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From the United States Weather Bureau report. per month.
Full details on Page A-2.
No. 1,847—No. 35,166. WASHINGTON, D. C., AUGUST 11, 1940 -120 PAGES. * TEN CENTS
British Raid Bases on Continent,
See Blitzkrieg Threat Passing;
Italy Presses Somaliland Drive
Nazis Blast Convoys '
In Channel, Attack
Coastal Towns
By the Associated Press,
LONDON, Aug. 10.—Although
Nazi warplanes struck with re
newed ferocity today, British mil
itary men express belief that the
threat of a German blitzkrieg in
vasion is dwindling day by day to
ward a vanishing point near the
*nd of September.
Mass attacks by power - diving
German Stukas, spraying machine
gun fire and whistling bombs on
British coasts and shipping, caused
unstated damage and casualties.
The British, however, expressed be
lief they were primarily “terror”
raids.
The British, too. kept up their
dogged air attacks on Germany
and German-occupied territory.
The Air Ministry announced:
Several fires started by three
Waves of British bombers at Guern
sey Airdrome in German-occupied
Channel Islands; “heavy damage”
on munitions factories in Ger
many; hangars and anti-aircraft
batteries damaged at German sea
plane base near Brest. France; oil
tanks set afire at Flushing, the
Netherlands.
15 Tons of Bombs Dropped.
Nearly 15 tons of high-explosive
and incendiary bombs were dropped
on Cologne alone, the communique
said, while munitions plants there
and in Ludwigschafen were “sub
jected to sustained attacks by strong
forces of aircraft which, after in
flicting heavy damage, left the fac
tories in flames.”
Later the Air Ministry news serv
ice said one British pilot counted
between 40 and 50 German fighters,
bombers and transport planes on
Guernsey Airdrome and that he
scored a direct hit on one big trans
port.
Three waves of bombers swept
down on +he island airdrome dur
ing the night and dropped heavy
and incendiary bombs which dam
aged the landing field and started
fires around the hangars, it said.
When the crews left they reported
the ground was “studded with leap
ing red flames.”
At Le Poulmic, a British bomber
dropped bombs “in a line which
started among a dozen medium
sized flying boats lying alongside
jetties and ending on a group of
large hangars,” the bulletin added.
Threat Seen Averted.
The price British defenses have
exacted from the Nazi air raiders
was credited by military observers
with having turned aside any im
mediate threat of a German at
tempt to storm this island citadel
either by sea or air.
The Britons said the reported de
struction of 60 German planes
Thursday—about one in seven of
the 400 raiders in the great battle
ever the English Channel—was
“just a taste" of the medicine they
are prepared to give invaders. The
British losses were listed at 16. The
Germans maintained, however, they
lost only 10 planes, against 37 Brit
ish craft.
By the end of September, a
protective mantle of fog should
envelop the island and keep it
shrouded through the long winter
of short days and shorter sunshine.
If an attempted blitzkrieg is not
launched before then, observers
predicted, it will never come, for
when favorable weather returns in
the spring the British are de
termined to seize the advantage.
"We're not afraid Hitler will try
to invade us,” one officer com
mented. ‘‘Were afraid he won't.”
British Power Increasing.
No longer haunted by expecta
tion of a direct German assault at
any moment now that this perilous
week has passed, the British are
increasingly aware of the mush
rooming power of their own forces
itching for a chance to take the
offensive.
This week was one of the most
favorable for sea-borne invasion
because of high tides which would
have carried Nazi troop barges
farthest up British beaches.
Now, as far as Britain is con
<See LONDON7Page A-8.)
Democratic Ads Held
Obtained Before Hatch Act
By tre Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Aug. 10 — Oliver A.
Quayle, jr., treasurer of the Dem
ocratic National Committee, said
today in a formal statement that all
advertising to appear in the ‘‘Dem
ocratic Book of 1940” was obtained
before new provisions of the Hatch
Act became law.
