Evening Star Newspaper, August 12, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; slightly warmer tomorrow; moderate east shift- ‘From Press to Home ing to southeast winds. today—Highest, 84, at 72, at 1:30 am. From the United Stal Full details on Page A-2 Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 14. s Weather Bureau report. Temperatures 2 pm.; lowest, 88th YEAR. No. 35,167. Che WASHINGTON, D. C, Nazis Blast Portsmouth Base; Armada of 200 Planes Is Sent Against Southern England Port Berlin Sets Britain's Air Losses for Day At 71Machines B the Associated Press. BERLIN, Aug 12 —Germany turned swarms of swift fighting planes and bombers loose against England today in a prolonged attack | which bore evidence that it was the | precursor of the long-expected gen- eral assault on the island kingdom Bent on destroying Britain's ship- ping and harbor facilities and de- moralizing her people, the Nazi air raiders swept over the coast. sending loads of bombs on an armed convoy of merchant ships off Margate and hammering away at the historic naval base of Ports- mouth. The official German news agency DNB, declared the invaders started huge fires at Portsmouth and de- stroyed an airport at Manston. Dorsetshire, almost directly north of Weymouth and Portland. where the German attacks centered Sunday. New Losses Reported Hourly. Hour by hour, DNB said, news of | fresh British losses poured in from the fighting forces. The Nazi air- men, the agency said, nad cowed the British fighter crews. Destruction of 71 British planes, with only 17 German planes miss- | ing. was reported by DNB. official Germans news agency. Earlier a DNB summary had said 40 British planes were shot down over Ports- mouth and 7 others wrecked at Manston, 3 in the air and 4 on the ground. This raised the British losses for. two days to 164. DNB said. com- pared to only 44 German planes lost. One of the British planes shot down, according to the Germans, was a Curtiss fighter. This was cne of the few times that American- made planes have been reported ghot down in aerial dogfights over England The Germans, here. were under orders to con- duct a “free chase.” which they interpreted as to go wnere and when they pleased in pursuit of the British. Only a change in the weather vesterday made the Germans break off their fierce attacks on Britain, the Nazis said today. Today, the Germans asserted. the British were reluctant to engage in eerial combat. Seen Prelude io Offensive. “Their pursuit planes opened fire at long range, then withdrew,” re- ported DNB, adding that German planes then went to work on Ports- mouth and Weymouth, firing tanks and bomnbing the harbors and ship- vards and diving low to attack con- s it was reported. s the battle progressed it ap- peared to be taking the shape ex- pected by military observers as the prelude to the general attack. The high command, however, gave no hint that the moment had come for the drive. So far the wave on wave of bombers which distinguished the power attacks against defense posi- tions on the west front have not yet developed against any English port or point in the interior. In .the attack on shipping off Margate, DNB said, four British merchant vessels totaling 10,000 tons were sunk by dive bombers. With the attack on Portsmouth, base for the British home fleet on the southern coast and several im- | portant naval schools, the Germans also launched an attack on ship- ping off Margate, the German radio said. In this attack, German dive bombers sank four merchantmen of about 16,000 tons. Huge Fires Reported. DNB, describing the Portsmou(hl raid, said about 40 planes took part, flving from the south over Spit- head and dividing into three groups just before they reached the big naval base. The first group, DNB said, bombed & munitions and mine depot, the second hurled its load of explosives at the docks and ways, while the third attacked a big oil tank vard. “Fires breaking out reached a size which German flyers until now (See BERLIN, Page A-4.) Cudahy on Clipper Flying From Lisbon B the Associated Press LISBON, Aug. 12.—John Cudahy, United States Ambassador to Bele gium, who was reprimanded last week by Undersecretary of State Welles for his comments on the gituation in Belgium, left for the United States by clipper today. Also on board the plane was Orme Wilson, American consul at Brussels | It was learned that Mr. Cudahy saw Foreign Minister Lord Halifax. Minister of Aircraft Production Lord Beaverbrook and Hugh Dalton, Minister of Economic Warfare, while in London and that he told friends | none took exception to his published remarks. Japan;e‘s;Hint at Use Of Indo-China as Base By the Associated Press. SHANGHAL Aug. 12—A Japanese | military sportsman declined today to deny reports that Japan is con- templating movement of her troops | to | through French Indo-China strike at China. Asked if he could deny reports that the Japanese would drive through Indo-China into Yunnan Province, the