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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-11-12

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GERMANY, ITALY
 KEEP ON BOMBING
British Shipping Suffering From Nazis !; Italy Is De-
 strOying Much

Berlin, July 9-(UP)-The Ger man high command today claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on Brit ish shipping and the official news agency D. N. B. reported that of l2 British planes which this morning raided the Sola airdrome at Stavan- ger. Norway, all had been shot down.
 The high command in a commun- ique from Adolf Hitler's field head quarters reported torpedoing by a German u-boat of the British des- troyer Whirlwind and said that sev- eral merchant ships. including an ii.000 ton naval tanker, had been destroyed.
 (The British officially admitted the loss of the Whirlwind)
 The high command said German planes had bombed wharves at Dev. onport, England. oil tanks ai Ipswich. Canvey Island. Thames Haven and Tibury and munitions works ct Harwieh as well as chemi- cal works at Billingham.
 German planes also bombed | cruiser. one destroyer and five mer. chant ships In the English Channel according to the high command.
 It claimed that several planes haf been destroyed on the ground al English airpoFts and that ft BFitlsf planes had been shot down over Ger many.
 Reliable quarters said Hitler. wiis returned in triumph to Berlin lasl week after an absence Of eight week. in the field with hls armies. asnlE had left Berlin but it was stated fcnniinuea on Page Q
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Pierre Laval Will Be Lead. CT in Govt Though Pe- tain Is Appointed FRANCE GIVES UP
 LIFE TOMORROW, British BlOckades French Warships as U. s.
 Keeps Watching
BY CLINTON B. CoNGER

BY CLINTON E. CONGER United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Zurich, Switzerland, July g. = UP) = The French parliament at Vichy hurried through the formalities of establishing a new totalitar- ian model state today after a warning by Vice-Premier Laval that resistance would mean the sacrifice of ian honorable peace" and tour free institutions.
 The action of the French cham Der of deputies in approving trans fer of full powers to the government of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain to establish the new constitution coincided wit hBerlin reports that criminal" charges might be insti- tuted against two former French premiers and General Maurice Gamelin.
 Edouard Daladler ana Paul Reys maud, two premiers who were in power before the French military collapse, were named in vichy dis patches broadcast by the German wireless. These dispatches con- cerned French proposals to punish persons responsible for "the made quacy of French means of fighting the war"
 The German dispatches from vichy referred only to unconfirmed reports that some members of the French parliament were urging ac- tion against Gamelin the former premiers and 8 number of generals and civil administrators in northern France. These members blamed the busted officials for the deefat of France and also for the declaration and continuation" of the war &C.,
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Arrest By U. s. Marines of IA Japanese Has Caused
 Uprising
COMMANDER=IN=CHIEF
 OF FLEET AT CAPITAL
Placards Displayed on Streets of Japan Call
 Japanese to Arms
BY HOBART c. MONTEE United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, July 9. = (UP) " President Roosevelt was believed to be planning new naval strategy in the Pacific today to support a steadily stiffening attitude toward Japanese pressure for a free hand in Asia. This was the interpretation placed by diplomatic quarters on the surprise visit to Washington by Admiral J. R. Richardson, comman- der-in-chief of the fleet, and on other naval, military and diplomatic moves during the past week.
 Richardson flew here from Hawaii in a navy plane while the major units of his fleet were undergoing routine overhaul at the Pearl Harbor naval base. Upon his arrival here he conferred for 90 minutes with President Roosevelt.
 His White House appearance fol- lowed immediately conference be- tween the President and Lieutenant Colonel Richard K. Southerland, army chief of staff in the Philip pine Islands.
 Both insisted that their talks with the President concerned only "rou- tine matters. Behind these "rou- tine matters" however, were the following developments during the past two weeks:
 Eight Developments
 l. Mysterious departure of the fleet from Hawaii, for an unan- nounced destination. A week later the fleet returned to Hawaii and Admiral Richardson announced 1t had been on routine practice cruise" The area cruised in this mysterious maneuver has never been revealed.
 9 Enactment of a law empower ing the President to control or pro- hibit the exportation of strategic war materials, including machine tools, required for American na- tional defense.
 3. Public statement United States policy by Secretary of State Cordell Hull plainly indicating that this country will continue to refuse to recognize the establishment of a Monroe Doctrine" for Asia by Ja- pan.
 4. Arrest of 16 Japanese army plain clothes men by Marines in the American sector of the Shanghai International Settlement Japanese army spokesmen have declared the arrest to be "an unfriendly act" and a serious incident. Hull said he considered it a local incident.
 5. Japanese threats to occupy
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decide the issue. It is expected that the Hartford mayor, now back in the state picture after several years out of the limelight, will attempt tc follow up his advantage at the state convention next month, pooling his forces with those of National Con- mitteeman David E. FitzGerald, o1 New Haven.
 Smith, Maloney Setback
 The defeat of Holt was a setback not only for Mir. Smith but also for U. s. Senator Francis T. Maloney With the latter already renominateo the Hurley forces may now be un- willing to let him have an impor- tant voice in the selectoin of the state ticket next month.
 Still another affected by last nights election is ex-Gov. Wilbur L. Cross, who is believed receptive to another nomination. The victory of Mccarthy, with the support of the Hurley packers, places the works
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MEXICO ELECTION
 TROUBLES GO ON
President May Be Forced to Intervene Between
 Contestants
BY EDWARD P. MORGAN

