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4 War Xetcs Header of The Tlme-Pi-patrh are cautioned that new from mct of t'urepe Is subject to cenoihip before It Is trans-mitted to the Stales Virginia Forecast Cooler With Light Rain in outh Today Tomorrow Fair Warmer i f5ee Report on Pag t) xmnne fultl 90lh Year Catered Ju'jut 37 lid at tU Post Office Vistula aa Second Claes Uatter Richmond Virginia Saturday July 13 19-10 Dial 3-3431 Calls The Timrt-Dit patch Three Gmis Roosevelt Stimson Decide to Call 50000 Men After Armv Chief Asks Full Guard Mobilization Nazi Raiders Hit Wales Haile Selassie Upheld As Emperor by Britain Greek Ship Lost in Fire Off Oregon Mvslcrv lilnzc Takes No Lives Whole Year Of Training Is Objective Final Approval Up to Uongns LONDON Great Britain faced about again yesterday on Ethsopa and little black -bearded Haile Selassie once more is recognized a emperor of Ethiopia lion of Judah and his government is a full a agar't Italy The u-u will assure Ethiopian independence "when the war iv said A Butler undersecretary for foreign affairs yesterday in the House of Commons Brit nut and those Ethiopian forces opposed to the Italian rule 'which was impressed on Selassie's 350000-square-mile empire in 1935-36 are to co-ordinate "all activities likely to damage the effort in North and East Africa and in Abyssinia Butler said Tens of thousands of Ethiopia's fierre but ill-armed warriors are in the field against Italy already Martin who was Ethiopian minister to London at the time of the Italian conquest says at least 300000 to 400000 of his countrymen are ready to fightf Italy if they can get enough guns The London Daily Herald on June 12 two days after Italy declared w-ar reported that 200000 Ethiopians loyal to Haile Selassie were fighting the Italians In Ethiopia The next day Ras Birru who was Selassie's war minister left Jerusalem for the Sudan to direct the fight as Selassie's com-mander-in-chief Butler declared yesterday that contact would be made with Ras Birru and Ethiopian General Abeba Aragui "in order that British and Ethiopian forces may co-ordinate their activities against the Italians In Butler said It was impossible to give further details on this Arnif riiMu President Ilooervelt and Secretary Stimson Shake mi l'rnposal 50000 Motional Guardsmen Continued on Page 2 Column 4 And Scotland Klevcn Plant's Are Shot Down LONDON' d' 'SATURDAY bombers carried their blasting attacks on Great Britain into Southwest England and Wales last night after striking deadly blow yesterday at llardy industrial Scotland The ministry of home security reported early today that Nazi aircraft dropped bombs last night "on places In southwest of land and in Wales little damage was caused and casualties are believed to have been Planes believed to have been tier man also were reported over Northeast England The Germans yesterday smashed again as they have done day after day at British shipping on the east and south roasts The most savage blows were aimed in Northeast Scotland where at least 10 persons were reported killed This attack may have been directed from German bases In Stavanger Norway at which for weeks British airmen hare been pounding methodically Last night 11 of the raiders were reported officially to have been shot down Two British planes were missing Raids Described An air ministry communique thus summarized the destruction of these Nazi craft and illustrated how far they had ranged over Britain: Six shot down while they were attacking a convoy off the southeast roast: oiie sent to earth in flames on the outskirts of a Scottish port: three off the southeast roast: one shot down Into the sea by coastal aircraft At the same time however the loss of three other British planes In a heavy assault on Thursday on German munitions works airdromes blast furnaces and other objectives was acknowledged By these raids in Scottish areas a rough outline of the Nazi program seemed to emerge: a series of rotating attacks designed to hit every so often every section of the British Isles The Scottish fatalities were described ominously in the phrase "as far as is and it was rlear that the list of the dead and Injured there might be much higher Casualties Kept Seeret How many other casualties had occurred on the east southeast and southern roasts was not permitted to be published Unofficial tabulations of the slain in raids from June 18 up to last evening showed 167 deaths Some 170 invading Nazi planes were indicated destroyed since the start of the war The raid on Northeast England produced an aftermath of some satisfaction to the British: it was declared that the Nazi raider which had dropped bombs "in various of a town there had been headed off by British fighter planes and shot down The day's gnelancholy visitations began in early morning with thr arrival of a Nazi squadron over the southwest coast The Nazis dropped six bombs in the space of half a minute One smashed a childrens playground and then as British fighter planes roared angrily aloft the day's first aerial engagement was under way Other developments yesterday Included: Sir John Anderson the home secretary banned aliens from employment in any defense area in munitions industries in gas water electric and transport enterprises and in welfare organizations associated with the fighuag forces A curfew beginning next Monday night was ordered for the northeastern civil defense area The admiralty disclosed that the British patrol yacht Warrior II Continued on Page 2 Column 3 ASTORIA ORE Destruction of the 1100-ton Greek steamer Helenic Skipper by a mysterious fire last Wednesday was reported yesterday by 21 members of the crew No lives were lost First Mate Aris Catselides said that the fire broke out at 8 A as the Honolulu-bound freighter plowed through heavy seas 130 miles out of Aberdeen Wash It spread quickly from the