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ala Jdkto Wimez AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER." THE Prowler By DALLAS E. WOOD nsy im-iith 17.00 yur Hi advsnes TIMES, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1940 48th Year No. 193 anes Attack ANGEL ISLAND FIRE DESTROYS 2 BUILDINGS, ENDANGERS 50 WOMEN LOSS SET AT $50,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12 (AV-Jlrt today destroyed two big two-story buildings occupied by the United States Immigration Service on Angel island. The buildings, each about 100 feet long and housed the main offices of the service, a dining hall and kitchen, and the womens detention ward.

Private Herman G. Schneider, one of 50 soldiers sent from 1 nearby Fort McDowell to fight the fire, suffered a fractured arm and lacerations. Major L. Arnold, adjutant at the fort, estimated loss at $50,000. He aald the fire, which temporarily cut off all comm uni-: cation with the mainland, was believed to have started from an electrical abort circuit.

In a building nearby were about 150 of the 400-odd Oer-. man sailors, crew members of the scuttled liner Columbus, who were brought here the first of the year. About 50 women In the detention ward escaped without harm. 70 Nazi Portsmouth FOREST FIRE LOVE AT FIRST BIGHT Fab in an instant were this baby chick and Nancy Ann Berry 6, when tiie girl visited the International Baby Chick Association convention in St. Louie.

Ber home in Quincy, I1L; the chicks undetermined. LEGIONNAIRES OF STATE HEAR PLEA FOR UNITY Hunts' Denounced LOS ANOELES SOME PEOPLE things and others leave thing behind when they cheek out from hotels. Sane do both, and the great majority does neither. At the Blit-'more Hotel, for example, the annual awip-age of souvenir stuff runs Into a great sum. Silver spoons and glasses are favorites.

The hotel at one time used a special demi-tasse spoon, beautifully crested, which became juch a favorite among souvenir fiends that the whole stock had to be withdrawn from use. On a Monday following a football game -down here an unclaimed suitcase left In the lobby offered no Identification clues beyond the sweater Inside It which indicated the college Its owner represented. Souvenirs" stolen from the hotel and packed away there Included a bath towel, two hand towels, an electric light bulb, a package of toilet paper, a Gideon Bible and a bottle opener. Hunting and reclaiming things taken by light-fingered guests Is one Job. Hunting the owners of lost things Is another.

The articles left behind In rooms include mainly pajamas and Jewelry. When articles are left In guest rooms, their return to the owners Is a simple matter of routine. But many people have the habit of leaving things on dining tables. In lobbies and other places that make the tracing of their owners Impossible. The bell captain maintains a lost and found room, where people often reclaim their lost possessions.

But many articles are left permanently behind. The more valuable the lost article, the longer It Is kept In the lost and found room In hopes that the owner will ultimately think to Inquire there for It But the bulk of unclaimed possessions becomes disposed of at auction sales held every three months for the benefit of the hotel employes. A PRESS ROOM ZB maintained In the hotel for the use of reporters assigned to the hotel to cover conventions and other meetings, and also to Interview the notables registered there. The press room, unlike the sorts of cubicles more usually assigned to mere scribblers, Is grandly furnished and equipped In keeping with the hotels standards. Notables visiting In the city and staying elsewhere get invited by the press boys to call in that room for their Interviews.

That makes the locale of the Interview in the Biltmore and the resulting publicity reference Is a boon earned through having provided the facility. Smart business, eh? rE BILTMORE, LIKE MANY other hotels, keeps a suggestion slip In each guest room where patrons are Invited to list ideas they may have for Improvement of service. The management Informed me that In the main the suggestions are sensible and constructive, even though not all may be possible of adoption. Some of the hotels best service features, however, are credited by the management to the suggestions made by Right now the hotel Is spending $6,000 in adopting one worn-- ans suggestion that In double rooms a separate bedside reading lamp be provided for each occupant. A guest from Australia proposed that tea be served In the rooms at rising time.

