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RAF BOMBINGS The Royal Air Force announced today "highly successful raid on an Italian ammunition dump near Bardla, Linya. Plane crews reported seeing flames and caused by their bombardment from a distance of 40 miles. THE WEATHER Cloudy to partly cloudy with occasional rains in south tonight; Saturday considerable cloudiness, local thundershowers. Gentle to moderate westerly to southerly winds on the coast. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1940 mu WIRR NCWS 9IRVICI THE ASSOC9A1VD rRKSS SINGLE Volume XVII, No.

Tracing Down the I ii-Mm 's 'y' S' -4 'S I -va -tv? K-S' 4 sit oy Lether E. Frazar Resigns As President Of Southwestern IlSH DECURE HAMBURG IS OilLY ONE OF RECENT OBJECTIVES Smoke from tracer bullets weaves a pattern of death around this German Messerschmitt plane caught in concentrated machine-gun fire from British Hurricanes and Spitfires. According to British-censored caption, photo was taken by automatic camera-gun aboard one of the British fighters. President Declares He Is 41 In Favor Of raining Bill y- i. 5 1 X' a A 1 A LETHER E.

FRAZAR French Court Of Justice Meet Aug. 8th Men Charged With Crimes Against France To Be Tried At This Time VICHY, France, Aug. 2 UP) French Minister of Justice Raphael Allbert announced today the new supreme court of Justice will meet at Riom August 8 to begin the trials of men charged with crmles against the French nation. It was announced that the new court, headed by President Chaours, will consist of the following: Vice-President. Lagarde, who now is counsellor of the court of cassation (supreme court); Admiral Herr, Louis-Jacques Tanon, also counsellor of the court of caessation at present; General Watteau, Georges Ripert and Jean Ben-oist.

Rlom Is a small town 25 miles southwest of Vichy. Former Premier Edouard Daladier and three of his former cabinet ministers have been charged with responsibility for Frances defeat. Among those to be tried with him are former Navy Minister Cesar Camplnchl, Minister of Education Yvon Delbos, and Georges Mandel, minister of colonies. Also to be tried are several members of the Chamber of Deputies. Watteau Is a member of the council of the order of Legion of Honor, Ripert is dean of barristers In Paris, and Ben-olst is an honorary member of the state council of France.

Attorney Cassagnau, accredited to the cassations court, was appointed attorney general to represent the state before the supreme court, and two assistants also were named. Gold Nugget Found In Old River Bed NEVADA CITY, Aug. 2 UP) Jack Sheedy, Downieville miner, said today he had found a 30-ounce solid gold nugget In an old river channel. Sheedy valued the nugget at $1,000. COPY 5 CENTS Germany Counters With Statement That Raiders Strike British Fleet PAMPHLETS ARE DROPPED "Peace Or Destruction" Leaflets Rained Down On England By Nazi Air Force (By The Associated Press) Virtual destruction of the great German seaport of Hamburg by Royal Air Force bombers was claimed by an authoritative British source today while Germany countered with the statement that its own raiders had struck new devitalizing blows against Britains merchant fleet.

The British source, summing up the work of the RAF In the past throe months, said Hamburg was only one of the military objectives attacked in nightly raids. Thousands of bombs have been rained on the port of Bremen with Its shipbuilding yards, docks and aircraft factory, the same source said, and added that more than 100 German cities and towns where military objectives are situated had been attacked. Official Germany has said little about the RAF raids, carried on day and night, beyond insisting that they were against non-military points. Todays Nazi claim was that the force has sunk a large merchantman, a tanker and a mine patrol boat yesterday, and that a submarine, returning to its base, had reported sinking 72,000 tons of shipping In an unspecified space of time. The German air force, ss usual, con tinued its attack on the British Isles, dropping bombs on Scotland and Wales and varying the daily custom in England by dropping Hitler peace or destruction pamphlets.

In the Mediterranean area the RAF claimed destruction of a large ammunition dump near Bardla, Libya, and other less spectacular raids on African posts held by the Italians. Italy reported her air force had attacked a British naval sauadron south of Formentera, In the Baleares Islands, and said a battleship had been set cn fire and several other warships had been hit. The Italian high command likewise said the British submarine Oswald had been torpedoed and sunk and 52 of its crew of 55 taken prisoner. Four-page leaflets, captioned "A Last Appeal to Reason by Adolf Hitler, fluttered down in the pre-dawn darkness in southern and southwestern parts of England. Air raid wardens and cone stables, hustling about with torched gathered up the papers by the thousand.

