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'IU A Of ft -4 PtACU CROP' WEATHER Fmr and slightly warmer In north portion tonight; Thursday partly cloudy and warmer. (De-tails on Page 3). Lancaster New Era 16 PAGES 128 COLUMNS THREE CENTS Piamintr Founded 1AM, ew Fra Founded 117. LANCASTER, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21. 1940 Fnbliahed Etorf Evonlnf Except Sunday fry Now Era Conponf, Entered Second Clan Hatter at Poet Office, Laneaater, Fa.

CITY EDITION Nazis Adopt 'Hit-Run' Raiding As RAF Breaks Up Big Attacks USE OF DRAFT IN WAR ONLY VOTED DOWN House Military Committee Rejects Proposal to Defer Conscription. DEBATE RAGES OVER PROFITS IN INDUSTRY Shirk Orders Arrest Of 7 Who Circulated "Red Petitions Here i DUPLICATIONS, WhatOtherCitiesDo FORGERIES IN To Get Industries LIST OF NAMES 3 in Penno. Recently Furnished Actual Cash for New Plants; Water and Sewer BRITAIN SAID TO BE ASKING FOR OUTRIGHT U. S. ALLIANCE American-Canadian Agreement on Defense Is Seen as Opening Way to Full Accord.

U. S. READYTO TAKE OVER BASES SOON Lines Built Just Outside of Trenton Cities with greater obstacles to the settlement of new Industries than Lancaster have put themselves out devious ways to get them, according to the United States Chamber of Commerce. Currently, Lancasters problem is furnishing sewer and water facilities to the beyond-the-city-limit sites which a proposed canning factory is interested in. Location of the plant there would bring a sizeable payroll here and the factory would buy the products of Lancaster farms.

Lester W. Newcomer, secretary of the local C. of sought information from his national head quarters on how other cities have handled similar problems. It is not suggested by him or anyone else, he said, that similar methods be followed here, but it serves to show to what lengths communities will go to get new employers. 3 Penna.

Cities Furnished Cash Williamsport, Johnstown and Wilkes-Barre, three Pennsylvania cities of size comparable to Lancaster, have furnished actual cash as inducement to industries which nibbled at sites in or near them. Williamsport paid 1.8 per cent of the factorys payroll for a time. Johnstown paid 2 per cent of the foundling industry after the size of the operating payroll was settled upon by certified public accountants. Four kinds of financial assistance were furnished by the Wilkes-Barre Chamber: 1. An outright grant of funds to pay part of the industrys moving expense.

2. Arrangement of bank credit facilities. 3. Arrangement for industrial loans for new or established industries. 4.

Develop Folks down in St. Augustine, Fla. think comely Catherine Gibraltar Is Set Afire; Greece Gets Ready to Fight Italy By The Associated Press Hitler's sky raiders, attempt ing to elude the defense of RAF Fighter planes, shifted from mass onslaughts to an apparent ly new style of "hit and run tactics today in widespreac sorties over England anc Wales. British experts said the new mode of attack, by lone raiders or small groups, probably was designed to avoid the heavy losses suffered by the Germans recently in hurling great aeria armadas at the island kingdom Air Secretary Sir Archibalc Sinclair told the House of Commons last night that since Aug, 8 the Germans had lost 70 1 aircraft and 1,500 fliers. Masses of planes flying close formation, the British said, make perfect targets for anti-aircraft guns and pursuit ships.

Greek-Italian Crisis Deepens In southeast Europe, meanwhile, Greek-Italian tension ap peared fast nearing the breaking-point. The Greek army cancelled all leaves, and spokesman declared: "We will not be caught by surprise if Greece should be invaded. Ammunition dumps at Britain's great Rock of Gibraltar reportedly were set afire, turning the historic bastion into flaming volcano early today as raiding warplanes, apparently Italian, stormed the huge fortress. A British-censored dispatch from Gibraltar itself said only a small fire was started and quick' ly controlled but observers in nearby La Spain, said flames were seen spreading down from the top of the rock. Italy Masses Troops Dispatches from Belgrade, Yugoslavia, reported Italian troops were massing along Greeces western frontier, In Italian-controlled Albania, with at least one armored division poised, for action.