lUnfteu freSS Stam COrreSn0ndentl
 Mexico City. July 9-(UP)-Pres- ident Lazaro Cardenas mey be com- pelled to intervene personally to end a deadlock between Gen. Manuel Avila Comocho and Gen. Juan An- dreu Almazan in their claims to success in Sundays Presidential election.
 The party of the Mexican revolu- tion. supporting Avila Comocho, the government party. issued an estimate of votes on the basis Of incomplete tabulation. giving Avlla Comacho 2.i72.0i6 votes and Almazan GOT. l.4i4. Almazanists. however. had said In advance that they expected and pro- government party estimate to give Comacho 10 votes to Allnazan;s one. and insisted that Aimazan would prove the winner by . big majority.
 The returns are to be tahulated officially Thursday. but according to Mexican electroal laws they are not to be proclaimed publicly until after the meeting of Congress Sept. 1.
 Claim Majority
 Political quarters, remembering that the party of the Mexican raro- lutlpn controlled eloellon machinery.
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Former Premiers Of France, Daladier, Reynaud Facing
 Arrest With Gen. Gamelin
BRITAIN SEES
 'BLITzKRIEC' Believes Nazis Have Al= ready Begun First Phase
 of Their Drive
BY WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff COrrespondent


 London, July 9.-CUP)-German air raids approached the blitzkrieg tempo today. Fighter planes and anti-aircraft batteries were in al- most continuous action as successive waves of planes passed over the coasts, in groups and singly, and sought to bomb targets in England, Scotland and Wales.
 Eight German planes had been brought down within 24 hours, and it was believed another 20 or so had been so badly damaged that they were unlikely to make home bases.
 The home security ministry an- nounced that isolated German planes had dropped incendiary and high explosive bombs in sporadic raids on northeast and southeast England and the east coast of Scot. land during the night and early morning and caused a few easualtiel in Q Scottish town but did no dam. age of any consequence.
 At Dawn Yesterday
 Starting at dawn yesterday, Ger. man planes were arriving continu. ously up to the early hours of thiS morning, when a lone raider drop. ped 20 incendisry bombs on a south east coast town which started fires in the suburbs. Others crossed the eastern and southern coasts of Eng land and the northeast coast oi Scotland. Some damage was done to buildings, it was admitted, but the air ministry and home security ministry said there were very few casualties.
 Tens of thousands watched fights between German raiding planes pombers now protected by fighters, and swift Royal Air force fighters. British fighter planes challenged the Germans over the English Chan nel, often to drive them back. At one time yesterday 20 planes were seen fighting over the Channel.
 Those planes which succeeded in getting inland were pursued by RAF fighters. Planes skipped over fields, hedges, village streets and the build ings of cities, with anti-aircraft gun fire following them.
 Royal air force planes struck heavy blows in Germany, Holland, Belgium and France.
 Nine divisions, totaling 180O00 officers and men, which had been evacuated from Flanders were re-
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WILLKIE NAMES
 MARTIN TO POST
Samuel Pryor Named One of Vice Chairmen; John
 D. Hamilton Denoted
By PAUL T. SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