spokesman replied: “I cannot say they won'ts They may or they may not.” Earlier, at a press conference. the spokesman ridiculed the offer of the Chinese central government at Chunking to protect Indo-China against Japanese forces “if they ad- vance from Indo-China,” asserting that China’s warfare had been re- duced to “retreats and defeats.” southern, it declared, | & French Report Loss Of 306 Planes, Set Nazi Total at 982 Rx the Assoctated Press. VICHY, France, Aug. 12— French air force flyers shot down 982 German planes be- tween May 10 and June 10, los- ing only 306 planes themselves in spite of 5-to-1 Nazi odds, the Under Secretary for Air an- nounced today. *“The 306 French planes which were lost were manned by 589 aviators, but whether all this number was killed is yet un- &nown,” the announcement said. Greeks Supplying Oil To British Warships, |Ifalians Charge Slaying of Albanian Touches Off Bitter Rome Press Attack BY the Associated Press. ROME. Aug. 12—Italy turned her propaganda guns ominously on ‘Greece today, charging the Greeks with supplying oil to British war- ships and planes and conniving with the British in “plots” along the bor- . der of Italian-conquered Albania. The reported beheading of an ob- | scure Albanian minority leader by | Greek border raiders touched off a violent press campaign reminiscent |of those by Germany against Czecho-Slovakia and Poland. Britain was brought into the pic- ture by the newspaper Il Popolo di Roma, which is close to the govern- ! ment, with a charge that British warships and warplanes operating in the Mediterranean against Italy were fueling at Greek bases. Greece, neutral friend of Britain, | received a pre-war British guarantee of her territory. At the time this guarantee was given, II Popolo di Roma said today, the Greeks “spoke openly of the future Greek kingdom | of Epirus, which would have em- | braced Albania.” Oil Reported Stored. | “Some circles wonder,” the news- | paper commented, “if the neutrality of Greece as practiced by the Me- taxas government is moré neutrality in form than substance, considering that British agents dre not pre- vented from carrying out their ac- tion at the Albania frontier.” “Also, 200 well-supplied bases of Shell (British controlled o¢il com- pany) placed above and below the ground during the past two years at strategic points on the Greek | coast and islands appear to be used ever more by English air and naval forces operating in | Mediterranean.” | The Italian charges against Greece are the first to disturb relations be- | tween the two countries since the outbreak of the European war when both, declaring good will toward each other, withdrew their troops from the Albanian frontier. This had eased the tension re- sulting from Greek fear of the Ital- ians at the time of the Fascist an- nexation of Albania in April, 1939. Charge Not Confirmed. A high Fascist source said that Il Popolo di Roma's charges thus far had not been officially confirmed, | but that if the English were found to be using Greek bases “Italy will go after them.” “Whoever touches Albania touches Italy,” one authoritative Fascist said in commenting on the reported “assassination” of Haut Hoggia, an Albanian nationalist leader, by Greeks on Albanian soil near the Greek frontier. This source said Italy probably (See GREECE, Page A-4) | e “Aerial R. F. D.’ Opened For 81 Communifies By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 12—A postman-on-wings took off from Philadelphia Airport today as a permanent “aerial R. F. D.” was inaugurated. Departure of the plane opened | pickup and delivery airmail service | to 81 communities in Pennsylvania, | New York, West Virginia and Dela- | ware, after a year of experimental runs. A ceremony at the Municipal Air- port was one of five scheduled for the day at five terminal cities. | Flights were planned over routes extending between Pittsburgh, Har- risburg and Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Huntington, W. Va, and Pitts- burgh and Jamestown, N. Y. ¥ At points of call, a hook on a 65« foot cable attached to the plane is provided to catch mailbags hung from 40-foot poles. The planes drop incoming mail. the Eastern | 18 Raiders Shot Down In Mass Attacks, London Reports | Br the Associated Press. LONDON, Aug. 12.