In Rome, the official Italian News agency, Stefani, unleashed a violent new attack on Greece, asserting that Greek authorities were hiring assassins to terrorize Albanians and that Albanians were awaiting "Italian action to ban the criminals. Virginio Gayda, authoritative Fascist editor, sometimes known as Mussolinis mouthpiece, declared Italy and Albania were ready to defend Albania against what he described as the Greco-British plan of offense. The Italian radio charged that bands of Greeks had invaded Albania and burned 10 villages. Reports of a furious British-Italian naval and air battle in the (Se WAR Page 5) Defense developments today are: House Military committee rejects plan to draft man-power only in case of war. Demands grow in Senate circles for conscription of wealth and industry for national defense.

Final passage of legislation to empower President Roosevelt to call out the National Guard for a years training nears. WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 (A. The House Military Committee rejected today a proposal to amend the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill to defer actual drafting of men for military service until the United States was at war. Chairman May (D-Ky) said the Committee rejected the amendment by a vote of 15 to 3.

The proposal to make a draft operative only after a declaration of war first gained widespread attention yesterday when it was put forward in the Senate by Senator Walsh (D-Mass) who said he would offer it formally as an amendment later. In the Senate today Walsh joined in debate over the draft bill pending there with the charge that airplane manufacturers were delaying acceptance of government contracts for warplanes because they were receiving 18 per cent profit on foreign orders. Supporting an amendment by Senator Lee (D-Okla) to draft wealth as well as manpower, Walsh asserted that industrial leaders were now "knocking at the door" of the Senate in an effort to obtain repeal of airplane and ship profit limitations. He was told by aircraft manufacturer, he said, that 500 subcontractors from whom the manufacturer purchased supplies preferred to deal Willi, foreign buyers because profits on negotiated United States contracts were restricted to 7 per cent on airplanes and 8 per cent on ships. Foreign contracts yielded as high as 18 per cent, Walsh said he was told.

Wants Profits Limited How can anybody vote to conscript manpower when the manu-acturers of airplanes and ships insist that they should have the same profits as in peacetime? he shouted. The House committee had been scheduled to complete its version of the Burke-Wadsworth measure, but that was put off until tomorrow. The bill came through todays session, however, without change in major particulars, including the provision for registration of men between 18 and 64, inclusive, with (See DRAFT Page 5) ATTACK ON GERMAN CRUISER British censor's caption says the above photo, received from Sweden, shows "a column of smoke rising above the quay at Bergen, Norway, after bombs from British dive-bomber had found their mark on the German cruiser Koenigsberg as she lay in the harbor. The cruiser sank beneath the black pall, while the bomber escaped a barrage of anti-aircraft fire and flew safely home. 1,200 Signers Investigated; Many Claim Facts Misrepresented.

MEN CHARGED WITH CONSPIRACY, PERJURY Charge ot conspiracy and perjury under the election laws were brought today against seven Communist leaders and workers here at the direction of District Attorney Kenelm L. Shirk. Describing the Communist efforts to gather signatures on their nomination papers this year as one of the worst messes Ive ever seen, Shirk said that upon their arrest he would ask bail of $2,500 for two of the candidates, and $2,000 for the other five. The men against whom County Detective Jacob Weller swore out complaints before Alderman Alfred P. Newell this noon were: J.

Granville Eddy, Paradise, Communist nominee for Congress in the Chester-Lancaster district. Reuben Carr, 4 6 North street, Lancaster, Communist nominee for the State Legislature from the city district. Chester S. Johnson, 450 Atlantic avenue, Lancaster. C.

W. Morris, 346 North Third street, Columbia. Carl D. Reidel, 411 Church street, Lancaster. Bruno 213 East Chestnut street.

