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FORTY-SIXTH YEAR TWELVE PAGES Cerebral Hemorrhage After Illness of Two Years INSURED FOR $12,000,000 I Industrialist's Rise to Fortune Provides Brilliant Saga of U. S. Financial Growth (By Associated Press) GREAT NECK, N. Aug. 18.

Walter P. Chrys ler, 65, who gambled $5,000 in 1908 to buy an automo bile on a "hunch" and later made millions manufacturing them, died today at his Long Island estate. Death came from a cerebral hemorrhage after an illness of more than two years, ending a spectacular career that started in a railroad roundhouse at five cents an hour and led to the top of the motor car corporation bearing his name. Chrysler had taken no active part In business since he was stricken with a circulatory attack May 26, 1938, but maintained an interest in world affairs. He was allowed out of bed for a time last Thursday, spending some time in a wheelchair, and suffered an attack Friday.

He lapsed into a coma yesterday and died at 5:50 p.m. today. Rose From Apprentice To Leader of Industry At his bedside were two personal physicians and his four childrenWalter P. Jack, Mrs. Byron Foy and Mrs.

Edward Funeral services, his associates said, would be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal church in New York City. Burial will be in Sleepy Hollow cemetery at Tarrytown, N. Y.

Chrysler, son of a railroad engineer, was a native of Wamego, Kan. He founded the Chrysler which has manufactured 8,000,000 cars, in 1925 after holding various executive posts with General Motors and other firms. Auto Magnate Held Five Directorships He had been decorated by King Leopold II of Belgium and was a member of the Belgian Legion of Honor. He held directorships in the Chrysler W. P.

Chrysler Building General Foods Automobile Manufacturers association and the Madison Square Garden Corp. His wife, the former Delia V. Forker of Ellis, where Chrysler pent his youth, died on Aug. 8 two years ago. A descendant of Tuenis van Dol-son, the first male child born In New York City (then New Amsterdam), Chrysler rose from machinist apprentice with a railroad to a position among the great motor car manufacturers in a motor car age.

Chrysler, chairman of the board of the Chrysler corporation, was reputed to be "the most insured man in the world." One report said in 1931 he had taken out $12,000,000 in life insurance policies. Early in the decade he built "as a personal investment" the then (Continued on Page Two) Four Killed in Bomber's Crash (By Associated Press) RUSTON, Aug. officers and two enlisted men were killed instantly tonight when a B-12 army bomher crashed Into an open field and burned seven miles south west of here. The dead were: Second Lieut. James H.

Griffin, 27, the pilot, of Asheville, N. First Lieut. Hubert T. Elders, 33, Columbia, S. Pvt E.

E. Quinker, Valdosta, Pvt. Daniel C. Johnston, Elberton, Ga. The plane left Barksdale field Shreveport, Saturday and was on a return flight.

Lieut. Griffin was crushed to death after bailing out when his parachute failed to open. The others were burned inside the plRne which exploded after crashing, A i MMM Ms Walter Chrysler, automobile magnate who died yestsrday of a cerebral hemorrhaae at the age of 65. B-lLll SUM HI (By Associated Ptpss) LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18.

-'Saying he was tired of "being taken" by cocktail and beer bar girl entertainers, Henry A. Hardesty, 50-ycar-old nurse, confessed today he strangled one of them, Clara Williams, 27, at a cheap hotel where they registered as man and wife, Detective Lieuts. George Hill and W. J. Clark reported.

Hardesty charged the girl "tried to chisel me out of $10" after he had bought quantities of first-class liquor for her because she asked for it instead of the common run of potables. The 220-pound, gray-haired Har desty was first arrested as a drunk. He finally induced officers to investigate his story that he had killed someone. He then guided them to theroom where Miss Williams' body was found. On previous visits to the East Fifth street saloon area where he met Miss Williams, he said, he had "been taken about nine times" by other entertainers.

Army Umpires Debate Results (By As.socia'pr Press) YELM, Aug. 18. Stream ing back to camp for baths, hot I food and rest, 41,000 western regulars and national guard soldiers counted at least six casualties from the biggest war games in Pacific northwest history today while staff officers evaluated the results of four days of maneuvering in the southwest Washington back Casualties were as undramatic as most of those in real war one offi cer dead of a heart attack, four soldiers killed in traffic accidents and one civilian whose death was blamed by investigators on the army activities. Results of the "war" were also like those of real war, difficult to judge accurately. Officially, the war game umpires declared that both "Red" and "Blue" armies had accomplished the purposes for which they went into the field, i.e., the Rods had delayed the Blue advance but the Blues had completed their assigned job of taking over disputed territory.

