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| War- Torn Villages Like Scars on a Beautiful Face GERMANS TIGHTEN TRAP
Ry FREDERICK ¢. OECHSNER
United Press Rtal Correspondent
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WITH THE FRONT, May 22.
GERMAN | stood for
in southern Belgium yesterday, between the German and
Allied artillery, watching the man shells as they exploded in
1 drove through the countryside and saw what blitz-|
Krieg means. Long miles of green fields, interspersed with tranquil, sunsbached villages and then, around | bend in the road, like a searing sear on the face of a beau
tiful woman, suddenly the shattered §
ruins of a village, little more, than a pile of broken stone and broken bodies, where German Stuka dive bombers, tanks and artillery had smashed an Allied stand Along the ronds I saw the bloated bodies of dead horses, the abandoned field guns, the baltered tanks that retreating Allies had left in their wake, Children were plaving on the guns and tanks
I saw the long lines of motorized @
infantry and artillery moving up to the front, endlessly, and the Red
Cross ambulances coming back with §
the wounded, Then, at the headquarters of the
German Sixth Army outside Brus- §
gels, 1 heard Col «Gen, Walter von Reichenau, Commander in Chief on this front, say that the decisive battle of the war was vet to come
and that the Germans would win it. § Returning to Aachen on the fron. i
tier to file this dispatch, T was my. self under an Allied airplane bombardment which sent anti-aircraft (Continued on Page Three)
| Pathos in Paris—Civilians Trudging Out, Refugees In Royal Commission sitting in the
All Trains Swarm With Frightened Women and Children ®1! industry and commerce with abHunting Vanishing Peace in War's Chaos.
PARTS, May 22 (U. P)
Only a few were leaving now
Times-Aeme Photo, Young victims of the terrific aerial bombardment of Nancy hy German dive bombers stare into space with sightless eves, their lives snuffed out in the relentless drive of the Nazi war machine. Nancy, a garprison town, was one of the first cities of France tv feel the horror of total ‘war, The photograph was flown to the United States via clipper ship after being passed hy French censor,
LEADERS DRAFT 6. 0. P. PLANKS
Demands From | Forms Are Studied; Candidates Swarm Lobbies.
By NOBLE REED
The preliminary draft of the In#iana Republican platform, to be adopted at the State Convention here Friday, was being outlined todav at a conference of party leaders in the Claypool Hotel Attending the conference were members of the Republican Program Committee appointed by State Chairman Arch N. Bobbitt, The first draft of the platform was being prepared from the transcripts of citizens’ views voiced at GO. P. forum meetings held in the last six weeks. The forums, at which any citizen was invited to give platform suggestions, were conducted by Louis Bowman, research director of the State G. 0. P. Committee,
Demonstrations Planned
Amiens 65 miles north of Paris, had Germans drew closer, the move(ment was destinad to grow, In [these davs of blitzkrieg, it might even become a panic, But for the moment, those lugoes pouring into Paris far numbered those leaving. Railroad stations labored under a two-way stream of humanity-Bel. gians pouring in and Parisians leaving, Most of the Parisians said they were only going to the country “until the situation is cleared up.” They
refout-
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Hitler wants victory this aT 5TH COLUMN summer--Simms , Page 3
London keeps eves skyward ——— | for Nazi invaders... Page § | Asks Congress to Place (were supremely confident of an
Armageddon has come to Alien Control Under |auiea victory.