Harry S. Yeager, 248 West Frederick street. The first one taken In custody by Weller and Motor Policeman Doonan was Yeager, w'ho was taken to the city police station to he photographed and fingerprinted. He was held in default of bail. District Attorney Shirk declared that the two-month investigation of more than 1.200 reputed signers of petitions by Wilier and Motor po licemcn showed that "about 100 persons claimed they did not sign any such petitions, approximately two-thirds of all the signers claimed the purpose was misrepresented to them, and that there were about 12 duplications some of which were forgeries.

No Regard For Election Laws "I think it is one of the rottenest things Ive ever seen Shirk added. The further into it you go, the more you find the Communist cir culators had no regard whatsoever for the commonwealth's election laws. One person whose name was on a petition told us that the circulator said We have got to get 2,700 names somehow. Apparently that's what they did. They didnt care how they got them.

Shirk said he would list the cases for trial at the September 9 Quarter Sessions court, and that there would be about 50 indictments hi all, embodied in eight complaints. There is one conspiracy case, against the entire seven, and one (See COMMUNISTS Page 14) Canova, above, is ace-high as a queen. She was the original queen of the Ponce De Leon pageant in 1924, and they have just chosen her to reign, over the city's 375th birthday celebration, Sept. 7 tq 9. LONDON, Aug.

21 (A. Unofficial but well-informed sources indicated today that the British government is seeking a military alliance with the United States. Canadian-American discussions on mutual defense are considered in these quarters to be the opening wedge in a British effort to obtain a full military accord between the United States and Britain. As envisaged now. such an alliance would embrace the defense of Canada and other British possessions in the Western Hemisphere and, perhaps even more important, would form the basis for common diplomacy in the Far East at the conclusion of the European conflict, as one informant put it.

The plain truth of the matter, said a neutral diplomat, is that neither Great Britain nor the United States has a powerful friend left anywhere else in the world. It behooves them to get together and make the best of the sorry situation. Praise U. S. -Canada Decision Official sources were reluctant to comment on the talks between President Roosevelt and Canadian Prime Minister W.

L. Mackenzie King, which resulted in a decision to establish a joint defense board, but satisfaction wras evident. There were reports here that the conversations progressed to the hypothetical naval defense of Canada and the United States in the event the British fleet were lost, and aerial defense not only on the seaboard but from United States bases on the Pacific such as Sitka and northern Alaska. "It is a logical progression from these talks to a military alliance with Great Britain, said one reliable person. I think we may regard the present Canadian-American talks as similar to those which, in the early nineteen hundreds, preceded creation of the Entente Cordiale between France and His Majestys government.

Official British reluctance to comment may be explained by the presence of public opinion in England that a non-belligerent United States is more valuable to Britain than an America at war. In the latter event, these persons reason, the United States would have to use most of her planes and munitions for strengthening her own Panama and Atlantic defenses, stead of letting Britain use them. Few Want U. S. in War This group probably is far more powerful than the smaller and more vocal body, including a (See ALLIANCE Page 5) CRUDE BOMB INJURES 2 POSTAL WORKERS WASHINGTON, Aug.

21. (A. A bomb, described by police as small and poorly constructed, exploded today in a Street branch post office, injuring two postal era-ploves. The bomb, in a mail bag being unloaded from a truck to a platform, was in a package addressed to a woman whose name authorities withheld. Those injured were Harry B.

Hess, 58, and Hyman Rttzenberg, 32, both of whom suffered shoulder and leg lacerations. "I had my hand on the string of this sack when I heard a report. Ritzenberg said. "It sounded like two giant firecrackers going off at the same time. ment of industrial loans from a fund established for the purpose.

Sewer Line Built In N. Trenton, N. had a problem similar to Lancasters when a branch of theGeneral Motors firm (See INDUSTRIES Page 2) Defeat of France Is Hitler's Fifth Column Masterpiece Once Proud and Brave Nation Was Systematically Undermined; Even Britain Was Tainted for a Time TROTSKY DYING OF AX WOUNDS Exiled Russian Attacked in Mexican Office By Admirer. DEFENSE DELAY HIT BYWILLKIE Asks Debates at Projects; Says F. D.

Would Speak Anyway. Political developments today are: G. O. P. Nominee Willkie criticizes Administrations "inadequate" defense program; asks debates at defense projects.

