Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - August 8, 1940, Oakland, California WEATHER OAKLAND AND tonight and but over- cast night and normal moderate west Maximum 70 Minimum 55 Full U.S. Weather Fate 31 VOL. 39 EXCLUSIVE ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTO UNITED PRESS HOME EDITION 5c DAILY D Farley Quits Pens Regret President Declares Friendship Always Continue' HYDE N. Aug. A. Farley resigned as master general His to become effective August 31, was accepted by President velt in a letter in which he de- claired friendship would ways The letter was dictated shortly a scheduled conference with Secretaries Wallace and Hopkins The President said he accepted the resignation with wished Farley success in private business and praised his tration of the Postoffice of us in the the President miss you we count on seeing you I especially count on this after all of our years of close sonal Our friendship will always Among reports of Farley's future activities is one that he would head a syndicate in purchasing the New York Yankee baseball a political ally of the Chief Executive of many said in his letter of nation as postmaster dated that felt sincere regret at taking the listed of the postal and my lifetime I shall cherish associations and friendships which I have made while serving as postmaster both in the postal service and in other ments and agencies of the Federal know that it will please you to learn that I have made definite ar- rangements for my future in private SKY MYSTERY AUGUST 8, 1940 lOc SUNDAY 32 PAGES business where very I know I shall be Russia Seeking Says Welles Aug. Sumner acting secretary of indicated today the United States and Soviet Russia are ring a general improvement in their Commenting on his long ence yesterday with Soviet sador Constantine A said they discussed many Questions bearing on relations be- tween the two countries with a friendly and constructive attitude shown by both Welles declined to on Tokyo press reports that American Ambassador Joseph C. Grew had asked the Japanese to clarify position French RFC Will Finance Airplane Factories Aug. Jesse Federal Loan told the House Banking Committee today the Reconstruction Finance Corporation had agreed recently to finance construction of a new aircraft tories to cost between and 39 Hundreds Hurt in Rome Blast Aug. sions in the munitions tory near killed 39 workers and several hundred Barracks near the factory were Rosemary air says a mysterious assailant her last A.P. Beaten on Says Air Hostess Assailant Demands Key to Baggage Avers Injured Girl Aug. American Airlines officials today quoted Stewardess Rosemary Grif 24, as saying she was hit on the head by an unknown person who demanded the key to the gage compartment of a sky sleeper as the plane neared Nashville last The as given out by Paul Nashville sales manager for the said she was leaning over in the corner 01 the lounge when some man whispered into her ear the Give me the key or I will slug Then Stanley the stewardess said she was felled by a blow on the head and that as she lay on the floor she managed to swallow the An X-ray photograph showed that Miss Griffith had swallowed the small key to the ship's baggage com- She also had bruises on the head and City Sales Manager Paul Stanley of American Air Lines interviewed the girl this morning in company with attending physicians but de- to make any statement for publication or to to interview allow reporters Examination of the mail ment of the plane shewed its con- tents had not been tampered Nazis Move to Put Paris Back to Work Aug. unemployment in the Paris its lation now is only half of led German authorities today to recommend an immediate public works program and the opening of all business whether their proprietors have returned or Ten francs than 20 dally as a dole for the jobless is not they and declared the remedy depends on the French May Seize French Funds For War Debt Morgenthau Reveals Plan to Take Over Assets in This Country Aug. Secretary Morgenthau disclosed to day that the United States is eon the possibility of takin World War debt payments out frozen French funds in this country When the subject of war debt was raised at his press conferenc the Treasury chief said that befor French funds are released he want to see happens to Amer can investments and debts ove The Treasury head has many times to the possibility of ofi setting American business and othe losses in the invaded European countries against the funds of thos countries being held but for merly he had given no reply to in about World War indebted France alone owes this about from the las Asked whether the freezing regu imposed upon the funds be longing to invaded Nations and their also applied to Ger Morgenthau any amount of money cai be sent to and there ii nothing we can do about it. It's but we are at peace with Ger many and cannot do anything abou its A reporter remarked that this country also at peace with France had frozen her funds Morgenthau explained that what hi meant was that freezing orders ap only to invaded countries rather than ones at because when a country was invaded a ques tion arose whether its citizens tried to get money from this country on their own initiative or under of the He gave no estimate of the frozen