 United Press Staff Correspondent
 Washington, July 9-(UP)-Wen- dell L. Willkie today selected Rep. Joseph w. Martin, Jr., of Massa- chusetts, the house Republican leader, to be chairman of the Re- publican National committee and manager of his campaign for the presidency.
 John D. M. Hamilton of Kansas, who has been chairman of the na- tional committee since 1886, will be executive director of the national committee, Willkie announced.
 Willkie announced Martins se- lection at a press conference. Pre- viously he had held extended dis- cussions on campaign strategy with party leaders in New York and Washington.
 Martin served as permanent chairman of the Philadelphia nomi- mating convention. His selection brings into key posts in the Willkie campaign the Republican leaders of both the house and senate. The senate Republican chief. Charles L. McNary of oregon. is Willkie's teammate on the ticket and is ex- pected to carry the c. O. P. appeal to the farm voters in the middle west and west.
 New Blood in Party
 Willkie said that one Of the rea- sons governing his selections was the desire to get new blood" Into party direction.
 "The men who impressed me most as able to do this job were Joe Martin and Harold etassen." WIllkie said.
 fge described Martin aS a man Of fine ability and said "lE took c lot q work" to get him. Be said that lle had been wanting to get Martin aa campaign manager ayeF since tllr convention ended.
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Mount Tobe Airport Is
 Discussed At Capital
Congressman Smith Meets WPA Officials on Making Improvements Many WPA Supervisors
 Are Dismissed in This State

Possibility of having the Mt Tobe airport and other Connecticut landing fields improved and de- veloped by the WPA was to be dis cussed by Congressman J. Joseph Smith and WPA officials at con- ference today at Washington, D. C.
 The work would be done under new WPA rules which allow na- tional defense projects to be car- ried on without any contributions from sponsors. The new rules are the result of an amendment to the relief act first proposed by U. s. Senator Francis T. Maloney.
 Congressman Smith is proposing that airports about the state be improved and developed as con- tribution to national defense. At today'S conference he planed to cite facts and figures tending to re- veal an acute lack of sufficient de- veloped airport space in the state.
 The local congressman has al- ready discussed with War Depart ment officials the possibility of hav- ing second pipe line from the To- cal Wigwam reservoir system built as a WPA project. During the World War, he said, local water consumption increased by almost 100 per cent, and the important role to be played by Waterbury ~lants in the national defense program may again bring a record demand for water.
 WPA Dismissals
 Wholesale dismissals of members of the WPA supervisory personenl about Connecticut have been made during the past few days. The Dem- ocrat learned today. The number let go in Waterbury could not be learned definitely, but state WPA headquarters in New Haven said that it has been necessary to cut the supervisory personnel severely.
 Virtually all those dismissed have been listed as "non-relief" employees. They were mostly either executives or supervisors.
 WPA headquarters said l.,at the reduction had been necessary be- cause reduced appropriations limit the number Of WPA workers in the state to 10000. Federal regulations require that no more than five per cent of the total personnel be employed in a supervisory capacity, Not long ago, the Connecticut quota was over 10000.
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War Moves On Today's Board
BY J. W. T. MASON
Limited Press War Expert

Today's meeting of the French parliament at Vichy to change Frances constitution does not nec- essarily mean the creation of Nazi Fascist dictatorship form of govern ment. German and Italian reports indicate that the totalitarian states want to see France join their ranks but it is too early to affirm that French democracy is dying.
 The French people have changed their form of government 10 times since the French revolution l50 years ago. In that period they have had one reign of terror, one directory. one consulate, two empires. two monarchies. and three republics. Af- ter every fresh experiment they have returned to democratic principles, finding the others unsatisfactory.
 The basic change which French leaders now are seeking concerns limitation of the power of parlia- ment. Under the third republic the French parliamentary regime has
 been based on the British system
 whereby ministries must resign If they do not have 6 legislative mae jority.
 This method has caused adminis- tratiye instability due to the volatile and emotional character of the French people, resulting in continuas changes of ministries.
 More Like American
 The new constitution, as far as ils
 provisions are yet known, will change this principle % that t wiil be more like the American, with the executive department not dependent on the legislative. At the same flIae there are indications that the pges~ ent petatin military regime wants | to limit the law-makin6 power Qf l the French parliament, swing lll4 executive department authority fe nrnmuIgaie laws bs decree.
 This movement is pfo~tpia asiiakAAu l in principle and under tho p4@1eHt chaotic conditions iu Nx&HfN n9l'zzEN ! ll mishl woFk fof fhe ai'Ne hs'zlE. gConsinned en Pace 7l
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FARLEY WILL BE
 IN NOMINATION
His Name Will Go Before Chicago Convention;
 Silent on Roosevelt
BY LYLE c. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent


 United Press Staff Correspondent Chicago, July 9-(UP)-Postmas- g ter General James A. Farley's name will be placed in nomination for president next week before the lDemocratic national conyentiop,e he revealed today in an enigmatic re- ply to press conference question. Farley had been avoiding the question since mid-day Sunday when he dined at Hyde Park, N. r., with President Roosevelt and learn ed for the first time whether his candidate of 1882 and 1886 would run again.
 Farley refused to reveal MT. Roosevelt's third term decision, re- ferrirg all questioners to "the pres ident in Washington"
 But asked directly whether his own name would be presented to the convention next week, Farley paused and finally remarked that he supposed that inquiry would be made of him a hundred times this week and that he might as well provide an answer for 1t.
 His Position Unchanged
 My position is unchanged" he finally said after some thought.
 Persons familiar with Farley's public and private utterances on
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STRATOLINERS
 ARE DOING WELL
Speeding Back and Forth Across Nation Without
 Any Mishap

Kansas City. Mo. July 9-(UP)- A Transcontinental and Western Air "stratoliner, loaded with motion picture actresses and actors for its maiden commercial trip west to east across the nation, landed here at l:46 .. m. (EDT) and took of 36 minutes later for New York in pursuit of q new coast-to-coast flying record.
 Its departure was slightly delayed. Mechanics had difliculty ln starting its port engine.
 The other "stFatoliner" landed at 3:30 a. n. (EDT) and took of tor Los Angeles at i:b7 q. m. ft had fown from New York to Kansas City ln six hours flat.
 Capt. Jack Zimmerman, command Ing nle east.bound plane, eaia he could lly to New York ln live hours gconiinusd on Page 9
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TOM SPELLACY
 WILL NOT ATTEND

Hartford Conn. July e-fUp)- Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy, who rec fused to serve on Copnecticut's delegation to the Democfalic Na- tlonai convention because Col. Thomas Hewes. Pennington. was Q delegate. today named his wife as his alternate.
 Mrs. spellacy will fiy to the con- vention Sunday. t was announced. and will represent the mayor. Other members Of the delegation will leave by train Saturday. There are % persons on the state delegation, each with a third Of a vote.
 spellaey has had l0ng standing feud wiih HeWes. Nho ran foF Llell- teIlant-aovefnoF ili io58. and all- ll0nFced immediately after aelec- ton of the delegation he wouldn't serve with Mewe6.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09
Late French Republic Had Come to Life in Franco
 Prussian War
TOMORROW IT WILL
 BE GIVEN BURIAL
England, Germany and Italy Still Bomb Each
 Other With Vengeance
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS (United Press Foreign News Editor

United Press Foreign News Editor)
 The third French Republic, born in the darkest hours of the Franco-Prussian War, was sinking to it's death to- day in the equally dark hour of another defeat by Ger many. At the pleasant wa tering place of Vichy mem- bers of the French chamber and senate are voting ap- proval of formalities necessary to end parliamentary French democ- racy.
 By tomorrow it will be all over. Parliament will have voted its own death sentence and opened the way for establishment of a totalitarian regime on the Italian and Spanish model.
 The proceedings at vichy under the shade of the lime trees where the fashionables of Europe have strolled since the time of Napoleon III marked the third death of re- publican government in France.
 Today the chamber of deputies met and approved by almost unanimous vote of members present a draft resolution placing in the hands of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain full powers to sweep the French slogan of "Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite" in- to the discard.
 Similar action will be taken by the French senate.
 Obsequies Tomorrow
 Then tomorrow at joint session which the German press knowingly asserted will require only one hour and 20 minutes the resolution will be given final approval and the third republic will be dead, just 56 days short of the roth anniversary of its establishment.
 The action comes close to the date of the French national holiday - Bastile Day = celebrated July 14th in memory of the day when Paris
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Democrat State Central Com. Has Named Chairman
Forces of Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy of Hartford, Commissioner Robert J.
 Hurley Control, Observers Believe