stoker room and in a few minutes enveloped the entire ship The crew put off in a lifeboat and made its way through dense fog and higli waves without a compass to near the Oregon coast The boat was sighted by a trailer taken in tow and brought to the Columbia River bar Here a United States Coast Guard motor lifeboat took over and brought the survivors one of them badly burned to Astoria SOS Attempted Catselides said he attempted to send out an as soon as the fire was discovered but found that it had reached 'he dynamo and put the radio out of commission "In a few minutes the crew was rushing about the decks screaming and crazy with he said "In the mad scramble to get in the lifeboat I ran acr 3 the form of A Merrtzares the second engineer who was badly burned He was lying on The engineer was hoisted into the lifeboat and tie crew pushed away from the burning vessel we saw two sailors who still were he continued They were screaming to be picked Although the men In the boat feared the ship's boilers might explode momentarily they put back and took off the two sailors "The ship blew up 20 minutes after we pulled the mate said The wounded engineer suffering third degree burns was taken to a hospital The other survivors were made comfortable on a wharf here Clothing bedding and cots were provided from the Coast Guard cutter Onondaga Camacho Claims Victory in Mexico MEXICO CITY The Mexican Revolutionary Party administration political organization announced last night that complete returns from presidential election gave Its candidate General Manuel Avila Camacho a majority of 2136625 votes The party said Camacho had received 2265199 votes while the leading independent candidate General Juan Andreu Almazan a Conservatice had received only 128574 General Rafael Sanchez Tapia leader of the center was credited with 14046 votes Counting of the ballots was completed on Thursday by tabulating commissions but official announcement of the outcome was not expected until September when the returns are presented to congress for approval The revolutionary party's announcement concerning the outcome of the elections came a few hours after federal secret police had raided General Almazan's private offices and seized most of his business and personal papers One of the candidate's aids said the six federal police forced their way with drawn pistols after breaking down the door and injur irg the doorman by blows on the head WASHINGTON i decision to call about 50000 National Guardsmen to ramps as soon a possible for perhaps a year' Intensive training was reached yesterday by President Roosevelt and his new secret aiy of war Henry Stimson The decision is contingent ujxn approval by Congress which would have to authorize the unprecedented lieacrtime step Tim authority will be asked "when Congress reconvenes alter the Democratic National Com eld ion Stephen Fatly presidential ser-retary announced the derision and said that lour diw-ions sevril antiaircraft regiments and an undetermined number of hnrboC delonse regiments would lie tailed One division he said will coma from New York and New Jersey a second from Tennessee and tlm Carolinas a third iroin New Mexico Oklahoma Arizona and Colorado and the fourth Irani Oregon Washington Montana and Idaho May Extend Training Once their training Is completed ho said consideration will be given to the question of extending the training to other guard units The training will be designed In familiarize the guard1 men with modern weapons mid military practices and is exiected also tn fit them Inr training the thousands of conscript who will be ealled to nervier if Congress rn-arts a compulsory military training law Both the Army and Navy high commands have indorsed conscription Testifying before tlm Senate Military Committee General George Marshall Army chief of stalf said yesterday that it was essential to the national defense The divisions mentioned by Early are thr Forty-fourth Tlih-tirtli Forty-fifth and Forty-first A War Department spokesman said however tiiat their selection for training was entirely tentative If Congress approves the plan he said the question of which units to rail will be re-examined in the light of facilities available at that time Expeetrd to Last a Year For instance lie explained tlm Thirtieth Division normally would train at Camp Jackson but the Regular Army's training might not permit use of that post In that event lie said a different division might be selected Early declared that he could not say how long a training period would be provided but it was learned that tle War Department's recommendations called for a year Each of the National Guard divisions lias a strength of 608 officers nine warrant officers and 9400 mrn This Is about 3000 men and 78 officers under authorized iearn strength and officials anticipated that the divisions summoned to active duty woiiid be augmented Guard officers understood that the procedure would be first to recruit the divisions to peaea strength retain them at their home stations for about 10 days and then move the various units in near-by posts for training under canvas Marshall Favors Calling All While the plan announced by Early contemplated calling only four divisions of the guard to active duty General Marshall told the Senate committee that he personally favored an immediate order for all tile nation's 230000 citizen-soldiers ic don their uniforms In addition to the decision on National Guard training major developments bearing on the defense program were: Authoritative sources reported that arrangements had been made for construction of a $30000000 smokeless powder plant at Louisville Ky with defense funds It would be operated by the Du Pont Powder Company' The Nzvy awarded 23 contracti Continued on Page 3 Column 8 Inside llaile Srlaie Germans Claim Success in Plan To Starve Foe Kull-Oiit Invasion