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ARIZ ,934 No. 161, Phoenix, Ariiona Today 112 N. CENTRAL TELEPHONE Mill HEART OF BERLIN CIO Head Urges Aid Foi Willkie Roosevelt Nails Rumor Lewis To Resign If Roosevelt Is Elected ASHINGTON, Oct. (AP) and emphatically endorsing Wendell L. Willkie for the presidency, John L.

Lewis announced tonight that he resign as leader of the Congress of Industrial Organizations if organized labor declines to follow his lead and sidfnt Roosevelt is elected. "Sustain now or repudiate tic." he told his followers. Thp labor leader denounced the President as "a Caesar," said his "motivation 8nrt purpose" was "war," aroused him of seeking a concentration of power in his own hands, and said his re-election would he a ''national evil of the first magnitude." America he added, "needs no superman," and "wants no royal family." Hr said that Willkie, on the other hand, had said he would end unemployment enforce the rifrht of labor to organize, and promote collective, bargaining If Willkie is elected, he mid, "this task can and will done." He had "confidence," he said, in Willkie's "integrity and honor." The labor leader, who supported Mr. Roosevelt four years ago, spoke from his office in the headquarters of the United Mine Workers here, surrounded by his family and a few newspaper people. His speech, broadcast over an unusually large network of stations, was sponsored and paid for by the National mittee nf Democrats for Willkie.

Appeals To Draftees Appealing to prospective draft- tes. Lewis said: "You. who may be about to die in a foreign ivar, created at the whim of an international meddler, OcL Roosevelt today denied at a press conference persistent reports that he would not serve another full four-year term if he is re-elected. It was the first public denial of a rumor which has interested the na- t'on's capital for months. The rumor adopted many facets but its general burden was: the President was reluctant to break the third-term tradition and, if reelected, would step out of office as soon -as the international crisis passed.

Deal luster Is )emanded Willkie Terms Self Unity Candidate New Dealers pooh-poohed these reports as part of a whispering cam' paign against a third term. It re mained'for the No. 1 New Dealer to nail them today. He did it when p. correspondent asked: "In your Philadelphia address you said, 'We are determined during the next four yean to make our objective a job for every young man and woman in the United States a living fact' Does this mean that if re-elected, God willing, you will serve out a full four-year term?" "Of course," Mr.

Roosevelt replied promptly. Then, after a moment's though' he told the reporter that he wa glad that he had included in his in quiry the phrase, "God willing." Polish Refugees Accused Wallace Says 'Nazi Support' HelpsWillki Conquering Of U. S. By Division Seen Hitler Plan Democrats Pay Radio Charges NEW YORK, Oct. Thf National Committee of Democrat s-f or-Willkle announced tonicht.it was sponsor- ins and paying approximately for tonight's radio speech by John L.

Lewis, CIO president. Alan Valentine, executive director of the committee, said the speech would be carried over 362 stations of the three national networks. The announcement was released by Leo Casey, the committee's director of publicity, minutes before Lewis was to announce his stand in the presidential contest. should you salute your Caesar? In cold, common sense. I think you ihnuld vote for WillkJB." He appealed too to labor, to the PHILADELPHIA, Oct Henry A.

Wallace, Democratic candidate for vice-president said tonight that "Nazi support" of Wendell L. Willkie is part of Adolf Hitler's plan to weaken and eventually conquer the United States. 'The friends of the totalitarian powers have decided that the ignorance and lack of leadership of the Republican candidate qualify him as their candidate," Wallace said in his most unrestrained attack yet delivered against the Republican presidential candidate. The former secretary of agriculture spoke in the I Third Regiment Armory, from which his speech was broadcast nationally. "Moral Confusion" Hit He accused Willkie of "moral con fusion xxx ignorance and lack leadership," and said "his mind i in a state of confusion." Wallace did not mention Willkie by name, referring to him only as the "Republican presidential candidate." Al Republican victory in Novem her is a necessity for the dictate plans to "overthrow our peace am BARRE, Oct.

25 L. Willkie declared tonight that John L. Lewis' "eloquent and unqualified enlistment in our cruaade is a great stride toward bringing the spontaneous unity of action and purpose that will follow as toon as we are elected." Oct. it is time to get "new management" in government, Wendell L. Willkie asked tonight: "What have you got to lose in making a change?" "I ask you to put me to work," the Republican presidential nominee said.

