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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
1900 Plane Motors
Will Be Ordered
From United Aircraft
$3.50, 000, 900 Contract
Will Provide Needs Of
Both Army and Navy
BY NELSON SHEPARD.

An agreement for the manufac-
ture of 1000 airplane engines under
a $3.50, 100000 contract has been
reached with United Aircraft Corp,
Secretary of the Navy Knox an
nounced today.
Formal contracts, approved by
the National Defense Commission,
will be negotiated as soon as funds
are provided by congressional &C
ton on the $5,008, 100000 defense
appropriat ion bill, Secretary Knox
said. The order Is intended to cover
all requirements of both Army and
Navy from United Aircraft for the
fiscal years l94l and 1912, and is
being placed with full approval Of
the War Department, he added.
The contracts covering the largest
single order for aircraft engines
under the defense program, will be
executed through the Navy Depart
ment Bureau of Aeronautics and
Pratt g. Whitney. subsidiary of
Uuited Aircraft.
Secretary Knox characterized the
agreement as an example of the
splendid cooperation" existing
between the Army and Navy in
placing defense orders.
Under the terms of the agreement,
he said, United Aircraft will pro-
coed Immediately with a s2.500, 900
expansion program for new plant
buildings at its own expense. The
machine tools required for the
operation and equipment of the
buildings will be provided with
government funds under separate
contract by the Navy. He estimated
the cost of the machine tools at
about 100000 and explained that
title to the tools would be retained
by the Government.
Will Transfer Funds.
Engines to be delivered to the
Army Air Corps will be paid for by
transfer of Army funds to the Navy,
with the proportionate cost to be
written into the deficiency bill. In
like manner, Secretary Knox said,
the Army in turn will negotiate all
Navy engine requirements with
manufacturers under cognizance.
Secretary Knox said this Coop
erative plan had been worked out
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Suez Canal Bombed
For First Time,
Italians Declare
Explosives Are Dropped
On Northernmost Part,
Communique Asserts
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, Aug. 29.-Italian planes
bombed the Suez Canal for the
first time yesterday. the Fascist high
command announced today.
Bombs were dropped on the north
ernmost part of the canal, between
Port Sair and Ismailia, the high
command said, as well as on the
Alcantara Ferry, where the railroad
line passes between Egypt and
Palestine.
The daily Italian communique also
reported another raid on Alexandria,
Egyptian port where the British
maintain an important naval base.
"a British communique yester-
day said Port Said was bombed
for more than an hour, but that
there were no casualties and no
damageD
British attempts to invade Eritrea,
in Italian East Africa, from the
Anglo Egyptian Sudan were beaten
off, the high command reported, by
italian troops reinforced by native
Askaris. Twelve Australians of the
British force were said to have been
killed.
The Italians also claimed occupa-
ton of British outpost, Fort Polig-
mac, near Lake Rudolph, by native
Italian Somaliland troops, and de-
feat of a British raid on Galabat,
an Italian outpost in the Sudan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Guard Training Dates
To Be Known in 48 Hours

District National Guardsmen will
know within "a or 48 hours the
places and tentative dates of their
mobilization for a year of active
service, a spokesman for the Ma
tional Guard Bureau of the War
Department declared today.
A definite announcement, stating
when and where, with the dates
tentative" covering all National
Guard units in the Nation, Is to be
made within that time, it was said.
Any indication of time and place
which might be made today would
be entirely premature" the spokes-
man added
No definite information has been
received by District National Guard
officers, 1t. Col. Peyton G. hewitt,
adjutant general of the 29th Divi-
sion, said today when queried on
rumored mobilization dates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
France Strikes Back
Al Colonial RevoIfs
BY the Associated Press.

by lne Associated freSS.
VICHY, France, Aug. 29.-The
Petain-Laval government struck
back today at what it termed Brit
ish-inspired rebellions in Frances
colonial empire by relieving three
governors-general of their posts and
reinforcing the French adminiStra-
ton in Indo- China.
The powers of Vice Admiral Jean
de Coux, Petain-appointed governor
general Of ndo-China, were in
creased with respect to control Of
the colony's five component prov
inces.
The government moved swiftly in
connection with African and Pacific
colonies, dismissing the governors
of the Chad region in Equatorial
Africa, the Cameroons mandate on
the African west coast and New
Caledonia in the Southern Pacific.
The government announced yes
terday that rebellions had devel-
oped and it charged the disorders
to British guarantees of economic
protection to French possessions
taking the British side of the war.
The civil governor of New Gale
donia was replaced by a military
governor.
So far as Indo-China is concerned
the move was precautionary. at
most.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Hungary and Rumania
GET Axis Proposals
On 1ransylvania
Delegations at Vienna
Transmit Suggestions
After Two-Hour folks
By the Associated Press.

