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THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940
FORECAST :: Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow ~with possibly local showers; little change in temperature,
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I 1 PRICE THREE ome:
Than Risk: Final Victory.
By JOE ALEX MOREIS United Press Forcign News Editor
Adolf Hitler's men were winding up the bloody Battle remnants of two crack Allied armies. hs German airplanes by the hundreds, mechanized units and infantry blasted at the rstreating British and French
troops and rained death on Allied warships and transports
off the port of Dunkirk, where more than 60 vessels were bombed and a score, including four warships, were reported sunk. | Out of: the “hellish fire” through which survivors said they passed « came stories of co arage and daring and destruection on a scale that seemed greater than any military debacle of the past. A great part of the trapped tnd exhausted French Army under Gen. Rene Prioux slashed| a path through the closing German Hincity. toward: the coast, according to a Paris
ei x sive abi 0 “surrer der <esiiad the ttetath
British and French troops fighting in order and side by side
And there was no hint of surrender. ’ Perhets the greatest air battle of the war was raging| along the Channel coast, 'botl. London and Berlin reported, as Allied. warplanes fought a German fleet estimated at from 600 to 1000 aircraft seeking to destroy the vessels evacuating soldiers who could reach them through flaming Dunkirk,
“The grim struggle cont: nues, ” the British spokesman
“The situation is critical . . .| but not werse, despite the : (Continued on Page Saven)
F.D.R. Asks Billion More
© WASHINGTON, May 30 (U. P).—The White ‘House announced today that President Roosevelt will send Congress a message tomorrow requesting urgent additional appropriations of more than one billion dollars for the Army and Navy. The announcement was made as Mr. Roosevelt convened the first meeting of his new Civilian Defense Comission, all but’ two Mefnibers of the Cabinet, |the. Army Chief of Staff, the chief of naval operations. ‘Senate Majority Leader Alben Barkley and House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn. «| The Administration meantime introduced ‘legislation authorizing the President to require training of new Civilian. Conservation Corps members in “non-combat subjects essential to the o operations” of the Army and Navy, The White House disclosure that Mr. Roosevelt's new defense requests avill total mols than $1, 000,000,000
‘Miracle Needed" Ltondon
LONDON, May 30 (U. P.).—A choide between death and surrender ‘may face a large part of the British exped tionary force and its French allies of the northern Army within a few iours, it was disclosed today. Trapped miles from the sea, miles from the main French Army of the ; lacking adequate mechanized equipment, running short of a tion, pressed in and nearly surrounded by German armies of easurable superiority, the Allied Northern Army seemed d 4 ihe ween the Ypres area an Si main
said.
brings the defense program to around $4,400,000,000 for the coming fiscal year, a total unapproached before in American history except for | the period when this country was in the worfd War. The new program, providing guns, tanks, airplanes and other essential implements of war will be entirely supplemental to Mr. Roosevelt's previous ‘requests. More than half of the proposed outlay will go into an air expahsion [(Centisiacd on ae Seven)
Dass clepots are not in. German hands. ” These depots were not in the | Channel port region, it was
‘Channel coast, the Allied | red. of the orth fought on, hour A ‘a stubborn rear guard| Waves of British alfplanes b battled WAR Al T NAZIS action, 1g its wounded who [German bombers over the Channel GARY, Ind, May 30 (U. P.).— were embarked for English ports ne in an effort to protect the The Gary Post-Tribune in a front under 8 rain of German airplane [Allied naval and transport ships
from destruction (presumably off British sources admitted that a|Punkirk), and shot down 52 Gergreat deal of war material had been man airplanes, the Air Ministry lost in the tha Tin. from the said Seventeen others were badly
bombs’ and hine gun bullets.
north, but said that “the Allies main (Continued on Page Seven)
French Fight Way to Sea
- PARIS, May 30 (U. P.) ~The bulk of 2 trapped and battered French under Gen. Rene Prioux was reported officially today to have fought its way through powerful German lines and to be moving into on the English Channel coast, The Prioux Army had been fighting to cut |a path through the German trap around Allied armies in the north for several days and this} morning French sources said that 40 German Divisions—around 500,000 men—had been thrown at the keted Beat the city
the most terrible conflict of the war had reached its climax. warships turned their big guns on the advancing German masses. |
critical but that| ‘Attacking from an east to west
Army had suc-/ direction, the Germans smashed ping the trap that into strong Allied lines along the t to close be-|Yser Canal.
ighe and Cassel, south| In a separate attack from ‘south-
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“Mile-by Mile
Swanson. . 8, McQuinn. 9, Andres. 10,- Petillo. Average ‘speed, 120.518, compared with Lou Meyer's average last year of 122.306, the track record.