So nowa-, days whenever a guest from England, Australia or any other British possession registers, the guest la asked by the floor clerk not whether or not tea Is wanted, but at what hour It would be most desirable to have tea and brought up to the room. The hotel decided to go yet further In honoring the British and British colonial guests by hoisting the flags of their respective countries In front of the hotel when they stay there. To have flags flying in your special honor when you are a stranger In a city Is something to write home about It Is more than any Brit-( Continued on Page 2, Col 4) DAILY PALO ALTO and nine British planes were Little damage was reported in the new raid tonight many bombers falling into the open country and the The official acknowledgement that Germany had struck hard at Portsmouth said the Nazis had "little sue- The British said several fatalities occurred but their de- Hoover Seeks Way to Feed Wars Victims COLORADO SPRINGS, Cola, Aug. 12 (A3) The organization of a neutral non governmental agency to keep 27 million people In the little countries of Europe from "wholesale starvation, death and disease" was advanced today by former President Herbert Hoover. Hoover, chairman of the American Belief Committee which acted during the World War, said somebody "must raise a voice for food supply during the coming winter In Norway, Holland, Belgium and Poland.

The former president, who conferred with Republican Presiden tlal Nominee Wendell L. Wlllkle here yesterday, declared some organization must be formed "If these people are to be saved. Be added: Cant Understand It "It is Impossible to understand what the administration In Washington means by statements that thqy do not have any facts: or why they recall an ambassador because he states a fact. (John Cudahy, U. 8.

ambassador to Belgium, was called home to report to the president after he advocated last week that the united States feed Nazi-occupied countries.) Hoover said In an interview at Balt Lake City earlier yesterday that funds which the occupied countries have In the United States could be used to defray of a relief organization. Ha stressed the fact that con-of the governments of both Great Britain and Germany must be obtained before any plan could be put Into operation. To Maintain Blockade LONDON, Aug. 12 (P) A British spokesman declared today the blockade against Germany and Nail-occupied European states would be maintained vigorously and took the position that food for 18,000,000 non-German Europeans affected depended on "fair distribution by Germany, which has an abundance of supplies. This statement was made as the British withheld official comment on former President Herbert Hoovers request yesterday to permit the United States to supply food to The Netherlands, Belgium, Poland and Norway, pending formal receipt of the appeal: HOUSE ADOPTS BILL WASHINGTON, Aug.

12 (A3) The house adopted and sent to the senate today a conference agreement on the Wheeler-Lea transportation bill which brings water carriers under control of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The roll call vote was announced as 247 to 74. Senate acceptance would send the bill to the White House. Academic '3 Something approaching an academic three-ring circus rolled onto the Stanford campus this morning as three different organizations began conference sessions which will last for two weeks. Leading the parade In the morning was the Western Institute of Hospital Administrators, which brought 100 Pacific Coast men and women for an Intensive course In their field.

Institute Director Benjamin W. Black, medical director of the Alameda County Institutions, welcomed the delegates, and remarked that the institute was more of an academic course than a conference. "Each phase of hospital administration will be thoroughly exhausted before we have finished, he said. This mornings seminar was devoted to problems of foods and nutritions In hospitals, while this afternoon, the members of the Institute will view demonstrations In hospitals at Palo Alto, San Jose and Ban Matea Opening this afternoon In the education building la the American Council pa EubUfi fense forces had heavily engaged the Germans. Raids on the Isle of Wight and the Kent and Sussex coasts were part of the German assault, it was reported officially.

The Germans claimed 71 British planes shot down. Chief targets of the German blasts were "a southern town (Identified by German dispatches as the great naval base of Portsmouth) and a southeastern port, (which, the Germans said was Dover). Four waves of bombers smashed at the latter objective, the fourth coming late In the afternoon. The raids were continuing early tonight, with an Ineffectual raid on another southeastern town. -The greatest blast, however, apparently waa loosed on the "southern town (Portsmouth), attacked at noon.