Belgium-—~Keemlee, Page § Eve-witness story of Arras battle—-MacMillan Page 5 i Many wives and children went Al Williams explains Nazi Justice Department. under protest, They wanted to stay | WASHINGTON, May 22 (U.P) .— lwith ‘husbands and fathers who . y must remain on their jo President Roosevelt told CONGress pent a it Jobs. today that the startling sequence of
aerial ‘tactics Page 15 GovernOver Here and municipal functionaries events abroad--fifth column treach-erv-—made it essential for the na-
are obliged to r r , Roosevelt may name de- under iy por ow ut fense co-ordinators, Page 15 : : Vy 8 tional welfare to transfer the Labor Department's Immigration and
death. Motor plants bottleneck The Parisians mingled with Belplane production. Page 15 Naturalization Service 10 the Justice Department, which already
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Mr. Bowman presented to party leaders more than a score of points raised during the forums. These yncluded requests for more home rule powers for local communities, reduction in government spending and protective tariffs for farm products. Other platform requests were | made by Anti-Saloon League lead- | ers and members of the W. C. T. U who urged a plank calling for local option. Dry groups appeared at nearly every meeting held in the less populous centers. Party leaders, however, indicated they will side-step the dry issue on (Continued on Page Three)
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gian refugees numbed by fright, F. D. R. lacks detailed plan dirty, ill<clothed and hungry. Nofor defense--Denny, Page body Sie much luggage, Some " 0 i ; went by automobile. The shiny, wellDr hom. guarding against espionage. kept Parisian cars passed bulletig IS. Se The move, he said, will enable the gnattered automobiles, horse-drawn velt Government “to ‘deal quickly with gape bicycles and carts drawn b Exact information on de- those aliens who CHGS Se hand. y fense status needed. in a manner that conflicts with the " Pegler ..Page 14 | public interest.” But he pledged that a a Hig to Btls New Dealers using orisis the action was not designed to Im- ,ansonal tragedy. They waited in for political purposes pair the legal status or ‘the civil he wmilrond stations and at Tet : liberties of the approximately 3,-| ages —~-Johnson . Page (Continued on Page Six) 000,000 aliens resident here. 50,000 war planes will cost His comments were in submitting three billion dollars—- a fifth governmental reorganization | Flynn .. Page order which will make the transfer | “Where Congress Belongs” effective in ‘60 days or less unless| and “The News From both houses disapprove. Little, if Europe” — editorials any, opposition was anticipated. | SARC Page Mr. Roosevelt said that he had planned no further Governmental reorganisation at this session of BRI IN N N | Congress until late and startling | Buropean developments raised new problems. The Nazi invasion of WIND- SWEPT TURN Norway, particularly, brought into | sharp focus the activities of aliens |against the governments of counoes in which they were residing. | he startling sequence of in- | Stops Car Safely: 12 Drivers ternational events which has oc[curred . . has necessitated a | Ready to Quality. [review of the measures required for (Photos. the nation's safety.” he said. “This has revealed a pressing need | (Continued on Page Three)
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Frank Brisko, driving his team- | mate's car in a trial run at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, spun on the wind-swept southeast turn (today, but brought his car safely to a stop on the apron. He then drove [to the pits, | The car was the Elgin Piston Pin | ‘Special, a rear wheel drive, which | will be driven in the 500-mile race | by Paul Russo. his teammate. Bris- German attack, an Allied success at | ko qualified his own car, a front! Arras and the fact that the secur-' wheel drive, Saturday at 122718 jtjes list has ‘been over-sold commiles an hour average. [bined today to boost New York stock The spin occurred before any one prices, Scherrer ..13 'had attempted to qualify & car this, Prices were irregular much of the | Germans holding 3/Serial Story ..20 afternoon, the first ‘qualifying day but toward the close shorts cov-| 14 Side Glances 14 period since Sunday. Twelve driv- ered and many issues rose to on]
STOCKS IRREGULAR: MANY UP. AT CLOSE
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11 Society ....10, 11ers were reported ready for trials highs for the day. «eve. 14 Sports 16, 17 today. Twelve drivers qualified last, Grain prices were strong at ‘Chiweeeess 8 State Deaths. AS Sapeny “nd Sunday. d {
British-Belgian troops
Civilians began leaving Paris today. Their departure was calm ahd orderly, the timid and unattached. They had definite gonls—properties in the country and in small Normandy towns, Premier Paul Revnaud's announcement that the Germans hed taken |
Dark | Lines Tell the Story
WESTERN
Seem AROUND MILLION MEN; BRITAIN ‘DICTATORSHIP’
MEN, INDUSTRY, MONEY PLACED > UNDER CABINET
Extreme Shows RecusSry to Meet Hour of Crisis, England Told.
