Battle of Britain, Weather: Rain that had developed overnight would continue throughout the morning. Heavy cloud should continue for most of the day although the Channel area could expect a break up of the cloud by midday. Rain periods could be expected in the north with low cloud. Conditions should be expected to be cooler in all areas.
Most of Britain awoke to a very damp and gloomy morning. Many of the pilots, as they did so often on seeing wet and waterlogged airfields, breathe a sigh of relief as they knew that once again they could possibly take things easy, even if was for four or five hours. Most civilians done, what they had been doing so far every day since the war began. The early morning ‘cuppa’ before breakfast and then the family sat around the kitchen table reading and talking about the previous days, or nights events from early morning editions of the newspaper.
Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park took advantage of the wet and miserable morning to make contact with his controllers, a meeting that also had Air Vice Marshal Sholto Douglas present.. The main subject was his disagreement with Air Vice-Marshal Leigh-Mallory regarding the sending up of a possible three squadrons of fighters flying as a wing, to intercept large numbers of enemy formations. Leigh-Mallory’s persistence in the ‘Big Wings’ was that at least Fighter Command could meet the enemy with an equal or near equal number of fighters instead of the tactics used by Keith Park and supported by Dowding in sending up a minimum number of fighters where at all times there were outnumbered by anything up to three to one. It is a well-documented fact that neither Park or Leigh-Mallory saw eye to eye, disagreements continued throughout the Battle of Britain, possibly due to the fact that it was resentment on Leigh-Mallory’s part that he thought that it should have been he (Leigh-Mallory) that should have had control of 11 Group and not Keith Park.
But as well as his resentment and jealousy towards Park, Leigh-Mallory also held the Fighter Command AOC Hugh Dowding as the man responsible for not giving him the task of controlling 11 Group. So much so, that as early as February 1940 Leigh-Mallory would have liked nothing better that to have Dowding sacked from his position as the Fighter Command Chief.
“[Leigh-Mallory]………came out of Dowding’s office, paused in mine and said in my presence that he would move heaven and earth to get Dowding removed from Fighter Command…………..and he made it quite clear to me that he was very jealous of my group, which was in the front line.”
- Air Vice-Marshal Keith Park
Park told the meeting that not only was it not feasible to put up large formations of fighters, but greater time would have to be taken in the initial stages of forming them up. He gave the instance of the previous day, when he asked Leigh-Mallory for assistance in intercepting a Dornier formation coming in from the east, and to intercept before they got to the 11 Group airfields east of London. Park continued, that by the time that Leigh-Mallory had got the 12 Group squadrons airborne, the raiders had got through to Debden, caused damage by bombing and were on the way home by the time that the Duxford squadrons had arrived. 12 Groups reaction to Parks comments was that they were informed far too late, and by the time that the Duxford squadrons had arrived at the vectored position, they could not find the enemy.
Keith Park questioned this, stating that four squadrons were already managing to hold the enemy between Clacton and Harwich, but as a precautionary measure, called for 12 Group assistance in giving protection to the airfields east of London should the event happen that some of the bombers may get through. Park went on to say that the enemy had twice the distance to travel than the 12 Group fighters, were slower than the 12 Group fighters, yet could not give Debden the protection needed. He compared this with 310 Squadron, a single squadron dispatched from Duxford that managed to intercept the enemy before it had reached the Essex coast.
Park wrote to Air Chief Marshal Sir Douglas Evill, Senior Air Staff Officer Fighter Command, on 27 August. Thanks to the good cooperation of Sir Quintin Brand, he said, he never had any difficulty or delay with 10 Group either in obtaining or providing quick reinforcement. Although Leigh-Mallory had recently offered assistance, his squadrons had not in fact been placed where requested. Station commanders who had been informed that 12 Group squadrons were assigned to protect their aerodromes felt insecure when ordered to send squadrons forward to intercept on the coast. Park hoped Evill would agree that to accept offers of aid and not get it was apt to shake confidence. He had neither the time nor the facilities, he went on, to check if 12 Group squadrons were ordered to patrol aerodromes that were bombed. He could only say that in one instance they had not patrolled North Weald until long after the bombing was over, and in the cases of Debden and Hornchurch, Park could get no confirmation that Leigh-Mallory’s squadrons had ever been seen.
