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"|R. A. F. Planes Dive Into Smoke and Flame, Drop Water to Comrades in ‘Flanders Hell’

Soldiers still arriving from Dunkirk said the Germans

LONDON, J une 1 (U. P.).—Gen. Viscount Gort, commander of the British Expeditionary Force to France, came home from the blood-soaked fields of Flanders “on orders of His Majesty's Government” today after a miracle of military co-ordination had saved a great part of the

Allied armies caught in a German trap.

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Behind him on two battlefields that were tiny in size but may be great in British military history, Lord Gort left a handful of soldiers who fought on against tremen-

dous odds.

One battlefield was the old citadel of the burning

BOOM FOR LEWIS

REPORTED GAINING

Move to Put Prosecutor in Governor Race Grows Beyond Local Demo-

cratic Circles. By NOBLE REED ‘Some powerful political forces in Indiana today were reported to be considering a move to catapult David M. Lewis, Marion County Prosecutor, into the Democratic Qoverhor-

ship picture.

‘Although the movement was said to be only in the con-

leaders were known to have discussed the youthful prosecator in at least two conferences in the last week. As plans were furthered for

the party’s State conyention here June 27, State Chairman Fred F. Bays announced that Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt will deliver the keynote address and Governor M. Clifford Townsend will be permanent chairman, Spreads Beyond County The sudden Lewis boom was started about three weeks ago by Democratic leaders, some of whom have said for several months that they would not support either R. Earl Peters, former FHA director, or Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker, the only two announced Democratic candidates for the governorship.

. The Marion County movement at first was regarded only as a local

‘ .. organization gesture to hold the

county’s 254 delegates in line for macine maneuvers on tHe floor of the State Convention here June 27. However, the Lewis boomlet apparently spread beyond the. boundaries of Marion County this week when some party leaders with statewide influence hinted they may consider the prosecutor as a ranking contender © for the gubernatorial nomination. Support for Mr. Lewis, some observers said, would not be such a surprise in view of known opposition to Mr. Peters among the / IcNutt-for-President forces. . Also the t mackie has candidacy of Mr. Sehricker. Fr M. McHale, McNutt campaign manager, went so far as to deny emphatically a radio report: Thursday that the McNutt forces would - support Mr. Schricker, Reiterates Neutral Stand

In a prepared statement on the Schricker rumor, Mr. McHale declared the report was ‘unauthorjzed” and that his organization was overnor contest. Washington yesterday, reliable sources close to Mr. McNutt gave

. out strong hints that the political

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DIES ASKS HOME COUNCIL

WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. P). «-Chairman Martin Dies (D. Tex. of the House Committee on unAmerican Activities led off Congressional agitation against Fifth Column elements today with a request that President Roosevelt organize a “Home Defense Council” to ward off their influence.

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Movies Mrs. Ferguson. 8 Obituaries ... 11 Pegler ........ 8 Plye .. Questions .... 7 Radio Mrs. Roosevelt 7 Scherrer Serial Story...

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- sideration stage this week, several prominent Democratic

NAVY LAUNCHES

NEW SEA GIANT

35,000-Ton Washington to Have 16-Inch Guns; ~~ 30-Knot Speed.

PHILADELPHIA, June 1 (U. PJ). —America’s mightiest bid for security on the high seas, the 35,000ton battleship U. S. S. Washington, slid down the ways to the cheers and shouts of 30,000 persons at Philadelphia Navy Yard today.

Built at a cost of more than|,

. $80,000,000, the 750-foot long vessel is the latest word in naval might. It was sponsored by 15-year-old Virginia Marshall of Spokane, Wash. The Washington, sixth such Ameriéan naval vessel to be so named, was rushed to completion one month ahead of schedule under the new preparedness program. Its features have been guarded carefully, and a constant watch has

been kept by Marines since the

keel was laid June 14, 1938:

Secrétary of Navy Lewis Compton, U. S. Senator David I. Walsh (D. Mass.) chairman of the Naval Affairs Committee, and Rear Admiral Ay E, Watson, Navy Yard Commandant, spoke. Mr, /Walsh described the launching as the “beginning of a renaissanee of naval preparedness that will make America unassailable.” A crew of 1800 men and officers will man. the floating fortress, which has. a 5000-mile cruising range and a speed of 30 knots. The Washington has a 108-foot beam and a 36-foot draft. Sixteen-inch armor protects its sides and 10inch armor plates its decks against attack-from the air. Armament, when it joins the fleet in December, 1941, will consist of nine 16-inch guns, 12 five-inch secondary guns and eight antiaircraft guns. : ;

KNUDSEN INSPECTS ALLISON FAGTORY

"Ibe assistant director of administra-

Checks on Plant’s Produc-

tion and Notes Facilities.