May 22 (U, P) --Cirenl : blitzkrieg offen mustered {ts entire re recaptured the Tuined but important Trench key golirees of men, industries and railway town of Arras and batterad at the German flanks on treasure under dictatorial powers the Aisne and Scarpe Rivers, today to meat the “grave peril in which the nation stands.” The Government presented to Parlinment a far-reaching bill giv. ing it full dictatorial control ove: (all ‘men and material resources of [the county to meet the German [ threat, | The measure was quickly passed | both houses of parliament, Tt became law al 6:19 p. m. when the royal assent was given by =»
flaming bursts from the Ger the retreating Alhed columns. |
BULLETINS PARIS, May 22 (U, P.)=A “chaotic” battle was re. ported raging in the Cambrai sector tonight as Allied forces attempted to hreak through encircling German lines in north France after recapturing the town of Arras. BERLIN, May 22 PP) ==Grerman military quar. ters claimed today ot on forces mow have a 31-mile foothold on the English Channel and asserted they are loving with irresistible force around Allied armies trapped in northern France,
Ry JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Pdi
Allied armies struck back at the Nazi
LONDON, ; sive today,
Britain
The firmor stand of British, French and Belgian forces, especially in the smoking villages of Picardy and Flanders, was a tribute to the “fierce energy” of Gen, Maxime Wey. gand, Allied generalissimo, who made an airplane flight over the confused and interlocked battle lines of northern France.
As Gon, Weygand directed the counter-thrusts, both French and British Governments emphasized their deters mination to fight on and to conquer, In London, the Government rushed through Parliament a drastic industrial conscription bill which placed all of the nation's resources, labor and wealth under dictatorial conta! in a supreme effort to increase the power of the Allied war machine, But the battle in northern France still was raging fierces ly and the fate of perhaps 1,000,000 Allied soldiers caught in a German tran before the channel ports was undecided. The German High Command said that the Allied counter blows had been parried near Arras and that the Nazi wedge pushed to the Knglish Channel town of Abbeville had been widenad hy German units which moved northward from the River Somme toward Montreuil and St, This meant a northward sweep of unstated extent near the Channel coast and from the Somme River city of Amiens in an effort to squeeze more tightly the trapped Allied armies and to reach the important Channel ports of Boulogne and Calais, which is only 22 miles from the shores of England. Nazi sources ih Berlin also claimed that the Germans Stands ‘toduy.” had surged closer to Paris, pushing to Soissons, only 55 miles
Sve: Fully Empowered | {0m the French capital, but this lacked official confirmaAsked if with passage of the new Times Specinl Writer ill the Grovernment Foi, 1t Tad wut | tion. WASHINGTON, May 22.--Alfred | fcent powers to meet emergencies | M. Landon and Col. Prank Knox, in event of a German invasion of according to reports received here Britain, Attlee said: “Yes.” from Chicago, have decided that| “Our object,” said Attlee, “Is to| they will not accept posts in Pres- mobilize the effective resources of | ident, Roosevelt's proposed comlition [the nation. Broadly speaking we cabinet, unless the President first are taking control inh a time of | declares that he will not run for a emergency so that in the ational | third term. [interest we can utilize all resources The 1936 Republican standard. tor the common weal." bearers are reported to have made —————— this announcement at & luncheon in Chicago vesterday, when Mr, Lan- ‘BLAN ) don passed through that city on his way to Washington, where he is a guest at the White House at = F. D. R. BY SENATE Oo]. Knox conferred here with th President last week, when, it ve understood, the Chief Executive re- Plan (Continued on Tage Sm)
Col. Gen, Walter von Relchennu vv A greater battle must come, We will win i
[House of Lords, The measure provides: 1. Pull Government control over solute powers to dictate production, [Tose down factories or even destroy
property where and if necessary, 100 Pet. Taxes on Excess Profits
2. A 100 per profits, 3. Complete powers to draft labor, | It wnd when the Aiverting it and employing it as] [nepessary for the national defense 4. Oontrol over national banking [taotlities, 5. All persons and all property in the British Isles to be at the full service and direction of the Gov arnment, wit drastie notion, member of Winston Church i i wat cabinet told Commons, {8s necessaly to throw the entire power of Great Britain behind [the war effort wand to ‘meet the { “grave peril in which the nation |
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30 TERMENTERS COALITION TALK
Landon and Knox Reported Seeking Assurance F. D. R. Won't Run.