The weather started to clear by midday, and the Luftwaffe moved more Bf 109 units to the coast at Calais with the intention here of providing the bombers of Luftflotte 2 with even greater numbers as escorts than ever before. But there was still only restricted daylight activity.
1015 hours: A lone Do 17 was detected over the Channel south of Plymouth and 238 Squadron Middle Wallop (Hurricanes) sent a flight to intercept. The Dornier was spotted and one of the Hurricanes managed to shoot it down and it crashed at Tavistock in Devon. The aircraft was on a photo-reconnaissence flight.
1200 hours — 1230 hours: Radar picked up an enemy formation coming across the Channel from the direction of Cherbourg. 10 Group released two squadrons to intercept just as they reached the coast. 152 Squadron Warmwell (Spitfires) managed to clain one Ju 88 off the coast near Portland, while two other Ju 88s were damaged, one of them crashing on landing back at its base.
By nightfall, Do 17s made a bombing run on the west and the south-west of England, again, 10 Group sent up three squadrons who managed to destroy three of the bombers, the others scattered and returned home. The only casualties in this combat were the three Dorniers.
The Luftwaffe raids Scapa Flow during the evening, interrupting Home Fleet operations for a few hours.
RAF Casualties:
1200 hours: Off Norway. Blenheim. 248 Squadron Sumburgh
P/O C.J. Arthur listed as missing.
Sgt. E.A. Ringwood listed as missing.
Sgt. R.C.R. Cox killed. (Crashed into the sea while on routine flight)
1258 hours: Over Channel. Hurricane N2336. 213 Squadron Exeter
Sub/Lt W.J.M. Moss listed as missing. (Believed lost control of his aircraft during patrol and crashed into sea)
The rain causes some accidents, as a Blenheim of RAF No. 219 Squadron crashes on landing and a Spitfire of No. 72 Squadron crashes on landing. These types of accidents also are a function of the overstrained nature of the RAF. In terms of combat, there are only a few scattered losses on both sides.
The RAF shuttles units around, sending RAF No. 603 Squadron to Hornchurch, No. 65 Squadron to Turnhouse, No. 32 Squadron to Acklington and No. 79 Squadron to Biggin Hill.
The Luftwaffe awards the Ritterkreuz (Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross) to Oblt. Helmut Wick of JG 2. He has 20 victories.
Coastal Command of the RAF began operating from an air base in Iceland to help in convoy protection. Only outdated Fairey Battle aircraft were available at this time.
RAF Bomber Command dispatches 19 Blenheims to Holland on daylight airfield raids and sea sweep. Only 1 aircraft bombed, at Alkmaar airfield. No losses.
RAF Bomber Command dispatches 50 Hampdens, Wellingtons and Whitleys overnight to many targets in Germany, Italy and France and minelaying. 1 Wellington lost. RAF Bomber Command continues its raids on Italian factories, bombing the Turn Fiat works and the Sesto San Giovanni (near Milan) Marelli automotive parts factory. Other raids are sent against the north German ports of Kiel and Wilhelmshaven, the Augsburg Messerschmitt factory, oil installations at Mannheim, and various airfields in northwest Europe.
The RAF bombs Derna.
Island commander Governor Dobbie receives a telegram from Whitehall telling him that Malta will receive numerous additional anti-aircraft guns during the winter. However, Dobbie has to recruit people to man some of the guns and there are not a lot of people available.
Contrary to many media accounts, the Luftwaffe has not been ordered at this point to bomb London, and it does not do so today. In fact, Hitler has not issued any orders on terror bombing, a decision he expressly reserved to himself in his mid-July Fuhrer Directive. Conceivably, the tit-for-tat raids on London and Berlin may still turn into one-offs.
Wilhelm Keitel revealed an invasion plan for Britain that featured four separate main landing sites. Operation SEA LION remains active within the German High Command even though nothing seems to be going as hoped in the continuing Battle of Britain. The Army still wants a broad landing area, while the Navy says that it can only supply a smaller invasion. General Keitel sides with the army, but Hitler intervenes and agrees with the Navy, with landings to take place between Eastbourne and Folkestone.