VIENNA, Aug. 29.-Hungarian and
Rumanian delegations, brought to
this capital of old Austria by axis
"peacemakers," communicated the
suggestions of Rome and Berlin for
a Transylvanian settlement to their
governments today after separate
two-hour talks with German and
Italian foreign ministers.
German spokesman said from
various signs it can be presumed
that, perhaps tomorrow, concluding
results will be reached"
The Hungarians, Premier Count
Paul Teleky and Foreign Minister
Count Stefan Csaky, and the Ru-
manians, Foreign Minister Mihail
ManoileScu and his aides, had not
yet come together in four-power
formidable to discuss any proposed
new frontier. They held separate
talks with Joachim Won Ribbentrop
and Count Galeazzo Ciano, the Ger
man and italian foreign ministers.
The preliminary discussions were
held at the Imperial Hotel, head
quarters of Ribbentrop and Count
Ciano.
The axis Foreign Ministers first
received the Hungarian delegates
at the Imperial Hotel and later tine
Rumanians for separate preliminary
discussions.
Long talks with each delegation
separately indicated that the axis
powers were going very thoroughly
into Hungarian Rumanian problems
before bringing the representatives
together.
The conference was reminiscent of
the axis-arbitrated settlement be-
tween Hungary and Czecllo-S lovakia
in November, 1898, at Vienna,
whereby the since dissolved Czecho-
Slovak republic yielded Carpatno-
Ukraine (Ruthenia) to Hungary.
Count Ciano and Won Ripbentrop
were the axis representatives on that
occasion, too.
Old Belvedere Palace was in readi-
ness for more formal conferences
(See RUMANIA, Page A-9D
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Senate Starts Work Today
On 5-BiIIion Defense Bill

The Senate today was to open de-
bate on the IS, 0O8, 900 900 House-ap-
proved defense appropriations bill.
Majority Leader Barley urged
quick action on the measure, which
carries funds for starting construc-
ton work on 200 fighting ships for a
moroccan" Navy and provides
money and contract authority for
II. 1894 Army and Navy planes to cost
eventually more than $4,000, 000, 900.
Designed to carry out President
Roosevelt's suggested total defense"
program, the measure would provide
money to equip an army Of 1000, 600
men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Boy, IS, Shot in Back
In Field Accident

Fifteen-year-old Edgar Melia was
shot in the back and critically
wounded by his friend, Richard
Bradshaw, IL, In a field near the
Melia home on the Wheaton, Four
Corners road shortly after noon
today.
The two boys were practicing with
a small calibre rifle, Edgar's sister,
Frances Melia, II, said, and the
Bradshaw boy was holding the
weapon.
A neighbours dog, which had fol-
lowed them, ran between the Brad
shaw boys legs and he fell back
ward. The gun was discharged when
he fell and the bullet struck Edgar
in the back, police said.
Richard ran to the MeAa home
to summon aid and Frances Melia
called a neighbor, Alfred Jennings,
who took the wounded boy to
Georgetown Hospital.
The two boys were constant COM
panions and had played together
for many years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, Aug. 29.-The German
high command reported receiving as
we'll as giving blows in the aerial war
with Britain today.
Berlin residents swept up glass
and debris from scores of British
bombs which killed 10 persons, in
jured 80, set string of fires and
dug craters in parts of the capital
in three-hour attack last night.
1t was Berlin's worst air raid.
British planes crossed and recrossed
the heart of the city as they dropped
laundering charges but two miles
from Adolf Hitler's chancellory.
But German reporter-fighters re-
turning from early morning attacks
on Britain used such phrases as "a
sea of flames" to describe the effect
of a surprise dive bomber onslaught
on Britain's great Portsmouth naval
base, and "a desert full of craters"
TO indicate the damage done to a
nearby airfield.
Great clouds of smoke were de-
scribed as floating over Liverpool
Harbor, Chatham, an important
Thames side naval center, and
other harbor detectives attacked
last night.
The high command, admitting for
the first time a British attack on
the important synthetic gasoline
producing plant at Leuna. near
Leipzig, said slight damage" was
caused.
British nlanes Intentionally at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Wallace Won'tLimit
His Campaign 10
Farm Problems
Will Accept Nomination
For Vice Presidency
At Des Moines Tonight
By the Associated Press.