The pamphlets contained extracts from Hitlers July 19 speech extending a peace feeler, and suggested that the British might not have been told what he said. Actually his speech was widely published in England. Bombs dropped by raiders were reported by the British government to have caused slight damage and few' casualties. Skeptical of German statements that Invasion may be held off indefinitely in favor of bomb attacks and air and undersea blockade, British observers pointed out that the almanac indicates next Monday to Friday morning as the time high tides would favor attack. Afetr that the favorable mornings would be from September 2 to 7.

The Supreme Soviet was called to a second day session to act on admission, to the Soviet Union of territories which extend the Soviet frontier from ice-free ports in the Baltic to the Danube river. (Turn to Pase 2 Coi. 1) RAIN LOWERS TEMPERATURES OVER NATION (By The Associated Press) Temperatures as low as 73 at Bcmton and 74 at Albany, N. brought definite relief from recent excessive heat to the East and New England states today. Scattered showers in the South caused lower temperatures today also, and still cooler weather was expected to follow.

The Middle West remained hot, Kansas City yesterday having a high of Texas close to the 100 mark. Forecasters said rain was falling this morning In Southern Louisiana and South Florida, but that general rainfall was indicated. Showers in Georgia last night brought 1.22 Inches of rainfall to Macon, .17 of an inch to Columbus and .51 of an Inch to Augusta. Atlanta had .34 of an inch. The rain was expected to lower by several degrees excessively high Georgia temperatures which yesterday reached 99 at Columbus, 96 at Macon, 97 at Augusta, 94 at Savannah, and 94 at Atlanta.

Alabama looked to cloudy skies and cooling winds for relief from heat which yesterday sent the mercury to 94 at Birmingham and 95 at Montgomery. A noticeable change to cooler was reported by Virginia and the AZETTS FOREIGN AGENTS TO BE DEPORTED FROM PANAMA Detention Of 81 In The Canal Zone Is Result Of Cleanup Of Aliens WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 (JP) Eighty-one persons described by Secretary Stimson as foreign agents awaited deportation from the Panama Canal Zone today after a cleanup of aliens In the vital defense areas. The secretary of war announced the detention of the 81 yesterday when he disclosed that all aliens, other than Panamanians, had been discharged from United States government or military positions in -the Canal Zone. Only American soldiers or American engineers, he added, are employed on fire control equipment In the Canal Zone.

Leopoldo Arosemena, Panamas minister of Interior and acting foreign minister, said at Panama that the 81 persons held for deportation were mostly European refugees." They were picked up and turned over to Canal Zone officials, he said, when It was found that. their papers were not in order. Their point of entry, he explained, had been through the Canal Zone. United States army intelligence officers at Panama disclaimed the knowledge that 81 foreign agents were being held. Refugees at the Immigration quarantine station in Balboa, they said, formed the only group of foreigners approaching that figure.

At Cristobal, Canal Zone naval officials announced that four United States, destroyers had been stationed near the Atlantic and Pacific entrances to the canal to replace ships sent to the United States for overhauling. The identity of the relief destroyers was Tidal Wave Follows Wake Japan Quake Ten Drowned Shipbuilding Yards Destroyed And Many Boats Washed Away TOKYO. Aug. 2 UP) Ten persons were drowned, two small shipbuilding yards were destroyed and hundreds of fishing boats washed away today when a tidal wave following an earthquake swept the western coast of Hokkaido, northern Is land of Japan. LONDON, Aug.

2 UP) A four-foot tidal wave following an earthquake swept the western coast of Hokkaido, northern island of Japan, early today, washing away 1,300 fishing boats, Reuters (British news agency) eported in a dispatch from Tokyo. The earthquake was strongly felt at Sapporo and other points in Hokkaido at 12:08 a. m. (10.08 a. Thursday, Eastern Standard Time).

No mention was made, of casualties. (The fishing boats may have been small craft drawn up on the beach and there may have been no loss of life.) SPARK FROM WRENCH BLAMED FOR N. IFIRE CAMDEN, N. Aug. 2 UP) A spark from a repairmans wrench was blamed today for the disastrous series of explosions and fire which killed at least four persons and destroyed a four-block area of mid-town Camden.

Fire Chief John H. Lennox said the spark apparently Ignited a tank" of naptha in the R. M. Hollingshead Paint Company plant. Meanwhile, In a night-long search for five missing persons two bodies were taken from the twisted wreckage, bringing the total recovered to four.

