Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1940 — Page 3

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LLIES FIGHT WIT ACKS T0 CHANNE

Germans Claim Capture of Lille and Drive Forwacd to A: Seal Fate of :400,000 Trapped .in Coastal Region. E ( Continued from Page One) 'On the ‘other hand, defeat of Britain would mean the Jick capitulation of France, the Nazis argued. * One ray of good news flashed throu; gh to spark Allied morale. The British High Command announced a ;even weeks’ campaign above the Arctic Circle in Norway had been

crowned with success in the capture of the iron ore port of Narvik. |

Only Two Shattered Ports Remain Only two bomb-shattered, explosion-wrecked poris remained in Allied control for the withdrawal of their troops from the German trap. These ‘were Dunkirk and Zeebrugge, ‘World War German submarine base. | ' How long the Allies colild hold these ports was 1 ncertain. The Germans were only 10 or 12 miles from both Dunk and |Zeebrugge. What once had been an Allied sector of hundreds of square miles today was only a strip| -of sandy coastline, about 40 miles long and hardly more than 15 miles wide .at any point. Germans split the Allied territory in two. . German losses in the effort to deal an annihilating blow at the Allied Army of the North were known to be large. The French High Command claimed that some French troops still were holding out in the Channel port of Calais, nearest-to England. With fighting going a the city, however, it was obvious that this port wasSunusabie for|

evacuation purposes. - The hope which had been expressed in both Londcn and | : Paris that Gen. Maxime Weygand might be able to organize a | large-scale counter-attack from the south in time to 1elieve| the pressure on the northern army had failed. Any attack |

now, it was felt, would probably come too late to ad the beleaguered northern troops.

Air Forces Continue to'Strike | Both the French and the British air forces were stfiking hard at the German communications lines and sup-

ply centers but while heavy damage was re ported the German attacks in the north were relentless. Bo inbing| was carried on behind the German lines as far as Haplst and Bremen. :

By capturing Ostend the

J. W. T. Mas war expert, is writing a daily Mason, of the military siiuation

By J-~W. T. V. T. MASON United Press War Expert Germany has failed to surround the Allied Flanders armies. Indications point to successful retirements across the Channel back to

~ England, continuing for several

days. It is now becoming apparent that the desperate fighting of the Allies’ this week has been rear guard actions on a very large Acale, covering t he transportation of British troops returning to England. It may well be that a-part of the Belgian Army too was rescued before King Leopold's capitulation. Germany, announced the capture of Ostend only today. Dunkirk remains open to “the Allies as apparently does the strongly - fortified port of Gravelines, between Dunkirk and Calais. Allied evacuations Shrough - these exists still may be continuing successfully. Gen. Weygand'’s strategic plan tom the beginning of the Flancers battle is now seen to have envisaged an eventual retirement from the Flanders pocket. He did not order a major counter offensive not only because he had no

Mr. Mason

Today's: : War Moves

The Blitzkrieg Has Lost Some of Its Punch

time to reorganize his armies after the German break through at Sedan, but also because the inevitable casualties would not have. been justified by Hie territorial gains. Since the Belgian King's surrender, ‘German pressure againstthe greatly inferior Allied forces has not developed such strength

as might have been expected. The -

Germans have been on the Sion - sive. throughout the Fla campaign, and. casualties are hi mally at least three to one against attacking troops. The German High Command now has to consider the partial exhaustion which always follows a long major offensive. This is . why no blitzkrieg stroke has been directed against the slowly retreating Allies, depleted though their numbers are by the Belgian capitulation. Time has been given to a very large proportion of the Allied forces to get away. The exaggerated expectations of Berlin that up to a million Allied troops in Flanders would be forced to surrender or die are not being

justified by the turn present :

events are taking. Germany will get the Channel ports, but their future value is yet to be determined and any major advartage to the Germans will have to await future developments. Capture of Narvik by the Allies indicates that the Germans have over-extended their battle front. They have been compelled to relinquish their pressure in.

Norway because of the enormous demands for men and material along the western battle line. . This problem of supply is a grave one for the Germans, now that fighting has developed in the open. It must enter into all calcu- . . lations concerning the future ability of the Germans lo develop major offensives of long duration.