Ex-Governor Comstock, of Michigan, Democrat, declares support of Willkie. Midwest G. O. P. women draft Willkie drive.

By COLONEL WILLIAM J. DONOVAN AND EDGAR MOWRER The masterpiece of the "fifth column was unquestionably the French debacle. Here everything that Hitler had promised came to pass with almost mathematical precision. He did not strike until he was in touch with certain important Frenchmen who were ready to treat with him. He needed but one swift blow.

He terrified the soldiers by his noise-making engines, he demoralized the officers by the surprise and power of his attacks, he bewildered the generals by the daring of his strategic conceptions, he troubled the entire population by his radio propaganda that insisted that France was being betrayed by Britain and by the French war-mongers. He spread horrible rumors through villages, issued fearsome reports by wireless, and then, when the populations had congested the roads in their flight, machine-gunned them to heighten their panic. This is the third of four articles made public by Secretary Knox of the Navy Department at Washington, as part of the national defense program. The final article mill follow tomorrow. Colonel Donovan recently returned from a mission abroad, on behalf of Secretary Knox.

He wrote these articles in collaboration v'ith Edgar Mowrer, distinguished foreign correspondent. 210 CHILDREN BOY, 6, IS RUN OVER BY CAR, BROTHER, 7, NARROWLY ESCAPES Donald Hershey, six, 636 South Queen street, was critically injured when run over by an auto operated by Alvin R. Keller, sixty-four. Main street, Neffsville, on South Queen street, between Hager and Seymour streets, at 11:15 A. M.

today. He was admitted to the General hospital, suffering internal hemorrhages, injuries of the head and body. Keller told police he was driving south on Queen street at 22 miles an hour when two boys darted from behind a parked ice truck on the north side and ran across the street. Police said the first to cross the street was Donalds brother, Robert, seven, who was not struck. Witnesses told police, the car struck Donald as he had nearly reached the curb on the south side of the street and that both the right front and right rear wheels passed over the victim.

Police said the car had defective brakes. REAMS, Liner Samaria Docks With Refugees From British Homes. REFUGEE SHIP OUT OFDANGER State Department Says American Legion Is 400 Miles From Britain. P.USHVILLE, Ind Aug. 21 (A.

Criticizing the administration defense program as "hopelessly inadequate, delayed, and improperly organized, Wendell L. Willkie sugested today that he and President Roosevelt debate the issue during one of the Chief Executives visits to preparedness projects. "Mr. Roosevelt should tell us how much (military equipment) is on hand, and how much on order, the Republican presidential nominee said in a statement. Willkies proposal followed a renewal of his invitation that his Democratic opponent meet him in public discussion on all campaign questions.

The renewal was made at a press conference yesterday after Mr. Roosevelt had turned down the original challenge by saying conditions made it obvious he could not campaign. A debate during a preparedness inspection trip, the nominee declared, "won't waste any of Presidents time. "He probably would be making a speech anyway, Willkie added, and it would just give me the privilege of making a speech at the (See POLITICS Page 14) Lhe, PARKESBURG MAN TRIES TO END LIFE WASHINGTON, D. Aug.

21. A man who identified himself as Henry Stoltzfus, forty-five, of Parkesburg, and who told police he was sick at heart and didn't want to live, jumped into the Potomac river last night while two policemen were trying to dissuade him from suicide. The officers rescued him and sent him to Gallinger hospital for mental observation. The man had destroyed all identification marks in his clothing and pocketbook and was standing on the seawall when the cruising police spied him. He listened for minutes to their urgings that he refrain from jumping, then sprang into the water.

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 21 (A. Leon Trotsky, exiled "Napoleon of the Bolsheviks ho fled to a haven in Mexico, was near death today victim of a pickax attack by a man who posed as his "great admirer. Surgeons said Trotskys condition was "very grave. In a message to New York today, his secretary reported him as "very low.