"I know that this job (of government management) can be done." Assails Present Management In an address for an audience in the heart of the anthracite country, Willkie continued: "Here you have a management in the office of your government which has had a fair trial of eight years and in all that time it has been unable to solve the problem of the farmer, revive industry, or provide our people with jobs. And now that management tells us that can't be done. "Under such circumstances, what ave you got to lose in making a hange? Isn't it about time to pet anagement that believes in the uture of this country and helieves lat the job can be. done?" People's Needs Told Asserting that "we want to build America." the candidate said need more food, more ouses and more of the products industry. "By all the rules of justice and ommon sense," he continued, those who can produce those hings should be able to produce lem: and those who need them hould be able to get them.

"But what actually We have people on the who need the products of industry while 9,000,000 men are out of work and many factories are idle. We have people in the cities who need the of the farm, and the farmer cannot sell the crops he raises." QUCHARESt, Rumania, Oct. German legation alleged in an official bulletin today that the former Polish premier, Josef Beck, the entire staff of the Polish embassy and many of 7,000 Polish refugees were in the employ of the British secret service and had been planning to blow up Rumanian oil wells. The Germans asserted that Britain had not broken off relations with Rumania only because it wanted to obtain information through "Polish here. Details of the arrest of Beck and other Polish leaders were given by the bulletin.

It.asserted that Beck had given his word not to try to flee this country, but that with the aid of the British minister he had sought to leave first by ship, then by plane and finally by automobile. "A great quantity of munitions and some very incriminating documents," the bulletin said, were seized in a raid on a house belonging to the Polish embassy. During the' day Rumanian government agents arrested two refugee Czech generals on charges of participating in what was officially called Polish sabotage and espionage plot Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz, former chief of the defeated Polish Axis Plan For Peace Rumored Retain, Laval Will Report To Cabinet France, Oct. (AP) Marshal Henri Laved Dickers Wilhltdy Philippe Petain came pensively back tonight from his rendezvous with Adolf Hitler, and informed sources there con- ERN, Switzerland, Oct. 25 already a negotiations in Paris with Italian representatives through Pierre Laval, vice-premier, following up direct contact with Adolf Hitler, diplomatic sources reported tonight.

Laval, these sources said, holding conversations with government representatives similar to those he held with Otto Abetz, the German "ambassador" to France, and with Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister, prior to Hitler's meeting with Marshal Henri Phillippe Petain, chief of the French state. Whether Premier Benito Mussolini would meet Petain later was Start Deadly London Rai sidered the possibility that the present negotiations between Germany, Italy and France may be preludes to an axis "peace drive." Overtures for a cessation of hostilities might be. launched through President Roosevelt, -these sources said, after all the strings are tied together from the current or impending conversations between Petain, Hitler, Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain, Pierre Laval, vice-premier of France, and Count Galeazzo Ciano Italy's foreign min- army, was taken into custody yesterday. ister. Berlin Cites "Answer" not known here.

The agreement which is expected to result from negotiations with the Germans and Italians, French sources said, on paper at least will be clearly to France's advantage and probably will mean moving northward to the Seine the line between occupied and unoccupied France. It is highly unlikely, these informants added, that the price France must pay will appear as part of the written agreement. That price still is reputed to be the use by the axis, if and when to youth, and other grnups. and said Mr. Roosevelt had (ailed to solve the nation's economic trnuhlos.

"It is authoritatively stated," said, "that 20,000,000 people in Ihr I'nitrd Stated are able to srK-nd only five cents per meal per person, xxx This is in a land of plenty, with its acricultural granaries, over- flnuinc with surplus farm commodities, which the Tarm" is unable to sell. Where nnu are the tears for the 'ill- housed, ill-clothed and ill-fed'?" If Mr. Roosevelt is re-elected, he Wd. "it will mean that the mem- hers of the Congress of Industrial Organizations have rejected my advice and recommendation. I will accept the result as being the equivalent of a vote of no confidence nd will retire as president of the Congrpss of Industrial Organizations, at its convention in November." No nation, he said, "should light- endow- any politician or states- wan with a brief of authority that lor all practical purposes, runs in 1 "Paid Price In Blood" 'Our forbears." he added, "paid the blood, agony, privation and sorrow, requisite for the build- Ing of this republic.

"Are we now to cast away that Priceless liberty, which is our heri- 'age? Are we to yield to the appe- "te for power and the vaunting Ambitions of a man who plays with lives ol human beings for a pastime? "If President Roosevelt is reestablished in office in the forthcoming election, he will answer to man. including the congress, for "is executive acts, that may create dictatorship in this land." Lew-is enumerated a list of reasons for his opposition to Mr. re-election. Says Object War first, he said, is that his motivation and objective" is of the third-term issue. our liberties," Wallace declared.