One high officer declared the maneuvers showed both regulars and guardsmen were vitally in need of intensive training. U. S. WEATHER FOkECAST SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY urns FAIR MONDAY AND TUESDAY; MORNING CLOUDINESS ON COAST; SLIGHTLY LOWER TEMPERATURE EXTREME WEST PORTION; MODERATE WEST AND NORTHWEST WIND OFF COAST. i Speechmaking Campaign Will Be Opened Next Month in Talk At Coffeyville, Kan.

SPEECH REACTION' 'GREAT' Senator Bridges Is Selected to 'Polish Off Ickes' Answer To Acceptance Address (By Associated Press) RUSHVILLE, Aug. 18. Wendell L. Willkie today he would open his formal speech-mak ing campaign in Coffeyville, in mid-September and then probably would make a tour of the west coast. Seated on a sofa in the home of Mrs.

Cora Wilk, his mother-in-law, the Republican presidential nomi nee told a press conference he had not determined the exact date of his address in Coffeyville, where he taught high school history in 1913 and 1914. Plans for Vacation Remain Indefinite Chairman Joe Martin of the Republican national committee was at his side. Willkie said he and Martin we're of the same mind that the campaign should be opened In the Kansas community. Willkie expects to remain here through Wednesday. He said he had not yet decided whether he would go to Maine or Minnesota for a short vacation.

He has been invited to both states. He added he wants to spend a day or two in New York soon. A "surprisingly great reaction" to his acceptance address at Elwood yesterday was reported by the He said he had received many telephone and telegraph messages and they had been uniformly favorable. Ickes Scheduled to Speak on Air Tonight Martin lunched with Willkie, and the nominee announced the two had picked Senator H. Styles Bridges, New Hampshire Republican, "to polish off Ickes" early this week.

Secretary Ickes will make a radio reply to Willkie's acceptance speech tomorrow night (N.B.C. Blue network, 5:30 to 6 p.m. P.S.T.) "I hope," Willkie said, "that Mr. Ickes doesn't make his usual type of talk. If he does, Mr.

Bridges may have to get a little rough." Willkie said he had "not heard a word from Washington" regarding his challenge to President Roose velt to meet him in a series of "face-to-face debates" on major campaign issues. "I am waiting patiently," he add ed with a grin. Editor on Javanese Blacklist Murdered (By Associated Press) SHANGHAI. Aug. 19.

(Monday) Chan Ching-chong, an editor of the American-owned newspaper Ta- mei Wan Pao, was shot and killed by unidentified assassins today as he left his home in the French sec tor of the International Settlement to go to his office. The attack on the editor, one of a number of prominent Chinese "blacklisted" by the Japanese-spon sored Wang Ching-wei regime, was the third such incident during the week-end. Dies Declares 675 'Spies' in Bay Area (By Associated Press) SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. Martin Dies told interviewers today there were 675 "German and other foreign spies" in and around San Francisco and some of them were in key positions and industries. He did not mention names.

Dies arrived here from Los Angeles to continue his committee hearings on un-American activities. In Los Angeles, the committee heard allegations numerous screen personages were linked with communism. The Texas Democrat said James Cagney, one of those named in the Los Angeles testimony, would, fly here from New York Tuesday to an swer the Los Angeles accusations and film actor Franchot Tone might also come. He invited any other Southern Californians accused of un-Amer ican activities to appear before the committee here in case they desired to expedite their testimony. He said the Los Angeles hearings were over for the time being.

After a look at the west coast situation, Dies said, he would return to Washington and tell congress an other 60 days and another $60,000 would be needed by his committee to go fully into matters in this area. AND THE DAILY ORANGE BELT NEWS London Says Hitler Lost 140 Planes (By Associated Press) LONDON. Aug. 19. (Monday) Britain, grasping grimly for the initiative in the greatest air war of all time, struck earth-shaHng blows at German positions on the French coast today for the third time since Saturday night.

Despite the frenzy of defending their island from the suddenly renewed, massive German attacks of Sunday, the British sent great waves of bombers over the channel, and the port of Dover was lighted with the glare of echoing bomb blasts from Boulogne and Calais, a score of miles across the sea. The air ministry declined to con firm a report by the British press association the R.A.F. had bombed into confused turmoil a German army of five divisions up to men on the French beaches, and the press association withdrew its story. Britain Claims 140 Victims, Nazis 182 Nevertheless, reports were cur rent in Dover that German infantry was massed on the French shore; and the sight and sound of battle tended to confirm these assertions In combating German raids on England, the air ministry said al least 140 Nazi planes were destroyed Sunday, with only 16 British losses The air ministry said "having re gard to the numbers employed" the German loss "represents the heav iest defeat he (the enemy) has yet suffered at the hands of our fight ers and ground defenses." The claim of 140 planes stands second highest in the British listing Last Thursday's toll was given as 180. (The German command in a special communique said 138 British planes were destroyed yesterday as against 34 missing for Germany.