The one-time Russian War Minister had a wound in the skull which exposed his brain and a fracture at the base of the skull. Two other blows from the ax injured his right shoulder and his right hip. Surgeons operated on Trotsky last night, a few hours after he was set upon in the office of his home in nearby Coyoacan. Gen Jose Manuel Nunez, Federal district police chief, said there are hopes of saving his life. But the Russian, who escaped unharmed as a machine-gun band in vaded his residence May 24, was given few chances to live.

Oxygen was administered. Trotsky blamed the May attack directly on Josef Stalin and his secret police, the OGPU," and pre dieted it would be repeated. Twenty Mexicans were arrested a few days later. Police said the "friend who attacked Trotsky gave his name as Jacques Mortan Vandendreischd, 36, native of Teheran, Persia. He studied in France and became a subject of Belgium.

He said he was A newspaper writer, but so far as (See TROTSKY Page 5) LONDON PUTS BAN ON MONEY IMPORTS LONDON, Aug. 21. (A. The Treasury announced a ban on the importation of Bank of Eng-lhnd notes into the United Kingdom today on the ground that considerable amounts fell into German hands in France and other German-occupied territory. Special steps are being taken to permit existing holders of bank notes in nputral countries to realize on them.

Inside the sterling area. Bank of England notes will American continue to be freely negotiable Meanwhile his agents within France, presumably by clandestine wireless senders, kept him informed of what was going on and he could thus choose the precise moment for Italys entrance into the war when French disarray was at its climax. As a result France was not only beaten far more thoroughly and far more easily than Poland, but, unlike Poland, France cracked morally as well and a new set of leaders sought to purchase the German's mercy, if not his respect, by submission to Frances conquerors. Admittedly this could not have been accomplished save during a low ebb in French history. The French masses were increasingly materialistic.

Capital and labor were at loggerheads, the former remembering the experiments of the Popular Front government of 1936-37, the latter resentful of the attempted Fascist coup d'etat in 1934 and the unpunished "Cagoul-ard Fascist conspiracy later. Moreover, the peculiar French (See FIFTH COLUMN Page 2) Lost Found LOST Toy Rat Terrier, along h.ghway, vicinity of Gap and Kinzerr Reward. Gap 76-R-21. YELLOW GOLD Elgin watch with black cord band lost on Long Park golf course Sunday afternoon Reward. Box 155, Lancaster NEW YORK, Aug.

21. (A. The weather-beaten, black and buff British liner Samaria docked today bringing to safety from bombarded England the first group of children transported through the collective efforts of Americans. The young war refugees crowded the Samarias rails 210 of them of all sizes, dressed in all kinds of clothing and cheered lustily when they saw the Statue of Liberty in the sunny haze. Then, a bit anxiously, their eyes searched the docks for a first glimpse of the ppople who are giving them homes "for the duration.

From all strata of British society, they had one possession in common: A knapsack containing small belongings. Most of the girls had a doll, and many of the boys had school caps which they swung in wild excitement. They talked on arriving about air raids theyd been through, and YOU MAY phone your lost ad to us for publication in tomorrow morning's paper as late as 11 30 o'clock tonight Please phone 5252. The REEFER FIELD FOUND BY POLICE MASONTOWN, Aug. 21.

(A. Federal agents and State Motor Police, finding in this Fayette County section the largest marihuana field ever in Western Pennsylvania, searched the neighborhood today for other fields of the plant from which reefer cigarets are made. About 2,000 plants, ranging from two to ten feet high, were found on a quarter-acre tract at a Sunny-side farm yesterday. Private Charles Dewitt of the State Motor Police estimated it might have produced three million of the illegal "reefer cigarets, bringing possibly $75,000. The owner of the farm said he did not know what the weed was.

He explained an unidentified man paid him $25 to plant the field last April and promised him much more for the harvest. Scribbler ARGENTINE LEADER NABBED IN PLOT WASHINGTON, Aug. 21. (A. The State Department said today the refugee ship American Legion was about 400 miles west of the British coast line and thus well out of the area which Germany had described as highly dangerous.