He added that totalitarian agents have been ordered to money and effort to "remove from their path the greatest power for protection ot our peace, the administration and leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt" Wallace several times emphasize that he did not question the patriot ism of Willkie. but said he ha appeared "to the Nazi leaders the element of weakness that the need for their designs." "Narrow Road" Urged "The way to liberty and peace a narrow road that a nation ca travel only if it has a cool hea and a steady hand," Wallace said. He-described President Roosevelt as "the very symbol of democracy" and "the one man whom the Nazis do not want to have to face." Wallace declared that Willkie serious doubts of his abili as a leader by his objections again requiring big business to share the sacrifices which he is so reat to impose on the common peop for the sake of national security." Lives Put Above Dollars For my part" Wallace said, believe that the lives of our young Willkie said children. that undernourish- "worried, anxious nothers" and fearful heads of fam- lies are on the dark side of the national picture.

Challenge Seen "In pictures like these," he added, "lies the challenge to our challenge to make that picture brighter." The nominee contended that the New Deal program of social legislation and relief "does not go far "No program for American recovery," he said, "will ever work unless it is designed to bring about New Phoenix Radio Station Goes On Air Twenty-Hour Daily Program Includes News Broadcast KPHO, new Phoenix radio station, officially will go on the air today, M. C. Reese, Phoenix businessman and owner of the enterprise announced yesterday. The new station will operate with 250 watts power on a frequency of 1,200 kilocycles from a modernly equipped plant at 24th avenue and Buckeye road. Initially, during the first several days of operation, the programs largely will emphasize music, Mr.

Reese said, after which the station will inaugurate its full program 1 schedule. Principal feature of the full program will be an hourly news broadcast. On Air 20 Hours Daily Beginning marking the conclusion of a testing period, KPHO will be on the air from 6 a. m. to 2-a.

m. daily. Formal dedication ceremonies probably will not be held for several weeks, Mr. Reese said. However, as a welcome to the new station, the Arizona Republic-Electrical Equipment Company Station KTAR will salute KPHO in a special program 11:30 o'clock tomorrow morn- (In Berlin, a spokesman said that' "the best answer to such reports is that the attacks on England are Old Marshal Petain appeared to be in no hury to put France on the dotted line in agreement with the axis.

Laval went on to Paris without him after the Hitler talk of yesterday. It was reported here that he was meeting in Paris. Laval is not expected back until tomorrow. Then he and Petain probably will make a joint report to the cabinet. Public Gets Hot Officials who have been -Issuing statements to the effect that the future of France is bound up in the negotiations tried tonight' to -cool off public opinion.

Now, they said, it appears that the results will be less important than previously expected, and will, settle only "immediate problems" between France and Germany. A cabinet session will be held at 5 p. m. tomorrow to hear the combined reports of Petain and Laval. Word lacking A detailed description of Petain's first face-to-face meeting with Hitler was given here, but not.

a. word about what they said at their talks somewhere in occupied France. Frenchmen who saw them leave their two-hour conference in 'a rail- it sees the-need, of French Mediterranean and African navaj and air bases. (Additional WIT Stories, Ptgt 6) ONDON, Oct. after mile of Germany's "invasion front" along the French coast was.

engulfed in roaring flames early today under a 1 thunderous Royal Air Force attack that followed the fiercest duel of the war between British and Nazi long-range guns. The cross-channel shelling, in an intensified struggle for control the narrow straits of Dover, followed official British reports of the sinking of a Nazi torpedo boat and a Italian supply ship- in. combined naval-air assaults extending from the North seA to the Suez. A'three-hour bombing of the heart of Berlin, in which "great fire" starte'd in' the center of the city guided relays of bombers to theft targets early yesterday was described in an air ministry communique. British Admit Destroyer Lou The admiralty admitted the loss of the British destroyer British destroyer lost in the went down "with some casualties," after hitting a mine.