“The Democratic National Com
mittee never has or does not in
tend now, to sell it to any one, at
any price,” the statement said.
Quayle said the . committee
planned to send the book, “which
is to be the handbook for this year’s
election campaign,” to State and
county organizations for redistribu
tion.
He said the price, 25 cents, would
appear on each book, “so that any
State or local organization which
might be permitted by their own
laws to sell such a book, cannot
charge more than 25 cents, which
covers the cost of handling and post
age.”
(The Hatch law, signed by
President Roosevelt August 2,
forbids the purchase of “any
goods, commodities or articles
of any kind or description”
where the proceeds directly or
Indirectly "inure to the benefit
of or for any candidate for an
elective Federal office.”)
Radio Programs, Page F-5
Complete Index, Page A-2
► ..~.. .'
Advance Through Wastelands
Harassed by R. A. F. Bombers
Kenya Troops Take Ethiopian Town;
Egyptian-Libyan Border Calm
B.v the Associated Press.
CAIRO, Egypt, Aug. 10.—Strong
Italian armored columns, harassed
almost continuously from the air,
advanced through hot wastelands
today on the main British positions
in British Somaliland and stepped
up the tempo of the desert war by
fiercely bombing the protectorate of
Aden.
The British—still apparently de
pending upon the impersonal ma
lignancy of the desert to cut down
many of the invaders as always it
has done—were active mainly with
their aviation.
One successful British ground ac
tion—a counterattack which pushed
the Italians out of Korindil. on the
border of Kenya Colony and Ethi
opia—was reported, however. Brit
ish headquarters at Nairobi, Kenya
Colony, announced they had taken
over the village on the shadowy
frontier after ‘‘slight opposition” and
without suffering casualties.
Military circles said the action, a
typical minor border episode, should
not be interpreted as foreshadowing
a British invasion of Ethiopia.
British military headquarters told
of heavily bombing the marching
Italians as they wound through
Karrin Pass just east of the Italian
occupied town of Hargeisa; of raids
on the harbor at Tobruk, Libya, in
which one Italian Vessel was set
afire and others damaged; of suc
cessful attacks on gun emplace
(See CAIRO, Page A-5.) —
Hess Warns Britain
Time Has Come to
Smash Empire
No Peace Possible Until
England Is Beaten,
Nazi Leader Says
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Aug. 10.—Rudolf Hess,
Adolf Hitler's deputy for Nazi party
affairs, declared tonight that the
German nation was convinced that
"the moment now is at‘hand to
break England's power even to the
ruination of her entire empire."
Speaking in Viennj Concert Hall
at a ceremony marking the succes
sion of a new Nazi district leader,
Hess said Germany would “fight
for the peace which the ruling Eng
lish plutocratic clique derisively re
jected when the Fuehrer once more
offered it to England after England’s
aides and accomplices were defeated.
“Never in history was a more gen
erous offer made to a land which is
in the worst situation since its be
ginning.”
Moment Finally at Hand.
The animosity of the German peo
ple toward England, he said, was
“boundless.”
"All of us,” Hess went on, "know
how widespread among our people is
the conviction that there can be no
peace in the world until England
definitely has been struck down.
"Now, when all means of power of
Germany and her ally, Italy, can be
concentrated on England, the na
tion is saying that the moment is
at hand finally to make a clean
sweep—to break England's power,
even to the ruination of the entire
empire.”
No Doubt of Outcome.
Germany and Italy were so su
perior to Britain, he asserted, that
“there can't be the slightest doubt”
about the outcome of the battl?
England daily had been experienc
ing “tiny foretastes” of what is in
store for her, he added, “and car?
has been taken that all doubts will
be removed in England whether the
Fuehrer's offer (to halt the war)
sprang from weakness."
Hess pictured constantly increas
ing numbers of German U-boats and
airplanes against decreasing British
shipping tonnage and a sinking
British armaments industry.
“The harder our blow becomes, the
nearer we approach peace,” he con
cluded.
