TONI AS ] 4— l ‘ " •' •*' tt C- . a-A-aT-vl i^rvCtv, ( -v<_c -f !U - t (X \>\ l . vv r^ i2 J This was the day or all days for the followers of the trotting horse. xi.ll of them who had the fare or the rrice of . •’ acvwxi f a tankful o:^gasolin©, could heve been seen on the roads leading to Goshen, hew York, today, yea, Goshen the beautiful old iarming center in Orange Gounty, t»ew York. That's wnere they? :aDi0US SKadxii Good Time Track for trotters and that*® wnere they trot off the Hambletonian, the^A-one blue ribboa event of the Grand Girouit. Tnere was an extra snice of drama in today's Hambletonian. One of the best drivers in America is a shrewd, Gagey, hard bitten veteran, named Fred Egan. As all trotting fans know, the jockeys in these events are not diminutive skinny boys as on the running race tracks. bu* hard, shrewd, middle-aged, sometimes elderly men of sturdy frame. Fred Egan, one of the i£a oest tind. best known of them all, has of late acquired the nickname of "Hard Luck” Egan. The*** because he has more than ur^oA-e^x once come ai.mo3t within a nair ol winning the iamfcietonian. \ But he has never actually won it though on two previous occasions he did well enough to get consolation money out o: it. Today at Goshen, Hard Luck Egan, sat on tne sulky HAKBLETCNIAN--2 beuind a brov.n colt n^med Spencer Scott. Im Twelve years ago, Soencer Scott’s grandpa won tne Hambletonian. 7;ell , tfce story ifs that Fred E^an has lost his nickname. He drove Spencer Scott to an emphatic victory in two straight heats. While thirty thousand people cheered, Fred E^an and Spencer Scott took both tuose heats by a comf<wrfcabX© half length. And that means a tidy little sum of twenty-three tnousand dollars for axx^Spencer Scott’s owner. Incident a liy> iie aid tne first mile in two minutes, two seconds flat! And tnat is on record as the third fastest time^made in the history of the Hambletonian. So Fred Egan won and lost, tne Hamoletonian, lost his nickname ana his jinx. ) won FLOODS -hen that hurricane in the South subsided. Uncle Sam * s e' tn.r Bureau put out the warning, "Look out for , ... „ ne<.v.. i a ins. Tnet*s onf prophecy wnioh came true with a vengeance. ^n tne mountains of Tennessee, it-imsn^t a case of rain^ but ^cloudburst. In Georgia, tne torrents fell for tnirty-six hours, rivulets became rivers, and rivers became raging floods. Four skh * xkkiskk southeastern states, North ana xxi South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee, are visited with inundations. For instance, only one road is open into Asheville, North Carolina, The state engineers are warning / A that even tnat road is in danger from landslides. The TTatauga A A River is ever-flowing a*4 t-rren^ens tne~tewn of Elizabethton, Tennessee. Tnere^s one thing tibcut these floods - tney force you to Ie«rn a lot tnat you never knew before about tne- geography of your own oountry r _4r-' The pondition at Asneville is all the more menacing oecause reiugees from seven ot:ier towns, ^riven out floods, have flocked into tne city and are crowding it beyond capacity. Furthermore, the angry waters nave burst tnree main pioe lines FL00DS--2 carrying the city's water supply. All over ti.osfi lour ^stricken states, eniergency crews are busy reinforcing Gams ana evacuating refugees from tne lowlands. Governor Kaybank of South Carolina has declared a state of emergency at Fol^y Island, a seaside resort off Charleston. At Port Royal, near Beaufort, the Governor has been k ooliffed to declare a form of martial law. ADD FLOODS It is estimated that in Wilkes County, ' North Carolina, alone the ‘aina^e is up to ten million and growing every hour. xQe nearest approacn to arama in the war news comes out of ,.lrica tonight. The British report that they have put the brakes on tnat Fascist drive in Somaliland. We have been expecting almost any hour to near tnat r.ussolini's forces toiling across the desert had captured perbera, capital of British Somaliland,an£ i most important port on the Gulf of Aden. But now, it seems, they are brought up short. It was the British Navy t‘.v t turned the trick. A detachment of light cruisers concentrated off the Somaliland coast and caught the Italian expedition that was driving its way along the shore from Zeila, which the Italians captured last week, toward Berbera. The squadron of light warshios is presumed to have been sent over from t ie British fortress of Aden. The British claim tnat they not only stopped the Italian advance bu$ scattereu the Italian soldiers and tneir mechanized K transports. The British communique aomits that the Italian attack hud been made on a wide front, with great vigor and determination. It was t delivered by an advance guard of planes flying low macline-gunning and drooping bombs. Behind that came the TAR — 2 Italian Infantry, supported by tanics. Inland, the Italians were believed to have met the main force of the Britisn for the first time last Sunday at a pass