which have been rumored to total several billion All the American funds of Belgium Denmark and Norway have been tied Tree Branch Crashes Into Youth Dies SAN Aug. ing oak under which 17-year-olc Robert Madrigal pitched his tenl claimed his life As he a gnarled limb crashed downward through the tent and pinned him in Friends to free He was taken to the Santa Clara County There he appeared but physicians decided to hold him for Suddenly he lapsed nto a coma and The impact of the limb had inflicted internal The accident occurred on a ranch lear 10 miles south of where the boy's D. R. is the Royal Couple Receive Indian Welcome Rite Aug. 8 g George VI and Queen Elizabeth were welcomed by Indian troops In Derbyshire today with an ancient ceremony called in which wo soldiers preferred a piece of jold and a piece of By ng the gold and silver with his right the King showed he the and by raising his land without taking he ied he remitted them to the President Bids Nation to Pray for Peace HYDE Aug. President Roosevelt has set aside September 8, as a day of when Americans of every WHERE TO FIND IT Walter People are in no mood to be coddled and cajoled with soft and political ers should address them with est candor and 18. Subject Page Plays 12 Advertising 7 Comic Strips 14 Crossword Puzzle 21 Editorial Features 18 Editorials and Columns 32 Exposition 10 Fashions 18 Financial 25 Geraldino 18 Knave 20 Marine Weather 31 Political News 15 Radio Schedules 21 Society and Clubs 19 Sports and Sportsmen 22 Wood Soanes 12 Vital Statistics 31 and denomination should ask God grant this land and to the troubled a ing A presidential dated yesterday and made public today at the President's Hudson American heritage of vidual and government deriving its power from the con- sent of the has from the time of the fathers of been proudly transmitted to each succeeding and to us of this generation has fallen the task of preserving it and transmitting it to the We are now engaged in a mighty effort to fortify that HUMBLY SYMPATHETIC of our duties in the family oi we ored to prevent the outbreak and the spread of and we have raised our voices against tional As Americans and as lovers of ire are humbly sympathetic with those who are facing tribulation in lands across the every succeeding day brings sad of suffering and disaster we are especially conscious of the divine power and of our dependence upon God's merciful this consciousness In our it is seemly we at a MUM like pray to Almighty 004 for Hto try and for the establishment of a just and permanent peace among all the of the DAY OF PRAYER Franklin D. President of the United States of do hereby set aside September 8, 1940, as a day of and I urge the people of the United of all creeds and to pray on that In their churches or at their on the high seas or wherever they may beseeching the Ruler of the universe to bless our to make us reverently grateful for our heritage and firm in its and to grant to this land and the troubled world a enduring witness I have unto get my hand and caused the of fca to be at the city of Washington 7th day of in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and D. 87 Planes Down in Channel Senate Passes Militia Bi Married Men May Quit Guard in 20 Knox Seeks to Extend Sea Service Aug. Senate passed and sent to the House today legislation empowering President Roosevelt to order the National Guard Army reserves to active military duty for a period of 12 Aug. Senate voted today to permit members of the National Guard and Army who have dependent wives or to Representative Dies Aug. 8. Representative died W. Ben G i b b s Naval Hospital t night following He wtt II TWS and torn M resign within 20 days enactment of legislation mak ing them subject to active The proposal was made Senator Pittman anc adopted by unanimous consen when Chairman Sheppard of the Senate Military Com said he had no Yesterday the chamber an amendment which would hav permitted any guardsman or re serve member to resign within 2 Under Pittman's amendment thi privilege of resigning would not b extended to men with sources of in come other than wages and salaries WOULD HOLD MEN Secretary Knox asked Congress for authority to hold future and Marine Corps enlistee men in service indefinitely tfi war or He stated the request in a lette to Speaker Bankhead of the House It was the latest move of a serie designed to strengthen the man power resources of the for any The new proposed by Knox would apply only to those men who enlisted in the naval service including the Marine afte the enactment of the ONLY FOR EMERGENCY The legislation would provide tha men so held must be dischargee within six months after end of th war or the Present law permits involuntary extension of enlistments only in ime of Naval and Marine Corps enlistments range from 2 to 1 In another communication to Con- Herbert E. acting Treasury asked legislation the secretary of the Treasury to call retired and warrant officers of the Coast Guard to active duty in times f National emergency when the oast Guard is not operating as a art of the AMENDMENT FAILS The amendment to give men and reserves 20 days after the ill's passage in which they could urn in their failed 47 to 36. It was offered by Danaher who that many men had en- sted in the belief that they