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Evening star., 1940-08-16

VILLA FRANCA DO CAMPO,
The Azores, Aug. 16 R.-The
8,406-ton British tanker, British
Fame, was torpedoed and sunk Mon
day 200 miles south OF Sac Miguel
Island, the Azores. Fifteen surviv.
ing sailors reached here yesterday.
Three sailors died in the explosion
and IS others in two lifeboats still
are missing.
Evening star., 1940-08-16
NAz|S HURL GIANT AIR FLEET AT LONDON:
REPORT EAST END PLANT AREA BOMBED
ID Reported Killed
In Peasant Raid
On Mexican Town
nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 16.--
Fourteen persons were reported
killed and at least 40 wounded
in the village of Felipe Santiago
Mexico State, when a band of
200 armed peasants staged a
raid yesterday.
Houses we're burned and cattle
stolen by the raiders, who left
the village a shambles after
several hours of fighting.
Troops pursued them into the
hills.
Women and children were
among the village casualties.
Neighboring villages demanded
protection by the army.
Evening star., 1940-08-16
Huge Fires Started
AT British Plants,
German Agency Says
Great Attoek on Chothor
Hurbor and Air Defenses
Also Reported
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN. Aug. 16-"Numerous
waves" of Germany's warplanes,
resuming the war against England,
flew over the Thames. the highroad
North Central England today, DNB,
official German news agency, said.
Already heavily damaged in this,
the sixth successive day of mighty
air offensive aimed at every vital
military and industrial objective in
South and Central England, were
several British Channel ports. air.
craft factories and armament works,
the high command said.
DNB said a large number of
bombs had been dropped in early
day and night raids on the Austin
Co. plant in Birmingham. Britains
great Midlands industrial center,
and that "large-scale conflagra-
tions" broke out in this factory,
which formerly made automobiles,
ing motors and equipment for the
BrltlSn armed forces.
Other Huge Fires Reported.
Other huge fires were said to have
been started by many bombs loosed
on the Blackburn aircraft factory,
near Hull, where Britain's new dive
bombers are being built.
Fires in both these plants were
believed to have been in the assem-
bly, shops, DNB said.
A great attack on harbor and air
facilities at Chatham, a ship repair
depot on the Lower Thames, also
was described.
DNB said huge fires were started
in the docks and shipyards and in
the coaling stations near the har-
Dor basin, that many workshops
were seriously damaged, some bar
racks caused to collapse, and that
after dropping bombs, the German
planes swooped low and destroyed
anti-aircraft and searchlight posi-
tions. This operation. DNB said,
would facilitate the laying of mines.
Recapitulating the results of yes
terday's heaviest raids of all time,
the high command said at least l43
British planes were downed, 106 of
them in air battles and 81 barrage
balloons. Thirty-two German planes
were acknowledged lost.
Locations Declared Damaged.
Returning to the attack during the
night, German planes were reported
to have inflicted new blows on harbor
facilities on the great Portland naval
base, on the southeast coast; Scar
borough, Bridlington, Middles-
Evening star., 1940-08-16

DUBLIN, Aug. Is @.-A detective
was killed and two others were
wounded today in raid on house
where printing presses wireless send
ing apparatus and ammunition were
found, Two men were arrested.
Evening star., 1940-08-16
Thousands of Planes
Blast Whole Lenath
Of Isle in Big Waves
Terrific Battle Is Fouqht
Over City,; Censorship
ConceuIs Raid Results
BULLETIN.

