i'm
portant war service. Our loss can
not bear thinking about. They were
all fine men and patriots and Aus
tralia will honor their memory
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Veterans Say Guns
Smelling England
Across England

SOMEWHERE ON THE ENG
LISH SOUTHEAST COAST, Aug.
l3. CUP)-World War veterans who
know about shell fire said today
that German guns across the Eng
lish channel may have been she'll
ing Britain with longrange artil-
lery.
After series of explosions late
yesterday, when no planes were
about. this correspondent person.
ally picked up a large piece of steel
which appeared to be the nose OF
a shell. War veterans living in the
neighborhood insisted that their
homes, reduced to Wreckage, had
been destroyed by shellfire.
One of the fragments which ]
picked up had threads on one
side and while gunnery officers
could not say whether it was a
shell or a bomb fragment there
was strong belief that it was shell
fragment. I picked it up on hill
side. a few feet from where a
woman nurse and man had been
killed.
(High quarters in both London
and Berlin denied that German guns
had shelled Britain from the French
side of the channelO
The explosions which occurred
before we found shell fragments
apparently were not connected with
earlier air raids on this port.
They tore away the upper stories
of two adjoining houses and the
roofs of neighboring houses were
peppered with what appeared to
have been artillery shrapnel. Win
dows within a half mile radius of
the explosions were shattered.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Our Hearts Still Beating in Our
Breasts Says Bristol Lord Mayor
As Reporters See City Still unhurt

plosions with oil depots in flames"
in the Bristol area. The circum-
stances we're, according to local
authorities:
In late June a few small bombs
fell near the harbor, but the dam
age was repaired in two or three
hours. A larger number fell on
another occasion, but they did no
damage to an airplane factory for
which they may have been in
tended although barrage balloon
truck was destroyed. In another
attack five persons were killed and
30 to 40 injured. Some houses
were destroyed, others damaged. The
bombs piled up two new bunkers on
the local golf course.
Bristol, from where John and
Sebastian Cabot sailed to discover
the American continent in 1497,
still takes in supplies from the en-
tire world at a rate of 100000
tons a year, the authorities said
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
6erund Tense as
Air BIitzkrie9
Increases Speed

...Tiss-eAywao ETA SH CMF VIC
BERLIN, Aug. 13. (UP) - The
third day of air raids of blitzkrieg
proportions against the British Isles
found Berlin tense with excitement
today as we'll informed quarters,
already claiming control of the
air over Dover, said the attacks
will become more violent with
every day"
Officially there was no comment
as to whether the devastating raids
were preliminary to a final offen-
sive in the battle of Britain but it
was considered significant that well
informed quarters said the raids
could mot be regarded merely as
an episode"
The high command, reviewing
yesterdays activities, said wide
spread damage had been inflicted in
raids on ports, towns, air fields
and other military objectives and
claimed that the British had lost
92 planes in the days fighting.
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13

fy the exact area where todays
assaults we're being made. However.
Berlin indicated that the greatest
raids were being made on Dover,
only % miles across the English
channel from German-held Calais)
The attacks started even earlier
than on previous days of the mass
assault. First waves of German
bombers came over at dawn. Other
waves followed with only brief in
tervals between attacks.
Before dawn bombing attacks
were made in Scotland, Wales.
northeast and southwest Britain
and the heavy industrial region
of the Midlands.
Report followed report of attacks
on the southeast coastal region.
In one early morning engage
ment three German planes were
shot down, one by young machine
gunner who stuck to his post as q
plane dove at him. He fired a
Lewis gun until the craft crashed
in nearby field. After one burst
from the Lewis gun the planes
pilot fell from his seat, dead. Two
other members of the crew were
captured by home guards.
A 15-year-old boy was captured
in one of the downed bombers.
The German raiders at SOM
points were taking advantage o
cover afforded by clouds. The.
emerged from the clouds at low
attitudes and sought to drop thei
bombs and whisk back into tn
clouds before British fighters coul'
| aftooI, fhoro
Imperial Valley press., 1940-08-13
Australia Reports
Revolt Against
Italy in Albania

NEW YORK, Aug. 13. (UP)-
The Columbia broadcasting system
today intercepted an Australian
radio report that 10000 Albanians
were in revolt and that 400 Italians
had been killed in fighting with the
rebels in northern Albania.
According to the report the re-
volt has necessitated arrival OF
three Italian warships loaded with
troops at Durazzo. Belgrade was
given as the source of the Austria
lian radio reports but Obs later
heard German radio statement
that Belgrade authorities had re-
Ceived no such reports.
Evening star., 1940-05-03