The Germans began their intensive aerial attaeka en June IS, stepped up the assault last Thursday to the scale of 400 raiders and continued that pace yesterday and today. (The Germans reported shooting down a total of 164 British planes yesterday and today.) Two hundred German planes struck at the "southern town but the British said they prevented all but 55 from reaching their goaL The Germans flew over In waves at high altitude from the direction of Cherbourg and dive-bombed as they approached the town. One raider was shot down In the sea and five others were almost as soon as they the coastline. A warship shot down another raider. The British said private property was damaged but no naval objectives were harmed.

The raiders turned their machine gnns en citizens in the streets, the British reported, bnt the number of, casual ties was not known. In another engagement along the coast, RAF fighters reported they Shot down two German planes attacking shipping, and drove off 23 raiders from a coastal town. By early afternoon, II possibly 16 German planes had been reported shot down, with the rnldora atm roaring in along the coast In apparently growing numbers. The 55 planes which reached their Objectives remained 15 minutes, dropping Incendiary (Continued on Page 2, CoL 2) British Raid Nazi Oil Bases LONDON, Aug. 12 (A3) Royal Air Fores attacks on the air fields and oil plants In France and Germany were reported tonight by the air ministry.

It acknowledged three British bombers were lost. The airport on the German' occupied island of Guernsey In the English Chqpnel off the French coast was bombed again yesterday, the communique said. Two U. S. Bombers On Goodwill Tour PANAMA, Aug.

12 (A3) Brig. Gen. H. A. argue, com mender of the nineteenth wing of the army air service with headquarter at Albrook yield, led two big bombers on a 4,000 mile goodwill and navigation practice flight circling the Carib-bean Ring Circus' Nearly 200 members of the council have registered for attendance at the sessions which will be held each afternoon for the next two weeks.

leading speakers at the conference will be. Archibald Crossley, of the Crossley Radio Pollq, Dr Harwood Childs, noted writer and lecturer on public opinion from Princeton, and Dr. Don Lescohler, authority on labor relations from the University of Wisconsin. Special afternoon speaker will be Dr. Norman Maler, psychologist from the University of Iowa and an early member of the Gallup public opinion polls.

Evening' sessions will be devoted to Informal question-answer discussions. In the dramatic department of the conferences will be the fifth annual Dramatists Assembly, which will begin Its week of programs and meetings this evening when the prize-winning Anderson Award verse play Is. read In the education building. The assembly line -up for the week Includes performances of Chinese pa Cage A D). (By the Associated Press) LONDON, Aug.

12. Seventy German warplanes raided Britains southeast boast again tonight following up droves of German fighters and bombers which attacked the large Portsmouth naval base and the 125-mile coastline between Portsmouth and Dover in a mass assault The British said 39 German planes were shot down Blitzkrieg Fugitives On Peninsula It Is impossible to believe we are not still running away." This was the comment today of Mrs. R. D. Black as she settled down In a San Mateo hotel after weeks of terrifying experience resulting from the German Blitzkrieg In France.

Mrs. Black, a niece of Mrs. Tobin Clark of Hillsborough, plans to make her permanent hone on the peninsula with her two daughters and a friend, Mias Grace Stanley. Seeking a refuge from the Nad Invasion, Mrs. Black moved from her summer home In southern France to Paris "with the Germans about eight miles ahead of us.

When Paris fell, the Blacks escaped to Spain. Taking advantage of the only transportation, they took passage on a Spanish tramp steamer headed for the United States. The two children, 11 and 8, will be enrolled In a convent on the peninsula Today, apparently forgetting the. experiences of the past few weeks, they were busily engaged playing in the gardens of the hotel, where they are staying. Dixie Checks Tornado Toll WASHINGTON, Aug.

