Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1940-08-13
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11. 1940 ~ I • ed Feller Wills I Cloudy, Warmer Iowan harls 2Mh victory of Season; Beats Tllrers 10WA-ParUsr cloal,y &oda7 aod I I See Story on Pale • I tomerrew: warmer today. --rIVe l- ' l 10 .. 0 City'. 1 ........ _ ... rre. FIVE CENTS IOWA CITY, IOWA TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1940 ~ u •• ", • r- VOLUME XL NUMBER 268 ; request 01 ) . Plass 01 star! Is • lee. ross Is eo. Irk in se It the four rs at Iowa ) will Vol. I each lot ~ nter thtir * * '* * * * * ... * • 'n ~ lors al'1! extension Corder. This Morning's News in Britain • •• ••• • • • .Aerial 'Blitzkrieg Bursts as Planes I'ur English Papel'lJ Regard Latest Air Attacks as Blitzkrieg's Beginning :udget LONDON, Aug.. 13 (Tuesday) I "We must face an assault that fairly evident that the long (AP) - The mornmk newspapers will rapidly became more intense planned offensive assault had Bomb British Isles from End ,to End 01 Britain today described Ger- . .. begun, but issued this note of y councU many's intensified all' attacks on and more Wldes.pread, declared warning: ' ~ Iht In the the channel coast as the beginning the News Chromcle. "POSsiblY' the Germans con • l'clock the 01 the "battle of Britain." "We may learn next of raids sider the raids wi II serve as a ~----------------~* * * III be pre. Headlines, news stories and ed- on our airdromes and the.n per cloak lo conceal invasion prepa Reich Claims Virtual Control Hundreds of German Bombers ~g. itlJriu1s reflected the belIef that haps of parachute landings and ra tions on the French and other British Crisis ' so be held the lull is ended and that Adolf attempted invasion. We may well occupied coasts. By launchIng Of Air Over English Channel, Carry Ferocious Assault Into 'ow for a l!lller's blitzkrieg against this be on the verge of our greatest waves of hundreds of bombers Approaching vlng pro. island has begun. testing time." with fighter escorts they hope to t,streets. "The battle of Britain is on," The Herald warned: "We must keep the RAF so busy that re Predict Inland Attack Next Misleading Reports Third Day; Telnpo Heightens declared the Express headline, be prepared for bigger raids yet, connaissance work will be neg ,nd the Mail echoed it with: and their extension to other parts lected. Of Losses Leave 'Blitzkrieg is on-RAF faces the of the country." "rn this they are un1ik~ly to Declares British Fleet Being Forced to Leave Outcome in Doubt Fragmentary Reports Indicate Hitler May Have great test." The Telegraph said it was achieve their object." Channel Bases; Portsmouth Naval Base, Unleashed His Coastal Cannon at Isles; . Thames Estuary Port Bombed By KIRKE L. SIMPSON It~ian Airmen May Be Aiding The battle of Britain is thun BERLIN, Aug. 13, (Tuesday) (AP) - Claiming virtual dering unmistaKably toward R cri LONDON, Aug, 1B, (Tuesday) (AP)-AdoJf Hitler'81ong Norris Charges 'Draft control of the air over the bomb-spJattered English channel, sis that may determine tile tale threatened aerial blitzkrieg on Britain burst into a lu}l German source predicted today that successive raids would of Engtand. throated roar of destruction today as nazi warplanes struck stab steadily inland until "not even London" would be safe )[ the outside world knew ex at every corner of England. from bomb-destruction, actly how many planes and h'ain They thus carried into the third consecutive day a feroc Hailing reports of tremendous ruin to Britain's coast de ed airmen each sid is losing, ious a sault which began with flights of 400 or more planes, \Vill Bring Dictatorship fenses and naval bas s in three days of stepped-up aerial It might make a pretty good guess leaped to 500 or more yesterday, and reached undisclosed blitzkrieg, the German press said the fleet Britain counted at the o\\tcome. But this vital Information is blacked out by ir numbers this morning. on to hold off direct assault might already have been forced reconcilable reports irom Berlin The air ministry's final box score this morning on planes • to clear out of channel bases. and London. destroyed Monday listed 61 German and 13 British, The Germans claimed 213 British planes wrecked in the Air mastery is the high stake There were indications that the onslaught may now be 'It's the Only Ganso, Martin to Jo1p. three days of fighting, la t Thursday, Sunday and yesterday Germany II playing Cor in thc ti backed by cannon fire from the continent and possibly aided - including those smashed by bombs dropped on airdromes. tanic struggle raging almost con by Italian airmen, Sunday and yesterday, the Germans report d, 164 were tinuously