U. S. Photographer Freed
But Loses Film in Mexico
By the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, Aug. 10,-Mal
colm Bissell, ?5-year-old free-lance
photographer from Los Angeles,
Calif., was questioned for two hours
today when he went to the Interior
Department offices to obtain a cam
era taken from him yesterday by
officials of a German school.
Mr. Bissell said two school officiils
set upon him when he photographed
children parading and “giving the
Nazi salute.” School officials cenied
such a salute was given and said
the daily parade was part of a flag
ceremony required by Mexican law.
Interior Department officials said
that Mr. Bissell was not detained,
but was questioned simply because
the department wished to keep in
formed of activities of all foreigners
in Mexico.
Mr. Bissell said ne was berated
for “causing trouble,” and was
warned to “leave that school alone.
His camera was returned undam
aged, but without the film, which he
said the German Legation removed.
Italian-Albanian Clash
Reported in Belgrade
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. Aug. 11 (Sunday).—
Exchange Telegraph, British news
agency, reported early today a se
rious clash between Italian troops
and Albanians near the Yugoslav
border, in which the Italians suf
fered 100 casualties.
The dispatch, dated from Belgrade,
Yugoslavia, said the Italians, who
were attempting to mobilize certain
classes of Albanians, burned the
villages of Mamsat, Skorma and
Orrof.
It said the revolt was spreading
to the Makl district.
Roosevelt Expects
Full Production of
Arms by Late Fall
Inspects New England
Arsenals and Navy Yards;
Pleased With Strides
By the Associated Press.
| BOSTON, Aug. 10.—President
Roosevelt asserted today that "we
are really getting into our stride"
on the $10,000,000,000 defense pro
gram.
He told reporters that fact was
| demonstrated on his inspection dur
ing the day of the Portsmouth iN.
H.) and Boston Navy Yards and
the Army Arsenal at Watertown,
Mass.
At an informal conference out
side the administration building at
Watertown, the Chief Executive
was asked whether he was satis
fied with what he had seen on the
tour of vital New England defense
projects.
"Very much, very much,” he re
plied. "Things are going along
awfully well. I’m very well pleased
with all I saw today, and it shows
we are really getting into ’ our
stride.
Hopes for Full Production Soon.
‘‘I hope by late fall all the Navy
! yards and Army arsenals will be at
full production. The cheapest way
to produce war materials is to run
at full production.’’
Starting out early this morning
for a personal look at defense .n
stallations, Mr. Roosevelt had seen
work under way on submarines at
Portsmouth; destroyer and airplane
tender construction at Boston, and
the processing of steel into big guns
at Watertown.
Before driving back from Water
town to the Boston Navy yard to
board his yacht Potomac and spend
Sunday at sea, the President said
he was glad to know the arsenal
was operating at about 75 per cent
of capacity and that the Navy yards
"also are working pretty near to ca
pacity.”
Asked About Willkie Statement.
He shunted aside a question
whether any persons had approached
Wendell L. Willkie about a rap
prochement on foreign policy.
Newsmen wanted to know whether
the President had seen a statement
~<See ROOSEVELT, PageA-ll7)
British Submarine Odin
Lost, Admiralty Admits
Bs the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 10.—The Admiralty
announced tonight that the subma
rine Odin, Lt. Comdr K. M. Woods,
W'as overdue and presumed lost.
This was the twelfth acknowledged
British submarine loss since the
war began.
The Odin, a big ocean-going sub
marine of 1,475 tons surface dis
placement, was the first of six of
its class, built in 1928. It was 283Vi
feet long, carried a normal comple
ment of 50 men and was equipped
with eight 21-inch torpedo tubes
and a 4-inch deck gun.
Wheeler Urges
Public Vote on
Conscription
Military Men Say
Majority of Recruits
Are Under 21
By ROBERT BRUSKIN.
A challenge for submission of the
conscription issue to popular vote
was made yesterday by Senator
Wheeler. Democrat, of Montana, as
War Department and National
Guard bureau officials disclosed that
the majority of recruits now being
obtained have not yet reached voting
age.