Clearing the way for the searchers, dytiamite yesterday leveled tottering factory walls. Members of the Camden county grand Jury visited the scene but Foreman Joseph R. Mich declined to say whether the group would Investigate the $2,000, 000 blaze. SWEDISH POLICY IS UNCHANGED STOCKHOLM, Aug. 2 UP) King Gus taf in a speech from the throne convoking a special parliament session today, dcelared Swedens foreign policy unchanged and said he was continuing his efforts to hold my country aloof flora war while conserving its liberty and ln- dependence.

The legislators, called to take up lu-dustrlal aid and defense measures, walked from parliament to the castle bear the kings address. rh ruier declared the nation must use Its productive resources to take care of our state of preparation, exterior well as interior." LAFAYETTE, 84 Foe CONSOLIDATED LAFAYETTE JULY 1ST. ISSI if z. V. '''I y- A 'SW s-y ty V' c'''' jy -4 vj "M-'aZz'' Agreement on Excess Profits Tax Has Been Reached Roosevelt Tells Press WASHINGTON, Aug.

2 (JP) President Roosevelt declared today he was distinctly in favor of selective service tralntag tbill and I consider it essential to adequate national Specially permitting direct quotation, the president made tue statement at a press conference after a reporter asked for his opinions. The reporter said a report was going around that the chief executive was "not so hot about conscription. The president replied that it alt de pended on which paper you read. He then entered upon a lengthy review of the conscription question. He also announced that he and Democratic tax leaders In Congress were agreed that an excess profits tax should be enacted without delay.

All manufacturers working on defense orders know that such legislation was going to be passed, he said, and were proceeding to assemble materials even though contracts have not yet been signed. The president said that Chairman Harrison (D-Mlss) of the Senate Finance Committee hoped to get final action in a month. He added that the would clear up the Important question of amortization which the manufacturers were interested in. In concluding his long discussion of conscription the president permitted this direct quotation: I am distinctly in favor of a selective service training bill and I consider it essential to adequate national defense. Declaring he had abandoned long ago the practice of sending up what he called ready-made bills to be rushed through Congress, Mr.

Roosevelt added that he Was leaving to the legislature the age brackets for registrants under a compulsory training law. He said that William S. Knudsen, in charge of defense plans for industrial production, told him the other day that a lot of companies were proceeding with $1,800,000,000 worth of orders for all kinds of materials and machinery without waiting for actual contracts. The United States, he declared, had learned from the present war that nations without trained man power were In a bad way. Proposals to delay congressional action on conscription pending a drive for voluntary one-year enlistments in the army gained new adherents in the Senate today.

With the military committee consider-(Turn to Page 2 Col. 1) JONES SETTLES DOWN FOR STUDY STATE PROBLEMS BATON ROUGE, Aug. 2 JPh-Governor Sam Jones, with his Job-dispensing machinery set up, washed his hands of the matter today and said he would devote all his time to problems of state. He named three state chiefs who will supervise the hiring of reform followers in place of old Huey P. Long supporters" now being fired.

They are Vance Plauche of Lake Charles and Francis Whitehead of Port-Alien, Jones' co-campaign managers, and Charles E. McKenzie of Monroe, who managed the first primary gubernatorial campaign of James A. Noe. Noe threw his support to Jones in the second primary and was credited with having been a major factor in Jones election. Under a pact, they were to share Jobs 50-50.

McKenzie announced after his selection that he had withdrawn as a candidate for Congress from the Fifth District. Jones said that all new Jobholders would have to show their efficiency after they are appointed, or they wont The governor added he would take no further part in job matters but would get on to the business of the state. You cant tear down a government and remake it in a day, he explained. Hands In Resignation At Opening Of Meeting Of State Board of Education BATON ROUGE, Aug. 2 (P) The State Board of Education, at its first meeting under the administration of Governor Sam Jones, today retained all presidents of colleges and institutions under the Boards supervision In acting capacities for one year with the exception of L.

E. Frazar whose resignation as president of Southwestern Louisiana Institute at Lafayette was accepted. The Board authorized its education committee to study and hold hearings over recommendations to be made in December for permanent heads of the colleges and institutions. A special committe was appointed to study the situation at Southwestern, where Frazar was requested to continue serving temporarily until his successor Is chosen. Named on the special committee to hold a hearing at Lafayette were Frank A.

Godehaux, chairman; H. H. Holloway, John P. Graham, J. H.

Morrison and Walker W. TeekeL BATON ROUGE, AUg. 2 UP) Lether E. Frazar, president of Southwestern Louisiana Institute, announced his resignation today as the new state board of education opened its first meeting with five new members appointed by Governor Sam Jones. The new governor was present as the meeting began, conferring with State Superintendent of Education John E.

