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UQQIA ljAS GOOD CHAALCE OF S UCCESS

. S. Leaders it impression rum Roosevelt

‘esident appears eerful and confident fter conference with ritain's Churchill.

By William B. Ardery ‘minted Press Stuff Writer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 —(AP) m» s 90-minute conference p, President Roosevelt, congres- .. leaders reported today they q gained the impression that ... has a real chance of hold- . out indefinitely against the .. military machine and that resistance probably will mil any German attempt, to rule Britain this year. while asking not to be quoted . name, one o! those present said . President appeared to be cheer- . and confident following his re- l conversations at sea with .. Minister Churchill. Democratic leader Alben Barkley the Senate told reporters: that - President gave the congression- group the iull picture of his I with Mr. Churchill and dis- the advisability of an addi- ... appropriation for the lend- . program. senator Tom Connolly (Dem.- s). chairman oi the foreign re- iions committee and another oi

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is positions ll Libya bombed

ALEXANDRIA, Aug. 18 —(AP)— "- American airplanes, pilots oi - British Mediterranean fleet ted today at axis positions in ~'= dropping a steady stream of ilzll explosive and incendiary limbs on supply bases, troop con- Iiliffliions and ports in s series of blstal raids. Nil/Y planes also attacked every ills convoy warship they could slJoi blunder axis attempt-s to rein- " Libya. The axis-held ports oi

liillia end Tripoli were lumbed wily,

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14 for Notices in this column

However, it was considered im. portant also for its effect in neu- tralizing any move that the Vichy government might make to turn over Dakar, French West Africa, or Casablanca, Morocco. to Germany for naval and air bases. It was not- ed that the White House an- nouncement said "the importance of this line o! communication be- .tween our country and strategic outposts in Africa. cannot be over- estimated."

Under agreements concluded with the Pan American Airways System, the White House said, the ferry system and a companion transport service would “provide direct and speedy delivery of air. craft from the ‘arsenal of demos. racy’ to a critical point in the front against aggression."

Pan American will ferry the planes from the United States to West Africa and thence to the Middle East, also establishing an air transport service from West Africa to the Middle East. It plans to arrange e. similar transport ser- vice to West Africa.

“Planes owned by the United states government will be used by

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Three German Patrol vessel's Sunk by R.A.F.

32 German Towns and Cities felt British blows in July.

LONDON. Aug. 18—(CP)--Royal Air‘ Force bombers and fighters

8 cents per word.

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ranging over the channel and northern France today sank three German patrol boats off the Neth- erlands coast. blasted industrial targets at Lille and strafed Nazi troops and an alrdrorue in Britan- ny, the air ministry 8110911119"! w‘ night.

These big scale assaults were fol- lowed up tonight with an attack by layer upon layer of R- A- 1"- raiders against other German-held bases in France. The nirht Iii-HW- ers returned home an hour alter swinging out across the channel.

Losses during the day were even. it was announced, with the RAJ“-

gconecthuTomf-‘Tuesdny! anal orig the Nazis losing three fighters

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all. Borden Grfigill-IB-gftli. pJuly statistics, now complete, in- dicate that the R. A. E's offend-lilo

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mite Cream and Dance in Green. Bvhool Thursday. August ant. b476-8-19-1i.

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Inventor, Soldier, Newspaperman dies

DUBLIN, n. n. Aus- 16 4A?)- Juper wlutlns. Ii. inventor. lol- dlcr and newspapermsn, died todly at. his home after s long illness.

Whiting ldevised l. lfllllilfl’ 0! producing Portland cement from waste products in i089 and in 1007 he invented the wnltlns w" for the manufacture of chlorine gas and caustic sodl. ingredient! Mid in manufacturing 1m?"- "9 W" l war correspondent for the London, England, Westminster Gazette dur- | in‘ the Boner Bebellhl l0 180i

Will Ferry ' Warplanes To‘ West Africa

Is far-reachinést-ep to block any Axis attempt on Dakar.

(B! J. C. Stark, Associated Preu Stuff Writer) GQHYASHINGTQN. Mll- 15—(AP)—1n n fanrcuching step to offset nny MIMI.“ m°'°_'~° "c"!!! Dakar and to strengthen British forces in the

5 Edit. rresldent Roosevelt announced plans today to ferry alr- planes directly to West Africa and on to the Middle Eastern front The White House announcement, which ulckly followed the Prel- ldent’: return from his historic sea ounferonceg with 1mm, Mgmnu Churchill, described the new service us "an important step to mood delivery of lvllnes direct to the Middle um."