Narvik is the port for transportation by sea of Swedish ore, so vital to the Germans, if the war is long drawn. The capture

by the Allies of a supply station

of such importance is conclusive indication that Germany has beenso hard pressed in recent fighting as to compel Hitler to abandon hope of successes at sea If Germany could have evolved a plan for transporting ore from Narvik through Norwegian coastal waters into the Baltic, the High Command undoubtedly would have made more desperate efforts to retain the port. The German army’s need for petrol is paramount, due to the new form of offensive fighting with planes and mechanized units. The submarine and cruiser activities of the Germans have had to be suspended for this reason, and the sea raiding phase of the war now appears to have ended with Germany’s withdrawal from water warfare. The Allied mastery of the sea is thus reaffirmed. German plans for an invasion of England will have to face this fact as Britain's paramount bulwark,

apove.

Times Telephoto. The ever-tightening triangle in: which the Allies are being pressed

by German forces along the English Channel is graphically shown

Dunkirk at the base is reported in flames, and as a result the Nazis say escape of the jreapyped forces is impossible.

I, §. HINTED AS REFUGEE | HAVEN

Hull Says Boinersation Now Under Way to Offer Aid.

WASHINGTON, May 29 (U. P.).— Secretary of State Cordell Hull revealed today that active conversations are in progress looking toward

ithe possibility of giving “European ‘war refugees a haven in the United]

States. Secretary Hull indicated that the {question was one of many that: had ‘beer! mentioned in conversations with other governments and interested groups dealing with the refugee problem generally. He added | that there . had been no developha of a concrete nature. Mr. Hull's comment was inspired RA news from London that Lord

England was preparing tor the blow expected as soon Halifax had told the House of

as the final remnants of Allied strength along the Ch annel! and in northern France and Belgium have been crushed. It, was reported that shipping to Britain may be divertad to, southwest ports. - That would mean virtual abandonment of

"Commons that he would bring the

refugee problem, which is becoming acutely pressing for Britain, to the |attention of the United 1 States,

LOCAL MAN ‘NAMED

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the great port of London because of its nearness to Gey ‘man forces at the Channel. | FOR HIGH POSTAL JOB London asserted that the British ex peditionary | forge, 7hwes Sher fut SON. is ate had not “lost cohesion.” An authoritative source ass erted | myers, Indianapolis attorney and that the British were being strongly | supported by: the Democratic leader, will be named French and had withdrawn {toward the cast, preliminagy to joni United States, Senator Sherembarkation. ! On the Somme front, the French leported that {hree “more small German detachments had been mopped up at|

bridgeheads south of the river. But action here still was

[by Postmaster General James A. Farley. Mr. Farley asked that the pointment be approved by/ both

! (Senators Minton and Frederick definitely on a local scale. | 3 © |vanNuys. Mr. Myers will Succeed & i Smith W. Purdum. promoted to Bitterness Toward Leopold ‘Noted i 'sacond assistant. The assistant

| postmaster generalships pay $10,000 Bittefness continued at the action of King Leopoyd of a year.

the Belgians in capitulating his Army and one report dirculated that Chancellor Adolf Hitler might ask Leopold fo at-|

ORDERS ARREST 0% © YOUTH Don Stiver, State safety director,

now in refuge in rance. |year-old Noblesville youth charged |

In Italy there was speculation as tothe possibility. that | Crown Princess Marie Jose, sister of Leopold, might have, iompeing to assault a 15-year-old played some part in the Belgian King’s decision. "It was ® asserted in London that the Japanese commercial and friendShip mission now in.Rome had reported to Tokyo that Italy was certain to enter the war soon. Reports circulated in Budapest that Soviet Russia had let it be known that she supports the status quo in the Balkans—a position which ight divert Italy from any : ction in the region. Berlin revealed that special broadcasts had been made to French troops, especially those fighting in the north, ask- to se ing them to lay down their arms and discussion continued | ium oe Lebar to cores and gor of the possibility Germany might offer France a sejarate port Harry Bridges, West Coast C. L pe ce in an effort to split her off from Great Britain. |O. leader “who is a subject of