Another proposed operation, Operation FELIX, receives a blow when Abwehr chief Admiral Canaris returns from Madrid with a pessimistic outlook. He tells OKH Chief of Staff Franz Halder that the operation depends upon a completely unreliable potential ally. During their meeting, Spanish General Juan Vigón Suerodíaz had made the discouraging request for Germany to supply food and fuel because the Spanish food situation was deteriorating. Franco, Canaris reports, is steadily losing domestic support. Canaris tells Halder that Spain would be “unpredictable” and concludes:
“We shall get an ally who will cost us dearly.”
Operation FELIX remains alive within the planning process, but, like Operation SEA LION, it is growing more and more unlikely.
The French Government today removed restrictions muzzling press attacks and criticism against the Jewish religion or people. The decision was announced in tonight’s communique, which said that the Council of Ministers had abrogated the decree law of April 21, 1939, on the freedom of the press.
Hitler requests a meeting in Vienna with Hungarian and Rumanian representatives regarding their border dispute. Tensions remain high as Rumania continues to maintain that Hungarian aircraft have violated its airspace. Hungary claims the same, and also claims to have shot down a Rumanian bomber. There is no proof that anyone actually was violating anyone’s airspace.
Border clashes are reported in Rumania with both the Hungarians and the Soviets.
Ireland receives some bombs again at Port Clarence in County Durham.
The Caproni Campini N.1 made its maiden flight with test pilot Mario De Bernardi at the controls in Milan, Italy. The Caproni Campini N.1 was not a true jet as defined by today’s standards but rather a motorjet. It was considered a jet at the time and the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale recognized the event as the first successful flight by a jet airplane. Test pilot Mario De Bernardi is impressed, but the plane has very poor fuel economy and other issues. This flight is made public — unlike the August 1939 flight of the jet Heinkel He 178 V1 — so it is recognized by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (for a time) as the first jet flight. Italian engineer Secondo Campini has been working on the project since first proposing it in 1931. Great propaganda use was made of the aircraft by Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini.
Many observers believe the position of Greece is similar to that of the Netherlands and Belgium last Winter when Germany caused intermittent alarms in the war of nerves before the final assault began.
Egyptian Premier Hassan Sabry Pasha today sought to obtain support of the strong Wafdist (Nationalist) party in a new government after having withdrawn a resignation that he had presented to King Farouk in the midst of a situation carrying Egypt toward war.
Philippe Leclerc led a bloodless coup in Cameroon that toppled the Vichy presence there and switched the colony’s allegiance to the Free French. Charles de Gaulle’s Free France movement receives a much-needed boost in Africa thanks to, among others, Captain Leclerc. About forty men have launched a coup in Cameroon against the Vichy colonial government. Today, Leclerc, Claude Hettier de Boislambert and a few others leave Victoria, British Cameroon in native canoes (pirogue) bound for Douala, Cameroon, where they occupy the Vichy Government Palace without opposition.
U-28, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Günter Kuhnke, sank Norwegian steamer Eva in 57-50N, 11-15W. At 1603 hours the Eva (Master Ingvald Vaage), a straggler from convoy SC.1 since 16 August due to unsuitable coal, was hit on the starboard side between hatch #3 and #4 by one torpedo from U-28 about 60 miles east of Rockall. As the stern settled the crew abandoned ship in the lifeboats, three of them injured. One crewman was lost. The U-boat surfaced after 30 minutes and fired 22 rounds from the deck gun into the waterline because the ship stayed afloat on its cargo. She caught fire after 17 hits were scored and was then left in a sinking condition, while the lifeboats headed for the Hebrides. On 30 August, the survivors made landfall at Boligarry, Isle of Barra. An aircraft, HMS Hurricane (H 06) (LtCdr H.C. Simms, RN) and HMS Havelock (H 88) (Capt E.B.K. Stevens, DSC, RN) were sent to assist after a distress signal from Eva was heard ashore. HMS Hurricane (H 06) arrived that night and though finding no survivors, extinguished the fire on board and requested a tug, because they assumed that she could be saved. But the Eva was washed ashore one mile from Butt of Lewis Lighthouse and was wrecked. The 1,599-ton Eva was carrying lumber and was headed for Sharpness, England.