The German radio later broadcast that the total of British losses for Sunday had reached 1S2.) In the first German onslaught Sunday, the British air ministry ao knowledged "bombs were dropped on several royal air force airdromes where some service personnel were killed and others injured." Nazis Say Several Airports Destroyed (This apparently included Croydon, London's great airport, which the Germans said they had set afire the second time in four days. They said they wrecked 25 British planes there and also bombed Kenley and Biggin Hill. London suburbs. (Several airports were "destroyed," the Germans contended.) But in the second big sweep to ward London, 42 Nazi bombers were driven out to sea before they ever got to the objective, and at least three of this flight were shot down, the British declared. Eighteen German bombers and 12 (Continued on Page Two) She Learns to Fly in One Day (By Associated Press) LOS ANGELES, Aug.

18. Angel Stevens, 24, a stenographer, proved today learning to fly isn't such a tough task. She started her first lesson at 6 a.m. and at sundown made a solo flight at Metropolitan airport, Van Nuys. "She proved a very apt pupil," said Flight Instructor Gordon Buck.

"I feel like celebrating," said Miss Stevens. "I wanted to prove that learning to fly was safe and easy, and that its not necessary to havs a college education to be come a capable pilot. SOS FROM SHIP NEW YORK, Aug. 18. Mackay radio intercepted an SOS shortly after 5 p.m.

today from a ship which reported it had been torpe doed about 300 miles west of Newspaper for JHn Bevmvno Couufc. 60 copy ft month WITH 161.769 POPULATION 13 SEVENTH IN CALIFORNIA AND WITH 20,157 SQUARE MILES 13 LARGEST IN AREA IN AMERICA. MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1910 BUILDER i WL(. HAPS Wfj RlnKt Fvptich font HISTORIC SI CHRYSLER, 65, TOUR OF WEST iferEtoL" rtFATH VICTIM fl IN S1FPTFMRFR Wr imZl "liacRS i nun ptn cw iMotor Car Manufacturer Dies of DIGEST OF WAR NEWS (By Associated Press) NORTH AMERICAN DEFENSE U. S.

and Canada link their defenses against threats from overseas as President Roosevelt and Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King announce agreement on permanent joint board of defense to start work Immediately. BLOWS AT BRITAIN Waves of bombers, estimated by British to total 650 planes, batter at air defenses in two thrusts at London; Croydon reported aflame and other airfields damaged; London's southern suburbs bombed. British claim knockdown score is 140 German planes to 16 British; Germans list 138 British aircraft destroyed to 34 Nazi planes lost.

BRITAIN'S COUNTER-PUNCH British report Saturday night and Sunday attacks at German-held airfields and harbors, concentrating at Boulogne; British press reports of bomb attacks on five German divisions along French coast later withdrawn for lack of government confirmation; a third British raid thrust home against French coast this morning as Dover residents see flashes and hear explosions In Boulogne-Calais vicinities. MEDITERRANEAN, AFRICA Italy reports 300 shells fired Into Libyan concentration port of Bardia by British battle fleet, reports steady gains for columns pushing into heart of British Somaliland; tells of Italian submarine sinking British tanker "somewhere in the Atlantic," and claims at least seven British planes shot down In air fights. British report at least nine Italian planes downed In combined air-sea action at Bardia, another after raid at Alexandria, and one in Red sea. TALK, PLANS, PREPARATION Greece faces possible Italian demands for more territory for Fascist-controlled Albania; France nego-tlates directly with Japan over Indo-China demands; Soviet air force demonstrates secret speed bombers and air might to prove Russia cannot be invaded; William C. Bullitt, U.

S. ambassador to France, says Hitler will attack America if Britain is beaten and urges old U. S. destroyers be sent to England. Tf-" 1 i'-f' 1 Nil London Station Shows Bomb Damage Nuns and other civilians descend a bomb-marked stairway beside an unidentified railroad station near London after air raid by German planes.

(Associated Press wirephoto, radioed to New York from London.) SWISS FHE IT UNSEENPUNES (By Associated Press) BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 19. (Monday) Air raid alarms screamed warnings to the inhabitants of Bern and Basel about mid night (3 p.m., P.S.T.) and here in the Swiss capital anti-aircraft bat teries fired on unseen trespassers. (British planes are alleged to have crossed Swiss territory in forays against northern Italy.) British Show Power For Greece's Benefit (Bv Associated Press) ROME, Aug. 18.