BODY FOUND ON BEACH VALPARAISO, Ind., May 29 (U. 2.).—The body of a man whose head was crushed was found today on the Lake Michigan beach at Dune Park in Porter County north of here. Coroner Carl Davis said he believed ;he man was murdered. ; ARREST OF BRIDGES URGED WASHINGTON, May 29 (U. P.). —The House Rules Committee today voted unanimously to send to the

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Germans Winded—Paris

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into France—what the Army informant called melee on a nightmare scale. Groups of men, little and big, fought to the death in individual action, and Allied mechanized units, tanks and armored cars, slashed

back into the lines of the advancing:

Germans, tangling up the German

advance guards into an inextricable

mass of fighting men and then getting back—if they could. Over the German advanced lines, it was yeported,-now swept “scores and hundreds of new Americanmade planes, bondbers and crack Curtiss fighters, ‘thrown into the action as quickly as they arrived. The way to the coast still was open. ‘An Army spokesman asserted that the French still held Dunkirk, the chief Allied hase on the coast, and even had men still in Calais. Allied planes were bombing and machine gunning the Germans day and night, trying to disrupt their communications and relieve pressure on the retreating armies. Mechanized units, troop columns, cross roads, concentration points, ammunition and gasoline dumps were hombed, it was asserted, and operations were carried as far as Hamburg and Bremen, on the Ger - man coast, where fuel tanks were destroyed.

French heavy artillery on the!

Rhine front shelled German railroad stations over which troops were being transported, the Army spokesman said, and Gorman guns retorted. The disaster which “the Allies had suffered - in the surrender of the ian Army by the sen of the

hera King Albert of the World

Nazis Claim

ports

Germans said that the rupibed of troops—originally estimated at more

|'with breaking into a Noblesville than 500,000—that the Allies had {residence Sunday nisht and at-|

been able to withdraw from the | pocket in Flanders was problematical but it was believed that large numbers might have moved through the a fare port of Dunkirk at night before the Nazi lines pressed closely around it. According to the High Command, the remaining Allied troops were fighting strongly in a triangle which has been squeezed (until its sides are less [than 25 miles long. This triangle has its base” along the Yser, between Bergues and Dixmuiden at last reports, and its apex points southward to near Armentieres. Into this triangle, the Germans were driving spearheads of infantry and mechanized units and dropping bombs from the air. All of Flanders will be completely

in German hands within 48 hours, |.

authorized Nazi sources said, and after that the old formula of “divide and- conquer’ will be turned “with all the terrible strength of an

incomparable army” against either

Britain or France. The fall of Narvik, Norwegian iron ore port, to the Allies was adthe | High Command which said that |Allied forces hac arvik.

Air Successes Also Claimed

While claiming spectacular advances on land, the High Command asserted also that German arms had been victorious in the air and

The air force bss said to have severely damag three destroyers, two transports and two freighters. An enemy submarine was bombed and sunk in the North Sea, the High Command said. The official DNB news agency asserted that Allied plane losses since the opening of the campaign in the Low Countries were 2638 against German losses of 373.

i favor.”

War, still burned white in the minds of Allied leaders, but there seemed no thought but a finish fight by the trapped army of the north. It had suffered, in the

minds of the French, British and

Belgian. ‘Government leaders, betrayal, not defeat. Pertinax (Andre Giraud), fa-}

mous political commentator of ‘the newspaper Ordre, hinted this morning at a belief that the Belgian

King’s capitulation to Adolf Hitler.

was not a thing of the moment, an impulsive collapse, but something planned.- : “We know enough not to call it a simple failure,” he wrote. “It is rather a calculation, which was not born at one stroke.” German: prisoners whom the French had taken in the Somme region were exhausted and were quoted by a War Office spokesman as saying that the effects of French artillery fire had beenn so terrible

that one entire division was re- ‘have to be abandoned in the with-

moved because of its losses. The immediate fate of the army of the north was in the hands of its, French commander-in-chief, Gen. Georges Maurice Blanchard. I met: him at the front recently, at his field headquarters—a man of 63, a brilliant artillery expert, the coolest French general I have ever met in more than 20 years of experience with them. 3lanchard told me then, prophetically: “The first phases of the fighting will be tremendous gains for, the Germans because they use their air mastery. But after that we! will wear them down and the war will certainly end in our