U-37, commanded by Kapitänleutnant Victor Oehrn, sank Greek steamer Theodoros T (3409grt) in 50-10N, 19-50W. At 2231 hours the unescorted Theodoros T. was hit in the bow by a stern torpedo from U-37 southwest of Ireland and sank after the crew abandoned ship without stopping the engine. The entire crew was rescued by destroyer Eclipse and taken to Gibraltar. The 3,409-ton Theodoros T. was carrying maize and was headed for Cardiff, Wales.
U-46, commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Engelbert Endrass, sank armed merchant cruiser HMS Dunvegan Castle (Captain H. Ardill Rtd), proceeding independently to Belfast after SL.43 escort, in 55N, 11W. At 2147 hours, HMS Dunvegan Castle (Capt H. Ardill (retired), RN), escorting convoy SL.43, was hit aft of the bridge by one torpedo from U-46 about 120 miles southwest of Cape Clear. As the ship continued, the U-boat fired two further torpedoes at 2212 and 2251 hours, which hit the engine room and just before the bridge. The vessel stopped, caught fire and foundered the next day (28th) at 2300 hours in 54°54N/11°W. The commander and 249 crew members (twelve of them wounded) were picked up by HMS Harvester (H 19) (LtCdr M. Thornton, RN) and HMS Primrose (K 91) and landed in Scotland. Acting/Lt Cdr R. L. R. Bull RNR, Temporary S/Lt R. Anderson RNR, Temporary S/Lt D. E. Smedley RNR, and twenty four four ratings were lost. Temporary Paymaster Lt J. L. A. Williamson RNR, and eleven ratings were wounded.
After a German air raid on Scapa Flow, there was a prohibition of ship movements in Scapa Flow. Gutter Sound and Switha were clear of mines. It was possible for the destroyers to proceed to anti-submarine exercises west of Hoy.
Battleship HMS Barham departed Scapa Flow at 2200 escorted by destroyers HMS Inglefield, HMS Escapade, and HMS Eclipse for Gibraltar. They were joined at sea by destroyer HMS Echo which departed at 0100/28th. The ships arrived at Gibraltar on 2 September.
British minefield BS.35 was laid by minelayer HMS Teviotbank and destroyers HMS Express, HMS Esk, and HMS Icarus.
Destroyers HMS Wolverine and HMS Volunteer departed Scapa Flow at 1600 and carried out an anti-submarine sweep west of Flannan Islands and east of St Kilda. After this sweep, the destroyers met convoy SL.43 A and provided additional anti-submarine escort to the Pentland Firth.
Destroyers HMS Ambuscade and HMS Antelope departed Rosyth to overtake convoy OA.205 and provide additional escort to Cape Wrath. The destroyers then proceeded to Scapa Flow.
Destroyer HMS Active, on completion of exercises off Scapa Flow, proceeded to rendezvous off the northern entrance to the Inner Sound to Loch Alsh at 0600/28th. Destroyer Active joined the escort of the 1st Minelaying Squadron for minelaying operation SN.14.
S/Lt W. J. M. Moss, flying a Hurricane of RAF 213 Squadron at Exeter, was killed when his aircraft flew into the sea off Sidmouth.
Lt A. N. Young of 824 Squadron, based at Dekheila, was killed when his Swordfish crashed.
British steamer Sir John Hawkins (930grt) was damaged by German bombing at Plymouth.
Armed yacht HMS White Fox II (23grt) was lost in a fire.
Sloop HMS Bridgewater departed Victoria and arrived at Duala later that day.
Off the south tip of Madagascar, German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin captured the Norwegian tanker Filefjell (7616grt) at 29-38S, 45-11E and sank British steamer British Commander (6901grt) at 29-30S, 46-06E and Norwegian steamer Morviken (5008grt) in 30-08S, 46-15E. The entire crew on the tanker Filefjell was made prisoners of war, as was the entire crew of the steamer British Commander. The crew of the steamer Morviken later arrived at Oslo.