The Royal Air Force's smashing attack upon the Nazi-held French, coast between Boulogne and Calais occurred after attacks on both British and German convoys in the Dover straits by long-range guns and bombing planes. Sheets of red and orange flames rose along miles of the French; shore, plainly visible to thousands of Britons watching the "show" from' the Dover cliffs as houses shook with tremendous explosions 22 to 30 miles away. The positions of the Nazi "Big Bertha" guns around Cap Gris Nez appeared to be taking a heavy hammering. Nazis, Italy To Give Soviet Danubejlights Four -Pcmet JEarl ey Is Arranged To Appease Reds BUCHAREST, Oct. Germany and Italy formally will recognize Russia's rights and interests as a Danube power and will allot to her Britain's former authority on the Danube waterway commission in a four-power conference convening here Monday, it way car said the fuehrer appeared "cold" but that the attitude of both men otherwise indicated then- conversation was "most cordial." DClleVe Llinl.

WIC v. men are as important as the dollars of our corporations." Wallace said Hitler's plan was to conquer Europe, then attack the U. S. through influencing big corporations and newspapers with then turn "the heat'" on the public. said: "America needs no super.

Quoting from a speech he made in January of this year saying that a coalition had been formed be- iween labor and the administra- "on. and that a "political coalilior Engineer Dies In Train Wreck NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla, Oct. L. Montaigne, engineer, about 65 years old, was killed and a colored fireman was injured seriously late today in the derailment of a northbound Florida East coast passenger tram, four miles south of here. The boiler of the locomotive exploded, and Montaigne was scalded.

The explosion wrecked the locomotive, parts of it being scattered along the track. The fireman, identified here as Luke Johnson, suffered bad scalds was taken to the railroad's better living conditions and greater security for all our people. That our program." The Roosevelt administration, he added, "had created plenty of fights, but no jobs." In near-by Scranton, the candidate was introduced to an applauding, flag-waving crowd of 20,300 by Gov. Arthur H. James.

Discussion Gag Charged Willkie said that "for the first time in- the history of American politics, class hatreds and bitter- nesses have been so aroused that there have been attempts to stop the ordinary courtesies of free discussion." "I say to you that this administration cannot unite American people," he continued. "I stand before you," Willkie asserted, "as the only candidate for president in the year 1940 who can reunite all the elements of American life." Asks Explanation In earlier appearances Willkie demanded that President Roosevel explain why he urged congress to adjourn last June instead of asking to stay in session to make de tense appropriations. Willkie addressed crowds in Jamestown, Salamanca, Hornel and Elmira before going late the afternoon to Binghamton and then to-Scranton, Pa. Willkie announced today that he would continue to respond promptly to all of Mr. Roosevelt's campaign addresses.

The replies will be made within 24 to 48 hours, he said, depending on the availability of radio time. After his address in Wilkes-Barr tonight he will go to New Yorl for a heavy schedule tomorrow He will attend the world's fair an footba He wil ng, the salute program also to heard over KPHO. The new station represents a 30,000 investment, officials said. Studios, transmitter controls and Bices are housed in an attractive layan-style adobe architecture includes two studios with as- estos acoustic treatment, audience oom, control room and other mod- rn facilities. Both fluorescent and ncandescent lighting are used.

High Antenna Used The vertical antenna is 204 feet set in a five-acre tract, anc he ground system consists of two ets of radials running spoke-like rom the base of the antenna tower md containing three tons of Ariona copper, Mr. Reese said. John C. Sweeney, broadly experienced in the radio field, will erve as general manager, he announced, other members of the staff include Sharon Stanford, studio manager, and Forest Belcher, chie: ingineer. Sir.

Reese first came to Arizona presupposes a post-election, goof I (Continued On Page CoL 'hospital St. Augustine. 9" the Fordham-St Mary's game in the afternoon, speak several places in the evening. At Binghamton, Willkie drov through crowded streets to th county courthouse. There wer loud cheers, but some of the crow carried pictures of- Presiden Roosevelt and booed the Repub Mean candidate.

Murder Ring Women Hear Death Order PHILADELPHIA, Oct. Two women were sentenced to eath, a man was given a life term nd two other women sent to prison or long terms today for their parts Philadelphia's notorious murder- br-insurance. ring. To it police attributed 50 to 100 deaths. Mrs.

Josephine Romualdo, 41 yean old, mother of two, and Mrs. Grace Giovanetti, 55, were given the death penalty by Judge Frank Smith for conspiracy in the poison deaths of their husbands. It was the first time in the memory of the court that two women had been- condemned to death in one day. Caesar Valenti, 55, convicted of the death of Charles Favata, stood mute as he heard his life sentence. The women sentenced to prison are: Mrs.