Ostend, Lille

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s in the north as were not Held| It was claimed in addition that by the Germans were now “behind the German lines. tempt to form a new Cabinet in Brussels, displacing | that today announced the arrest of a 19- |

speed boats torpedoed and sank 2 large enemy destroyer. The High Command said that yesterday the Allies lost 24 airplanes, of which 16 were shot down in air battles and eight by antiaircraft “fire. Three German planes were listed as missing. Hoping that the trapped Allied forces would be demoralized by the Belgian capitulation, German radio broadcasters appealed directly to the French soldiers to ‘avoid death by laying down their arms. “Those who do not surrender in Flanders must die,” the official news agency added. “Already a horrible Hell is breaking over the enemy. An unceasing squadron upon squadron roars over the Allies preparing their last positions for storming with rains of bombs beyond imagination. “Put down your arms!’ (‘A bas les Armes!’) That is the only advice that we can give. “There are streams of blood which will not flow if the Allies surrender. A few more days and everything will crash about them and go up in flames. Everything. If ‘hecessary, even the last house.”

FRENCH TRY WOMAN AS SPY PARIS, May 29 (U. 'P.).—The Seine court martial today began trial in Absentia of the| Baroness

von Einem—the former Reissa von

Scheurnschloss—on charges of attempting to organize a Fifth Column in France as personal emissary of German Propaganda ‘Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, §

FIRE DESTROYS BARN A barn at the rear of 3341 N. Capitol Ave., owned by William H. Griswold was destroyed by fire of unknown origih about 1 a. m. today. The fire spread to the barn on the rear of the S. O. Carter residence at 3339 N. Capitol and damaged] it considerably.

ARMY INTACT, BRITAIN SAYS

Rennie stiff Re Rear Guard Actions Cover Retreat; Narvik Captured.

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Norway, also had fallen to the Allies, : Authoritative information that

the B. E. F. was intact relieved

anxiety which had increased yester-

day when its vulnerability to attack followed the capitulation of Belgian forces under, orders from King Leopold. The Press Association, a British news agency, said that in the face of terrific odds the morale of the B. E..F. remained unshaken. It was considered certain that equipment and materidl which may

drawal from Flanders: will be destroyed to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy. It was understood that the B. E. F. and the French have succeeded in establishing a definite line along which they were putting up strong opposition to German assaults.

German Atrocities Charged

An authoratative source charged: “The feeling of the B. E. F. officers and men is one of furious rage against the Germans, not caused so much by the pounding (they are taking) from the air, tanks and artillery as by the revolting deeds of German airmen and tanks—women and children along the roads ‘deliberately machine - gunned and slaughtered.” ‘Tanks rolling along roads are crushing women and children. The Germans sank two British hospital ships some days ago near or in harbor. - “We can never forget such things. It will assure. the Germans the warmest welcome received . anywhere if they invade this country.” (The “authoritative source” tor the atrocity charges was not further identified.)

Await Attempted Invasion

The early possibility was foreseen that, with Germans in control of Channel ports, London might become but a salient of the Western Front; that extensive mining of the East Coast and the Thames Estuary might be necessary and that London’s sea trade would dwindle to a trickle.

Long trains of ‘wounded, arriving from France and Belgium, told eloquently what was happening to the British and French armies of the north, totaling anywhere up to 400,000 or 500,000 men. An attempted German invasion was regarded now as almost inevitable. s The likelihood was foreseont that Germany would be able to command the Straits of Dover with big land guns, that German planes would harass merchant traffic in the Channel, and that Hitler, when the! time came, would order a totalitarian attack on Britain proper.