—At least 18 German planes were shot down today as waves of Nazi bombers blasted at the southern coasts of | England, the authoritative Press | Association said tonight. North of one coast town there was a terrific rumble like steady thunder for several minutes during the fourth big raid of the day. As it died away a formation of * high, heading for home. Almost at the same time two smaller raid- ing planes came racing out of the !sun and heavily machine-gunned the harbor and barrage balloons. British fighters, roaring out over the English Channel, prevented all but 55 of 200 German planes from reaching a southern port as more massed waves of Nazi raiders kept up a two-day, wholesale offensive. Messerschmitts Shot Down. Four Messerschmitts were sent formation and turned others back. Those that reached the undi closed objectives were met with very heavy gunfire. (Although British censorship kept secret the German target, there were strong indications that it was Portsmouth, English Channel shipping and naval base. A big air attack on Ports- mouth was announced in Ber- lin. (Portsmouth is east of Port- land, where, the British ad- mitted, German raiders inflicted some damage yestetday and | where the German high com- mand reported staggering de- struction to port facilities and shipping.) More Raiders Arriving. By early afternoon, at least 14— possibly 16—German planes had | been reported shot down, with the | raiders still roaring in along the | coast in apparently growing num- bers. The 55 planes which reached their | objectives remained 15 minutes. | dropping incendiary bombs which set fire to some buildings. A number of shop windows were blown out and it was understood there were a few casualties. An early afternoon attack on an- other Southeast town was the heaviest so far there. Two Nazi waves—one of 21 bomb- ers and the other of 15, protected by fighters—wheeled out of the sun from the cover of clouds. “I saw about 20 Junkers 88s roar- ing down,” one eyewitness said. “Five of them were destroyed. Twelve Nazis Bail Out. “Anti-aircraft guns put up a ter- rific fire and one bomber had its tail shot off. It dived straight behind some houses. “About 12 Germans bailed out of this and other planes.” All 12 Nazi flyers who leaped from their falling planes were said to have been quickly captured by police and townspeople At first the raids were a repetition of the flerce German assaults yes- terday on the Channel coast, but England, and the Air Ministry said “later reports show that large-scale activity is taking place over a wide area in the Channel and Thames Estuary.” 1t said there had been a few cas- ualties, only one of them fatal. In a raid on another Scutheast town, a nurses’ home, a parish church hali and many houses were damaged by dive-bombers which got through a heavy anti-aircraft bar- rege. Three fires broke out, one de- stroying the nurses’ home. down in flames and another also anti-aircraft shells. The new British bag was in addi- tion to the Nazi planes shot down yesterday in one of the greatest air battles of the war. Official reports said 60 and unofficial reports said 69 German planes were destroyed. Southwest Coast Raid Center. Again the center of the German storm appeared to be the South Coast—directly across the English Channel nearest German bases. An Associated Press correspondent at Pover—only three minutes by dive-bomber from France—reported two raids within two hours on a southeastern town. One of the sharpest engagements in today’s southeast battle was fought at 12,000 feet—more than 2 miles up. Two German planes were seen to break away from the rest and. as they dived, a British Spitfire “sat” on the tail of one of them. The raider banked, then looped quickly, trying to shake off the Spit- fire, but the R. A. F. pilot looped with it and got home several bursts of machine-gun fire. Apparently hit, the German plane (See LONDON, Page A-5.) Flynn Says Will In Threatening Ev the Associated Press. NEW YORK. Aug. 12.—Edward J. Flynn, chairman-elect of the Demo- cratic National Committee, said to- day that Wendell L. Willkie was | “perfectly safe” in threatening to | prosecute advertisers in the Demo- cratic campaign book “as long as that huge ‘if’ is in the way.” He referred to Mr. Willkie's state- ment that such prosecutions would take place if the Republican nomi- nee is clected President, In a statement referring to Presi- dent Roosevelt's opponent as “ ‘Straw kie Is ‘Safe’ Prosecution Boss Willkie’ of the utility interests,” Mr. Flynn said: “It 50 happens that the advertis- | ing contracts to which he refers were all entered into long before the Hatch bill, which he invokes, became a law. No advertisements are now, or will be solicited. * * * “hTere newer was any intention of placing the book on sale. It will go to 100,000 or more Democratic speakers and workers like any other campaign book.” Mr. Flynn also called attention to (See WILLKIE. Page A-2.) 