Foreign observers speculated today the British fleet's heavy bombardment of Italy's big Libyan base at Bardia might have been intended as a show of strength for Greece's benefit as she faces possible terri torial demands by Italy. An Italian communique which described the bombardment yesterday covered action at sea, on land and in the air and reported: 1. British warships attacking Bar- U.S. Informs Reich Safe Voyage of Ship Expected (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.

The United States informed Germany in a formal note made public tonight it expected the army transport American Legion, steaming homeward with nearly 900 Americans from Petsamo, Finland, would not "suffer molestation by any action undertaken by the German armed forces." Publication of the note followed the German government's public statement in Berlin yesterday it would not be responsible for any harm that might befall the Bhip if it followed the course outlined by the United States. The state department said Alex-' ander W. Kirk, charge d'affaires in Berlin, had been instructed yesterday afternoon to deliver this government's communication to the German foreign office. Standing pat on the United States' decision that the transport should pass between the British island of North Rona and Cape Wrath, off the northern coast of Scotland, the note declared the question had been given "serious and protracted consideration" by the government and that it had been determined that "no other practical course existed." dia fired "not less than 300" shells into the city and other inland positions, killing one soldier and wounding 11 others. 2.

Italian battle planes shot down seven possibly nine British planes which accompanied the attacking fleet and bombed inland objectives, Three Italian planes were lost. 3. Two columns of Italian troops converged closer to the British point of Berbera in British Somali-land. One column advancing along the coast from Zeila moved into Bulhar, 40 miles from Berbera, and another occupied La Faruk. One Italian plane was lost bombing Ber bera.

4. An Italian submarine sank a British tanker ''somewhere in the Atlantic," indicating Italian naval units were actively aiding Germany in 6110118 to blockade England. (The British announced Bardia was shelled heavily for 25 minutes and that Italian troops were forced to withdraw from Fort Capuzzo, also a strong Italian point near the Libyan-Egyp- (Continued on, Pag. Two), I LUI1U I HULL I Roosevelt and Mackenzie King Agree to Set Up Permanent Joint Board of Defense CHANGE IN FOREIGN POLICY Agreement May Be Interpreted As Meaning Pact for Mutual Assistance Is in Making (By Associated Press) OGDENSBURG, N. Aug.

18. The United States and Canada linked their defenses tonight in unprece dented step to preserve their safety against any threats. from across the sea. President Roosevelt and the do minion's prime minister, W. L.

Mackenzie King, concluded a lengthy, historic conference on con tinental defense with a joint announcement that: "It has been agreed that a permanent joint board on defense shall be set up at once by the two-countries." Consisting of four or five members from each nation, chiefly from the armed services, the board will meet shortly, they said, and begin "Immediate studies relating to sea, land and air problems, including personnel and material." Broad Departure in U. S. Foreign Policy "It will consider in the broad sense," they said, "the defense of the north half of the western hemisphere." Whether the agreement, reached in a private railway car overlooking the St. Lawrence river boundary between the United States and Canada, was broad enough to contemplate a definite military and defensive alliance was not disclosed. In any event, it marked a departure in American foreign policy by knitting together, more tightly than ever before in this nation's peacetime history, defense bonds with a country at war.

A presidential aide said he thought that it was apparent from the announcement itself that no congressional action on the agreement was necessary. U. S. Might Acquire Baes on British Soil The far-reaching implications of the agreement underscored deeply Mr. Roosevelt's declaration two years ago the United States would not stand idly by if Canada were threatened with attack.

He said yesterday those remarks, made at the dedication of an international bridge at Kingston, Ontario, still were good. The reference in the formal statement to sea, land and air problems gave emphasis to speculation the United States might acquire strategic bases on soil of the British empire to help guard the approaches to North America. And the mention of personnel and material opened up an even wider field of conjecture on whether the two countries, through the joint board, would develop strategy for using men and army might un der a unified command in case Eu- (Continued on Page Two) French Protest Action by China (By Associated Prss) VICHY, France, Aug. 18. French officials have protested to the Chi nese government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek over attempts of Chinese troops to cross the frontier of French Indo-China, dispatches from Hanoi reported today.

The dispatches said that, after the troops were forced back, measures were taken to prevent recurrence of such incidents. Baltimore Sun 'ns Willkie Sur BALTIMORE, Aug. tlmore Sun, an Inde- cratic newspaper, '1 editorially tomorro I Wendell WiJ- presidential noml ported President but declined to or his RepublU Landopj Jrj 13' up. i932, him.