The leader of opposition to the
Burke-Wadsworth compulsory mili
tary training bill told reporters he
believed popular sentiment was
against conscription and that pro
ponents should be willing to test
their views in the November general
election.
Senator Wheeler declared that if
advocates of the bill "feel that it is
necessary to have the draft to save
democracy, as they have repeatedly
said, they ought to be willing to
submit the question to the people
because that would be the demo
cratic way to ascertain the public
viewpoint.'*
Advocates of the measure immedi
ately pointed out that it would
merely serve to delay conscription
until after the elections, as con
templated by the substitute bill of
fered by Senator Maloney, Demo
crat. of Connecticut. The draft
would become effective January 1
if insufficient volunteers were not
obtained under one-year enlist
ments. Senator Wheeler had de
clared he would support the alter
nate bill if no other method was
found for defeating conscription.
Volunteers Are 18 to 21.
Ignored politically and not even
considered eligible for conscription
under the Burke-Wadsworth bill,
youths of 18 to 21, meanwhile, have
provided more than 75 per cent of
recruits In the regular force. An
Army officer declared the average
age of all volunteers since recruit
ment began for the enlarged force
has been 21’4 years. Enlistments
totaled 31.958 in July, largest in the
Army's peacetime history.
A National Guard Bureau official
said more than 85 per cent of cn- j
listed men in the State forces were
under 21, and many units have a
waiting list ready to fill vacancies
expected when married men with
dependents resign. The House is ex
pected to give its approval this week
to the measure which would author
ize President Roosevelt to order out
the National Guard and Army Re
serve components. The bill has
been passed by the Senate.
17.000 Expected to Resign.
Youths between 18 and 21 may
enlist in the National Guard with
out consent of parents, except in a
few States where stautes require
consent. Approximately 17.000 of
the National Guard's 242,708 are ex
pected to resign when their units 1
are ordered to active duty and, the
officer said, but little trouble is ex
pected in replacing them. He point
ed out that boys from 18 to 21 are
more apt to find desirable a year of
duty in the Army, and if necessary,
the National Guard could tap this
backlog of manpower in increasing
its strength to 320.000, sufficient to
bring it to full peacetime organiza
tion.
Should conscription be delayed
and the need for<more men become
pressing, he saw no hindrance to re
cruiting the Guard to its war
strength of approximately 475,000
and inducting them into Federal
service immediately. Present olans
are to induct approximately 55,000
by September 1. The remainder will
follow as facilities become available.
It is expected that all units will re
~ (See CONSCRIPTION, Page A-3J
British Discredit Photo
Of 5 Falling Nazi Planes
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 10.—A number of
queries from the public regarding a
picture printed in British newspa
pers purporting to show five German
airplanes falling simultaneously In
flames prompted the Air Ministry
tonight to issue this communique:
"The Air Ministry desires it to be
known that a photograph published
yesterday and today which appeared
to show five enemy aircraft falling
in flames in line together during
Thursday’s attack on a Channel
convey was not an official photo
graph.
"No such incident was reported
by our pilots who took part in the
engagement.”
D. C. Winner Makes Fast Time
In Soap Box Derby Trial
Bill Jennings Will Compete for
National Title in Akron Today
By GEORGE HADDOCK,
Star Staff Correspondent.
AKRON, Ohio, Aug. 10.—Encour
aged by a fast trial run today, Bill
Jennings, Washington’s 1940 Soap
Box Derby champion, was waiting
impatiently for the start of the
seventh annual all-American Soap
Box Derby.
Bill drove “Stuff,” his low-slung
white racer, down the specially con
structed track less than two hours
after he had landed at the Akron
airport. He was timed unofficially
at 26.8 seconds for the 1,000-foot
distance, one of the fastest of the
afternoon.
The real test comes tomorrow,
when he and the champions from
129 other cities will compete In
elimination heats for the national
title and the first prize of a four
year college scholarship. The races
are scheduled to start at 2 pm.,
after a parade and the opening
ceremonies.