would ot be called to duty their wn States unless Congress declared Administration ng the argued that the had enlisted to serve the ation in any emergency and bould not be permitted to quit at time when they were CLEAR TEST Neither the vote as a clearcut test I sentiment on the main con- h e t h e r conscription lould be ordered to supplement he militia or whether voluntary rmy enlistments should be supported As soon as the guard Is acted the Senate will take up the conscription A group of senators met yesterday in the office f Senator Norris to an for a no mise against the hope that there will be the number of aid Senator Nye one f the but he added that did at mean a NO Possibility of a Nye was not The as approved by the Senate Military Committee would require tion of all men from 21 to 30, followed by a draft for a year's The conscription probably will up In the House until the Senate has because Military Committee is going to re- open its Among the new witnesses will be General John J. an advocate of sory and Harry Page 2, Cel. t Japan Nears Indies Drive Push Reported Set To Start 48 Hours After Britain Invasion Aug. 8.-Japan was reported tonight to be hastening preparations for a lightning drive in the direction of French Indo- China and The Netherlands East Trustworthy foreign sources pre- that Japan's big southward push would be geared to Germany's blitzkrieg now tuning up for threatened invasion of the British and would start within 48 hours after the Such timing would take tage of diversion of British tion to home Britain stands as the only belligerent defender of the East Indies and of the Netherlands and If Adolf Hitler fails to 1 is believed the Japanese will pro ceed more slowly and cautiously but further efforts to extend anese influence are regarded as in- WARSHIPS Premature MOVE reports of imminent Japanese action in past weeks have seen traced to movements of ships and transports between For- mosa and islands off the southeastern and southern China likely springboards for against and the Dutch East In 126 of the Japanese 466 members adopted a urging the Government to ake available and effective measures to drive British influence rom East Gen. Issaku head of a Japanese economic was reported flying back to Trench after ion with Premier Prince maro Konoye in Tokyo for con- of economic BREATHING The prospective return of the was considered in Hanoi as a and a triumph of diplomacy over A stiffening of resistance to nese wishes appeared in the an- of a decision to reopen routes through Indo-China or Chinese One explanation in Japan was hat the Vichy with Berlin's favored putting brake on the One informant raised the that Hitler desired to pre- crve all the bargaining advantages e now in favor of an mate broader settlement with Japan embracing Batavia in the Dutch East New Colls New Aug. 8. The Government sued a proclamation today for en- of general reserve power which will be liable to com- National Minister of National Service Semple announced the first division of the will tingle men between the MCI of and are inglish Quix Aug. 8. Tyler former employee of the United and Anna were questioned by the investigating istrate in Bow Street police station today as secret were re- on charges against them under the official secrets act. After an hour and a half the court clerk said the case had been adjourned until meeting of a special court August 19. ITALY 34 B AFRICA 12 HAILS 3 Last in indicat Aug. Italian of the battle for Britain of westernmost London claime in British is the claimed 34 British step in a move by the Italians 12 ships sunk in thi join British and French with Italian Somaliland in the can offensive now under Aug. Pi high Fascist authority sources in London said today that Britain might give Offer a In British land by withdrawing her forces from desert wastes considered not worth The capture of Zeila was described officially as of great India gic Zeila was taken after a three-day march from SO miles Seeks War British announced loss of Zeila but Bombay LED BY Cool to Proposal An authoritative Fascist announced occupation of Zeila been carried out by Italian Aug. troops from Ethiopia under close to the India National mand of the Duke of indicated today that it of be impossible to cooperate Capture of this just the British war effort despite of port in French concessions by Britain toward was declared by Italians here to goal of dominion the first step in French and British Somaliland Aug. India was Italian East and equal Attainment of this goal would in the British commonwealth Italy a solid block of territory as Britain sought to unify a 2500-mile continuous coastline greatest possession of her em- the Red the Gulf of Aden for an amassing of manpower the Indian wealth against and It also would provide the latter now driving for an naval bases at Zeila into the Indian facing THAN DOMINION base at less than 200 miles across Gulf of The Italian communique today said their armored accompanied by bombing well advanced on the way to having occupied on as well as announced by L. S. British secretary of State for in the House of was authoritatively interpreted Offering an status than that of which is enjoyed by Australia and South Post-war dominion LAND for India was proposed by The Italian communique