BERLIN, Aug. 16 (P.-DNB official German
news agency, said today German military planes
over London's environs had started big fires on
either side of the Thames and that Everywhere
smoke rising everywhere hits and bomb
craters visible"
Arsenals, warehouses and refrgerating plants
were among the objectives of the great feet of
Nazi raiders, DNB said, reporting that fierce
aerial engagement had ragged over London itself
Two squadrons of German planes "breached
the air barrier and cleared the air over London"
their commanders reported tonight, said DNB
By the eAsocia
A terrific air battle London being fought this
afternoon, authorized Nazis in Berlin said with German
planes raining bombs Londons outlying suburbs and
cashing with British pursuit ships
After delay of several hours the British chief censor
permitted publication of the fact that German warpanes
were flying high outside London this morning.
Dispatches from Berlin said huge explosions from Nazi
bombs observed at Puee Barking in the British
capitals densely-popuated east end
The Barking Purfeet section is Just short distance
north OF the Royal Woowch Arsenal In the vicinity
clustered London most important docks and nearby Is
the huge Imperial Gas Works The whole section is also
the site of important manufacturing plants
The London broadcasting station GSv went off the air
suddenly at Sill pm (London time Listeners in New
York heard air raid alarm sirens screaming in the back
ground of the program which being broadcast at the
time. Then the air silent-an omnous silence
This conceded with long break in the clickclack Of
the automatic telegraph machine bringing direct from
London to the offices of the Associated Press in New York.
machine that is seldom silent for than few minutes
When London came through again at II 80 am. after
gap OF so minutes it to transmit story not con-
nected with anything that might be happening London
indicating rigorous censorship
LONDON Aug OF'-A mighty air military OBJ
what appeared be Adolf Hers supreme effort to crush this
island empire blasting obctves from Northern Scotland to
Cornwall
uncounted the bombing machine cunning Nazi
wapanes roared the all the from the north to
the throughout still they unload their
leta laundering follow yesterdays gigantic at
tack which outskirts of London
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(See BERLIN, Page A-40
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British Tanker Sunk

(See GREECE, Page A-3)
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Weather Forecast

and tomorrow; moderate east winds,
shifting to southeast tomorrow. Tenn
peratures today-Highest, II, at pm;
lowest, So, at midnight.
From the United States Weather Bureau report.
Full details on Page Al.
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(See WILLKIE, Page A-3)
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Detective Killed in Raid

(See GUARD, Page AS,
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(see ALIENS, Page A-50
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(See JOBS, Page A-l0)
Evening star., 1940-12-25
The c. |. 0. Plon

The plan for the manufacture in
automobile plants of five hundred
all-metal combat planes day which
has been worked out by Walter P.
Reuther of the United Automobile
Workers and submitted to the Presi-
dent by Philip Murray, head of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations,
merits and undoubtedly will receive
the most careful consideration.
Mr.. Reuther's proposal is based on
the assumption that the automobile
industry is operating at only fifty
per cent of it's potential capacity
and that the necessary tooling and
other preliminary work to make full
use of these existing facilities can be
completed in time to begin the mass
production of military planes within
six months. In his opinion the basic
machinery, the skilled labor and the
floor space is available for the pro-
duction of the engines as we'll as the
fuselages and wing parts, and he
believes that this work can be done
in properly tooledup automobile
plants with the precision which is
essential for a modern military plane.
1t is on this point that Mr.. Reuth-
ers plan must stand or fall. There
is no doubt that pursuit ships can be
turned out on mass production
basis, but there is considerable diff
ference of opinion as to whether
planes so produced could meet the
rigorous requirements Of modern
warfare. Pilots, as we'll as planes,
are vital to air defense, and it would
be sheer folly to send these carefully
trained men into combat in inferior
ships. If the battle for control of the
air over Britain has established any
thing, it is that mere numerical su-
periority in pursuit ships is not
enough, for Germany's great margin
in number of ships has been more
than offset by the superior fighting
qualities of the British Spitfires.
It does not follow from this, how
ever, that there are any technical
problems which preclude the posi-
bility of satisfactory mass produc-
ton in this field. On the contrary,
we will have to come to some form OF
mass output II we are ever to have
the required number Of planes for
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Why Not Sturt Now?