Heavy New Taxés Scheduled

Heavy new taxes to finance the war were snounced as precautions were taken | ito protect Parliament from Fifth” Column activity and a curfew was imposed on aliens. Sir Kingsley Wood, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced that the excess profits levy would be extended to cover all business enterprises in Great Britain at a uniform rate of 100 per cent.

Parliament was advised that the : subway passage leading from the

Parliament buildings to the Westminster subway rail station—about 80 yards long—will be closed after Thursday except when Parliament

is in session.

Spoadngyis=Eralybody Has It-Grips City; Frolicking in High Spirit on Eve of Race

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troit, of the-Long Division of the Borg Warner Co.; Frank Griswold, Philadelphia, owner of the two Aifa Romeo cars to be friven in the race by Al and Chet Miller; W. S. Holabird, Chicago, race car owner; Ken Ellington, Cblumbia Broadcasting System announcer, and John Moore, Akron, O., Firestone Co. official. Among those who arrived earlier in the week are Count and Countess Alexis Dé& Sakhnoffsky, York, and R. A. Cott, Detroit, head of the Packard Motor Car Co., and Mrs, Cott. Av =, who has spent more of his life u les than any other human Dag Do

up - seein ¥oay at the +Speeduay

of New|

and will remain aloft until after the 500-mile race tomorrow. - The pole, 125 feet high, has been erected over the main entrance and at the top is a platform disc 13 inches in diameter. On this, the famous “Shipwreck” will spénd to-

day, tonight and tomorrow, eating |’

all his meals and even catching a catnap of sleep or so. “Shipwreck” says the last time he was in Indianapolis was 13 years ago when he had quarters on top of the old Denison’ Hotel flag pole.

“Shipwreck” hopes to get a good |:

view of the race from his lofty perch. He has climbed and sat on flag poles in many cities in this country and Europe, beginning his career as a human fly at 7 and the

arr Li pate

eats a Et BB RES SE Ns

flag pole sitting phase of his career |

in 1923. ” 8 » 2 Steve Hannagan and his bride checked out of the Spink-Arms Hotel early today and went visiting in Lafayette, his home town, where his mother lives. They will | be back for the race, of course. ” ”n ” Police Chief Michael Morrissey

advised all race visitors who in-|

tend to drive their own cars to the Speedway tomorrow to leave before 8:30 a. m. and avoid traffic jams. He urged motorists to go out Washington or Michigan Sts. if their tickets call for the mair entrance gate, Those using 10th or 16th Sts, will be stopped before reaching the main gate, he said,

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| Glider Trains Carry 'Chutists

PARIS, May 29 (U.P.).—Long trains of oversize gliders, towed to great altitudes by bomber De and then cut loose, are being lused

to transport German parachute troops by night to points behind

the Allied. lines in northern France, it was reported today.

Trains of five ‘or six gliders, each éarrying six parachutists ‘with field equipment, are towed to heights of 20,000 feet or more and turned loose a few miles rom the objective. | These motorless troop “ferries” soar noiselessly ahove the enemy terrain while the parachutists at to the ground, unheard snd _Unseen—since the maneqver : carried out at night. Despite ‘their weight when thus loaded, the gliders are believed capable of soaring as far as 60 miles from the point where they are ‘cut loofe from their aerial “tugboats.” 4

CITY'S SOLDIER DEAD T0 RECEIVE TRIBUTE

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Fr. Joseph V. Somes; memorial servites by the Marion County Council,

Veterans of Foreign Wars, and taps

by the Marine Corps Reserve bugiers. Mr, Michaels will be master

of ceremonies. The ' address at the Crown Hill ceremony | will be given by| Prof. Raymond J. Schutz. The Rev. Frank C, Huston will give the invocation and benediction. Taps i be sounded by the drum and | bugle corps of the 2nd Harold ‘C. MeCrew Camp, U «WNL,

Hold Park Services

At 8:30 a. m. tomorrow, al ceremony will be held at Maj, Gen. Henry W. Lawton’s statue Hy Garfield Park under auspices of {Henry W. Lawton Camp 30, Sons of Spanish American War Veterans. | The Alvin P Hovey Woman's Relief Corps will conduct services at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in Mt. Jackson Cemetery, with the Rev.|R. M. Dodrill as the principal speaker. Services at the Garfield Park Grove of Remembrance were to be

conducted at 2 p. m. today by the Hamilton-Berry Chapter, ervice Star Legion. DeWitt S. Morgan,