15 German planes was seen flying | spinning into the sea and the Royal | Air Force fighters broke up the Nazi | they spread as far as Northeast Two planes were seen to come was believed to have been hit by | Foenit ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Norris Expects Dictators Will Fight Selves Conscription Foe Admits They Will Come to U.S., However By ROBERT BRUSKIN. | European dictators eventually will | war against each other as the num- | ber of countries open to conquest | diminishes, Senator Norris, inde- pendent, of Nebraska, said today in opposing the Burke-Wadsworth conscription bill as unnecessary to the defense of the United States.! | He also said the measure would “lead | inevitably” to dictatorship in the | | United States. ! The Senate began its sedond day of debate on the conscription issue shortly after the House Military Af- fairs Committee postponed until the afternoon a vote on the measure to authorize the President to order out the National Guard and Officers’| Reserve Corp. The committee con- | sidered the bill this morning but postponed action to study debt- moratorium provisions submitted by the War Department Senator Norris, who opposed American entry into the World War and ho is a leader of the Senate bi-partisan bloc opposing conscrij tion, acknowledged that “eventually the dictators “must come to us, I concede that.” Sees Navy as Bulwark. “Every one wants to conquer the United States,” Senator Norris con- tinued, but first they must conquer our air force and Navy. They can't | land a single soldier until they sink | our Navy. “What's Hitler doing now? With 22 miles of water, he can't get over to England. I predict that many | | hundreds of thousands of Hitler's soldiers will be at the bottom of the | sea before he succeeds. if ever.” { He declared it ‘“preposterous” that any fears should be engen- | | dered of invasion of the United | States. Hitler, Stalin and Mussolini, he | said, “dream of the time when they shall rule the world." “How can any one of them at- tain that dream of world conquest unless he eliminates the other two?” he asked. Sees Jealousies Now. He declared the dictators already are “suspicious and jealous of each | | other now” and were getting ready | “to fight each other.” J | Eventually, he added. each dicta- | tor must “cross the path of another dictator’ and when that happens \;1. ere will be a brighter day for | de jocracy.” Senator Wheeler, Montana, leader of the opposition bloc, pointed to a dispatch from | London appearing in The Sunday Star declaring “We're not afraid | Hitler will try the invasion; were afraid he won't.” This, Senator Wheeler declared. showed how difficult the invasion | of the British Isles would be and | how much more difficult invasion of the United States is. Senator Barkley, leader of the| conscription advocates, declared, however, that the comparison is misleading since the United States fleet is scattered in two oceans while, he added, the British forces | are concentrated in a small area to | prevent invasion. Drawn up by Brig. Gen. William | E. Shedd, assistant Army chief of staff in charge of personnel, the debt moretorium proposal in con- nection with the guard bill would | have the effect of leaving to courts to decide whether debts of soldiers should continue to be unpaid while they are in service. The Senate, in approving the Guard bill by a vote of 71 to 7 last | Thursday, added an amendment | offered by Senator Overton, Demo- crat, of Louisiana, which made the Civil Relief Act of 1918 an integral part of the measure, 4 The amendment, however. struck out paragraphs relating to the pay- ment of insurance premiums and payraents on the purchase of public lands. Provisions of Plan. ‘The substitute drawn by Gen. Shedd provided that the Govern- ment may pay the premiums for the period of active duty and the soldier must repay them within a year after his discharge. It also restored the section relating to public lands payments, as well as | bringing a 1918 act up to date. Representatives pointed out that the amendment would be the basic law for all future calls upon men for duty, including conscription. As | an example of its effect they said that if a civilian purchased an antomobile on time payments and was unable to continue payments because he had been ordered to duty as a soldier, the finance com- pany could not repossess the car, but would be forced into court for (See CONSCRIPTION, Page A-6.) Democrat, of Tokio APoIice Bar March On British Embassy By the Associated Press. TOKIO, Aug. 12.—Police prevented a march on the British Embassy to- day after 3,000 persons held an anti- British mass meeting beneath Ger- man, Italian and Japanese flags. The meeting, sponsored by the Municipal Council, adopted resolu- tions demanding withdrawal of the British from the Far East and fa- voring strengthening of Japanese relations with the Rome-Berlin axis. Hundreds of police surrounded the meeting hall, cleared adjacent streets and threw a cordon around the nearby Imperial Hotel, to fore- stall any incidents involving for- eigners. One anti-British resolution, ad- dressed to British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie, accused Brit- ain of being “the arch enemy of the development of East Asia.” Another urged “a show of Japanese spirit by offering Britain before the altar of the sacred crusade.” 