150 MILES 1. Shaw. 4, Thorne. : 5. ; 7. Swanson. 8. Petillo. 9. McQuinn. 10. Andres. Average speed, 120.398. Last | year’s speed: and Shaw's ‘track record, 123.424.
125 MILES
3. Rose. 6.- Hansen.
3. Horn. 6. Bergere. 7. Hansen. .8. Swanson. 9. Petillo. 10. Andres. Average speed, 121.312; Shaw’s last
381.»
100 MILES
1. Shaw, 2. Mays. Hepburn. 5. Bergere. 6. Thorne. 7. Horn. 8. Hansen. 9. Swanson, 10, Petillo. Average speed, 121.202. Track record and Shaw's speed last, year, 123. 442.
vs “MILES 1. Mays. 2. Shaw, ' 3. Rose, :. 4. Bergere. 5. Thorne. 6. Horn. 7.
Hepburn. 8. Hansen. 9. Swanson. 10. Hinnershitz. Average speed, 121.655. Last year’s average and Snyder's track record, 123.608.
50 MILES 1. Mays. 2. Shaw. 3 Bergere. 4. Thorne. 5. Rose. 6. Horn. 1. Swanson. 8. Hepburn. 9. Hinnershitz.- 10. Hansen. Average speed, 121.331. Average lasb year,.123.553, track record, set by Jimmy Snyder. : 25 MILES | 1. Mays. 2. Shaw. 3. Bergere. 4. Thorne. 5. Rose. Average speed, |
122.5647. Last year's average and track record, 124.517, by late Jimmy Snyder.
'|URGES U.'S. TO/ENTER
page editorial in last night's editions urged an immediate declaration of war against Germany by the United States as the only method of preventing defeat of the Allles and halting world-wide expansion of
Such a decimation. “the editorial said, would bolster the morale of the English and : French and = would keep Premier Mussolini from entering the conflict.
ITALY’S PRESS HINTS SUPPORT. OF SPAIN
ROME, May 30 (U. P.).—Italian belief that Spain is prepared to aid Italy in the fulfillment of this country’s national aspirations, was in evidence today. With Italy on Tie bring of enter-: ing the European wir, the Italian press has been referring with increasing frequency to Spain's claims a Great Britain’s - fortress of ibraltar, and indications are many that Italy hopes Svesitunlly to. have |
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175 Miles ; 1, Shaw. 2, Mays. 3, Rose. 4, Horn. .5, Thorne. 6, Hansen. 7,
1. Shaw. 2 Mays. 3. Rose. 4. Thorne. |
year average and track record, 123.1
3. Rose. 4.|
very lucky Riganti.”
he car was badly damaged, but. Riganti suffered only a wrenched: shoulder. Methodist Hospital where he was treated, he exclaimed,
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AUTOS KILL 7, 6 IN ONE CRASH
Woman and 5 Me 5 Men Victims 0f Bloomfield Accident; Roads Jammed.
Seven persons were killed in Indiana overnight traffic—six of them in one accident near Bloomfield—as thousands of persons speeded toward Indianapolis for the annual Memorial Day 500-mile “race at the Speedway. ; Ten other persons, six of them race-bound, were injured in a two-
car crash on Road 40 six miles east of Cumberland, and 11 persons were
cidents reported to City police. Indiana State Police urged all persons to use extra caution on the streets and highways, both before and after the race. Insurance Man Killed
The dead are: WALTER PF. CARROLL, 33; Bloonifield insurance man. WILLIAM M. HERRMANN, 35, Mt. Vérnon.
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50,000 TURNED AWAY AT DODGERS’. FIELD
NEW YORK, May 30 (U. P.), — Some 50,000 fans were turned away
from Ebbets Field today before thei.
start. of the first game of a doubleheader between the New York Giants and the Brookl Dodgers after a crowd manifestation that shamed a world series. Brooklyn fans, always the most faithful in the majors, began gathering last night and at 10 p. m. hundreds were clustered outside the gates.
BUREAU REPEATS ITS ‘NO RAIN’ FORECAST
Or Tomorrow. LOCAL TEMPERATURES
6a m ,.. 53 9am. ... 56 7am ... 54 10 a. m.... 58 8 a.m. ven 54 11 a. m.... 690
The Weather Bureau stuck to its prediction of no rain today as the skies grew gloomier and gloomier for the 500-mile race at the Speed-~ way. However, there may be showers tonight ‘or tomorrow, the Bureau said, and there will be little hangel
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SPEEDWAY GETS
CARNIVAL SPIRIT
| {Memorial Day address here today
Excited Caravan of Racing ~ Fans Makes W. 16th ‘Main Street.”