Signals from steamer British Commander alerted listening stations and British cruisers HMS Neptune and HMS Colombo and armed merchant cruisers HMS Arawa and HMS Kanimbla put to sea, but no contact was made. Light cruiser Neptune arrived at Durban on the 31st.
Convoy OB.204 departed Liverpool escorted by destroyer HMS Viscount, which remained with the convoy until 29 August, sloop HMS Deptford, French patrol vessel President Honduce on the 26th. The convoy was joined on the 27th by destroyers HMS Arrow and HMS Achates until 28 August. French sloop Savorgnan De Brazza and anti-submarine trawlers HMS Northern Gem (655grt) and HMS Lady Elsa (518grt) joined on the 28th. In this convoy were freighters Anadyr (5278grt), Casamance (5817grt), Fort Lamy (5234grt), and Nevada (5693grt), carrying vehicles for the MENACE operation and British tanker Ocean Coast (1173grt).
Convoy FN.264 departed Southend, escorted by destroyer HMS Winchester and sloop HMS Weston. Patrol sloop HMS Widgeon joined on the 28th. The convoy arrived at the Tyne on the 29th.
Convoy MT.152 departed Methil. The convoy arrived in the Tyne later that day.
Convoy FS.264 departed the Tyne, escorted by destroyers HMS Valorous and HMS Westminister. Destroyer Sikh was also with the convoy on the 27th. Patrol sloop HMS Widgeon joined on the 28th. The convoy arrived at Southend on the 29th.
Canadian troop convoy TC.7 departed Halifax escorted by Canadian destroyers HMCS Assiniboine and HMCS Ottawa with British troopships Oronsay (20,043grt), Duchess of York (20,021grt), Georgic (27,759grt), Pasteur (30,447grt), Empress of Australia (21,833grt), Scythia (19,761grt) with 2627, 1548, 2801, 1153, 1625, 1204 troops, respectively. Ocean escort was Battleship HMS Revenge and Canadian destroyer HMCS Ottawa. On 2 September, the convoy was joined by destroyers HMS Wolverine, HMS Ambuscade, HMS Javelin, and HMS Jaguar. The convoy arrived safely at Greenock at 0600 on 4 September, less troopship Empress of Australia which arrived safely at Glasgow on the same day. Canadian destroyer Ottawa arrived at Greenock to relieve Canadian destroyer HMCS Restigouche on the Western Approaches station. Canadian destroyer Restigouche then returned to Halifax arriving on 5 September.
British troop convoy US.4 departed Auckland on the 27th with troopships Mauretania (35738grt) and Empress of Japan (26032grt) from Wellington and Orcades (23456grt) from Lyttleton escorted by New Zealand Division light cruiser HMS Achilles. Troopship Aquitania (45647grt) departed Sydney on the 30th to join the convoy escorted by Australian heavy cruiser HMAS Canberra which relieved light cruiser Achilles. Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth joined in the Tasman Sea on the 30th and returned to Sydney on the 31st. New Zealand Division light cruiser Achilles and the convoy arrived at Melbourne on the 31st. The convoy arrived at Fremantle on 2 September. Convoy US.4 departed Fremantle on 5 September escorted by heavy cruiser Canberra. On 13 September, light cruiser HMS Colombo relieved the heavy cruiser and remained with the convoy until 15 September when the convoy arrived at Bombay. Troopships Empress of Japan and Orcades arrived at Aden on 24 September. The troops in Mauretania and Aquitania were delivered in other vessels, rather than risk the large, new troopships in the Red Sea.
Today in Washington, President Roosevelt discussed at his press conference details of the national defense program, stating that 10,015 military airplanes were on contract, on order or in production and placing the blame for delay in the program upon Congress for its failure to enact essential legislation. He conferred with Postmaster General Farley upon the question of Mr. Farley’s successor and discussed a defense housing program with Senator Wagner. Late tonight he left for Hyde Park.