Ever tinea Bill arrived in Akron
i he has beta kept busy and his sc
tivity will continue unabated until
the champions’ banquet tomorrow
night. „ He received his first glimpse
of Derby Downs when the P. C. A.
plane from Washington circled the
track before landing. The airplane
ride was almost as big a thrill to
the Washington champion as the
race, for it was his first flight.
Derby Director Zeb T. Hamilton,
who drove to Akron, was at the
airport to welcome him.
As soon as he was registered at
Derby headquarters in the May
flower Hotel Bill was issued racing
jerseys and an overseas cap.
Then he was rushed out to the
track, where most of the other
champions were assembled waiting
their turns for trial runs. Bill
found his car in the huge inspec
tion tent at the top of the hill
and after he had checked it over
with the pit service men he was
ready to try out the hill.
Each boy ran down the hill alone
in the tryout* and Derby enthusiacti
(Bee SOAP BOX, Page A-13.)
/just A Minute,Young ftiLow."\
lyifHAT YOU GOT UNDER YOUR ARM?)
'"LookTOkea^N
Bad actor,officer)
If He Gets a Ticket, Who's Going to Be the Ticket Fixer?
Three U. S. Diplomats
Return From Europe
On Liner Excalibur
Biddle, Phillips and
Gordon Adhere to
Rule About Silence
(Picture on Page AS.)
By fhe Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Aur. 10—Three
United States diplomats returned
from Europe today, by way of Ber
muda, aboard the American export
liner Excalibur, with 126 other \
passengers, many of whom displayed
autographs given them by the Duke
and Duchess of Windsor.
The three, Anthony Drexel Biddle, |
Ambassador to Poland; William '
Phillips, Ambassador to Italy, and
George Gordon, Minister to the
Netherlands, adhered strictly to the i
State Department rule against un- I
authorized interviews. . i
To all questions concerning condi- |
tions abroad, they had a polite “no
comment.”
Mr. Biddle said he had been
called to Washington for consulta
tion and would go there immediate
ly. Mr. Phillips said he planned to
report to the State Department
early next week.
Mr. Biddle and Mr. Gordon were
accompanied by their wives, and !
Mr. Phillips by his daughter Be- j
atrice.
Pleased by Bermuda Stop.
Most of the passengers—only 33 of
whom were American citizens—ex
pressed pleasure at the unscheduled
stop at Bermuda, where the Duke ■
and Duchess of Windsor disem
barked, but the stop caused a few
to miss. planned connections here
with a boat to South America.
Passengers and crew alike had
stories to tell of the royal couple’s
trip from Lisbon to Bermuda.
The principal item listed by the
crew was the fact that the Duchess
had the twin beds of her compar
atively small bedroom made up with
pink bedsheets.
As soon as they got on the boat,
the sheets were placed on the twin
beds in the tiny main cabin of their
suite—a room measuring only 9
by 16 feet, said Steward Aurelio
Gonzales, who served the titled
couple.
The Windsors ignored two ad
joining bedrooms and spent much
of their time in the little main
room, which reporters found was
almost a glorified bathroom, with
shower and wash basin.
The Windsors ate “next to noth
ing,” the stewards said, having only
toast and tea for breakfast, and,
.for dinner one night, only one
sausage and a baked potato apiece.
The Duke limited himself to one
Scotch highball a day, which he
mixed himself.
He always called the Dutchess
“Dear,” and she signed her name,
on the ship’s records and for auto
graph hunters, as “Wally Windsor.”
Irritated By Mail Seizure.
The Duke was considerably irri
tated. crew members said, when
British authorities in Bermuda
seized 132 bags of American mail
on the ship for inspection, but did
not make any formal protest.
The Excalibur's captain, S. N.
Groves, said the Windsors spent
much time on the bridge, where
other passengers were not allowed.