Return of Mayor Thomas J. Spellacy of Hartford to place of power in state politics and important forward thrust for the candidacy of Public Works Commissioner Robert Hurley for the Democratic nomination for gov
 ernor today emerged as the two most important devep ments of last nights meeting of the Democratic state central committee at which John T. Mccarthy of town elected chairman Mr. Mccarthy succeeds State
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Frenchmen were faced with the fact that their country would be added to the list of totalitarian nations when word came from the provisional capital at Vichy that the present parliamentary govern ment would be replaced by . dic- tatorial regime. Vice Premier Pierre Laval was charged with drafting a new constitution to change France into cooperative state" of Fascist pattern. Under this, Premier Petain would be Chief of State," like Generalissi- mo Franco, of Spain.
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Seymour, Conn. July e-(uP)--A verdict of suicide was given today Co the death of Edward 0esek, 2t, whose body was found lfl a garage. The coroner said ueeek, wiio was missing loF c Week. died of carbon |monoxlde poisoning.
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Chairman J. Francis Smith, of this city, who led an unsuccessful cam- paign to win the chair1nanship for ex-State Treasurer Guy B. Holt, of West Hartford. The vote was 39 for Mccarthy to 30 for Holt.
 Mayor Spellacy threw the support of his Hartford committeeman to the Mccarthy candidacy, the six Capital City votes being enough to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-09
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington. July 9-(UP)-Gov- ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through July 6th, compared with a year ago: This Year Expenses Last Year $267.S25,312.55 $326, S32.939.53
 Receipts ssS,754.15S.se s72,41s.2s1.s9
 Gross Deficit $171,071.15S.s9 $254.414.64s.14
 Net Deficit s1s7.ss1, ,2OS.s9 $254,sO5. .sss.14
 Cash Balance s1.s1s.Ss5,s35.2s $2,74s.1s1. .4s5.S7
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The Weather

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SUICIDE VERDICT

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Evening star., 1940-05-27
Mrs. S. w. Halprin
Will Address
Hadassah Luncheon

Conditions In the Holy Land will
be the subject of an address by Mrs.
Samuel w. Halprin, former national
president Of Hadassah, at the an
nual spring luncheon Of the WASH
ingron Chapter, Hadassah, June 4.
at the Mayflower Hotel. Mrs. Moe
Gutenberg, president, will present
the speaker. She has lived In Pales-
tine for the past five years as cor
respondent for HAdassah. During
the disturbances preceding the war
she was In the vanguard Of leaders
who organized speedy and efdcient
relief measures for thousands OF
refugees eager to find asylum In
Palestine.
Hebrew and Yiddish melodies will
be sung by Cantor A. Robofsky of
the Washington Hebrew Congrega-
ton.
Newly appointed officers will be
installed at the luncheon, net pro-
ceeds Of which will be used for
child welfare work in Palestine.
Mrs. Robert A. Rothstein is chair
man. Mrs. Charles B. Dulcan, CO.
chairman, and Mrs. Louis Janof is
In charge Of hostesses.
Evening star., 1940-05-27
Mrs. Lillian Wood
Gives Reception

Mrs. Lillian G. Wood, past presi-
dent, Auxiliary to the Sons of Union
Veterans of the Civil War, gave a
reception at her home, 304 Twelfth
street NE, for the newly elected
department ofncers and members of
tho auxiliary. Mrs. Wood gave Sc
lections on the Swiss hand bells,
and the Misses Margaret and Kath-
ryn Beck showed moving pictures
Of their travels here and abroad.
Jack Hoosier rendered guitar selec-
tions.
The new officers are: Junior vice
commander, Earl Palsgrove; chap
lain, John l.. Bateman; color bearer,
Percy Parker; patriotic instructor,
Miss May Parker; press correspond
ent, Mrs. Carolyn Lille. Other
guests were Mr.. and Mrs. c. Brown
and Mr.. and Mrs Charles Carlson
Of Rochester, N. Y.