The Senate considered the Burke-Wadsworth compulsory military training bill in a session which continued into the night.
The House passed and sent to the White House a bill appropriating $592,719.21 to compensate Lester Barlow for infringement by the United States of a patent involving bombs, received the Excess Profits Tax and Amortization Bill for action, agreed to the conference report on a bill to build a bridge across the Straits of Mackinac, received the Cox resolution to establish a House committee for continuous investigation of the defense program and adjourned at 5:17 PM until noon tomorrow. The Military Affairs Committee voted to place a limit of 1,000,000 upon the number who could be drafted for the Army or Navy under pending conscription legislation.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt conferred with Secretary of the Navy Knox, Secretary of War Stimson and Secretary of State Hull concerning a compromise to resolve the impasse that has arisen over the proposed destroyers-for-bases agreement. Subsequently, Roosevelt met with Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, Secretary of the Navy Knox and Secretary of State Hull, and British Ambassador Lord Lothian. These men reviewed the proposal arrived at earlier that day. Admiral Stark certified that the destroyers involved were no longer essential to the defense of the United States, thus clearing the way for their transfer.
U.S. Attorney General Robert H. Jackson delivered to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt a ruling in which the legal framework for the transfer of destroyers to the British could be accomplished.
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a joint resolution authorizing him to call U.S. Army Reserve components and the National Guard into federal service for one year. Other legislation authorizing him to call up U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps reserve aviators also is in the works.
Legislation was enacted authorizing the appointment of naval aviators of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps reserve to the line of the regular U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps, in order to augment the U.S. Naval Academy as a source of regular aviators.
A total of 10,015 planes for the Army and Navy are in production, on contract or being built under “letters of intention,” President Roosevelt reported today at his press conference.
Adoption of the Burke-Wadsworth selective service bill by the Senate tomorrow was virtually assured this evening after a second night session in which an amendment to delay the draft was defeated by nearly 2 to 1 and another to substitute a voluntary enlistment system went down by an even wider margin in the first test votes on the measure. The Senate recessed at 10:30 PM until 11 AM tomorrow after voting down, by 54 to 29, an amendment in the nature of a substitute, offered by Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, to register men between. 21 to 31 now, but to order no man out for training until Congress declared the existence of a state of war, or that the United States was in danger of invasion. Soon afterward a substitute amendment offered by Senator Taft of Ohio, was defeated by 55 to 22. It was designed to limit the regular Army in peace time to 500,000 men, and permit voluntary enlistments by men under 25 in an Army Training Corps to provide a reserve not to exceed 1,500,000 men.
The only major hurdle in the way of passage of the Burke-Wadsworth bill under which men between 21 and 31 would be registered and made liable to training as soon as possible is the amendment of Senator Maloney of Connecticut. Its defeat is regarded as almost certain even by some of its backers, however, because of its similarity to the defeated Walsh amendment. The only difference between the two was that the Maloney amendment would postpone conscription only until next year. Senator Barkley, the majority leader, expressed confidence that a final vote on the Burke-Wadsworth bill would be taken tomorrow after he obtained an agreement a short time after 10 PM to limit debate on all pending amendments to fifteen minutes for each Senator desiring to speak and to thirty minutes on the bill itself after action on amendments.
Wendell L. Willkie bluntly repudiated yesterday any support from Father Charles E. Coughlin in the coming campaign on the ground that the Catholic priest and his followers were “opposed to certain people because of their race or religion.”
Senator Charles L. McNary formally accepted the Republican vice-presidential nomination in Salem, Oregon today with the declaration his campaign would be an attack against “the new deal’s capacity to govern,” The veteran Oregonian, senate minority leader, speaking from a high platform at the state fairgrounds, with a mountain set as a back-drop, outlined to 12,000 listeners how he feels about pressing national problems.
Senator Hiram W. Johnson, veteran isolationist, took a long lead over a string of candidates on the Democratic and Progressive as well as on his own Republican ticket tonight in returns from the State primary election.