The northwest central area of
Washington has the highest death
rate in the city, the greatest Incl
dence of tuberculosis and venereal
disease and the highest infant and
maternal mortality rate. This area
furnishes the greatest number of ad-
missions to Gallinger Hospital. In
any attempt to improve public health
in Washington, through clinical dag
noSis and treatment, the northwest
central area would be the logical
place to begin
Yet the recently completed health
center, first Of three planned for the
District in accordance with recon-
mendations by the United States
Public Health Service, is located in
Southwest Washington. And not
even start has been made on the
health center for Northwest Wash
ington, with Health Officer Rutland
encounting one refusal after another
in his efforts to obtain a building site
dllo dppi GlOIlS.
There is long and involved his
tory of Dr. Ruhland's futile attempts
to obtain the health center for the
northwest central area. 1t has been
described in the news columns of The
Star and need not be repeated here
But it is encouraging to note that
nf hn N0f ool
Capital Park and Planning Commits
sion, spurred perhaps by the commits
sion's refusal last week to make a
small park triangle available as site
for the clinic, is getting behind the
effort to find an appropriate site and
to acquire it for the Health Depart
ment.
The Commissioners, who, it is
understood, Topped a northwest
health center item from the pending
budget for 1912, should join the Park
and Planning Commission in finding
and purchasing site. The budget,
Of course, is supposedly representa-
tive only of the city's most pressing
needs There are no funds to waste.
But if carrying forward health pro-
gram, based on scientific determina-
tion of the city's needs and the most
economical way to meet them, is not
important, what is? Another years
delay in acquiring site and starting
to build health center for the
northwest central area will, indeed,
be inexcusable and indefensible on
any grounds.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Role of Science

The worlds largest scientific or
ganization-the American Associa-
ton for the Advancement of Science
meets in Philadelphia tomorrow.
During the past two or three years
it has gone through the process of
examination of it's conScience-of
weighing the good against the evil
which science has brought to the
world. 1t meets now in the midst of
a struggle which threatens half the
world with destruction through
weapons which have come out of
scientific laboratories There are
those who proclaim that the sum total
of all it's efforts are evil, even though
it has doubled the average length of
life and made living infinitely more
comfortable in a very few decades.
1t has come out of this examina-
tion Of conscience with no guilt COM
plex. Science is not the airplane or
the tank. 1t is not the telephone or
the radio. It is not ether or sui
fanilamide. 1t Is not psychoanalysis
or the theory of relatively. These, for
good or evil, are some of its by
products. Science itself is simply
vision, honesty and truth. 1t is i'm
personal observation and under
standing of nature. The only posi-
BILE alternative philosophy of life is
that of the ostrich which buries its
head in the sand.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
shrews are odd little animals found

Shrews are odd little animals found
in many gardens.
They are often mistaken for moles
or mice. but are neither, forming a
family of themselves.
House cats specialize in catching them
in the yard, which is one reason they
are so often mistaken for mice. Maybe
the cats think they are, too!
Their small size and gray coats make
them look very much like mice: and
since they are often found in mole
runs, they are mistaken for moles by
many observers.
They are smaller than meadow mice.
Shrews are sometimes called shrew mice,
which Is one way of being right without
giving over your mistake.
H&A
The official description of the animal
would make any one think he were
reading about mouse:
"A very small mammal with sharp
nose, small eyes, and fairly long tail.
Ears small and nearly hidden by hair
Of head; teeth sharp and stained with
chestnut at the tips; body slender; legs
short and slender: fur thick and soft"
The common shrew is broader, how
ever, than most house mice. 1t also
seems to run without having any legs,
q trait it shares with the mouse.
1t is supposed that the animal lives
on insects, but investigators tell us that
1t will eat worms and small bits of meat,
including small birds.
In the garden the shrew seems to like
places where nothing is changed very
much over the months.
Thus along old walks is favorite
place. In the suburbs it will live in
small embankments at the side of
driveways.
When it comes poking out of the Ivy,
1t looks for all the world like common
mouse, so much so that probably not one
person in hundred has any other idea.
If 1t Is seen several times, however,
something about its appearance makes it
plain to the observer that this Is not
just an ordinary rodent
What he could not see would be its
ferocious nature. Despite its size, it is
one of the best fighters in the animal
kingdom Scientists have confined one
of these little fellows in a box with
ordinary mice much larger, but each
time the mouse has been frantic with
fear.
Here is another strange action of this
small beast which most of us will never
get chance to see, but which we may
accept on faith-scientiflc faith, which
most persons have nowadays, even
when they have lost religious faith:
In is said that when the shrew wants
something to eat which is being devoured
by mouse, it will take up a position
nearby, and then make a peculiar noise,
with its teeth showing To call a per-
son "shrew' is not very complimentary
This noise is said to be almost on the
order of the music of a bagpipe, that Is,
some of the notes are high, with an
incessant lower note like the famous
drone bass Of the pipes.
The meadow mouse is another beastie
to be found in most suburban yards.
Evening star., 1940-12-25