"I could talk sailor language to
the Duke,” Capt. Groves said. “He’s
a real sailor. He didn’t seem to
know much about his new post and
hardly ever said anything about it.
“Both of them seemed mast im
pressed by the informality on the
boat. The Duke would take their
three dogs walking on deck every
day and when he went back by the
fo’c’sle, the crew yelled things like.
‘H’ya, Duke—how ya doin’,’ and he
seemed to enjoy it.
"The Duchess said she was look
ing forward anxiously to visiting the
United States again, that she hadn’t
been there in eight years and that
it was high time she did."
Three Die After Blast
BAKERSFIELD, Calif., Aug 10
(fl(—Three men died today of
bums and other injuries suffered
in an explosion which destroyed
an oil company waste incinerator
west of Bakersfield last night.
They were E. L. Rogers, 43, the
company’s plant superintendent,
and Lynn S. Graves, 33, and
k Charles V. Coulson, 38.
Storm Warnings Hoisted
From Hatteras to Georgia
By th» Afsociated Press.
JACKSONVILLE. Fla., Aug. 10.—
Northeast storm warnings were or
dered hoisted tonight from Cape
Hatteras to Savannah, Ga., as a
tropical storm which had been al
most stationary in the Atlantic for
24 hours began moving in a north
westerly direction.
The Weather Bureau said the
storm would cause strong east and
northeast winds from Hatteras to
Charleston, S. C„ and strong north
east and north winds from Charles
ton to Savannah late tonight, reach
ing gale force Sunday.
The disturbance will cause high
tides along the Carolina coast.
The 7 p.m. position of the storm
was given as 250 miles east north
east of Jacksonville and the bureau
said it was moving slowly north
ward.
Congressional Party
Campaign Managers
Indorse D. C. Vote
Brown, Townsend and
Differ Among Those Who
Support Legislation
farther support for the Sumners
resolution providing for a constitu
tional amendment empowering Con
gress to grant the District national
representation was pledged yester
day by Congressional Campaign
Committee officials of both parties.
The plea for support of the reso
lution was contained in the personal
indorsements of the plan by four
campaign group officials in both
House and Senate. They are: Sen
ator Brown of Michigan, chairman
of the Democratic senatorial group;
Senator Townsend of Delaware,
chairman of the Republican group;
Capt. Victor Harding, executive
secretary of the House Democratic
Committee, and Representative J.
Will Ditter of Pennsylvania, chair
man of the House Republican Com
mittee.
Brown Pushing Measure.
Senator Brown was a member
of the Platform Committee at the
Chicago Democratic convention
which adopted the District suffrage
plank, and he helped get it in the
platform.
“I am glad to contribute my
influence in indorsing the Sumners
resolution,” he said. “I have always
felt that this question should be
decided by the people themselves
who reside here and I am con
vinced they now are eager for
elected representation in the law
making body and to vote for Presi
dent and Vice President. I feel that
all Democratic members of Con
gress should vote for adoption of
the resolution for a constitutional
amendment, and should oe active
in their home States to have it ap
proved by the State Legislature—to
carry out the party declaration in
the platform.”
Senator Townsend wired The Star
yesterday from his home in Shelby
ville, Del., announcing his co-opera
tion in the effort to get the Sumners
resolution passed before adjourn
ment. He said:
•'I am glad to support national
representation for the District of
Columbia.”
Representative Patrick H. Drewry
of Virginia, chairman of the Dem
(SeeREPRESENTATION, Pg.A-12.)
Hoover andLandon
Expected to Pledge
Aid to Willkie
Republican Candidate
Continues to Work
On Acceptance Speech
Bv J. A. O'LEARY,
Star Staff Correspondent.
COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.,
Aug. 10.—Former President Hoover
and All M. Landon are expected
, to pledge support and active aid
to Wendell L. Willkie in his battle
against a Roosevelt third term when
! they visit the Republican nominee
| during the next few days.
Meanwhile, Mr. Willkie spent
today going over a virtually com
pleted draft of the acceptance
speech, in which he will reveal for
the first time his interpretation of
the Republican platform.