4 MONDAY, AUGUST 12, { "By the Associated Press. | use up his precious supplies of foud, o Star 1940 —THIRTY-TWO PAGES. DOESNT ReALLY LIKE FISHIN'! % % % % | Ve / =xxC}) =7 - = Greenbelt Will Be Leased Or Sold by Government Soon Rent Schedule and Standard for Selecting Tenants Would Be Kept By JOHN D. LEONARD. The Federal Government will give up details of its administration of Greenbelt, Md., as well as that of its two other model communities. Greenhills and Greendale, within a short time, it was learned today. | It is understood that officials from each of the three communities have recently been in conference with Agriculture Department officials who are working out plans for the change Convinced that the communities have attained the desired degree of self-sufficiency, the department | hopes to turn over administrative | details to individual housing au- thorities, or “incorporated resident | associations,” depending on the na- ture of the laws of the State in which the community is located and the desire of the residents of the community. It was explained that in counties of certain States pro- vision for establishment of housing authorities has not been made. Under the plan. the Agriculture | Department either would lease or sell the communities to the housing authorities or incorporated resident associations. It also was under- stood that the Government would receive an annual rent from the Housing Authority or association if the community was rented on a lease. If a community were sold. 1t is understood that the Government would take a mortgage to be paid in installments. In any case. the an- nual rent or mortgage payments would be obtained from individual tenant rents. It also was understood that these housing authorities or associations would approve their communities budget and also would be respon- sible for working out a tax program with State and county authorities. When the new plan goes in effect it is expected the Federal Govern- ment will reserve the right to in- spect the communities’ budgets to (See GREENBELT, Page A-6) Reinforcements Sent | To Somaliland Port As Italians Advance Convoys Reach Berbera Without Interference, British Report CAIRO, Aug. 12—Reinforcements newly arrived from far-flung parts of the British Empire were reported | today digging in around the im- | portant seaport of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden for a stand against Italian columns advancing across burning Somaliland wastes under | harassing aerial attacks. Arrival of the reinforcements was disclosed by British officials in deny- | ing Italian claims that Somaliland amendment empowering Congress | they virtually had been cut off from over- | seas help. Convoys laden with troops nnd; munitions are steaming regularly | through the Red Sea, the British | said, unchallenged by Italian naval forces. British minimized gains by Italian | land forces, said to be within 60 or 70 miles of Berbera after captur- ing the passes of Karrin and Goda- jere. Advancing Italians Bombed. A statement issued by general headquarters said the British aim is not “to defend every inch of soil in Somaliland, but to make the enemy petrol and ammunition which he cannot replenish.” British aircraft, which have oeen playing an important part in the Somaliland defense plans, were re- ported yesterday to have attacked advancing Italian forces again, scat- tering troop concentrations in Kar- rin Pass and silencing anti-aircraft batteries. Two other bombing attacks were (See CAIRO, Page A-4) Sumners Resolution Backed by Mrs. 0'Day| And Tinkham Influential Members Of House Join Ranks For Representation Representative Caroline O'Day of New York, chairman of the House Committee on Election of Presi- dent, Vice President and Repre- sentatives in Congress. and Repre- sentative Tinkham of Massachu- setts, ranking Republican on the same committee, joined today in strongly indorsing the Sumners reso- lution providing a constitutional to grant national representation to residents of the District of Co- lumbia. Both have studied carefully the plight of the voteless residents of the National Capital and their pledge of co-operation to put the Sumners resolution through the House is significant because their committee deals with just what the District people are seeking—to vote for President and Vice President and to elect their own representa- tives in Congress. Today Chairman Sumners of the House Judiciary Committee was completing his arrangements to ap- pear tomorrow before the Rules Committee asking a special rule for early action in the House on his national representation resolution. He is to be accompanied at the hear- ing by Representative Guyer of Kansas, ranking Republican on the House Judiciary Committee and Chairman Randolph of the House District Committee. Hope was expressed | (See REPRESENTATION, Page A-3.) | Summary of Today’s Star Page. . .- B-14 Serial Story A-12 Society______ B-3 Sports.. A-10-12 Woman's Pg. B-10 ments___ Comics. B-14-15 Editorials- A-8 Finance. Lost, Found B-11 Foreign British reinforce Somaliland port garrison. Page A-1 Germans raid naval base at Ports- mouth. Page A-1 200 Nazi bombers blast at British port. Page A-1 Greeks secretly aiding British, Rome declares, Page A-1 National Barkley proposes annual registration of men 21 to 45. Page A-1 Doctors and serum rushed to flooded “area in Louisiana. Page A-3 Bendix plant on normal schedule as labor dispute ends. Page B-5 Washington and Vicinity D. C. man among four Maryland drewning victims. Page B-1 A .