In so informing his press conference, Sumner Welles, acting Secretary of State, said that he assumed the position announced was based on a mid-day report from the ship, an Army transport bringing refugees from Petsamo. Finland. This was the first official announcement on the progress of the American Legion since it set sail Friday with 897 passengers and headed toward the zone off the north coast of Scotland which Germany had called dangerous because of mines. Welles also said, in reply to a question, that Germany had given no official notice of any kind that it had laid any mines in this area. Under international law such notice is required of mine-laying activities as soon as military exigencies permit.

The German Embassy had termed mines the chief danger to the American Legion and had indicated that German airplanes might have laid mines in this zone in connection with the total blockage of Great Britain announced in Berlin Saturday. State Department officials said that Great Britain had given notice of the laying of mines between the Snetland Islands and Iceland and between Iceland and Greenland a factor which apparently influenced American Army and Navy authorities in charting the Legions course southward from Petsamo near the Scottist Coast. Bill McCoy, of West Orange street, was so excited over becoming a father that he motored to the General hospital and then walked home. BUENOS AIRES. Aug.

21. (A. Immediate measures to protect all army headquarters and barracks against any attack on hnmh.Th.wM Public order ere ordered today tb i 1 1 after a conference of military lead- litary Moral Storm was playing at the Hamilton yesterday, according to the lobby bulletin board of the Hotel Brunswick. Lancaster Residents Rapidly Returning To City and many of them must find living quarters. All types of property, large and small, are being rented quickly.

The small cost of keeping your ad in the Lancaster Newspapers daily until your place is rented) is neghgible compared to the added rental income brought by finding a tenant early. Mrs. H. Roy Woerner of Lancaster R. 3 found a tenant in 2 days through this ad 325 EAST CLAY.

Sngle home. 8 rooms, bah. hot water heat, garage. t40 Possession September 1. 2-4709 TEMPERATURE DROPS TO 46 DEGREES HERE The temperature dropped to 46 degrees at the City Water Works last night, the lowest point it has been since July 2.

At Ephrata the low last night was 48 degrees. The low record for August is 41 degrees established in 1917. Fair and slightly warmer weather is forecast for tonight. Cloudy and warmer is the forecast for tomorrow. In western Pennsylvania, sub-freezing temperatures were recorded.

Thermometers at McKinley station, near Kane where frost tinted shrubbery and crops registered 31 degrees. In Kane, the U. S. weather bureau reported 33 degrees and said the frost probably had not caused serious danyge. While attending the Legion convention in Reading withj and the prohibition will not apply Warden Walter Faust, Roy McCom-! to notes from Eire.

Travelers from sey lost his shirt and couldn't find abroad will be permitted to bring Miller, a 6-year-old in Scottish kilts, said, I'm glad to be here, but I miss my daddy. One hundred thirty-eight of the children were brought through efforts of the United States Committee for the Care of European Children, and were met down the bay by Marshall Field, head of the committee. He had made three trips to the Battery and waited three days for the arrival of the ship, which left Liverpool August 9 and traversed the Atlantic, heavily convoyed until last Monday by the British battleship Revenge and three ers with War Minister Carlos Marquez. The special precautions were tak-; en after the arrest of Gen. Juan Bautista Molina, a Rightist leader of the Argentine Army in con-j nection with an Army land buying scandal that has threatened a governmental crisis.

The crisis developed to such proportions last night that bedridden1 President Roberto M. Oritz, who re-' tired from active service July 3 be-1 cause of illness, returned to the helm and called a cabinet meeting at his home today in an attempt to i control developments threatening his regime. 1 in 10 pounds (about $40 at official prices.) AUTO DISAPPEARS TWICE IN DAY CANTON. 111., Aug. 21.

(A. Harry Lukers was tickled pink when his stolen automobile was found. But when he and police went to get it they found the doors locked. They left to get a locksmith. When they returned the car was stolen again.

it. Upon his return, he received the garment, with this note from Faust: Dont ever let it be said you never lost your shirt. Here is the evidence. The next time you go on a trip you had better hire me for a valet. You may lose something more NEW YORK, Aug.

21. (A. Foreign money brokers said today the British Treasury ban on import of Bank of England notes would probably knock the bottom out of the currency market here. Phone 5232 and ask for an d-takr to rent vacant apartments, houses or rooms..