throughout the country, I think this
poor bartering 1t would have been
wiser to have left these chestnuts in
Italy.
On another occasion when buckshot
and canister were let loose on Moscow,
five ships loaded with copper put off from
these shores for Russia Eight million
more barrels of oil are being shipped to
Japan under recent contract negotiated
by the British, Dutch American oil con-
Germs. Under these circumstances, how do
you propose to aid China? How do you
propose to aid Great Britain when both
Great Britain and the United States are
extending aid to Japan?
With Japan allied with Germany and
Italy, 1t seems to me they must be united
against Great Britain. Again under these
circumstances on what moral grounds.
then, do we withhold war material from
Germany and Italy? This does not make
sense, but what does make sound COM
mon sense is the refusal of the British
workmen to make war material for japan.
That shows character and principle.
L. F. D.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Exports to japan

Department of Commerce figures,
recently published, show that the
United States continues to supply
Japan with many materials needed
in carrying on her war against China.
Exports in October were valued at
S26,195, 900, a gain of more than
$s,000,000 over September. This in
crease was chiefly due to larger ship
ments of refined and scrap copper,
metal-working machinery and gaso-
line other than aviation gasoline-all
Of value to Japan in sustaining her
war effort.
OF even greater significance in re-
vealing the extent of the material
aid which the United States is giving
Japan are the export figures for the
first ten months of this year. Ship
ments to Japan during this period
were valued at $191 ,413 900, compared
with $179,377,O00 for the same
months last year. The increase was
distributed over a wide range OF COM
modities, including wood pulp, iron
and steel manufactures, copper, and
Woodworking machinery. Ship
fnents Of scrap iron and steel, now
subject to export control, have de-
slined. as have exports OF autonlo-
Evening star., 1940-12-25

our defense and the defense of Brit
ain. Time, as Mr.. Reuther SO clearly
points out, is the all-important fac
tor, and the essential question is
whether we would gain or lose in this
respect-all factors considerably
adopting his proposals or adhering
to the program already substantially
laid down by those directing the ma
tional defense. 1t is difficult to be-
lieve that men like William S. Knud-
sen, in approving the program which
Mr.. Reuther believes will take too
much time to complete, could have
overlooked the potentialities in the
automobile industry, but that is a
possibility which cannot arbitrarily
be ruled out. Certainly the sugges-
tions submitted by the labor leader
should be scrltinized by expert and
unprejudiced eyes, and if they are
found to have real merit there should
be no hesitancy in putting them into
effect.
Evening star., 1940-12-25

biles, aircraft, ferro-alloys, lead and
cattle hides.
Sales in this country are also an
important element in Japan's ma
tional economy. During the first ten
months of 1910, imports of Japanese
products were valued at $122, ,667, 900,
shade under the totals for the cor
responding period last year. Silk
imports account for approximately
two-thirds of the total With Euro
pean markets disrupted by the war.
sales in the United States have be-
come of increasing value as a means
of providing Japan with foreign ex.
change, and enabling her to buy
war materials, both here and else
where.
Because of increased shipments of
aircraft and parts, our exports to
China registered a substantial gain
in October, bringing the total for
the first ten months of 1910 to $67,-
908, 1000, compared with $40,170,0O in
the corresponding period last year.
In addition to aircraft, shipments of
raw cotton, tobacco leaf, petroleum
products and tinplate also scored
substantial advances. Our purchases
from China this year are likewise
running we'll above those of last year.
These trade gains will be welcomed
as evidence that China, in her battle
for survival as an independent ma
ton, is receiving at least this help
from the United States, an assistance,
however, which is Offset in part by
the continued flow of war materials
from this country to Japan.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. Trace1oell.