William S. Knudsen, president of General Motors Corp. and recently appointed member of the President’s National Defense Commission, inspected production progress at G. M.’s Allison airplane motor plant here yesterday. = T. Kreusser, manager of the th

| warplane motor division, said Mr.

udsen was here to “check up on output and production” of the valuable defénse industry and “to inspect facilities.” The G. M. president was given the key job of co-ordinating defense industry production. on President Roosevelt's new commission. : Mr. Knudsen's visit here follows

9 reports that Allison officials have

experienced unavoidable delays in turning out the speedy warplane engine. Difficulties in receiving raw materials has kept production below

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the maximum scheduled, it is reported.

French, port of Calais, wher a little Allied force was reported still holding out against German forces that had cut off all support for the British and French soldiers and forced them to depend for watér and ammunition on packages that daring pilots dropped through a curtain of

smoke and shrapnel.

The second battlefield was a narrowing line before Dunkirk, where Allied troops still were fighting against an increasingly ‘powerful German offensive to hold the way ‘open for evacaution of additional soldiers assembled on the beach and for any others of the “lost” units that may be able to cut their way through the German lines.

had penetrated the last canal defense lines held by the

CALLED EN GLAND AFT

Allies there and it appeared that even the rear guard antion

‘was nearing an end. \

The Germans again bombed Allied winsots off Dunkirk and heavy German artillery caused some casualties among evacuating soldiers, survivors reported. s The Air Ministry said a ceaseless battle was being waged by British planes against the German air fleet over the Channel area and that 75 German craft had been de-

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Evacuated from Dunkirk under terrifying German bombardment, the faces of es Tommies packed aboard a British destroyer mirror their relief upon arriving safely at a southeast English port.

SACKETT HEADS ‘N.Y. FBI OFFICE

Local Agent Transferred in Defense Changes; Wynn In Charge Here.

B. Edwin Sackett, special agent in charge of the. Federal Bureau of Investigation here since October, has been transferred to New York to take charge of the FBI office there. The, transfer is the result of the establishment, of a new office of Na1tional. Defense investigation to direct investigations of spies and Fifth Columnists. Mr. Sackett will succeed P. W. Foxworth, former agent in charge of the New York Division, who will

tion of the National Defense office. E. J. Wynn, one of Mr. Sackett’s aids here, will take over the Indianapolis office. Hugh H. Clegg, now assistant FBI director in charge of training and inspection, will head the new National Defense office, which will cooperate with the Bureau of Immigration, transferred to the Justice Department under the President's

Fifth Reorganization plan. CLOUDS WILL STAY MERCURY TO RISE LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ...56 10a m. ... 64 7am ...58 1lla.m.... 68

8a. m ... 59 12 (neon)... 67 9a.m ...60 1pm... 67

Clouds over Indianapolis will continue tonight and tomorrow but June weather will bring warmer temperatures tomorrow the Weather Bureau said ‘todays

MARKET DECLINES; DAY'S TRADING QUIET

4Bond Prices Mixed; Grain

Rates Are Steady.

New York stocks made an irregular decline today but the losses generally were small. Trading was quiet because many persons were on an extended Memorial Day holiday and because traders were wait-

do in the European war. Bond “prices were mixed. At Chicago grain prices were relatively steady while cotton futures were scmewhat lower at New York.

REDS LINK TROTSKY, DIES—AND OIL MEN

MEXICO CITY, June 1 (U. P.).— Four Hundred Communists met last night, under the watch of 40 policemen who searched them for arms, and decided ‘that Mexico's: Fifth Column included: Diego Riviera, world-famous painter; Leon Trotsky and his followers;

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It's Thumbs Up for Pilots Of New 'Defiant' Fighters

‘Kids’ of Squadron Sail Into Heavy Odds and Come . Out ‘In Time for Tea.’ .

. By WALLACE CARROLL United Press Staff Correspondent SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, June 1.—The “kids” of Britain's new Defiant squadron of air fighters came back from the Flanders inferno with thumbs up—a sign of cheer and safety. The Defiant fighter-type planes, destruction of 50 German planes this week, sailed into 80 German planes over Dunkirk and came back with their week’s score nearing 60.