Coxe. A fight appeared Imminent before the board in considering other presidents of colleges and superintendents of institutions under the boards supervision who had been appointed to their- posts under the now-smashed Huey Long regime. Frazar, a former legislator whom former Governor Earl K. Long made chairman of the state highway commission for a week, after which he to resume his post at Southwestern, is one of the states youngest and most prominent educators. Under his presidency at S.L.I., the institution made great strides in expanding its physical plant and in increasing enrollment.

5 In his letter of resignation to H. H. White of Alexandria, president of the state board of education, Frazar said he felt as though "a majority of the board would favor his continuing as president but in the Interest of Southwestern, and desiring to give the new administration a free hand he thought it better to step aside. Let me express to you and members of the board, Frazar said in his letter to White, "my appreciation of the many courtesies you have shown me, and for the sympathetic attitude which has characterized your -dealings with the problems of Southwestern during my incumbency as president." Frazar was on hand at the meeting together with a delegation from Lafayette which met in caucus, prior to Frazars announcement of his resignation, with Lafayettes two state representatives. Reps.

James Domengeaux and F. M. Bacque. The board adopted as a "declaration (Turn to page 2, col. 5) SUPPRESSION OF TERRORISM IN SHANGHATASKED SHANGHAI.

Aug. 2 UP) The Shanghai consular body urged the Shanghai municipal council today to eradicate and suppress all forms of terrorism in the city where an assassination, an attempted slaying and a kidnaping occurred earlier in the day. In a lengthy meeting the consular officials called for complete cooperation between the police of the International Settlement and the foreign defense forces, of which a regiment of the United States marines is a part. A public statement Issued after the meeting did not say, however, whether the defense forces would be given a more active role In policing the city. The consular body, composed of representatives of powers participating in the administration of the International Settlement, supervises In a measure the policies of the council, the Settlement's administrative body.

The council con trols the pplice directly. Thus the consular rejSIesentatives appeared to have passed the terrorist problem back to the municipal council, whose chairman admitted July 20 that the council was unable to stamp out a wave of lawlessness In the city. The meeting of the consular body fol lowed the slaying by a gunman of Charles Metzler. head of the white Russian community. The slaying occurred within the American defense section.

Recently Metzler had resisted attempts to reorganize the Russian Emigrants Committee, which he headed, into a pro-Japanese body. At a press conference a Japanese embassy spokesman said Metzler always had been friendly toward the Japanese, who bad no U1 feeling against him. Budapest Press Bureau Warns Newspapermen Interpret Ban As Move To Accord Hungary With Rome-Berlin Censorship BUDAPEST, Aug. 2 (IP)' The foreign office press bureau warned foreign newspaper correspondents today against reporting news which Is either against Germany or Italy or which is in opposition with known political principles and policies of the axis. Diplomatic sources interpreted the prohibition as a frank move to fit Hungarian censorship into accord with the censorships of the Rome-Berlin partners.

The foreign office statement, read by telephone to the correspondents, warned them to avoid every such report which tries to contrast differences between the axis and Russia or which seeks to show that the axis Is endeavoring to subjugate smaller nations. RAF REPORTS THE BOMBING OF ITALIAN JUMP Flames And Smoke Of Bombardment Can Be Seen 40 Miles Away CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 2 UP) The Royal Air Force announced today a highly successful raid on an Italian ammunition dump near Bardla, Libya. Plane crews reported seeing flames and smoke caused by their bombardment from a distance of 40 miles. The communique said: A highly successful raid was carried out by bombing aircraft of the Roval Air Force on a large ammunition dump near Bardla.

eastern Libya port, yesterday. The noise and shock of the explosion were felt 9.000 feet ud. Flames rose 500 feet and smoke 7,000. Flames and columns of smoke still were visible when our aircraft were 40 miles away on the homeward Journey. We suffered no casualties.

An enemy raid on Port Sudan, Dy Italian bombers of S79 type, was unsuccessful. Our fighters encountered a Caproni bomber, CA133 type, over the Ethiopian border. After a short engagement the bomber was shot down. A small formation attacked the Accico Oil Refinery near Massawa. Direct hits were registered.

As a result a petrol fire was started and smoke was seen 50 miles away. Enemy fighters were active but did not engage our bombers. The airdrome and hangars at Asmara were attacked by another formation of RAF bombers. One hangar was demolished and another severely damaged by near misses. There also were a number of direct hits on store buildings.