(A3) The Red Cross reported today It had received a menace from a Coast Guard radio truck operating near Beaufort, 8L advising 85 persons wen known to bo dead on St Helena Island (off Beaufort). The message was sent by Mrs. A. Neighbors, assistant Bed Cross field director nt Parris Island, also hard hit by the By the Associated Proas ATLANTA, Aug. 12 Repair crews rushed work on crippled communications In storm-battered coastal areas of South Carolina and Georgia today while authorities checked casualties and property damage.

Historic Charleston, 8. a city of 75,000 population. Buffered considerable property damage, but no lesa of life was reported. Earlier reports over a shortwave radio station of six persons drowning at Folly Beach near Charleston not confirmed. The storm, which originated In the West Indies early last week turned Inland early Sunday between Savannah, Ga and Charleston, 8.

C. The storm blew Itself out today over this area, accompanied by heavy rains. PETAIN TO BROADCAST VICHY, France, Aug. 12 (A3) Marshal Philippa Petaln, chief of state, will broadcast a message to the French nation at 7:30 p. m.

tomorrow (2:30 p. m. EST), It was announced today. Townsend Claims MNary Support TERRE HAUTE, Ind Aug. 12 (A5) Dr.

Francis E. Townsend, old-age pension advocate, says Senator McNary of Oregon, Republican vice presidential nominee, and Representative Martin of Massachusetts, GOP national chairman, have assured him they "favor his program. Tlie elderly Californian, spea lng yesterday at a picnic of District No! 11, United Mina Workers of America (CIO), said he would urge his followers to vote for the party which would work for his pension plan. He said previously he would vote for Wendell L. Winkle, Republican presidential nominee.

DRAFT BILL Norris And Burke Dispute WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (A3) Nebraskas two senators Independent, and Burke, Democrat, clashed In senate debate today over whether enactment of the Burke-Wadsworth compulsory military service bill would mean the creation of i large standing army. Norris, who previously had expressed the view that conscription would lead to dictatorship, contended that enactment of the compulsory service bill would mean establishment of an army "so large that It will stagger the Imagination of all of us. Burke replied warmly this waa one of the most serious misconceptions" of opponents of the bill. He added that present plans were to call only 499300 for training this fall and a like number next spring, ont of the 13300306 men from 21 through 36 who would be required to register.

After a years service, these men would be liable to only 30 days renewal training each year, he said. "Those men would not be made professional soldiers by the fact that they were taken for a year's training Burke asserted. If that doesnt mean a large standing army, I dont know what you would call it, Norris retorted. "It means that you are going to train all of the able-bodied men In the United States and you'll be doing It 50 years from now. Thats what Germany did and you see the result of It Burke said opponents of the measure were confusing American opposition to "militarism with what he said was public support of a training program.

"I think that when you go down Into the hearts of the people of this country, you will not find any opposition to adequate military training so that there will be a reserve from which trained men can be drawn In time of war, he declared. Norris contended that invasion of this country by a "dictator nation was an Impossibility at this time and that by the time Germany, for example, could bo prepared to attack the United States, the American navy and air force would be sufficiently powerful to prevent any invasion. He conceded, however, "that they would like to conquer the United States goes without saying. "The one bright hope In the world situation, Norris con tin ued, was that Japan, Germany, Russia and Italy all dreamed of world domination and would one day fight among themselves. "When that course of elimination commences, Norris declared, "there will be a brighter day than now exists for democracy.

At the other end of the Capitol the house delayed action on the senate bin authorizing the president to call Into active service the National Guard and army reserves In order to study debt-moratorium provisions submitted by the War Department. These amendments were offered the form of separate legislation and some members said there was a possibility they might be dovetailed Into the guard bin. Others said they might be pressed as separate, basic legislation which would apply to all emergency service of the nations armed forces. The departments proposal said at the outset It was Intended to provide for suspension of "civil liabilities order to enable those whoVnter military service' "to devote their entire energy to the defense needs of the nation. Principal features of the departments moratorium plan: No evictions "or distress from premises renting for npt more than $80 monthly.