in the mountains south of Berbera. As for tie Battle of Britain, the official communique tonight reads in tuese few words: "Enemy activity was much less pronounced today." There’s irony in that communique. "Much less activity,” they report, when they have only three hundred raiding German planes to combat. Tne aerial fighting ie mo?e of a'dogfight than a raid. today i>vt*r Britain-wa< main to the southeast coast of England, borne two hundred German planes same roaring over imt-they were met by a strong force of British tigxrsx fighters. A ^ folKuwa-the-Beiyfcfie deplete*. The news of the first raid was followed qu ickly by tne- succession of luick reports:- "Anothep, and another.” To one eyewitness it seemed that the^dogfW- were on a g igantic scale. The upshot of it all seems to have uriven bacA and tne British been that the German bombers were 01 .1. .... ...» shot hO.» .ora H..I airship. th.y lost usual, t». Oem... oUl. »• oppo.lt.. themselves. I7AR--3 -nirt Ohe of the itost Laportant reports out of London was of a fierce raid over the Alps. The Royal Air Force flew sixteen hundred ailes to Italy and back, dropping loads of destruction on Mussolini's great aircraft plants in nfilan and > ...... '"rin‘ 'j dlaini, if tjus.,--wae(j^viite a spectacular I t- achievement, for a round trip flight of sixteen hundred miles is e^rerenuous -effort^for modern bombers,since it *a a ru±*~of aviation the hignei; the ranse of — It is admitted in Home tnat not only Milan and Turin, but also xLllesandria and Torons were raided by British planes. The Italians admit that twenty-two were killed and _ . fifty-two JtaM wounded, but •-jon1#'admit a-ny: material damage, A The British also dropped propaganda leaflets telling the Italians that they were being ariven to war to maKe Hitler stronger and enable him to exploit the Italians. Bne effect-otL raids was—iabK.e.-the Ital4€^tta fa?teas. Incidentally, the British claim to have bagged two hundred and I wrx I jcx twenty-one enemy planes in the last i our days as against the loss of fifty-nine British. The Nazis claim just about the opposite. PARACaUTH yOLLCT.' a report taut run liKe wildfire over Britain today was almost equally startling. After a German bomb squadron hud visxted tae rorth . idlands, some fifteen or twenty open parachutes were found on the ground. Several of them were found in o '‘en fields on a farm, one in the middle of a cricket field, anotaer over a rosebush on the side of a house in a village. Later on the Ministry of Home Security made an announcement about it. The paracnutes, evidently dropped from raiding aircraft, were found in two parts of England, also in Scotland. The Home Guards, which were organized especially for this purpose, were turned out to marce an extensive hunt. One German airman was found with an injured foot in southeast England. It is believed tnat five others were hiding in the woods. The : inistry declined to say hqw many had been captured. At about tiie same time, prominent Nazis in Berlin were boasting tnat parachutists had been dropped in tiie neighborhood of Mancnester and Birmingham, for the purpose of wreaking sabotage in the most hustling industrial section of Britain. They had taken off in ideal weather conditions from bases in ■Ml ■■■ PARACHUTS FOLi.O?; ^AR Stsx Holiand ana T elgium and had been able to maice tneir lanaings in Britain unaer cover of clouds in the sky. H/.3 -LTS So ftr tonight's war news, as you may hiive-reali^O^ is Vj.1iiuax.1y identical .ith that ol* several evenings past. The raids and ctog-fisnts* A hhat would be aiost interesting tc have, is an answer to the question - just what has been the effect of those raids and bomb droppings? Juet, wpat have they really destroyed? Here’s one report wnich I'o-ffer for wnat it T* worth. 7t GomftR from t.fi T-rit.iah nd nurnnrt.s t.n G.nv«r tna i ri s over Germany, declare positively that tneir repeated attacks nave devastated hundreds of square miles in tne most productive industrial regions of Nazi Germany. The British even produce corroboration,e£ tnat-; on wnat tenas to he corroboration. Tney have a captured German pilot who is said to have testitied that it the ritisn continue their raids in Germany on the same scale as now, the war will soon be over. Of course the German official account is HAir, 3^s:'Lrs--2 I—MIHMIBIIW——^ widely ailterent ana claims that the only damage done by British raids has been to civilian life and property. But the British ?o on to say tnat Hamm, an imnortant railroad junction in Germany, has been rained twenty-eight times, another place liiteen times. And there have been five successtul raids, the British declare, on the great Krupp Armament orks at Essen. All in all, British raiaers have bomted no fewer than two nunured and fourteen towns in northern Germany, many of tnem several times. Some observers in Britain go so far as to say that the bombing of Hamm, as it was a great railroad junction, was the direct cause