‘BY LEO DAUGHERTY For the 28th time today, W. 16th St. of Speedway City became . the Main Street of America. To the army of traffic officers, it seemed that all the motor vehicles in the country, from the highpriced jobs with -liveried chauffeurs to the cattle cars with their Bupan cargoes, piloted’ by overalled drivers
‘were headed for Speedway gates.
It was about 9:30 last night when the motor caravans started to form on W. 16th St. and on Main St. in ihe. suburb named after the speed ova By the time the gates to the track were opened at 6 a. m., the lineups from both the East and the West on 16th St. and off Main St. were four abreast and extended for distances
.1of more than a mile.
At 6 a. m., when the gates were opened, the cars were -cautiqusly id inside. Bumpers lk an awful beating. Some of: the drivers had been awake all night or had hag only catnaps.. The - ‘autos bore licenses from every state in the usion, But most
B | not described as serious.
{ popular subscription among his countrymen. The | his race and accident were being broadcast to Sout
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| | Albert Stump, Indianapolis attorney,
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Wo SPILL 0 HOME STR CROWD 142,
Rose Only Seconds Behind 1 Behind Leader b | Is Below Record; Hepburn
Hinnershitz Also in Crackups. |
Rex Mays, Califofnia. driver, led the field at the end. of 200 miles in today’s 500-mile race, witnessed by 142,000 people and marked by three spectacular spills, two of them in front of the grandstand on the home stretch. -
- The speed at 200 miles was 119; 322 m.p.h., mare than a mile under the record of 120.966. : Shaw, driving’ an 8-cylinder Boyle Special trailed Rex ‘Mays, driving a Bowes Spovist (No. after 75 miles when he jammed his foot dowh on t
(No. 1)! 33) until le throttle
southeast wall on his 25th lap. His car turned over and he ‘was rushed to Methodist Hospital where his inj ries were
: ticky Rapa Bmgaiiy a 3 4 The South Arfierican was driving a brand: ne w Maserati which had been purchased with money pFaised by details of | America
by special short wave. : Riganti, trackmen ‘said, apparently was going too fast coming out of the southeast turn and his car went into a side skid. It stayed in the skid across the track and through the inside guard rail, then turned over.
self with his arms, lapsed into . ‘unconsciousness 1 taken to the hospital.
DUCE’S PAPER SAYS |badly that it could ng moved by wrecker
ROME, May 30 (U. P.).—Benito| When ambulande men Mussolini’s - newspaper, Popolo reached him, he: appe ; D’Italia, published a dispatch to- Cross himself, th day under a Berne, Switzerland, dateline: saying, “An excellent source confirms the report that Gamelin (Gen. Maurice Gamelin, former French Army generalissimo)
was believed to have committed suicide following a definite invita-
into unconsciousness: § taken to the hospital.
His car was wrecked Is that it could mot be. re wrecker and was being mand.” piece by piece. The dispatch said it ‘also nad : i Home St been confirmed that Gen. Andre Hits Wan on Home 54 Corap, who commanded @ French forces holding the Ardennes sector in the Maginot Line exténsion into Belgium, had heen executed. | No word had been received from Paris as to the whereabotits of Camel ar Corap. -
ATTORNEY EXTOLLS SELF-GOVERNMENT
Times Special
AUBURN, Ind,
the 32d lap and struck concrete wall along - stretch. :
ing his brought it toa op on t apron of the southwest 4] jumped out. apparently later went to the track Pop treatment for a sprained af Riding in 10th place wher cident: occurred, Hinnershitz phile May 30—Abt 8 gsophied: “I thought I was in the
warned against countenancing any a “Sie scared after it hap :
loss of self-government in the
The achievement of self-govern-ment was an important step toward the voluntary co-operation of the whole human family for ‘its own|; struck the concrete Li skidding across the raceway. The veteran Ralph . Hepburn, Bowes Special (No: 54), spun in the home stretch in front of the stands
ennoblemens,” he said. @ “To retreat from that a chievement—to abandon that: point in human progress and accept a retrogression to the loss of individual liberties, the people of the United States should always regard as an act of perfidy.”
His car went around twice znd stopped right side up at the inside guard rail headed the wrang way, He waved to the fans and appare ently was unhurt. . A front wheel brake Theen
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