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BTMITSF: Injured in New York fire

NEW YORK. Aug. 18 -(AP) -—-.

At least five men died and more than 50 were injured today in a raging Brooklyn waterfront fire vl-Iiich swept with accompanying explosions through the 8,150-ton Cuba mail line cargo ship Panuco, destroying the ship, its $600,000 cargo and the B75-ioct long pier where the vessel was moored.

Unofficial estimates placed the total damage at $1,500,000.

Twelve members o! the crew were reported missing tonight by the line. The New York dock company, owner of the destroyed pier, said its reports indicated that nine per- sons had been killed, and coast guard officials said they would not be surprised ii that many died.

Fire still roared inside the vessel as night fell and police commis- sioner Lewis A. Valentine express- ed fear that the bodies of several other crewmen would be found when the ship cooled sufficiently to allow an examination.

Firemen said she probably could not be boarded for days.

The federal bureau of investiga-

, tion. the police department's bomb

and sabotage squad and the Kings county district attorney's office in- vmtigated the possibility of sabo- tage, but the dock company said there were “absolutely no indica- tions oi sabotage." Shipping circles discounted reports that munitions were anywhere near the fire. Them were unconfirmed reports that some members of the crew and

some stevedores were trapped in the ‘

hold,

One steverlore, Joe Wilde. said "a lot of men were trapped below decks. I don't see how they could have gotten out."

K. 0f F. Delegates Meet at Moneton

MONCTON. N. 8.. Aug. 18-(CP) —Delegu.t.es to the 55th annual meeting of the Grand Dodge. Knights of Pythitls, Maritime D0- msin, and the 25th annual meet- ing oi the Grand Temple. Pythian sisters, were entertained at an in. formal dance in the K of P nsll this evening. Both Grand Lodge and Grand Temple sessions begin tomorrow. Today was giWfi over tn registration.

Newsman Tells Of Voyage

big welcome from

convoy; No enemy craft or planes sighted.

B’ g gpgdfl pendent 0f IOU" tern New! ANN!

WITH ‘PHI.’ ROYAL NAVY A- BOARD A BRITISH DISTROYEB Aug. 18-(0?) — The bettleshil) Prince of wslcs near-ins Prime Minister Winston Churchill has reached s borne port, ending the war leader's remarkable round-trip journey across the Atlrlittc to meet President Roosevelt.

lxcorted by destrgers of the Royal Navy and the Royal Canad- ian Navy the battleship broke her homcward voyage to allow Mr. Churchill to nay e day's visit to Iceland when he tool: the salute at s march-past of British and American troops stationed there.

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Shurehill Returns; May Speak today

IDNDON. Aug. 1i! —- (Tuesday) - (OP) — Prime Minister Chur- chill was reported reliably today to have called s. meeting of the War Cabinet for a first hand ac- count of his secret discussions with President Roosevelt.

He was speeding to Landon on a special train after his arrival in Britain on the battleship Prince oi Wales. several members oi the War Cabinet prepared to greet him at the station and accompany him to i0 Downing street for the cabinet session.

Arrangements were being made for Mr. Churchill to broadcast at the earliest opportunity. Brenden Bracken, Minister oi Information, met the Prime Minister at the

port to discuss plans for the speech. The Prime Minister returned.

smiling and waving his hat to the cheering people, while there were indications that Britain, in co-op- eration with soviet Russia. was planning some strong move in Iran (Persia) to halt alleged German infiltration on that route to In- dia. It was thought possible that his address would deal with that along with many other subjects, As to his unprecedented trip to

lsea, it was revealed the Prime Min-

lster had inspected British and A- merlcan troops in Iceland on his

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Canadian ships Escort Ghurehill

LONDON. Aug. 18 —(CP) -Can- adlan destroyers played a big part in escorting Prime Minister Churchill to and from his Atlantic rendezvous with President Roose- velt, it was revealed here today.

When the Prime Minister return- ed to a British port today, Can- adian destroyers were among the escort craft and when the two statesmen conferred on the Atlan- tic, the Canadian ships helped to guard the British battleship Prince of Wales.

Steady pounding At Nazi cities ls expanding

LONDON, Aug. 1H -(CP) - The steady battering of Berlin and a dozen other German cities by co- ordinated raids oi the British and Russian air forces is expanding with the lengthening nights and the costly attrition oi Nazi fighter strength.