along England's channel The pattern of attack remained unvaried, as it has since Democratic Art Department Sta.if shot out of the air, 71 yesterday and 93 Sunday, to German coast. She must attain it to win extensive raids first began June 18, but the scope was 108s s of 46, 19 yesterday and 27 Sunday. and weeks, even days, may decide tremendous. Way' • • • Burl{.e ~ ... .. ......... the issue. The great British naval base at Port mouth, where hUge Time Is forcing the nozls 1.0 at From northeast, northwest, sou thea t, outhwest-from ~ To Teach Here Temporarily fit'es were reported, the airport at Manston, declared to have tempt an aerial "knock-out" By every dlrectlon-came reports of exploding bombs. Reports Senate Swings ' Ilito " . , been destroyed, and the port of Margate on the Thames es mid-September weather probllbil of damage were confined to civilian structures as the nazi tuary, gateway to London, bore the brunt of the assaults ities will weigh against eith r a "scream" bomb hurtled down. econd Day's Debate Will Replace along the southern coast of Enjrland, general aerial assuult or an Inva British fighters, anti-aircraft gunners and searchlight The German radio reported the British lost 48 planes in "ion. crews teamed up to make the sky a deadly jungle for the Of Conscription Stinson, Wood the battle over Portsmouth alone, where 12 German planes • • • invaders, . By RICHARD L. TUft ER were shot down. 'fhere has been no hint (rom The raids this morning and last night followed up those BerHn as to whether an inva WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 (AP) It said 15 British planes were destroyed at Manston, 12 sion · Is to follow the ..row In .. of the waves of 8wastika-flaunting bombers whicb dropped of them on the groul)£l, and c)aimp.d h !ivy 10 ses at th air ton of explosives Monday on Britain's gr at naval bases at ' -A pre.w-ction by SetlatOl' N01TIS New York~ California air IMUslrt1ei', iU&ho~~ the ac.e~ dromes or CantE!rbury, Lympe and Hawkinge. In Portsmouth, Southampton and Dover. I (lnd-Ne b) that peacetime con Artists Are OUlsta'uaing of the rlercest encounters the s('rlp tion would result 'In "dic Still other nazi quadrotts SCl' 81'11ed down on barrage Dover-Portsmouth sector of the Seventy or more German planes continued to ha'mmer channel COil t Indicated that it against the English coast- • ta torshlp" bl'ought Senator Burke American Painters· bal1oon~protected British con-r voys in the accentuated cam- Inlrht pl)SSIbty be the openlnr line between Dover and Ports (D-Neb) to his feet today 1.0 de R t 400 of a conttnuous atr bomb bar clare that, on the contrary, it Fletcher Martin. one of the na paign to destroy Britain's epor . Burn Livestoc.k mouth until late last night race to pave the way for Inva !Ifter the British asserted their de was .. Ule only democratic way tion's outstanding younger paint shipping and harbor facilities nd I Ii Kin d Sion: to p.. ovide an adequate national ers, and Emil Ganso, distinguished demoralize her people. ta ans 1 e U Is In that !lector that 8rU. Bodies to Halt fense forces had sent at least 99 defense." member 0(' the artists colony at The Germans asserted a dJve ain's armY and navy are conren to destruction in the Monday con "II recognizes the obligation of mct. Nlne British planes were Woodstock, N. Y., temporarily ~Jll boml,Jing attac;k on a convoy east 'rated especially. Repeated nazi all to serve, and to adequately missing. .. replace Grant Wood and Harry of Southend sank two freighters In Uprising a~tack8 on Enlland's naval basea Pestilence tra in for tha t service," s aid on t ..e channel well mllht mean At one southeast coast town, Burke, a cD-autbor of the pend Stinson on the staff of the art and et another afire, with the t1nal preparation for an attempt houses were damaged by explo ing bill. "Rich and poor, all departmen~ the Iowa Slate Board Gel'mans and British each losing British Say Albanians to land troops. Evacuation Continues sions which at first were attribut of Education announced here yes classes, races and ci'eeds are a plane. .. .. .. Of Louisiana's 50,000 ed 1.0 bombs but later were be- beated with ' exact and equal tel·day. Take Arm Against Somewhere) at the nerve centers lieved to hllVe b en due 1.0 gun- Leaves 01 absence granted by Shipplnr Hampered Justice. Instead a! being con EMIL GANSO Conscription Mea ures of the German and British high Victims of Flood fire. Irary to the principles ot Ameri the board will permit Professor All Briti~h shipping and naval command, statistical data is avail- (Supporting the belief that the can liberty and freedom, this Wood to spend hts entire time in operations in the channel now NEW YORK, Aug.