That speech, to be delivered Sat
urday to a huge crowd in his home
town, Elwood. Ind., will be the first
major turning point in the race
because in it he undoubtedly will
speak out for the first time since
his nomination on most of the de
cisive issues created during nearly
eight New Deal years.
To date, he has assured the farm
ers he will not disturb the admin
istration’s farm program unless a
better one can be found. He has
become a champion of the Hatch
clean politics act and has hammered
away at the backing given the
Roosevelt third term by big city
Democratic machines. He Also has
advocated decentralization^ of in
dustry, especially in building for
national defense.
Stand on Issues Awaited.
Prior to his nomination at Phila
delphia Mr. Willkie likewise had
declared himself unequivocally for
all aid short of war to the democ
racies against dictatorships.
But at Elwood next Saturday the
country will be waiting to hear him
deal more specifically, not only with
that outstanding question of for
eign policy, but also with such
major domestic issues as:
Where he stands on compulsory
military training: on work relief and
the unemployment problem; on so
cial security and labor legislation:
. (See WILLKIE. Page A-12.)
Annapolis Man Drowns
On South River Outing
Special Dispatch to The Star.
ANNAPOLIS. Md„ Aug. 10 —Her
bert Tucker, 29, of Annapolis, was
drowned In the South River this
afternoon while swimming a short
distance off the county wharves at
Riva, near here.
He was the son of Norman Tuck
er, Anne Arundel County road fore
man.
The young man was swimming
with a group of friends when he dis
appeared beneath the surface, wit
nesses said. Several other swim
mers sought to recover the body
without success. Eight brothers of
the Congregation of the Sacred
Heart, near Annapolis, led by the
Rev. Father Edward Collens, found
the body by diving and grappling
from boats.
The West Annapolis rescue squad
was unable to revive Mr. Tucker.
Dr. John M. Clafley, county medical
examiner, pronounced him dead
and issued a certificate of accidental
death.
Windsors to Hear Churchman
Who Tore Up Wedding Pictures
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Bj the Associated Press.
HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 10.—
The Duke and Duchess of Windsor
are going to churcn tomorrow to
hear a sermon by Bishop Arthur
Heber Browne—the man who once
angrily tore up pictures of their
wedding, but later apologized.
Members of the Governor's house
hold will accompany the royal couple
to Bermuda Cathedral for the
services.
The picture-tearing episode was in
January, 1938, when British opinion
was sharply divided over the Duke’s
renunciation of the throne, and his
marriage to the former Wallis Simp
son, American-born divorcee.
Bishop Browne, head of the Angli
can Church in Bermuda, walked Into
the office of the Roval Gazette and
Colonist, a newspaper, ripped pic
tures of the couple from its walls and
took them away with him.
Subsequently the bishop said the
pictures had been burned. He of
fered an apology to the newspaper,
asking that he not be criticized too
severely for an act done in a fit
of temper.
Bishop Browne would not com
ment on the worship tomorrow ex
cept to say that he would conduct
the service “as usual.”
The Duchess went shopping today
for reed porch furniture and some
glass hurricane globes for candles.
She bought several American news
papers at the drugstore.
The Duke inspected a Canadian
regiment on war duty here.
School Budget
Of $18,346,369
Asked for 1942
$5,561,477 Fund
Requested for New
Buildings and Sites
$
A 1942 public school budget total
ing $18,546,369 yesterday was sub
mitted to the Commissioners by the
Board of Education, accompanied by
a letter from Mrs. Henry Grattan
Doyle, board president, emphasizing
the need ffcr replacement of "anti
quated, unsanitary buildings.”
The estimates exceed the 1941
appropriation by more than $5,500 -
000 but are well under the board's
request of $19,105,517 last year.
Supt. of Schools Frank W. Ballou
described the budget as contemplat
ing meeting to some extent the ac
cumulated needs of the last decade
rather than plans for the future.