All our aircraft returned safely. A further raid was carried out on Gura despite low clouds making accurate bombing difficult. Direct hits were registered on airdrome buildings, causing several fires. 20 minutes after scheduled sailing time, whereas most of the other passengers; had been aboard since 2:30 and the duchess, had embarked at 5:25 p.m. The Windsors have a verandah suite with a private deck designed for use as a gun turret in case American entry into war should convert the Excalibur into an auxiliary cruiser.

Occupying cabins off the which will serve as a private dining room, were the five otner members of the party Capt. George Wood, the dukes aide de camp, and Mrs. Wood, Detective Fletcher of Scotland Yard, and the duchess two maids. Fletcher, together with a Portuguese detective, Inspected the Windsors accommodations early In the afternoon, and barred strangers from coming near the staterooms. Precautions also were taken on the pier.

Among the other passengers were William Phillips, U. S. ambassador to Rome, and his daughter; Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, ambassador to Poland; George Gordon, minister to The Netherlands, and Capt. John A.

Gade, embassy naval attache and naval attache for air at Brussels. John Cudahy, ambassador to Belgium, made a last-minute change in plans and did not salL BATTLE FRONT (By The Associated Press) Action British assert that the port of Hamburg is in virtual ruins from British lombings, that 1 nthe past three months thousands of bombs have been rained cn Bremen, Cologne, and cities In the Ruhr Industrial area; Germany counters with Eord of new sinkings of British ships, ittributing 74,000 tons to one submarine alone. Mediterranean Italy claims an air attack on a British laval squadron fired one battleship; also reports the torpedoing of the British lubmarine Oswald. Britain reports destruction of a large Italian munitions lump In Libya -and successful air raids other parts of Africa. Propaganda and Attrition Kazi airmen whiten British fields with jnowstorm of leaflets restating Hitlers appeal to reason; air attacks continue on land and sea; German radio speakers ritch from Invasion threats to derision af British defenses.

Conjecture Will Hitler Invade Britain by land? Best time Is highest tide, next Monday to Friday. If he doesn't try by September he'd better wait until spring or weather will help Britons, they say. The Diplomatic Front Rumania starts border revision talks with Hungary and Bulgaria next week, say diplomatic 'dispatches; Britain insists French missions stay in England. The Growing Soviet Union. Russia gets bigger incorporation of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bessarabia, Northern Bucovina raises population of UB.SJl.

to 193,000,000. The New World U. 8. congressional move to delay con-triptlon pending drive for enlistments gains momentum; eighty-one foreign agents await deportation from Canal Zone; U. 8.

army maneuvers reach peacetime peak. Missed The Deadline NEW YORK, Aug. 2 C'P) A man colapsed on a park bench. What's your name? asked a fellow bench-sitter. "It will be In the papers tomorrow morning, said the man, end died.

The only clue to his identity was a sundry ticket, whose Issuer could not fecall the victims name. FINDERS LOSER PITTSBURGH, Aug. 2 (4T As head of Pittsburgh Railway Companys lost hid found department, William Barbin aas returned countless lost articles, win someone please reciprocate? He lost two $20 bills yesterday. NEW YORK It looks like Germany as started to take charge of the world heady. The Nazi minister of economics threatens to disregard gold entirely as nternational exchange.

That would cer-iniy leave us holding the hole in the ground at Fort Knox. Ky. bo far as Hitlers finance wizard "is we can use our entire worth for filling our teeth. Adolfs acquisition of the Reich, wrmanys national anthem has been pTl Can't Give You Anything But Love, thatDd they bave been verY sparing nrTif long years Germany passed or Runs. Now they are using carter for money.

tvTbey do not announce what is to be International medium of sausage and bologna, in us denominations, would be appro-pr ate and suitable for both ends of the far as they are concerned. Uncle lunnA 20,000,000,00 in gold Is folding ancsfiy may as well fold up our fln-ini structure and call it a day. istrlbuted by McNaught Syndicate, Inc.) Duke And Duchess Of Windsor Are En Route To Bahamas American Liner Excalibur Possibly Under Protection Of British Warships LISBON, Portugal, Aug. 2 UP) The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were en route to the Bahamas by way of New Ynrk today, possibly under long-range protection of British warships guarding against any attempted German or Italian naval coup. This Is what Mr.

and Mrs. Windsor, as they appeared on the passenger list, took with them when the American export liner Excalibur sailed late yesterday afternoon: Three dogs; S2 pieces of luggage. An old portable sewing machine. A set of golf clubs; Four basket-boxes of old Madeira and port wine; One 1940-model limousine and trailer. The ships sailing was delayed 40 minutes by the duke, who was driven to the pier by his host of the past month, the Portuguese banker Ricardo Espirlto 8:20 DJU..