2. Suspension of premium payments on regular life insurance policies up to a $5,006 1 face value. 2. Suspension of general or special taxes and assessments on real property devoted to boosing, agricultural or business purposes. The War Departments pro-i on EK6 CoL 6i Southern Resort Is Burned SANTA BARBARA, Aug.

12 (A3) A forest fire that burned 2300 acres and scores of cottages In the Santa Ynez range. Including most of the Painted Cave resort, continued to race fiercely today but forestry officials said they hoped to control It shortly with the aid of reinforced crews. Upward of 600 men were recruited to fight the blaze. Only few minor Injuries were reported. Forestry officials said neither Santa Barbara nor suburban Ooleta was endangered by the fire, although all roads In the ea were being patrolled.

One of the latest persons to leave the Painted Cave resort was 80-year-old Mrs. Viola Og-ram, one of the first settlers there 44 years ago and owner of a dozen small cabins. Cause of the fire was not determined. THIEVES STEAL QUICKSILVER WORTH $7,000 CALX8TOGA, Aug. 12 (A3) TWO robbers bound a watchman and escaped today with three-quarters of a ton of quicksilver, valued at $7300, from the Oat SOU mine northeast of hero.

Sheriff Jack Stocker ordered all Napa county roads watched, and deputies and highway patrolmen were stationed at key points. The two men escaped In a dark sedan Into which they had loaded the 35 flasks of mercury. The ear was reported seen in Pope valley, south of the mine, about 45 minutes after they fled. The watchman overpowered by the two and bound was H. H.

Carr. The mine, owned by H. W. Gould ft Sin Francisco, reopened recently because of mounting war-time orders for quicksilver and greatly advanced prices. 13,540 Precincts For State Voters SACRAMENTO, Aug.

12 (A3) There will be 13,540 voting precincts In the state for the August 27 primary, Secretary of State Paul Peek announced today. Los Angeles county, with 4351, has the greatest number, and Alpine the fewest with five. Other totals: Butte, 127; Madera, 41; Marin, 120; Merced, 77; Monterey, 122; San Joaquin, 244; San Matron 254; Santa Clara, 320; Solano, 84; Sonoma, 175; Stanislaus, 133, and Tuolumne, 48.. U. S.

SQUADRON MANEUVERS LISBON, Aug. 12 (A3) Tha United Statea naval squadron recently stationed In the Tagus river left today for five days of maneuvers off the south coast of Portugal. TAINT RIGHT Shorter working hours for labor should not mean less service to the public, in the opinion of some of our fellow-citizens, who oplno that It aint right: That the postoffice, a servant of the people, should deprive said people of receiving mull between Saturday noon and Monday, especially when our good president urged, not so long ago, that business employ os many men as possible to relieve the unemployment situation. That the banka supposed to exist for the accommodation of commercial interests, should close during the busiest times sf the day and all day Saturday, the busiest day of the week. For the Publle Library to be closed on holidays when lonely and homeless people feel greatest need of It For the buses to.ha spaced so Jar apart.

were being prepend for a fifth column. Regardless of these undentin' lng forces, Warren emphasized, the American Legion's guiding star has been "one hundred per cent Americanism, toward which the -'tide has finally changed. "None except those who definitely do not wish our country well would now decry the fostering and perpetuation of such an Americanism, he said. Mrs. Sherman Dies at Hospital Mrs.

Ellen C. Sherman, widow of the late Frank W. Sherman, away last night In the Palo Alto Hospital after a short Illness following a long period of 111 health. She was 75 years bid. Mrs.