Pointing to reductions in school es
timates since 1930. he said the un
met needs will continue to accumu
late in volume and urgency unless
the appropriations are sufficient.
Largest increase in the new budget
is the item for new schools and land
purchase, which is $5,561,477, com
pared with the present year's $811,
000.
Nine New Schools Asked.
In her letter of transmittal Mrs.
Doyle said it is “unfortunate that,
through lack of appropriations,
many of our children must of ne
cessity spend several years, in school
buildings that are a disgrace to the
Nation’s Capital.” She said that
“splendid teaching” is being done
in “dingy surroundings” and em
phasized that better facilities would
promote better health and better use
of leisure time.
"I wish particularly to emphasize.”
she said, “the need for replacement
of antiquated, unsanitary buildings.”
Nine new schools, including a new
Abbot Vocational, are asked for,
along with funds for additions to
seven existing structures and plans
for eight other schools and additions.
Completion of the Anaeostia Junior
High School and the addition to the
Syphax School are called for: also
the finishing of six rooms at Wood
row Wilson High School and the
second floor of the Lafayette School.
Most of the new schools sought are
elementary achools.
Money for 21 new sites—some for
future use and some for immediate
construction use—is asked.
143 New Teachers Sought.
More than 250 new positions are
requested, including 143 new teach
I ers. 18 officers. 35 clerks, 40 cus
j todians and a number of other part
time posts.
As the result of a survey which
found the lighting in some of the
older buildings below standard, a
$29,000 item is requested to improve
lighting.
Request also is made for $38
353 to establish science laboratories
at Armstrong and Dunbar Senior
High Schools and at Deal, Eliot and
Stuart Junior High Schools.
An item appearing for the first
time would give 19 school officials
an allowance of $22.50 each a
month for driving their owm cars
on official business. Another item
of $1,000 would cover their expenses
out of town on official business.
Despite the fact that education of
the shut-in children was placed for
the coming school year under the
Board of Public Welfare, the school
officers, who always have, felt it an
educational rather than a welfare
matter, again have asked for $24.
000 to handle this project during th°
1942 fiscal year. This would pay 16
teachers.
Music Item Included.
Despite previous rebuffs, the
school chiefs again asked for $7,540
to purchase musical instruments. A
survey of school musical organiza
tions has shown some unbalanced
due to the heavy expense of larger
instruments. In some cases these
have been donated by pa rent
teacher groups, but the schools are
anxious to staft a five-year pro
gram to build up a supply of some
instruments such a tubas.
The sum of $16,000 is sought for
an unde, pass between Powell Junior
High School and the Johnson Build
ing under Hiatt place N.W.
Civic spokesmen and others will
have an opportunity to testify on
the budget estimates before the
Commissioners August 26 and 27.
Last year the Commissioners cut
some $5,000,000 from the school
budget—principally in construction
items. This will be the first budget
to go to Congress under the new
Budget Bureau policy under which
the bureau will no longer concern
Itself with city administrative de
tail except when national interests
are in danger. Thus the burden of
making the city budget from these
and the estimates of the other de
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Water Gate Concert
OnWRC
Another half-hour broadcast in
the “Sunset Symphony” series will
be presented over WRC at 9:30
tonight, featuring music by the Na
tional Symphony Orchestra.
Tonight’s program will be under
the direction of Charles O'Connell.
The guest soloist will be Helen
Traubel.
By all means attend the concert
if you can. The music and the
setting at the Water Gate provide
a combination that is exceedingly
worth while. If you cannot attend,
tune in WRC at 9:30 p.m.
In arranging these broadcasts
The Star and the National Broad
casting Company are co-operating
with the Summer Concerts Com
mittee of the Symphony Orchestra
in its effort to further appreciation
and support of the orchestra in its
contribution to the musical life of
Washington.
Tickets for the 'concerts may be
obtained at the Water Gate tonight.
In case of inclement weather
special announcement* regarding
the concert will be made over
WRC and WMAL.