DrprniU on Hitler BERLIN LT't Spectacular success for the starvation blockade against England was claimed and officially emphasized yesterday while German sources remarked that only Adolf Hitler and his top associates knew when and how whether a full-out military assault on the British Isles would be made Tills significant and unamplified observation was made under circumstances equally significant for it was the second successive day in which the communique of the high command had been preoccupied with the progress of the economic warfare substantially to the exclusion of the military side Shipping Successes Claimed It has been three weeks now since France was knocked out and there has been no sign of a major attack on Britain's kingdom This timr the high command asserted that since the beginning of the war 4329213 tons of "enemy merchant shipping space or shipping space usable to the had been sunk by Nazi naval and air action and that aside from this 300 ships had been so damaged by bombers as to be out of service for the present or for some months The total tonnaee lost by Britain in the entire World War was but 7830765 tons I In London an authorized source declared the figure of 4329213 given by the Germans was in fact more than four times the total British losses to July 1 It added that Germany had lost 877000 tons of merchant shipping and Italy about 244000 tons captured sunk or scuttled more than the total British losses since the outbreak of the war Only yesterday the Germans told of sinking a 15000-ton tanker and four smaller merchant ships in the English Channel while new smashes by bombers at English harbors and munitions plants were reported to Training Camps Roosevelt Not to Attend Chicago 31 cel Continues lo Dodge Word on Third Term WASHINGTON Almost every official except president Roosevelt appeared to be willing last night to acknowledge that the President would consent to be drafted by the Democratic Convention now only three days away But Mr Roosevelt's semi-weekly sparring with reporters at his press conference produced only a flat statement that he was not going to the Chicago ronvenlinn and a studied continuation of his silence on that burning political question: Will he or won't he agree to run again? He did say he expected to cruise on the Potomac River this wrek end spend two or three days at his home at Hyde Park next week end and that that would be his practice practically for the rest of the summer Can Keep Contacts By telephone and radio he said he could keep in instant contact with Washington and return to the capital in a few hours Politicians professed to see In his remarks an indication that regardless of whether the Chief Executive agreed to be the Democratic candidate he would spend much of his time close to Washington guiding the tremendous defense program If he became a candidate they said he might explain to the voters that he could spare neither the time nor energy to go on a campaign this summer and that patriotism and the public Interest demanded that he concentrate his attention on building up the nation's armed might Reporters had as little luck as ever in fencing with Mr Roosevelt on the third term at yesterday's press conference -you going to Chicago?" Someone inquired The answer was an unqualified negative "If you do go to Chirago are you going to Another reporter asked Shaking his head with mock distaste and laughing the President said he ought to be insulted by the inquiry since It seemed to be a slur on his veracity inasmuch as he had said only a mo- Continued on Page 3 Column 6 Oil the They Agree to Semi New Economy Is Need Willkie Says Importance Held Equal To Adequate Defence DENVER Wendell Willkie told a cheering crowd yesterday that rehabilitate our economic life is as necessary as an adequate national Speaking from the steps of the State Capitol Willkie said "We must make our economy vital and vibrant to survive the most ag gressive and destructive attack in all history on the democratic way of The Republican nominee added "It is with a very deep sense of humility an overpowering sense of humility that I accept the leadership of a cause to bring unity to America to rehabiltate our economic life and to build such a national defense that no Hitler or any other totalitarian dictator may ever strike at this great free democratic life that we have here in Wife Refuses to Talk Willkie drove here for a meeting with the Colorado Republican committee from his Colorado Springs Hotel Mrs Willkie accompanied him At Littleton Col a spectator asked Mrs Willkie to speak She shook her head and Willkie remarked with a grin doesn't make The nominee continued in his speech: "I have had a very restful recuperation "I am under a pledge with myself to make no speeches on policies and issues until I make my acceptance speech but I could not let this occasion go by without thanking you for your warm welcome "I want to represent you and your cause in the preservation of the United States through' the democratic processes" Willkie at a luncheon with the Colorado Republican State com- Continued on Page 3 Column 6 near Urbanna The main residence which was one of the show-places of Tidewater Virginia burned on February 5 1938 At the time the loss was placed at $100000 Willis Sharpe Kilmer was one of those exceptional men who could do many things at once and do them well A successful publisher and manufacturer he was best known to the public as a breeder of thoroughbred horses and owner of a stable that made his colors famous on all major tracks At his stud farms first at Binghamton and later in Virginia through his uncanny knowledge and studies of blood lines he Continued on Page IS Column 1 Marshall Is A For Senate Hearing WASHINGTON (R) Thousands of buck privates would have enjoyed the first five minutes of the Senate Military Affairs Committee hearing