Royal Air F‘orce sources said to- day that coordination so far had been relatively simple. ‘They em- phasized the difficulties and dan- gers in an exchange of detailed plans between air staffs.

it is believed, however, that the aerial executives of London and Moscow keep each other informed as to targets and the extent of raids.

London sources said there was no possibility that withdrawal of So- viet forces along the central and southern fronts in Russian had limited the scope of the Red Air Force attacks.

The Red army bombers used in those nocturnal thrusts against the Reich are believed to be besecl in an ares in the rear of lenlngrad, from where they fly southwestward over the Baltic.

Taking the shortest overland route from the sea. the round trip when they raid Berlin is probably about 1.250 miles.

RECOGNIZE ITREMEN

WALTSANIBTOW -—(CP) -lusi- dents of premises damaged by fire sent Mo. to the Walthsrnstow Fire Brigade in recognition of their services.

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News Briefs

MOSCOW. Aug. Iii-Cluel- dfly- AP)-A number o! Io 511d lllh explosive bomb; were scattered over Moscow last night durin an air attack in which an of iciul announcement said only one raider got through 1110 _oity’s defences. Damage W" " ’ as insignificant.

RIO DE JANEIRO. Aug. l8- (APi-Pan-Amerlcan Airways a: Brazil announced tonight one or "5 Diaries due at Sao Paulo this afternoon was missing with a crew olf four and nine passengers, 1n- cluding Prof. Philip (l, Jessup, or New York, internationally-known lawyer and lecturer.

MELBOURNE, Aug. lB-(AP) —Wharf laborers at Brisbane Willy refused to load a cargo of wool aboard the Japanese liner Klshima Maru when the vessel docked here, and shouted "no wool for Japan." lONDON- Aug. l8—(OP)—'I'he Ministry oi Agriculture announced that Britain now is producing its entire sugar ration.

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two-malted auxiliary , the Leona. Maguire, owned by Capt. John Maguire of Borden and chartered to take I. load of uy smite from Bor- den to Souris, foundcred yester- day morning at. ti o'clock just. inside the breakwater It Wood Islands two hours after strik- ing n shoal off Indian Beck about three miles from where the striking occurred.

The craft was commanded by Captain Dan Ferguson and the cargo was being carried for the Federal Department of Public Works. '.l‘he cargo was loaded at Borden and was be- lng carried to Souris. The ship was formerly the Nellie J. Banks.

Captain Ferguson and his three man crew attempted to beach the vessel after she struck the reef in s stiff breeze tearing the rudder casing off. The crew reached shore after taking to e. small boat.

Travellers to Wood 1811M! yesterday stated that the sail! ‘and mast of the schooner were visible with some of the cases of dynamite also being in evi- dence around the shore.

Possibility of salvage attempts are being discussed.

Interpreting The War News

B Edward E. Burner Assoc nted Press Staff Writer

The Geranan capture of Nik- olaev and the encincleanent of Odessa mean that the Nazis are a bit closer to controllin the Black Sea. If they can canin- ate that body of water, they will be s bit nearer their - jective of setting up s block- Ede-proof "new order" in

urope.

While the Gemlan press hails the occupation of the iron ore region as a shattering blow to Russia. official Berlin is pru- sumably under no illusions that access to the Ukraine's riches can fit tine Belch economic- ally until some time after the Black Sea is opened to Axis tankers and ‘othm-‘cargo ships,

Of immediate 1m rtulce therefore is the degree which the Soviet naval forces have been weakened by loss of the Nikolaev base. That has not yet been disclosed-

Transportation is a bottleneck in the effort to create n. Nul- dominated. self-sufficient nur- oge. Water routes. which include t e ‘Ioo-mile-long Black Sea, a- long with. the Danube, canals,

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Gossip put British Premier's Life in danger

LONDON, Aul. 19 — (Tuesday) - (OP) - The Daily Herald's nu, vsl correspondent. A. J. Mcwhin. nie, said today that gossip "390. pardized the ilfe of the premier" while he travelled on the Prince oi Wales.

‘They succeed rightly that he had gone to America," he wrote; "they guessed wrongly that, 11s went by bomber.

"Then somehow the story that he was travelling in the Prince of Wales began to get about.

"People who know the war at sea from first hand experience re- membered ships sunk within sight

land, Their memories went back to 10rd Kitchener, lost in the cruiser Hampshire off the Orkneys in 1916.