by the hSSOClateO treSS.
DIES MONIES, Iowa. Aug. 90
Henry A. Wallace indicated today
that he would not confine himself to
farm speeches in a forthcoming
Midwestern campaign tour.
Il am running for Vice President,
not Secretary OF Agriculture he
commented at a press conference
here when asked whether the talks
would be limited to agricultural is
sues or whether he might not also
touch on the national and interna-
tional situation.
Mr.. Wallace tonight formally will
accept the Democratic vice presi-
Dental nomination here. Repre-
sentative Jones. Democrat, of Texas,
chairman of the House Agriculture
Committee, will officially notify him
of his selection as President Roose-
velt's running mate.
Starts politics" Tuesday.
The nominee said he will swing
into politics" next Tuesday night
with a speech at Dekalb, III. He
said he expects Claude Wickard to
qualify as his successor as Secretary
of Agriculture either Monday or
Tuesday.
Reminded by reporters that Wen
dell Willkie had praised him in a
speech here, Mr.. Wallace observed:
II haven't appeared in Mr.. Will
kies home town yet"
Democratic party officials said
they were preparing for crowd of
10000 for the notification cere-
monies. The Commute acceptance
address is scheduled to begin at
$50 pm.
Greeted by Songs.
The vice presidential nominee re-
turned to his home city of Des
Moines by train last night to be
greeted by a crowd which sang God
Bless America" and Iowa, That's
Where the Tall Corn Grows"
In the Wallace party were Mr..
Jones and Edward j. Flynn of New
York, Democratic national chairman.
Party officials said the demon
stration for Mr.. Wallace from to-
nights crowd will be punctuated by
the music of several bands expected
to accompany various farm delega-
tons here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
British Convoy Bombed
BY Italy, Nozis Report

BERLIN, Aug. % up (Via Radio
The Berlin radio today broadcast
dispatch from Athens asserting
that a strongly-escorted British con-
voy, including Egyptian and Turkish
merchant ships. was bombed last
evening by Italian planes between
the Greek islands of Chios and Nj
karia.
The Egyptian 3,400-ton freighter
Ghikah was reported sunk by two
bombs
Another unidentified freighter
was described as seriously dam
aged" and continuing its journey
with a heavy list.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Five Killed in Oil Pipeline Blast
10 Minutes After Getting Job

dale; George vosman, 20, Selman;
Pat Cummings, 10, and Vernon
Harding, 81, both of Laverne.
Mr.. King and Mr.. Hendrix were
trapped in a raging fire which broke
out after the blast The three others
died later in hospitals.
Mr.. Storer, who had gone to'the
scene in search of work, was only
100 yards away when the pipeline
blew up. A wall of flame swept
across the sagebrush in the field.
Il turned and ran out of danger,
then looked back, he related. There
was q great cloud of smoke, and
men were running madly out Of it.
The fire, which covered 80 acres,
was brought under control shortly
after midnight.
Buffalo Is In the northwestern
corner OF Oklahoma.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Mayor, in Shelter,
Orders Churchill
To Put Out Cigar
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. pa pro-
vincial Mayor gave orders to
Prime Minister Winston
Churchill in an air raid on the
Kent coast yesterday.
AS the Premier entered an
underground shelter, putting
his habltual cigar, Mayor A. B.
c. Kempe of Ramsgate said
sharply:
Put out that cigar, Mr..
Churchill!"
Mr.. Churchill dropped the
forbidden stogie on the sanded
floor.
There goes a good 'un," he
said wryly.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Military raining Bill Reported
To House, Age Limit Up to IS;
Industry Draft Plan Omitted
Army Ready With Orders
For Record Peocetime Force
Guard Mobilization Would Stort Program;
100000 Druftees Would Be Called by January
BY, the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Army was ready with ten
tative timetables and plans today to
start building the largest peacetime
force in the Nations history.
An order from President Roose-
welt for the progressive mobilization
of the National Guard would start
the program through Its first phases
The Chief Executive acquired the
mobilization authority under legisla-
ton he signed Tuesday light.
House passage of the CONSUMPTION
bill, approved lest night by the Sem
ate, would clear tie way for the Sec
ond part of the program.
The Guard mobilization, Army Of
ficers have told Congress, was an es-
sential preliminary to the training
of conscript ievies.
Assuming a presidential order is
Forthcoming, tentative plans provide
for calling up the first contingent OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
BY the Associated Press.