Christine Cerrone, who pleaded guilty in the drowning of Raphael Caruso, a two to 20 years. Mrs. Susie Dl Marlnto, 42, who admitted she killed her to 20 years. Of the 23 defendants in the plots, 18 have been convicted, four acquitted and one remains to be tried. Dapper Herman Petrillo, called was understood tonight.

Many Balkan diplomats professed to believe that Russia's inclusion the conference with the axis powers and Rumania indicates that Adolf Hitler.and Benito Mussolini have abandoned, at least tem- Eorarily. any further drive into the outheast. Seek To Appease Soviet The conference also reveals, these diplomats said, that the axis does not regard-it as "advisable" to ignore longer Russia's demands for a voice in the control of the Balkan waterway and the affairs of the Danube basin. One Bulgarian source said that Berlin- and 'Rome appear to have more than half way to appease Moscow which is reported to have taken important military precautions along the Rumanian-Russian frontiers coincident with the Nazi troop movements into Rumania. The Soviet delegation to the four- power conference left Moscow by airplane today for Bucharest by wa of'Sofia.

Considered Important The importance which the Kremlin attaches.to the talks was believed to have been shown by the fact that among the. emissaries is Alexander Sbolev, secretary eral of the Russian foreign commissariat under Viacheslaff M. Molotoff, premier and foreign com- rr.lssar. The Rumanian foreign office announced officially today that the conference will open here Monday and it was understood that Rumania, Germany and Italy already have agreed to recognize Russia's Danube rights and make her a shareholder in the Danube corporation. British Are Masters Of Sides From midnight until after 2:45 a.

the British were said to have been the masters of the cloudy sky over Berlin, sweeping dangerously low to unload their bombs, while other Royal Air Force squadrons struck at more than 35 targets spread over Western Europe, including- four German naval bases. The Nazi torpedo boat went down off Adolf Hitler's French "invasion coast" under an attack of the veteran submarine Swordfish, while the Italian supply ship was slink somewhere in the Mediterranean by the submarine Regent, the admiralty said. Heavy destruction in Berlin was reported. Again the big Pulitz Strasse and Lehrter railroad yards, and utilities were the chief targets: of British bombers. (In Berlin; it'was stated officially that low-swooping raiders had showered explosives and incendiaries on residential areas, quarters and garden colonies, starting fires and wounding several persons.

In Hamburg, it was stated, fires were started and "other, material damage caused." The Germans claimed five British planes had been shot down.) The first wave, of British bombers appearing over Berlin about midnight was said by the air ministry to have dropped salvoes of high, explosives which added to the "extensive damage" inflicted only 24 hours before. A half hour later, it was said, still more British planes swept on objectives in "heart of Berlin" and started a huge fire. "At 1:30 a. m. the last wave of bombers came in over Berlin and for the next 75.minutes the raiding aircraft crossed and recrossed the center of the city as they made individual bombing runs under constant heavy fire from ground batteries," the.

air ministry's communique related: Weather conditions over Berlin were said to have been exceedingly unfavorable for the first British planes, 'with clouds extending from feet to within 4,000 feet of the ground, necessitating dangerous bombings. Other Objectives Are Attacked Other objectives of the British attacks of the past 24 hours were listed as: Oil Hamburg, Hanover and Gelsenkirchen. Docks and Hamburg, Cuxhaven, Bremerhaven, and Wilhelmshaven.naval bases as well as at Havre and. Lorient Rail Munster, Hamm, Bottrop and Duisburg. The "invasion.ports"—Flushing, Ostend, Gravelines, and Dunkerque.

Power Hamburg and near Calais. A chain of German airdromes and a German convoy off Zeebruzze also were said to have been bombed. 1915, and has been a Phoenix resident since 1934, in which yea le organized the First Nationa Benefit Society, of which he is presi dent He is dictator of the loca VIoose lodge, a member of other local lodges and veterans organizations, and is active in civic affairs. KPHO will operate without network connections, Mr. Reese said.

the ringleader in the. conspiracy, has been sentenced to die. Finnish Ballot Immediately after acquiring from Rumania the Bessarabian territory which borders on the Russia was said to have served notice on September 12 that she insisted upon a share in regulating shipping along the international waterway leading to the Black sea. England's Subs Bag Axis Ships LONDON, Oct. British submarines have bagged: an axis victim apiece in the "continuous pressure which British naval forces maintain on coastal communications in enemy waters," the admiralty announced today.