Indianapolis schools superintendent, and Raymond Townsley, American Legion Indiana Department commander, were to speak. | CHURCH YOUTHS HOLD RALLY An all-day rally will be held tomorrow by the young people of Indiana and Kentucky churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in the Indianapolis Alliance Church. More than 300 are expected to attend the services, at 10 a. m.,|2 p.m. and 6:30 p. m. The a are to be the Rev. Clifford Hollifield, Ft. Wayne, Ind., and the Rev. F! Rose-

Sudan.

MORE DEFENSE FUNDS SOUGHT "RUSH TAX BILL

$500,000,000 Air Program Given F. D. R.; New Board Called.

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present national debt limit of 3s, . 000,000,000.

2. Imposition. of taxes to be ear marked and det aside to retire the additional “debt: The proposed revisions in taxes were given by, ! Mr. Doughton as follows: - A 10 per we “super tax” on all individual] and corporation income taxes, effective on 1940 incomes,

‘|' These taxes would be due March 15,

1941 and would be computed by add- ; ing 10 per cent to the amount of tax due under existing revenue structure. An increase in taxes on distilled: spirits, gasoline, cigarets, beer, stock and bond transfer and in most excise taxes. Exemption on theater admission taxes would be reduced to 30 cents. Members of both parties in Con gress cheered appointment of the Defense Board.

Others on Board

Besides Mr. Knudsen and Mr, Stettinius, who would have full-time jobs under the Administration's pro-

.|gram, the President announced ap-

pointment of the following parte

| time co-ordinators:

SIDNEY HILLMAN, head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, to supervise employment.

CHESTER C. DAVIS, a Governor - of the Federal Reserve Board, to | govern farm production.

RALPH BUDD, chairman of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, to regulate transporta= tion,

LEON HENDERSON, a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission, to watch over raw materials and price stabilization.

HARRIET ELLIOTT, Deaa of ‘Women at the University of North Carolina, to advise on protection of consumers.

All Except Knudsen Accept

All members of the Commission | have. accepted their . assignments except Mr. Knudsen, who 1s expected to annpunce his consent after a meeting today with the General Motors Board of Directors. The President is understood to be particularly desirous of having Mr, | Knudsen on the Commission be- | cause of the industrialist’s experi ence as a procurement manager. William H. McReynolds, one of Mr... Roosey€lt’s three executive as- | sistants, Will serve as secretary to {the Commission. The President announced that within the next few | days “he planned to appomt two | additional assistants to aid the | three $10,000-a-year men already in | such posts. Meanwhile, Congress put new ims | petus behind the defense campaign, |

Senate Gets Navy Bill |

The Senate was ready to act promptly on House-approved ;legislation authorizing expansion @t the | naval air force to 10,000 planes and providing facilities for the training | of 16000gp1lots. The-«House aiso sent | to the Senate a bill relaxing labor | restrictions on shipyard workers in| the interest. of hastening warship construction. The House also promised to exe pedite the Senate-a "EDproved, peacetime record Army afid Navy Supply, Bills—$1.823.252,724 for the Army and $1,473,755,728 for the Navy. Both may be sent to the White House |. late this week. | Other defense developments: 1. The House received from its Military Affairs Committee legisla~ tion authorizing expenditure of $15,000,000 at military posts through

of an anti-aircraft’ training base near Savannah, Ga., to cost ap= proximately $3, 000,000. |

Hearings Start on Rivers Bill

2. House Committee hearings start] s today on a $28,823,000 rivers and harbors authorization measure. The -bill attempts to salvage national defense items from a much larger authorization vetoed by the President. 3. The Senate, may“take up today the - House-approved Vinson Bill calling for an 11 per cent expansion in naval strength. 4. New demands for fortification of Guam, tiny U. 8. Island possession in the far pacific, were heard in the .House. 5. The House Banking Committee reported. a bill permitting the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to ore

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