BUFFALO, Okla, Aug. 29.-Five
men were injured fatally and ten
others burned in a thunderous ex-
plosion at nearby Phillips Petro-
leum Co. pipe line project last night
just 10 minutes after the men ac-
cepted temporary jobs.
Company officials worked on
theory that blow torch being used
in repairing leak touched of the
blast.
Ten horses also persisted. The
animals as they died in the flames
made "the most terrifying sound I
ever heard" said Clyde Storer, As,
one of the four men who suffered
critical burns In fleeing the scene.
The dead: Donald King. "a. Buff
falo; Warren Hendrix, 80; Cedar
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Nozi Bombers Use
Confetti as Escape
Tactic, British Say

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Aug. 29.-German
bomber crews now throw con-
fetti at British fighter planes
as an escape tactic. British air
men reported today.
When a fighter gets on the
bomber's tail, the Britons said.
the Germans empty confetti
into the slipstream of their pro-
pellers, hoping to blind the pur-
Suer.
One pilot said the British pay
no attention to the new defense
and cracked:
IF they want to turn the
blitzkrieg into a paper chase
it's o. k. by us
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
u. ). Serves Warning
On Retailers 10 Keep
Their Prices Down
We Hope to Be Snort
And Tough Defense
Economist Tells Group
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

The administration today served
notice to the country's leading re-
tailers that it will regard amy
spiraling of the prices, any hidden
deterioration of the quality or any
substantial shortages in the sup
plies of civilian commodities at
least Professionally as evidence of a
breakdown of the free market as
an effective instrumentality of ma
tional defense"
The message was given by Ben
Lewis, chief economist, ONCE of the
consumer adviser of the National
Defense Advisory Commission, to
today's conference of national retail
trade organizations called at the
Carlton Hotel by Miss Harriet Ell
lott, the consumer adviser. The
meeting, continuing all day, was
closed. Its purpose was to enlist pro-
lection for the consumer from the
retailer during the rearmament
effort.
Mr.. Lewis said the defense COM
mission will act tough to protect
the consumer, as he observed that
he knows of no major sacrifice the
consumer should make as result
of the defense drive.
Retailers Side Presented.
On the other hand, the retailers
problem was presented to the con-
ference by Fred Lazarus, merchant
from Columbus, Ohio, who said that
war presents a dark picture" for
his fellow merchants. He went on:
Our problem is much greater and
more serious than any problem
which we have confronted since the
last war; His dar kexpectations
were given some support by Gordon
Selfridge, jr., an American citizen
and former English retailer, who
described the plight of the British
merchant during the first six months
of the present war.
1--WE are not merely seeking to
guard consumers from the impact
of the defense program" Mr.. Lewis
said, ANY more than the Army and
Navy are seeking to protect the
interests of the armed forces from
that program. Defense today cannot
be less than entire; our energies are
committed to the positive achieve
ment of the civilian segment of
total defense.
I'VE believe that, considering the
extent of existing inventories of
unutilized resources and facilities,
and present rolls of unemployed
labor, the military and civilian needs
of the Nation can be taken care of
without sacrifice to either, for long
in the future.
shortages Not Inevitable"
1--WE shall be reluctant to believe
that impositions upon the consumer
are the natural results of the fuller
employment of our economic system
occasioned by the demands of the
defense programs.
1--WE are not prepared to accept
shortages, however traditional as
inevitable, save on the clearest evil
dence. We shall not expect to find
that the origin of most uDtowsrd
developments lies in the market
rather than in the defense program,
and our efforts in this area will be
keyed to action, as well as TO ex-
PLANTATION.
Further, in this area, we hope to
exert some influence upon the Gov
ernment's military purchasing Loi-
icy. We shall never be found in the
position of impeding Government
purchases, but we shall bring to-
gether significant information and
(See RETAILERS, Page AID
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
British Drive Back
200 German Planes
Attacking in Waves
Nuzi Raids Continue
After Night-Long
Bombing Of England