1t wasn't quite a hopeless case
the Nationals presented today,
however, because in that So beat
ing there was some balm. Sid
Hudson, the rookie right-hander
VINO is trying to Jump from Glass
D ball to the majors, dropped his
second straight start but he still is
rated starting hurler.
Hes quite a pitcher, that boy"
Manager Bucky Harris announced,
after the game. Hudson, ordinar-
lily, isn't wild. But since the start
of the season he's been wilder than
he should be. I suppose he's still
excited. He gave seven bases on
balls and normally he's not the
type to give that many"
Seven walks is par for the course
for Washington pitchers 50 far.
This is excluding hit batsmen, wild
pitches, etc Still and all, Hudson
did not look bad. He famed five
and what made him lose was the
way he had to lay the ball up to
the hitters after falling behind on
the count.
OF the eight hits made off Hudson,
five were for extra bases. Rudy
York hit home run and a triple.
Bruce Campbell doubled and so
did Dick Bartell, in addition to
singing. Barney McCosky tripled.
A Little Slab Phnegling.
Showing back Dutch Leonard's
regular pitching turn still another
day, Harris today nominated Ken
Chase to face the Cleveland In
dians in the opener of a two-game
series 1t was quite an attraction
at that. Bob Feller was to work
for the Indians and Chase-Feller
duel always has been a standard
attraction inasmuch as Ken has
been nuisance to the Indians for
some time.
Leonard will pitch tomorrow in
the finale of the Cleveland set,
chiefly because there isn't much use
IN saving anybody for Sunday. On
this day the Browns will invade for
a three-game series. Not even
Leonard, apparently, would en-
hance the attraction.
Following the invasion of the In
dians, who will present a new key
stone combination in Lou Boudreau
and Roy Mack and a drink-less
catcher named Rollie Hemsley,
Chicago's White Sox will drop
around for a two-game set, COM
pleting the Nationals first long
home stand.
After this set it will be the West
Evening star., 1940-05-03
A Cocktail Before Dinner Caused 1t All

he was treating hm pretty rough to Godoy
Asen you're not maulng this
h DO you? And this God always
amt in
Fnaly we got to the last day of the
see odoy and ask him take sparrng was
good to take the beating This is
the last night Give a
he got break In practically bone We
eodoy and he almost killed the drag odoy
~ ~ e 0'
Prot Mccartney shook his head sadly Hes
LOUIS He don't hit much but Louis have
can take everything Louis throw
fooled he's the
And the incest out of the
The professor insisted that his interest Godoy
demically
Here's what happened" he
run the tour Well always travel first cabin.
Tor me- travelled that with Schmelng
like a
dinner WE'LL spending money on
liquor before Mr. and Mrs Godoy. Stuff like that,
The professor shrugged I'VE had
still think I'm right Wei
bending and did God public But
I'd still like to steal the the champion"
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Arts Got Everything to Lick Louis

Ihls isn't the impression people have
them Godoy surprised
last winter lot of folks thought He
McCarney In that fight Godoy
jokesers hailed with
But as return fight the
has habit OF embarrassing fighters
Nae Brown went the limit with
out in four rounds Bob Pastor the
fight, he stopped.
I didn't know Godoy until hired
t nrst Louis night Mccartney said 1T PROPOSE
uo learned lot of things about the
him, and
I found announced the Prof profoundly got
personality He's two you'd
fighter including the heart That's the main
thing anyway"
Evening star., 1940-05-03
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, KY, MAY 3.-The
Nations turf writer's, who have been
known to be wrong before, sat down
today to study tomorrow's Kentucky
Derby and came up with the dis
covery that favored Bimelech
couldn't miss and that Arnold
Hangers Dit would nose out Pictor
for second.
Only two of the experts" in the
annual Associated Press poll picked
horses other than Col E. r. Brad
ley's odds-on choice as the winner
of the 66th running of the Churchill
Downs classic.
One of these, Edgar Horne of Turf
and Sports Digest, chose Pictor, w.
L. Brann's mud-runner. to top
Bimmie. Pictor is Maryland- bred
and Edgar is Marylander from
way back.
The other beat Bimmie" selector
was Ted Husing of Columbia Broad
casting Co., who hoped on Dit to
win and Harold A. Clarks Royal
Man to place. He couldn't see
Bimmie for better than show.
Ten picked Dit for second, 10
more for third and eight for fourth.
On point basis of 3-2-1 for sec
cond, third and fourth, the winner
Evening star., 1940-05-03
6. A. O. Defeats Grocers
With Four Sufeties

Wade Pembrooke's four-hit pitch
ing was wasted yesterday when his
District Grocer mates bowed to Gen.
eral Accounting Office, 10, in a De-
partmental League game. Bob
Matthias, G. A. o. catcher, con-
nected for two of the hits. G. A. o.
scored in the fourth.
Cuffy and Hoff toiled for G.. A. O.,
giving up six hits between them.
jenkins, with two hits, paced the
losers at bat.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
New Crop of Southpows Rises
To Increase Griff Troubles;
Hudson Praised in Defeat