"I do not doubt that Hitler knew the man he hates most was cross- ing the Atlantic. And who can doubt that he ordered his U-boats and long-range bombers to sink the Prince of Wales at all costs?”

(A BBC announcer in a broad- cast heard in New York by CBS said:—

("The Germans knew of the meeting, of course. Let's admit it. It is rumored that they even sent , out the Tirpitz-a new 35,000-t0n Nazi battleship-to scout about looking for Churchill.

("if this is true llle Tirpltz mot with no success and perhaps the hunter will now become the hunt- ed and the Tlrpitz will itself share the fate of her sister ship, the Bis- marckf’)

Cuba Stops Pro-Axis Propaganda activity

HAVANA, Aug. l8—(P)—Ool. Manuel Benita, 80-year-old Havana police chief. says he has nipped pro-Axis espionage and propaganade activity in Cuba. one it had a chance to get a real foothold.

A counter-espionage bureau cre- ated by the young police chief has reported the arrest oi drmerls of persons on charges of espionage, and the seizure of many bales of pro-Axis propaganda.

"We keep close tab on Nazi- Fascist activities," said Col. Ben- iiez, "How well the job is done is demonstrated by the lack of active propaganda now. But the Germans and Italians are our chief problem --it is the Spanish Falangei (Cuba has a large spanish colony.) But we watch the Faiange closely."

Believes Japs Will stop short 0f entering war

VICTORIA. Aug. l8 — (GP) ._ MaJ..Gen. Arthur E. Grasett, who for the past. two and a half years has been in command of British forces in China said in an inter- view today he lieves Japan will not go to war with Great Britain or the United States. He arrived here with Mrs. Graset from Hong Kong.

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ing raging elsewhere along th This retreat before Lenin

lond city, came within a day

port, and Krivoi Rog, i1'on c southern front.

In the Baltic Sea the Russians‘ reported the sinking of a German l submarine and two enemy trans-l ports by torpedo boats of the Red l fleet and in Saturday's air fighting ; reported the destruction of 22 Ger- i man planes with a loss of l8 So- viet aircraft.

Lost battalions of Russian troops encircled by German plncers move- merits were reporting iightiris Niel!‘ way back toward Red firm)’ “"95 in the face of persistent Nazi at- tempts to destroy them.

Pravda, the newspaper of the communist party. 101d 0i the iighti behind the German front and s d that soviet mobile forces were being sent deep into the Ger- man lines in raids to check the Nazi offensive.

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Payroll additions l Top all records “

QIITAWA, Aug. 1B _(OP) -—Oan- ndlan employers vrero re-POYW‘! 1°‘ day by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics to have added 77.500 em- ployees to their payrolls in tho period between May 1 and June 1. toppling all previous records in an advance which was fegfllllm 95 N‘ fleeting a new all-time high lri lil- dustrlal activity.

Returns from 12,536 estbblilh-

merits showed 1,528,834 OmDlOYQQI st Juno l compared with 1.451.323 s; May 1, an increase of 17,500 or 5.3 per cent. Tile bureau said the increase was seasonal in character but "decided- ly above" the average increase re- corded at June 1 since records were started in 19,20.

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bitter fight; Heavy fight-

ing along entire front.

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fenders. lwrd~put at both ends of their bending western, ffflill, have abandoned the town of Kingiscpp on the north-

ns within 75 miles of Lenin-

grad, ‘the Russians announced early today. Klnglsepp ls southwest of the former capital of the

Peipus, just inside the prov-

ince of Leningrad from the Estonian frontier. The Soviet information bureau said the town was giv-

reportcd similar heavy fight- c entire sprawling front.

grad, the Soviet Union's sec- of the announcement of the

abandonment 0f Nikoiaev, big Black Sea naval and grain

entre in the Ukraine on the

S. - Jap Relations in GriticaLstage

TOKYO, Aug. l9 -(Tuesda.y) w‘ rAPl- The American ambassador, Joseph (i. Grew, conferred for hours with foreign minister Tcijiro Toy- oda on matters of utmost import- ance last evening amid Japanese charges that the United States was inciting Russia against Japan.

The million-strong Soviet far eastern army we: reliably reported to be mobilized and lmtioned along the Biberian border (where persis- tent reports from the Orient say Japan likewise has massed many WOODS-l

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The Maritime Provines reported staffs totalling 115,291 compared with 101,620 lire previous month, a lbii-per-cent gain.