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already officially credited with the

Day after day these planes have

been playing a leading part in the battle of Flanders, sweeping over the French coast to ward off German bombers and fighters harassing the: withdrawal of the Allied troops. 1 watched the Defiants and an acompanying squadron of Hurricane fighters—21 in all—disappear in the sky in the direction of Dunkirk. Seventy-five minutes later they came back, as the youthful squadron leader had promised, “in time for tea.” Over Dunkirk the 21 planes ran into ~ the Germans, 40 Messerschmidts above and 40 Heinkels below them. The British attacked. Over the battle lines and over the sea the planes wheeled and roared and spat bullets and fire. Later, the two British squadrons were credited officially with destroyi 12 Germans planes and fdamaging three others. For the first time the Defiant squadron suffered a loss. Whether one, two or three planes are missing is impossible to say. But the score was given as 18 to one in favor of the Defiants. I was in a party of eight American'and British correspondents who were allowed to visit the Defiants’ airdrome 15 minutes from the battle zone, I A: German attache to the Royal Air Foree saw one of the first model Deflants before the war and report5 tempt. O

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CRITICS DECRY USE OF GUARDS

Vandenberg Demands to Know if' the Emergency Is That Desperate.

WASHINGTON, June 1 (U. P.).— The Administration’s national defense program ran into rough

weather in. Congress today -over President Roosevelt's request . for authority to call the National Guard and other reserves for active military duty. It had been sailing smoothly toward the unprecedented mark of five billion dolars. : In the meantime a dispute over emergency tax methods was ‘developing. Specifically, it concerned whether war profits taxes and a broadened income tax base should be substituted for the horizontal increases proposed by Administration spokesmen. War Department officials said there was no intention to make use of the authority to transpose the National Guard into the Army at this time, and that they, in fact, were “pressing arrangements to avoid sucha necessity.” Nevertheless, Congressional opposition developed on grounds that it would create fear and upset efforts to stabilize employment.

‘Shocking,’ Says Vandenberg

Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg (R. Mich.) said the proposal was “shocking” and “sounds like a Dees tial mobilization.” “If -we are that close to an emergency,” he added, ¢ ‘Congress should stay in session continuouly. i Opposition was by no means solid, although Mr. Vandenberg’s views were immediately seconded by Senators Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.), Robert M. La Follette (R. Wis.) and. Styles Bridges (R. N. H.). The latter’s opinion that “we cannot accomplish sg defense. program in this country if we are to have an excited leadership in the White House” was issued by the Republican National Committee. | But House Republican Leader

“glad to see that the President recommended particular attention for the National Guard. “It is very important that that branch be brought up to a high state of efficiency,” he added. —“Republicans are united in every effort to improve defenses.” Gen. George C. Marshall, Chief -|of Staff, said that President Roose(Continued on Page Two)

DUCE DIVERTS ALL FUEL FOR WAR USE

Public Vehicles Banned From Streets; Decision Near.

ROME, June 1 (U. P.).—Italy ordered citizens to cease operating gasoline-consuming vehicles effec-,

tive today. At the same time the usually au-

thoritative, Relazioni Internazionale].

today said that Italy is certain to enter the war to fight her “French and British enemies until final vietory.” The storing of gasoline was one of the final phases of Italy’s preparations for war and in some quarters it was believed that Premier Benito Mussolini might announce on Tuesday that he was ready. to enter the conflict on the side of Germany, All gasoline-consuming vehicles, including private automobiles and motorcycles, - were - ordered off the streets. Besides electric and cokeburning auto busses, only antiquated automokiles consuming coke, and the automobiles. of Italian officials were circulating. Motor traffic throughout Italy was reduced immediately 90 per cent. Special significance was attached to the arrival today of a special military mission which Generalissimo. Francisco Franco of Spain has sent, to Italy to inspect Italian .de-

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Retreat Suves Major Part of British and French Armies, Still Holding Burning Calais and Port of Dueirk

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor |

The Allied fighting front along the River, Somme turned back powerful German thrusts today and the| heroic sacrifice of rear-guard units saved a feat part of the British and French armies of the North from destruction. As the great battle of Flanders drew to its close with small Allied forces still holding.out at Calais and Dunkirk, dispatches from Berlin said that authorized Nazi military sources claimed the sinking of the British Flagship Nelson— a floating fortress of 39,000 tons—but-refused any details, as ‘not worthy of denial.” Gen. Viscount Gort, corimander-in-chie ot Expeditionary Force in France, returned to i was given a high military decoration by King > a result

of the British

of the evacuation operations’ that snatched the cream of Allied troops from disaster in Flanders.