AS if things haven't been bad
enough over a period of years wed
all like to live over, new. crop OF
left-handed pitching menaces is
blossoming to plague the Nationals
For years-we don't recall just for
how many-the Griffmen have been
susceptible to southpaws, chiefly be-
cause the Washington ball club has
embraced a flock of left-handed hit
ters. When the 1910 campaign
opened there was widespread opti-
mism. around town.
1--WE haven't got so many left
handed hitters this year." went the
explanation. Besides. the lefties are
wearing out. Grove, Gomez and the
rest are getting old"
AS the Nationals now take the
field there aren't many left-handed
hitters. George Case, Gee Walker
Zeke Bonura, Jimmy Bloodworth,
Jimmy Pofahl and Rick Ferrell of
the regulars all hit right-handeo.
And it's true that Gomez and Grove
are in the twilight of their careers
But
The Mats haven't whipped a left
handler this year.
Fresh Lefties Now On Hand.
Grove, going on Al, shut out the
Mats in the opening game of the
season. A few days later he tried
again, with the temperature at 38,
and failed to last. But he wasn't
charged with the defeat.
Gomez, with as nice a set of stiff
muscles as you ever saw, couldn't
finish game against the Mats in
his only start, but he lasted long
enough, and pitched successfully
enough, to be credited with a VIC
tory. So there are two victories for
Lefties over the Griffmen..
Now the Washingtons are haunted
by fresh ghosts who throw from the
southpaw side. Up in Boston not
long ago the Red Sox unveiled a
new lefty named Mickey Harris, who
won a 7-2 verdict and gave only
seven hits. And yesterday the De-
troit Tigers, winning a 5-to-3 de-
cision in the finale of a three-game
series, introduced one Harold New
houser, southpaw not yet 10 years
old.
In Defeat, Hudson Ranks.
Harold, a graduate of Detroit high
school ranks, was something of a
puzzle to the Griffmen. He gave
them six hits, five of which came
in the first three innings, and
stamped himself as one of the port
siderS of the future.
Newhouser, in winning his first
major league game after dropping a
AZ decision earlier to the Indians,
snapped the Mats streak of winning
series at two in a row. The victorious
Detroit invasion marked the first
loss of a series by Washington since
the opening set here against the
Red Sox April 1918.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Seven Other Horses Expected Go Far Post With Bmeec Derby
Win, Lose or Draw
The Corpetboeeer Lets Down His Hair
By FRANCIS {. STAN.

Not the hired hands with
behalf
the South American walz Maybe
to-
nothing
champion next month the opinion of Prof William
Nothing should
the heavyweight
In standing here, the South Americans
Now in
sneer Prof Mccartney who copoted
championship hunk
Artuos little finger for
Godoys pilot AL
We talking with Prof Mccartney and William
let down his hair Il the
coast tour Billy explained Me Wel
Evening star., 1940-05-03

practice at Marquette the other
day the line included a Pole, an
1rishman, a German, a Swede,
Jew, Dane and a Greek. South
ern Association fans are demand
ing they either slice the price of
admission or raise the standard
OF play. Happy O'Brien, Boston's
famous wandering caddy. turned
up in Atlanta after a 65,00O-mile
jaunt that took him through
three continents. Ace Hudkins,
the old Nebraska Wildcat" Of
boxing fame, is racing a string Of
horses at Narragansett.
Wrestlers at play. Farmer
Jones, the bearded wrestler, who
keeps two pet razorbaek hogs in
his hotel room, won an Easter egg
hunt at Amarillo, Tex, recently,
with . top score Of IL.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Nations Turf Writers Nearly
Unanimous Picking Bimn1ie

of the Wood Memorial compiled So
points for second honors in the
voting
Pictor, with seven second-pla
selections. was third with Al points:
Joseph E. Widener's Roman was
fourth with 35 and the California
glamour boy" Charles S. Howard's S
Midland, was fifth with 49,
Except for Horne and Husing, the
others were unanimously emphatic
in riding with Bimelech.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Yonks' Home Crowds Leave Pay Roll Deficit
No-Hier Rob Carleton of Sleep RossIer Wins Egg Hunt

around here for some time"
Mebbe the fact that he was
speaking at a Brooklyn dinner
had something to do with it, but
Joe Mccarthy predicts it will be
the Yanks and Dodgers in Octo-
ber.
The Dodgers have offered Gene
Moore, Jimmy Ripple, young
pitcher and cash for Bill Posedel
of the Boston Bees.
Today's guest star: c. M.
Gibbs, Baltimore Sun: Dis
patches say Connie Mack never
has given up on Bennie M'Coy.
Nope, only $45, 900 worth"
Buck Newsom has gone Connie
Mack and Clark Griffith one bet
ter. He says the Yanks won't
even finish second. In spring
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Sports Mirror
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Today year ago - Freddie
Hutchinson, $4,000 rookie, was
released on option to Toledo of
the American Association by De-
troit Tigers.
Three years ago-Ellsworth
Vines trounced Fred Perry, IS,
6-3, 63, before 5000 at Madi-
son Square Garden to take 1927
lead in pre- tennis series.
Five years ago-Cy Blanton,
Pittsburgh Pirates strikeout star,
blanked Brooklyn Dodgers, 10,
for fourth consecutive victory.
Evening star., 1940-05-03
Table Tennis Test
Gets Biq Field

Every local college will be rep
resented in the annual District
all-college table tennis tourna-
ment to be held at American
University tomorrow, starting at
10 o'clock.
Staff CaSsell, A. U. athletic di-
rector in charge of the tourney
who is offering a trophy to the
champion, says that entries al
ready have come from George
town, George Washington, Mary
land, Catholic University, CAL
laudet, Wilson Teachers and
American U.