By THOMAS STOKES
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Maj. Clement
With ‘German and Allied troops interlaced and fighting (Continued on Page Three)
French Fortify Somme
PARIS, May [ the wild battle -
UU, P)=Picked French shock troops, ? Somme, have stormed fortifying the south bank of the Yiver, | the Germans inh the Abbeville area on | asserted today. Gen, Maxime Weygand, new Allied Commander “ine Chief, sent his men into the ruined, smouldering ———— city after a dramatic airplane flight over the German lines vesterday and a quick dash to Paris. As he gave his battle order, Brit. ish troops, timing their drive with | the attack on Arras, smashed into | the ‘German flank near Cambrai,
thrown into and retaken Arras and, have cut communications of the English Channel, France
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allow itself to be Trightensd by German motorized raids . they [Ale paving heavily for their aus dacity . . . if we hold one Month and we shall hold for the time nec essary--we shall have travelsd three<fourths of the road to vite tory." Reynaud sajd that the otvil population must remain at work, that any reduction in production works ened France, and that he had given orders to this effect to mili tary as well as civil authorities, To mobilize all strength, France | today permitted women batwesn the (Continued on Page Six)
luncheon with the President ony.
| of Suparvisiin of $132,000,000 Rejected.
| WASHINGTON, May 22 (U. P). (yn the sector to the southeast ay b Jeo ye. He en Premier Paul Reynaud, in a brief J . yf resident | o [Roosevelt = $IS2000000 “BIANK | prin rotten ad: To oe [check to speed Army Preparations. «1 wave just seen Gen. Wevgand (Tt rejected a Republiohn proposal! ho Generalissimo told mo: ‘1 to create a joint Congressional uo. gull of confidence If everyone [committee to supervise his use of it. | does his duty with fierce energy.’ A Senate Naval Appropriations sub | “The civil population must [committee approved a Tecordbreaking $1,458,756,728 Naval Supply | Bill, including a quarter-billion dol | lars cash for new warplanes and ® complete warships. This was done as the Senate re sumed debate on the $1,.823.252, |
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NATTY bill, which will provide for a | BERLIN, May 22 (U. P) ~The High Command said today that full peacetime army of 280.000 men, | German troops were slowly sgqueezing Allfed armies trapped in northern thousands of planes, and big sup~ | France and Belgium by driving northward from the River Somme, but plies of munitions. that fierce resistance had been shcountered on the historic World War SE ———————— | battlefields of Flanders,
Today's war map of the French-Belgian tremendously
strategic lines above indicate the Nawis' battering advance columns while the lighter broken Tines represent positions of mechanived columns. French. | are fighting with their backs to the English CHANEL th (he Tire re cr rt Iron i Corel rt A ish. beville : Buyin, Cais, Duman. Mil Outen,
FAIR TODAY, COOLER soon “would De ail YR vain. VR oh Yo Wie Cv) TONIGHT FORECAST =
perhaps 1,000,000 men in the | north, but the High Command com VOCAL TEMPERATURES voor 65 TOW. Wm
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munigue issued at Adolf Witler's | headquarters in the field indicated J a desperate and perhaps a Ne [long struggle was ahead for control n > ™. h of the Channel ports from which "i, pm... [an attack could be launched on vs | England. The communique claimed progFair skies were predicted for Tn ress, however, inoluding: dianapolis for today, tonight and| 1. An advance northward along tomorrow, and cooler weather was | coastal railroads from Abbeville, at forecast tar tonight, | the mouth of the River Somme, The record for the day 1s 90 and | against Montreuil, 20 miles away the Bureau predicted today's maxi | and half way to fam. temperature will fall consider-| 2. A similar northward thrust ably short of thas, from the Somme at Amiens wy
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St. Pol, on a line parallel with the Abbeville-Montreuil drive. 3 Merce fAghting against The British in ¥anders (in the center of the German trap) and the repulse ing of an Allied attempt to break through the trap by a counter-as-gault, Jed by British tanks, near ATT88, 4. Heavy aerial bombardment of the Belgian port of Ostend and of the French ports of Dunkirk, Calats, Boulogne and Dieppe. These are the rear doors through which the British and other Allled forces trapped in the north might retire, and the Official News Agency said
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