| Dozen arrested in Montgomery County beer cleanup. Fage B-1 Editorial and Comment This and That. Answers to Questions. Letters to The Star. David Lawrence. Alsop and Kintner. Robert J. Casey. Jack Stinnett. Jay Franklin. Sports Indians, Tigers oper <eries tied for league lead. Page A-10 Conn may be onl* >n-money bet against Pastor. Page A-10 Horseshoe flingers vie tonight for Metro honors. Page A-11 Riggs outthinks rivals to retain ten- nis crown. Page A-12 Miscellany Nature's Children. Bedtime Story. Letter-Out. ‘Winning Contract. Uncle Ray’s Corner. Cross-Word Puzzle. A "’ A-8 A-8 A-8 A-9 A-9 A-9 A-9 A-9 Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page B-11 Page B-14 Page B-14 Page B-14 Page B-15 Page B-15 today by | House Minority Leader Martin that | President Inspects \Big Naval Defense {Acfivilies at Newport Visits Training Station, Torpedo Factory and Other Vital Points B: the Associated Press. NEWPORT. R. 1., Aug. 12.—Presi- dent Roosevelt inspected a vital de- fense area today and paused in the shadow of the frigate Constitution to say that the Newport training staticn once more would become one of the Navy's main training centers and that work at the torpedo plant was weil up to schedule. He said his visit carried him back to 1917 when he was Assistant Sec- retary of the Navy and the training station was turned into one of the Navy's biggest. The same thing is | being done again now in an excel- lent way, he asserted. He had watched a regiment of 2,100 recruits | step out in & snappy review. And. earlier, he had seen work under way |on big. destructive torpedoes. The | main thing, he said, is to keep the torpedo station rurining at maximum | capacity. Favors Commissioning Old Ship. | Lt. John Davis, U. 8. N., retired. presented Mr. Roosevelt a polished piece of oak timber from the Con- stellation, now 143 years old, and | expressed a hope that the ship would be placed formally in commission. | Calling over his naval aide, Capt Daniel J. Callaghan, Mr. Roosevelt | said Lt. Davis had made an excellent request and asked that Capt. Cal- laghan make a note of it. Asked whether he had caught any fish yesterday. Mr. Roosevelt said he got lots, then added that he had | not been fishing officially, but had prompted Secretary Knox and Sen- ator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa- | chusetts, who pulled in a few little | mackerel. Stopping first at the torpedo plant—one of the world's largest— | | on Goat Island. the Chief Executive | completed his inspection in a | matter of minutes, pausing to look | at two 11;-ton torpedoes. In an aside, a gob whispered that spent all night polishing The noses of the tor- | pedoes— called “fish” in naval par- | lance—were painted yellow to show they were “duds” and not loaded. Mr. Roosevelt watched two me-| chanics make adjustments and listened attentively while Capt. Thomas Withers. in command of the station, explained the mechanism. The presidential yacht Potomac had nosed out of an early morning fog and tied up at a pier at the torpedo station. | Met by Governor. | | Mr. Roosevelt was met by Gov. | William _ Vanderbilt and Senator Green, Democrat, of Rhode Island, then was piped over the side of the yacht. He stood at attention while a marine bugler and drummer sounded the traditional four ruffies | as required by naval regulations ! and etiquet. | Gov. Vanderbilt, Senator Green {and Capt. Withers rode around the | |island in the presidential car, past | ground already broken for new con- | struction. There are 4.200 employes at the " (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-5) One Saved, One Missing In Navy Plane Crash By the Associated Press. CAPE MAY, N. J, Aug. 12—-A United States Navy plane today burst into flames 4 miles offshore, its rescued Naval Reserve pilot said, and plunged into the Atlantic Ocean as he and his companion bailed out. The other man was missing. Lt. C. E. Rieben, jr., 32, of Harris- burg, Pa., was quoted by Irwin Yost, Coast Guardsman, who rescued him aboard a picket boat, as saying he .and W. C. Sayers of Philadelphia, Naval Reserve first-class seaman, had been flying a half hour when | the accident occurred. “There was a sudden explosion and we were surrounded by burning gasoline as we bailed out,” Yost quoted Lt. Rieben. The pilot received burns and was treated at the naval air base hospital here. Six planes and Coast Guard boats searched for Sayers off nearby ‘Wildwood, where the crash occurred. Two other planes were with Lt. Rieber's craft in maneuvers. The Reserve units arrived August 3 for aerial gunnery training. Within the Hour’ Most people in Washington have Th# Star delivered to their homes every evening and Sunday morning. () Means Associated Press. THREE Hurricane Over, Heavy Damage Is