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 29.-Nearly 200
German planes came over the
southeast coast in waves at a great
height late today. Some of them
penetrated inland but fed when en-
gagged by fighters, without dropping
any bombs.
German air raiders in widespread
daylight forays followed up their
greatest night attack of the war, in
which thousands of incendiary and
high-explosive bombs wrought de-
struction. death and injury in all
parts of England and Wales.
Raiders were reported over two
Welsh towns as we'll as Southeast
England.
The first report of daylight activ-
ity today came from an inland town,
and said merely that German planes
had appeared. The night had
shielded countless bombers in their
shutting forays over England and
Wales.
Three southeast coast towns re-
ported sighting Nazi planes this
afternoon.
Civilians were killed in all of
some 20-odd areas which were hard
est hit Reports from around the
country spoke of hundreds of
bombs" being dropped, of 20 bombs
dropped in quick succession" and of
80 bombs dropped quickly"
The Nazi bombers staged the
longest sustained attack of the war
on London itself, lighting the night
sky at times to daylight brilliance
with their fire warfare and blasting
their high explosive bombs in many
sections of the capitals ring of Out
skirts in a seven-hour attack which
lasted practically from darkness to
dawn.
Some sections of the country were
attacked by single planes, while
others apparently were raided by
successive waves of 18 and 20
bomberS.
r. A. r. Also at Work.
Meanwhile, Britains own bomber
force was at work during the night
in enemy territory.
British official sources gave this
account of last nights British raid
on Berlin:
Royal Air Force bombers sue
cessfully attacked selected military
detectives in the Berlin area last
| night"
The Admiralty announced its dive
bombers destroyed the only two re-
naming oil tanks at a depot on the
Norwegian coast previously attacked,
set fire to a patrol vessel and scored
two direct hits on 2,o00-ton supply
| ship.
Despite the great number Of at
lacking planes, only one of them
was reported shot down during the
nights operations. This bomber was
| caught in a searchhght beam over
a southeast area and held there until
British fighter climbed to attack.
The lights then were turned off and
the bomber shot down.
Fires were started in several Lon
don suburbs as well as in towns CT
Southeast. Southwest and Northeast
England, and in the Midlands and
Wales. All were reported con-
trolled before large damage resulted.
In one London district. more than
so incendiary bombs fell, but 1900
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29
Nozis to Stop News
In Future Air Raids
Until Alarms End

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug 29-For mill
tary reasons there will be here
after a complete stoppage of all
telegraph and telephone facili-
ties from Germany to other
countries following air raid
alarms until a half hour after
the all-clear signal has been
given.
From then on, however, off,
Gals said, cars will be at the
disposal of foreign correspond
ents to drive to any section of
Berlin or the suburbs they de-
sire to see and may report any,
thing they wish.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-08-29

tackled residential sections of the
Reich'S capital" the daily COM
munique said and incendiary and
explosive bombs killed or injured
numerous civilians and caused dam
age to several apartment houses
with attic fires"
One British plane was brought
down in the attack, the high COM
mand said, bringing to A its re-
ports of Britain's total losses yes
terday and last night. Germany
admitted losing Is.
Besides Liverpool and Chatham,
the ports of Cardiff. Bristol. Mid
dlesbrough and Thameshaven were
effectively attacked" by the Ger
man air force, the high command
said, as we'll as armament plants at
Shefield, Norwich and the airplane
manufacturing center of Coventry.
Two airports in Southeast Eng
land cut out for particular attack
were named as much-bombed East
church and Southend.
Workers District Hit.
Most of the British bombs in
Berlin fell in workers district.
While an early morning automo-
bile inspection, tour appeared to
bear out the authorities claim that
no military objectives of conse-
quence were hit, army officers, fire.
men and police fastened to Kott-
buSSer street, in the southeastern
part of the city, where the chief
damage was done.
Through arrangement with the
Propaganda Ministry, three Amer
lean newspapermen, including an
Associated Press correspondent,
were taken on two-hour tour. They
visited Kottbusser street and also
were taken to whatever potential
(See BERLIN, Page A-18)