Strive to Keep Port Open | . Lord Gort was ordered home while the Allied rear guard fought on with rifles behind a barricade of wrecked tanks and motor vehicles to keep the Dunkirk oo open for evacue

still there or any others who may fight their way fo the coast. The Germans, sudvivors said, were dosthe in relentlessly and in disregard for huge casualties. : But the story of heroism and daring and skill that. may, be comparable to any chapter in British or French military history was only one valiant phase of the spiftly expanding picture of total war-in Europe. :

Garrison Still Holds Out , | In north France and elsewhere, the conflict brought quick developments: ~ | 2 1. The British and French i declared that any possibility of a German attempé to make a separate peace by dividing the two countries had be en frustrated as a result of a meeting of the Allied supre Y e war council in Paris yesterday when they “reached full agreement on ail measures” required to meet the war situation. 2. An Allied garrison was disclosed to be still holding out at the French port of Calais after an heroic battle in which British airplanes dropped supplies’ to the besieged men in the midst of ef city. | 3. Rome, London and Berlin took the position that entry of Italy into the war on Germany’s side must be expected at any time—possibly about June 4—but in London a responsible: Turkish sources warned that any move by Italy to attack France or the Balkans would Gi in immedidte Turkish aid to the Allies.

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Nelson Details Guarded

BERLIN, June 1 (U. P.)-—Authorized Gern claimed today that the 33,950-ton British Flagship Nelson had been sunk with loss of 700 lives, but they refused all details for “special military

reasons.”

Also there wefe reports from military sources hat Adolf Hitler was ready to strike a decisive blow at Great Britain an France in the hope of bringing the war to a speedy | ends

one of the largest and most modem If destruction of the Nelson is|ships of the British Navy. confirmed; it probably would be the| Its normal |complement is 1361 most serious loss yet, suffered by the men when serving as a flagship, its British Navy. (Loridon sources s usual position. . the report was too'ridiculous to war-| The Germans have claimed that rant denial.) several - British battleships were The Nelson, sister ship of the|damaged badly or sunk by torpedoes Rodney, is a vast sea fortress built{or aerial bombardment, but the at a cost of about $35,000,000 and British have. Jadmitted the loss of mounting 10-inch guns, which no|only iy On ine 29,150-ton Royal Osk, other class in the British Navy car=|o! hich 810 perished when she ries. The battleship also mounts oe torpedoed on Oct. 14 in Soaps six-inch guns’and has special armor | Flow.

ation of the few troops—probably a division of 15,000 men .

over the deck and along the water line for protection against air and torpedo attack. Completed in .1925, the Nelson is

Allies Pledge

leaders, at-a meeting of the Allied themselves to complete unity until

announced—an accord which is an implicit pledge that France and Britain will fight side by side, as they are fighting at Calais and Dunkirk, until the war has been won.

“Sremier Paul Reynaud, Marshal Fhilippe Petain, vice premier; Gen. Maxime Weygand, Allied generalissimo; Admiral Francois Darlan, commander in chief of the Navy, and Paul Baudoin, director of economic warfare, = represented France. lL ’ Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who is also defense minister; Maj. Clement Attlee, Lor Lord Privy Seal 3

The authofized sources whi made the German claim said tha “for special military reasons” no in {Contina on Page Three)

Unity Anew |

PARIS, June 1 (U. P.) ~French and British | political and military

Supreme War Council have pledged victory has been achieved, blasting

any German hopes of negotiating separate peace, it was announced today, The conferees, meeting here yesterday, surveyed the entire war situa tion and drafted a common accord covering all nec fesaty measures, it was

John Dill, Chief of the Imperial General Staff} Gen. Edward Spears; Gen. Hastings ‘Ismay, Secretary of the Committee of Imperial De= fense, and Sir Ronald Campbell, British Ambassador, Britain. | While the opening a fe the Somme,

‘ocious mass attack on : attempting to win back bridgeheads which the French had established on the north bank on the 20-mile front between Amiens and the sea. Sensing a [threat to their entire channel wedge, the Germans opened on Page

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