of delaying Hitler’s blitzkrieg on Britain. Another German pilot prisoner is said tc have admitted that the im n in the xxx Air Ministry at General Headquarters in Berlin shows that the industrial area in the Ruhr Valley has been hard hit by British raids. that This is a story coming from the British -A. us*- side *»’© have no detailed reoort about* tne efi ©ot^ the actual y / A A extent of the destruction caused by the A&zi raids over Britain. IvIiNKEN And here•» an eye-witness account of one of the latest raids over Britain, xt comes from a reporter who used tc be a newsreel camera man, Arthur Menken, now a United ixx Press co:respondent on the other side. Menken said he was standing on ixjc top ci a cliff, watching the Germans come over in wave alter wave, ^nt--aircraft batteries hurled streams ox fire into the air, but in srite of them, a ba:rage-balloon nearby was too tempting a target for one of t..e raiders to pass up. 3o the pilot dived down out of the clouds and started peppering the balloon. _nd that, said Menken, wno is never caught without his camera, was a natural for a camera shot. With his lens pointed sxr&xi straight up he tried to catch the oicture of tha* IJuzi raider fighting tne balloon. Suddenly, he said, A his vie?/ finder was filled with a blaze of light. Tne balloon had caught on fire. In that seccnu, another camera man shouted, "Look out." One split second later the cable of the destroyed balloon whizzed past Menken’s ears like a lashing whip with death for a cracker. After wnich, says Camera Reporter Menken, he started a new life on borrowed time. rw CC tb je.* choahi John t'-ui'-hy, Unit^h Stater Minister to Belrium, h.^r r eeive Pre 5 'enti- L vbsolution, absolution hgoause of that st’-tement he grve to newspaper n in i»onrion. !'hr' President gave fu I consider^ti n to the text o*’ what Cud-iiy s; id. Ana to y it 1 c annou ced at the h^e ouse that Cudahy • L not resign, that he ha5: not been rebuKed, hut th‘ t he is goin** home on leave of absenee. COLLEGIANS President Roosevelt today dropped a word of caution to university undergraduates. "Don’t leave college to enlist right now or to lind jobs in munitions factories.” That was the :ist ol nis aavice. The Presiaent conveyed this in a letter to aul iv'.cNutt, Federal Security Administrator. He said he tnought it would be a great pity if young men abandoned their education. ^;uon e qecisigm wuulu ifg TiTirrTrttmaTgT »1 r HS we nffecT ir«TT*bdtiCate^' a:“r Hi IW^ with sound juagmaak in 4*>a-i4n^ wl tT: tT# 5®® tOiiiWb #' The President went on to sneak about the need for scientists, engineers, other people with specialized knowledge. And he used tnese words:- "Young people should be advised that it is tneir patriotic duty to continue the normal course of ,0 ____________ their education, unless and until they are called* ^ tnri L^awn wsli"Hirpp‘gTfrfl f gy-*gnoaf»a»-f aountry." Ti ■Hiiw triT nosiiied l ^*^*** needed for oth^r i let- .. ’• b-'-7 th^ wp .^ i- 7 thp United States H- ilwpy Rxnress v-o. *-i ) ouer^t 0 ^o’^e e .1 ^ven thousand express trucks, i ro" CO t to coast, re turning ove^ the snnce on the ^ide-- of the trucks to th« United St tes Army, to publicize the U.b. defense prorram. This went inr.o ^f^e^t today,— 57 37 aJ2p l{.s. HISSING Mystery on a Great Lakes steamer. Perhaps a crime, foul rlay. . is. benjamin Mozee, a visitor from Nome, Alaska, tootc a t.ir on a liner tnat plies the Great Lakes, hhen the ship rut in at Cleveland, Mrs. Mozee was missing. Her brother-in-law told the police she was subject to amnesia - complete forgetfulness, so the cops checked all hospitals. Then the Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped into tne case. Mrs. L.ozee, fifty-three years old, is a lady of qnit$ distinguished background. Her father was trie late Henry food Lllicott, celebrated not only as a naturalist but as a champion of the purcnase and colonization of Alaska. ^.s this information was circulated around the police stations of several cities, it ca^e to light that the body of a woman had been washed ashore at Ashtabula, Ohio, two weerzs ago. Mrs. Mozee1s brother went to Ashtabula and there, though he could not recognize her face, identified her through Eskimo ivory earrings she had been v.euring. The dead womanfs brother tnen proclaimed his belief )slr that she had been robbed and murdered. It had been known tnat KISSING--2 si^ t-s - ys carried a considerable sum of money. None of that more^ was found eituer on th^li dea^ body washed ashore at Ashtabula nor in the stateroom occupied by Krs. Kozee. Koreover, the coroner of Ashtabula County had found that her head was bruised and her hands smeared v/ith grease. That was Relieved to tSSi indicate tnat she had grabbed frantically at a cable or a rope wnile she was being pushed overboard on that lake steamer. Ho tnever» tthe mailing of a real anrt-~ evldentl^TAS inis ter mystery. xalx\ji 3 . V- V f' v i -tC x ^ ~b£j? -tzui - •' ‘ • ■ w b v\