yesterday General George Marshall the Army's chief of staff was A and nervous subordinates were glancing at timepieces as senators waited to hear the general's testimony on compulsory military service Marshall finally arrived apologized and explained that he went to the committee's room In the Capitol instead of the hearing room in the Senate Office Building Extra Delegate Is Given South In Compromise CHICAGO (fl-Tlit South claimed a liberal reward for party regularity and for giving up the two-thirds nominating rule but won only a Democratic Convention delegate bonus compromise yesterday which will benefit the North as well After a hot fight the national committee adopted a subcommittee recommendation that each State going Democratic in a presidential election be given one additional delegate-at-large to conventions or five instead of the present four District representation now two (lelegates for each Congressman would not be changed The report is subject to approval by next week's convention The subcommittee headed by Senator Green of Rhode Island won after a substitute offered by Governor Rivers of Georgia calling for a more liberal bonus and penalties against Northern districts was defeated The Rivers proposal would have given three additional delegates-at-large to each State going Democratic one delegate to each congressional district and one additional to districts electing Democratic members of the House or casting at least 15000 votes for the Democratic candidate Another compromise proposed by Wells of Florida granting the three-delegate bonus proposed by Rivers but leaving the district representation as Is also was defeated The national committee approved a temporary roll of 1088 delegates to the convention which starts Monday leaving only six to be accepted after settlement today of a contest between two Puerto Rican delegations one pledged to Postmaster-General James A Farley and the other to President Roosevelt The national committee approved a resolution offered by Edwin A Halsey secretary of the Senate and Sergeant-at-arms of the convention limiting the number of delegates but not the vote in future conventions by prohibiting smaller fractions than half-votes among delegates at large Halsey said that many States had picked 1940 delegations so large that some of their members win cast only one-sixteenth of a vote Pctain Names Cabinet of 12 ForNew France Kindly Is Used Laval Vice-Premier VICHY FRANCE (By Telephone to Bern) Marshal Henri Philippe Petain using the kingly last night named the cabinet to help him rule authoritarian France and chose Pierre Laval canny rightist and long-time apostle of friendship with dictators as his right-hand man and ultimate successor Twelve full ministers including Pctain were appointed plus three defense secretaries of state The new cabinet meets today Laval as vice-premier his post in the last "defeat heads the list Wrygand Retains Post General Maxima Weygand former Allied generallissimo and Adrien Marquct keep their posts of national defense and minister of the interior respectively These three will be the key advisers of the aged "hero of it is expected By a decree in the official journal the 84-year-old Petain also named Laval his eventual successor In the event Laval is not available for the post his successor will be chosen by a majority of votes in ministerial council The swarthy white-necktied Laval is the son of a butcher He studied and won a scholarship while driving his father's meat wagon General Louis Colson chief of staff in the army in republican France is secretary of state for war Admiral Jean Darlan secretary of state for the navy and General Bertrand Jujo secretory of state in charge of aviation Other Ministers The latter three were not given the full ministries which they held in the old Petain cabinet and will be answerable now to General Weygand The other ministers: Foreign affairs Paul Baudoin same post Yves Boutillier same post Raphael Alibert who was undersecretary of state Youth and family Jean Ybar-negaray Agriculture Pierre Caziot member of the National Agricultural Academy Communications Deputy Francois Pietri Colonies Senator Henry Le- Public Instruction a Emile Mireaux The decree said ministers for industry production and labor would be named later (These however apparently will not be full ministers) The decree which will appear today In the official Journal re- Continued on Page 2 Column 5 Willis Sliarpe Kilmer Dies In Binghamton BINGHAMTON Willis Sharpe Kilmer 71 publisher of the Binghamton Press and owner of three of the greatest horses on the American turf Exterminator Sun Briar and Sun Beau died Friday night His wife the former Sarah Jane Wells whom he married in Paris In 1932 was with him when he died A manufacturer of medical supplies In addition to his publishing horse racing and throughbred breeding interests Kilmer succumbed to pneumonia at his summer home at nearby Sky Lake after being in ill health for the past year Kilmer spent a number of winters at his home Remllk Hall Ill Sundays Tlmcs-Dispatcli The Democratic nomination for a third term Is President Roosevelt for the taking But will he accept it at the convention this week Can you recognize do you know how cleverly old stratagems are revamped by dictators politicians and even preachers Does the appointment of the Duke of Windsor as governor-general of the Bahamas represent an Anglo-American good-will gesture or is It simply a way of disposing of Britain No 1 Problem Child How much attention do voters pay to political platforms These and other consuming Questions of the moment are dealt with tomorrow in the "Our section of The Times-Dis patch In addition to these spoi news articles are the editorial and commentators pages and such regular features as news of the amusement world criticisms of the latest books and timely hints on gardening i.