Mississippi Democrats today renominated Theo G. (The Man) Bilbo for a second term in the United States senate on the basis of unofficial primary returns. Nomination is tantamount to election. Unofficial returns from 1,125 of the state’s 1,660 precincts gave Bilbo 76,491 votes to 53,767 for former Gov. Hugh White. Bilbo, the most pernicious open racist in the U.S. Congress, and a stormy figure in Mississippi politics for 30 years, is seeking his second term in the senate. He served twice as his state’s governor and in various other official posts. White, wealthy industrialist, was elected governor in 1935 with Bilbo’s aid but they had since split, each blaming the other for the rift. Both candidates pledged unswerving allegiance to President Roosevelt and his policies.
Ten men were killed late today by a terrific explosion in the Bates Coal Corp. mine in Bates, Arkansas. They were the only persons in the mine at the time. Cause of the explosion had not been determined late tonight. The last of the 10 bodies was taken from the shaft about 11 p.m.
Major League Baseball:
Owner Phil Wrigley announced today on his return from a yachting cruise that Gabby Harnett would manage the Cubs again next year. So, in a spirit of celebration, the Bruins went out on rain-soaked Wrigley Field and sank the Giants, 3 to 1, in the farewell appearance of the New Yorkers in Chicago this year. Only 2,607 fans tickled the turnstiles, the weather was that bad. Claude Passeau won his 17th for the Cubbies. Bill Lohrman lost his fifth in a row.
A mild Texas League single that dropped at the feet of three frantically running White Sox carried the Yankees another step along the victory road yesterday as they toppled Chicago, 5–4, in the tenth inning at Yankee Stadium. When Babe Dahlgren’s slice to right dropped safely, Joe Kuhel drop-kicked the ball in exasperation, but the damage had been done.
Martin Marion’s first home run of his major league career in the fourth inning today turned out to be the run needed by the Cardinals to defeat the Bees, 4–3. Bill Bowman got the win with relief help from Clude Shoun, who checked an eighth-inning Boston uprising.
Rain across much of the eastern half of the country cancelled doubleheaders between the Tigers and Athletics, and Dodgers and Pirates, as well as single games between the Indians and Senators, and the Philies and the Reds.
New York Giants 1, Chicago Cubs 3
Chicago White Sox 4, New York Yankees 5
Boston Bees 3, St. Louis Cardinals 4
All single Canadian men 21-45 become subject to the military call-up.
Reliable information obtained in Mexico City last week indicates that Mexico is swarming with Nazi secret agents, actively engaged in trying to develop a fifth column in army and government circles that would represent a serious threat to the security of the United States.
The Argentine Cabinet resigned this afternoon to facilitate a reorganization of the government as a solution to the tense political situation that has existed here for more than a week.
The United States is insisting on the observance of American rights in the Far East through conversations that Joseph C. Grew, the Ambassador in Tokyo, is said to be having almost continuously with Yosuke Matsuoka, the Japanese Foreign Minister. At the same time the State Department is moving through Admiral Thomas C. Hart, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, who is at Shanghai, to reach a solution. of the dispute with Japan arising out of the British evacuation of the International Settlement.
The conversations at Shanghai are said not to have reached a final stage. Those in Tokyo are proceeding with the view of placing the American position carefully before the new government of Prince Fumimaro Konoye. The Tokyo discussions were initiated not only because of the controversy at Shanghai but also because a totalitarian government had come into power in Japan and it was said to have been felt desirable to place the American position before it. Furthermore, the government is new and so should be informed of the American attitude.
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Born:
Brooksley Born, American attorney, first female president of the Stanford Law Review, and public official (Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair, 1996-99; Profiles in Courage Award, 2009), in San Francisco, California.
David Hart, British General-Secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, in Dorking, England, United Kingdom (d. 2013).
Fernest Arceneaux, American zydeco accordionist and singer, in Lafayette, Louisiana (d. 2008).
Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist (Last Exit), in Ossining, New York (d. 1994).
Doug Robinson, Canadian NHL left wing (Chicago Black Hawks, New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings), in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
Naval Construction:
The Royal Navy Flower-class corvette HMS Primula (K 14) is commissioned. Her first commanding officer is Lieutenant Commander Kenneth McMillan Drake, RNR.
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