Sherman was well known tor her service In Presbyterian, temperance, and civic activities. She was the past president of the Palo Alto Woman's Christian Temperance Union, for more than 80 years the secretary of Standard Life Association, and director of the Good Templar Home for Orphans and the Good Templar Child Welfare. She an active Rebekah, having been a deputy and trustee of the Rebekah Orphans Home. Mrs. Sherman was bom in On-tario, Canada, In 1864, and was married- to Mr.

Sherman In North Dakota 20 years later. She came to California In 1885, first living In Santa Cruz and then coming to Palo Alto In 1894. She la survived by her three sons, Arthur of Palo Alto and Richard and Thomas of Los Angeles, and a brother and sister In North Dakota. Funeral services will be con ducted at the chapel of Roller ft Hapgood at 2 pm. tomorrow.

In' terment will follow at the Alta cemetery. Moffett to Get 'Red Schoolhouse' The Works Project Administration announced today In San Francisco that approval had been received for expenditure of $223,000 In WPA money for new runways, aprons, and barracks at Moffett Field. About 280 WPA workers will have a years employment there, according to the Associated Press. The little red schoolhouse In Its 1940, national defense form will also take shape at Moffett Field. Only this time It will be a military school, suitable for army air corps flying cadets.

The War Department announced award of a contract today for $14335 to T. C. Gibson of Mountain View for construe-' tion of school and administration buildings at the air depot, soon to become headquarters for the West Coast Air Training Center. NORWAY ROYALTY COMING STOCKHOLM, Aug. 12 (A3) Crown Princess Martha of Norway and her three children are en route to the United States aboard an American ship at the invitation of President Roosevelt, the Norwegian legation here announced today.

Cars Collide Minor damage resulted when the cars driven by Grover W. Mabry, San Jose, and Frank W. Freitas, San Francisco, came together at Embarcadero road and Cowper street Saturday afternoon. Np one was hurt. SAN DIEGO, Aug.

12 (A3) Attorney General Earl Warren told American Legionnaires in state convention today that unity and a revival of militant Americanism were fundamental In the solution of the nations problems. Keynoting the opening session, Warren said the rob of the Legion In the "coming crucial days of the republic would be to stand as "guardian to the democratic rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness of all not engaged In disloyal activities. Warning against "spy-hunts and persecution of aliens suspected of disloyalty, Warren said the Legion should help "keep the public's pulse normal and prevent It from succumbing to any form of fifth column hysteria which will result In injustices which divide our people and create hatreds. Leave Spies to FBI The checking of spies and saboteurs should be left to the FBI, Warren said. In terming that bureau the "most efficient law enforcement agency that has ever functioned in the history of this country.

Stressing that the Legion has never been a militaristic organisation, Warren said If the government, since 1919, had listened to the practical proposals of the Legion to maintain peace by keeping the nation prepared for defense, "we would now have very little reason to be concerned about our own future, and It might even be that the ruthless war now being waged In Europe would never have been started. He scored the "softening process in which the American people of recent years have allowed the term "one hundred per cent Americanism to become the butt of Jokes and the object of ridicule as result of the "cynicism of some groups, the apathy of others, and the alien sedittonaxy teachings of still others. -Moral Fibre Weakened "It was In these years, he commented, "that the moral fibre of our nation was being weakened, when the teaching of patriotism, saluting of the flag, sing (ng of patriotic songs, the teach Inga of Inspirational history de acended to such a low ebb in the public schools. It was In these years that we Hits Campus DR, PON LESCOIUER WEATHER San Francisco Bay Fair tonight and Tuesday, but overcast night and morning; fog tonight near the coast; normal temperature; moderate west wind. -Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys Fair tonight and Tuesday; gentle westerly wind.

Santa Clara and Salinas Valleys Fair tonight and Tuesday; but fog in early morning; normal temperature; moderate northwest wind. Temperatures for Saturday, August IS: Degrees Maximum 90 Minimum 56 Temperatures for Sunday, August 11: Degrees Maximum 75 Minimum 65 Lowest this 58 8 rm 19.78 in. Rainfall, season to date JOln..

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