Although most Of us think Of this
mouse as the very ultimate OF littleness,
1t is usually at least inches longer than
the shrew The latter measures inches,
whereas the meadow mouse, or field
mouse, totals at least inches.
Meadow mice can live almost any
place, and do, according to common
observation, except that they will not
come indoors. II 1t is indoors, 1t is a
house mouse.
These meadow mice, made famous In
nursery tales, are not such innocent
creatures as the tales suggest.
They do great damage to grain; no
wonder farmers dislike them.
No climate is too cold or too hot for
them. One of their clever tricks is to
travel through snow. so that no one
knows of their work until the snow is
gone. Then their trails can be seen
by the damage they have done.
Danny Meadowmouse. however, Is
quite as engaging as the stories tell
US.
He has bright little eyes, and more
human" look in some ways than the
common mouse. 1t has a shorter tall
than the house mouse which probably
helps to account for this.
1t is fatter, too, somewhat suggest
ing the plumpness of well-fed squirrel.
A favorite place for meadow mice is
the old-fashioned wood pile. How dear
to the heart of childhood is the wood
pile! Not that it was any fun, on cold
winter morning, to 60 to the wood pile,
but in memory, at least, it was fine
experience
There was a redolent smell there, even
on the bitterest day.
And the mice seemed to like 1t, too.
They could be seen scurrying around as
one approached.
It is interesting to think of rats and
mice as great travellers, as well as disease
spreaders 1t is probable that we do not
have to fear much the meadow mouse,
the house mouse, and the wood rat.
These are natives, and do not live In
filth If they can help it.
Woodsmen even eat the wood rat
which feeds on the clean products of the
forest
In the home garden the meadow mouse
often appears. especially near garages If
there is not too much activity there.
1t is well if the person interested in
feeding the birds in winter keeps a
lookout for all the other wild guests
which may be induced to come.
Often they may be seen fleeing when
the feeding stations are being filled The
best time of day to do this is In the
evening, just at dusk, after the birds
have left. Then the feeders will be
ready for the new Gay.
1t is at dusk that most of the wild
mice are to be seen. They are nocturnal
animals. of course, and are just COM
ing out for their big activities.
Persons who find birds interesting
will also, in most cases, be pleased with
meadow mice and others. They might
as well be accepted for what they are,
good animals in their own right. In
this way ones pleasures in nature are
constantly augmented.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Believes Hitler Plans
Assault on Americas.
tn the Editor of The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
The separate situations of Russia,
England and America illustrate prac-
tically the ancient fable of the dying
monarch, who, with bundle of sticks,
showed his heirs how, if they were at
variance, they might each be exterm-
mated by their enemies, and, If side by
side, they could not be vanquished.
A demonstration of the wisdom of the
sage is found in the present subordina-
ton of France to the lawless Reich and
the progressive occupation and admin
istration of host Of lately independent
European nations by the armed forces
of Germany
The supreme objective Of the Ger
man despot is the determination of the
British, which, If realized, would release
his armies for conquest In European
Russia. If the Soviets should be de-
feated, the result would be the expul-
sion of Russia from the future concert
of European nations and the govern
ance of Europe by a Pax Germanica,
which would constitute the native nom
German governments mere mandari-
mates of their autarchic cnoQueror.
AS the American Constitution is the
antithesis Of the existing German doc
trine, they could not abide amicably
and conflict would be inevitable.
Thus, to those who be not blind, the
total defense of the United States can
not be limited to the Americas terri
tories. The challenge to the United
States is voiced in the most ill-natured
threats, and the universal rights and
interests OF the American nations are
menaced by the meditated descent
against the Western Hemisphere.
EDWARD CONN.
Evening star., 1940-12-25
Christmas TuIismun

Now comes the time of stars, the time
of hope,
When pine and memory are redolent
And green around hearth fires; when
tired minds grope
For that which drew three kings Of
Orient.
This is the children's season still, all
though
Where. once, fleet fairy reindeer brought
their boon,
Across far skies wan children watch
Death 60,
metal wild-goose wedge against the
moon.
This is the time of peace - The very
air
Is war filled, Lord. Today our SCARED
hearts need
A talisman against distrust, despair.
Give us a sign that goodness transcends
greed.
Show us soul with love and trust
afame,
Pure in a world, hate-scorched, and
blood d-defiled.
Soft from the Christmas stars the an.
swer came,
Seek what the Wise Men found-a littls
child"
NELLIE q. BoURDEAux.