The submarine Swordfish, It sent a Nazi torpedo boat to the bottom off the French while the Regent destroyed a Italian supply ship in the Mediterranean. At the same tune, is was disclosed that the British destroyer Venetia. which normally carried 134 men, had been sunk'by a mine. -JK HELSINKI, Oct Risto Ryti signed a bill today parliamentary elections until 1942 because of the international situation and Finland's difficulties in fixing new districts as a result of the territory. she Japan Asserts Again Deferred Burma Road Cut oc postponed in the war with Russia.

The were last year because of the war! Vatican Announces Mail, Other Checks VATICAN CITY, Oct-ZD-r-XAP) A Vatican news service reported today that a precautionary examination of mail posted within Vatican City has been instituted. A gradual replacement "of -lay workers by members of religious orders also has been- extended to the post office and telegraph -office, it was said. Four monks have taken the places of lay operators at the telephone exchange, TOKYO, Oct newspaper Asahi reported today "somewhere in Indo-China" that Japanese naval bombers had completely cut the Burma Road in China by destroying two bridges over It was. estimated that reconstruction would reo.uire several months, the paper said. French Hold Her riot On Unnamed Charge NEW YORK, Oct.

Berlin' 'report to the, Columbia Broadcasting System tonight quoted Vichy dispatches to the effect that Edouard Herriot, former French' premier -and "perpetual 1 mayor of; Lyon. had been 'taken into-custody. The charges against him-were' not given, but numerous former French officials have been arrested in the war-guilt SCOTLAND, BRITAIN TERRORIZED LONDON, Oct. raiders early today swept over -Scotland in terrorizing machine-gunning attacks after Italy's air force joined the Nazi Luftwaffe in a massive assault that brought 500 or more planes smashing upon Britain in waves of 20 to 100 at a time yesterday. As people flopped in the streets of towns along' Scotland's East coast to escape the machine-gun fire of diving raiders, London was rocked with incendiaries and big bombs in the new combined Italo- German siege.

Of the estimated 500 planes that streaked across the coast day possibly 100 of them crashed through, battling'air and ground defenses, to. blast London. Early towns of Southeast Scotland, the. industrial midlands and the great port of Liverpool reported strong attacks. Liverpool Docks Are Attacked Liverpool and its great Mersey docks were attacked twice by bombers whose high explosives started leaping fireV most of.

which were efficiently extinguished by emergency crews. Casualties were few- A. streetcar was set afire and persons leaving a movie theater narrowly escaped crashing bombs. Early today two towns of East Scotland reported attacks by low- flying raiders. In one town, homes were wrecked and damaged with a toll of dead and injured, after which the raiders machine-gunned where civilians fell prone or hugged walls to escape.

In the second Scottish town a raider dived 500 feet and began, bombing, wrecking houses with at 12 casualties. Many passengers on a train in East Scotland had narrow escapes when two planes swept low and splattered it with bullets. Streets Are Gunned, Bombed Near by almost deserted streets of a town were gunned and building bombed before British defense planes beat off the attackers. i Eight rapid explosions in one London district demolished several houses and.caused an undetermined number of casualties One ex- plosive and two oil bombs blasted a shop. Uncounted incendiaries felT many of them burning out harmlessly in near-by fields.

A mother died in another bombed house and her daughter was trapped. Two incendiary bombs fell on a town near London. One struck: the roof of a dance hall. The merrymakers stopped dancing long enough; to help put out the bomb, then went back to the dance floor. Several incendiaries set fire to a hotel.

All its occupants escaped. Famous Square Is Damaged High explosive and incendiary bombs showered on many districts during the early evening and sirens shrieked as rescue squads and brigades hurried through the streets. Several of the fire bombs fell in a famous square. An "explosive breadbasket" scattered its deadly cluster of bombs over another area, i The defense barrage swelled and waned in rhythmic indicating that the raiders were coming in relays. A United Press correspondent reported driving through one of London's main thoroughfares and hearing six bombs crash- behind him, The all-out raids coincided with disclosure that for.

the first time Italians were participating. (In Berlin the German high command 'said Italian planes operating from bases in Northern France had taken part in raids on Britain for the first tune Thursday. The planes "in bold attacks achieved great successes against harbors in the east part of the British Isles," the communique'said. (In Rome the authoritative Giornale d'ltalia safd in a dispatch- from an "Italian air base on the channel that Italian planes: and pilots were striking at Britain, and'that Premier Benito Mussolini bad-created a.special air corps "for OM bombardment of Lon-.