Government last nothing of land operations similar statement was made where the British by Lord said the Italians were in For an apparent offensive was expressed Egypt along the Indian insistence that the new should be framed by Destruction of four British and ready was an- bombed on the ground to after the Kenya and the of a body representing the shot down in an air fight also elements in Indian life to devise a new con- The said two out of a convoy of five being ISSUED corted by a British warship in the Mediterranean were damaged seriously by aerial invitation to Indian leaders to join the Governor Executive Council and of a war advisory council Italian would contain representatives of the Indian States also was Bate Raided by The Government statement Aug. declared its hope that Royal Air Force Issued the of Indian Nationalist communique would lead to a greater Italian East Africa of Indian wealth and marine base at was to Britain's war by bombers August 6 unstinted Indian Britain August 7. Reports indicate be in a position to assemble lils were registered on a naval manpower to smother the quay and one expansion in the All our aircraft returned and Red Sea and at another same time offer a check to a were All our aircraft Japan in the other di- Enemy fighters Malta repeating the Government's back before our could engage Page 2, Col. 6 German planes were destroyed in attacks on British convoys in the English nel the British An Ministry communique said it was confirmed that at least 53 German planes were shot and 16 British fighter pilots were missing after repeated onslaughts by the German air force at a convoy the southeast The British said one German boat was sunk and another but admitted loss of three coastal vessels and damage to several others in attacks by the Nazi shooting boats and KIEL BOMBED Britain struck at the big naval base of off the North Sea coast last dumping bombs on the dockyards and starting fires and The French port of Cherbourg also was attacked in daylight by the All lights Holtenau in on the airdrome at Northwest were put out after a salve of bombs was the Air Ministry At another airdrome near bombs were dropped on the landing The Admiralty announced that British planes destroyed a gasoline storage depot five miles south of In Bombs were dropped over other sections of apparently by lone No particular damage was The day's air activity followed night of raids on Welsh and Scottish LEAFLETS AGAIN containing from Adolf Hitler's or ultimatum were dropped In the night the Government casualties were though some women walking on a country road were seriously Damage was slight except in one town in Northeast England where sanatorium and shop erty suffered United Press dispatch MO children from homes in areas narrowly escaped death when two bombs dropped go close to the which they all windows were sanatorium in that shattered and doors blown Two hundred and fifty-eight civilians were killed and 321 injured seriously during air raids on Britain during the month of It reported today in a written answer o a House of Commons German Fliers Mint Harbors of England Aug. The man high command announced In a special bulletin today that 34 sh planes had been shot down and Continued Page I RUMANIA MUST MAKE SACRIFICE TO SAVE PEACE IN PREMIER TELLS NATION Ship Beached in Afar NSW Norwegian freighter bound lor England with a heavy was beached in the lower harbor today after a mysterious fire broke out in her engine The ship was an inferno when her crew of 34 abandoned her near West Bank Light Submarine Sunk Aug. Ad- announced tonight that the British submarine which had been operating In the considered loft Italian high amounted the of tiw write DUKE OF WINDSOR LANDS IN BERMUDA Duke and Duchess of Windsor arrived here today from en route to the Bahamas where the Duke will sume the post of The American export liner Ex- caliber on which they were tenners anchored off this port early jn the Thousands the shores and the freshly scrubbed to greet the The arrived at the jetty almost exactly at the scheduled and stepped ashore from a barge as cheers arose from the throng of about 3300 which crowded the Royal Yacht Club The Duke came ashore lowed by American born He greeted first by Maj. Kirwan Governor of then toy Haav Conference Opens on Hopes to Achieve Compromise Aug. Ion told his people today that Rumania would have to make territorial to preserve peace in southeastern opening territorial with Bulgaria at hoped to hold her neighbor's claims on the province of Dobruja to a minimum by arguing that a nent peace can be attained only on both Raoul special Rumanian delegate to expected to return today from Budapest with Hungarian for settlement of the dispute over the Romanian Province of a high authority re- ported that Hungarian Premier Count Pal Teleky informed Bossy thit Hungary would agree to ing than teuton of 7J per cent of The government mier Ion promulgated t new law splitting 7MyM into three Those who saw active service 1W and their Those in regions annexed after ttt World Those of kingdom who did not Those of the first clan now ing public office may retain hut will no new Those of the two clanes may not hold public f engage in with the public and are barred from No Jew may own those now holding men fc lorn them to the