Reported Two Known Dead; Coast Towns Near Charleston Vacated By the Assoristed Press CHARLESTON, 8. C., Aug. 12—A tropical hurricane, smashing along the Atlantic Coast from Savannah, Ga.. to Georgetown. S. C., brought death to at least two persons. wrecked property, flooded highw: and left historic Charleston par- tially covered with water, which in low sections reached a record height of 12.7 feet The two known dead were resi- dents of Savannah Although it will be some time be- fore the full extent of the damage can be estimated, news of wrecked homes and buildings went out of the city today. Earlier this morning Charleston had been without ail means of communication with the outside world The storm blew itself out across Georgia and South Carolina and the United States Weather Bureau at Atlanta said this morning that all danger from high winds had passed Heavy rains continued, however. Most of the residents at vacation resorts along the Carolina coast rushed inland after being warned by the State Highway Patrol and Coast Guard of the hurricane’s approach A group of amateur radio opera- tors, who had given bits of informa- tion out of stricken Charleston dur- ing the night, said at 3 am. that they were being forced to abandon their station by water waist-deep in the power house They reported in a broadcast over short-wave station 4CUS that six persons were drowned at nearbv Folly Beach when their automobile plunged off a flooded highway. This report could not be con- firmed today. Four to Six Feet of Water. CENTS. A number of persons in Charles- ton, they said. were hurt by flving debris when the storm reached a maximum velocity of 76 miles an hour, and that about one-third of the city of 75.000 population was under 4 to 6 feet of water. “It looked like the whole ocean rose up and came into town,” one of them said. A 68-mile wind. the worst to strike in more than 50 vears. buf- feted Savannah. to the South. bring- ing death to at least twe persons and causing widespread damage. Annie Wade, colored, was Kkilled on a street by flying glass. Jesse Wallace. an industrial plant of- ficer, died of a heart attack when a tree crashed into his house. Trees were uprooted, windows smashed and automobiles damaged by [fall- ing timbers. A blinding rain ac- companied the blow and ; -ces of tin roofs were blown about the city in general confusion Communication lines failed at noon yesterday in Charleston and electric power went off. Parts of the city were strewn with debris and tin roofs. Large trees were uprooted. Hundreds of cars stalled on the streets. Barometer Begins Rising. The Charleston Weather Bureau reported the storm reached its full intensity about 2:30 pm The wind reached a velocity of 76 miies per hour then. The wind began diminishing and the parometer be- gan rising about 4 p.m. The high tide swept the lower section of Charleston, especially along the historic Battery. Scores of residents vacated flooded homes. The lowest barometer reading was 29.66 inches (The Navy Department early today re-established contact with the Marine base at Parris Island by radio and received reports that there were no injuries to personnel. but that the power plant and power lines were put out of commission by the storm. (The base is manned by 3.500 marines, and first reports from the establishment said damage was minor. The Navy had been out of contact with the base since the storm struck in full force. (Naval officials also said “un- doubtedly several ships on the neutrality patrol” had been caught in the storm offshore, but that no reports had been re= ceived of damage and apparently the vessels remained at their posts during the blow.) A message from the Fort Moultrie commandant to the Army station at Fort McPherson, Ga. said the National Guard quarters there were destroyed, but “damage to the post was nominal” Civilian property suffered considerable damage, the 3 Six hundred civiliang from Sullivan’s Island and nearby regions took refuge at Fort Moul- trie, which is 10 miles from Charles- ton. ‘The long Cooper River Bridge out- side Charleston stopped charging tolls as swarms of refugees moved to the mainland from the resorts. The Red Cross announced it was sending five workers from national headquarters in Washington to as- sist in storm relief work. Gen. Charles P. Summerall, chair- man of the Charleston Red Cross, said it was impossible to estimate the homeless without a check, but that 400 were being cared for at two centers. Others were taken into private homes. The News and Courier, morning newspaper, appeared without its regular wire service news because of lack of communication with the outside world. The paper did not get a resumption of power service until shortly before midnight, while most of the historic old city re- mained plunged in inky darkness. Despite the severity of the storm, no loss of life was reported on any of the islands in the vicinity of Charleston. Chief of County Police Daniel 8. (See STORM, Page A-3.) 4