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Conimoreshtik exercises for 3029 graduating High! School pupils “in ‘Indianapolis are being held throughout the City this week. Broad Ripple High School's commencement will be held tonight in the school itorium. Public Schools Superintendent DeWitt S. Morgan will speak. Tomorrow there will be three city commencements—Manual’s in Cadle Tabernacle, Tools at the Butler Field Ho . St. John's Academy. a Central will hold - ceremonies at the school. Evans Woollen Jr. will present the Manual diplomas and Harvey Hartsock will ‘present them at Tech. Both are school board members. On Wednesday, St. Agnes Academy and Shortridge High School will hold exercises. | Earl Buchanan, a

the diplomas Shortridge graduates in -Cadle bernacle. The Washington High School commencement | will be held next Friday in the Butler Field House, with School mmissioner John White presenting the diplomas. Park School will hold its commencement: Friday and Cathedral High School on June 11. Commencement exércises for Ben Davis was held Friday night and J. Malcolm Dunn, County Superintendent of ools, awarded the diplomas. The 204 Crispus Attucks High School graduates also received

~ their diplomas Friday.

SUMMER IS HERE, BUREAU INTIMATES

LOCAL TEMPERATURES 6am ...68 10a m ... 81 7a. m ... 6 11am ., 82 ~8a m ... 13 12 (noon)... 83 9a. m ... 7 lpm ..84

Summer is upon us, ‘the Weather Bureau said py inference today. In the Bureau's professional words, it will be fair tonight and somewhat warmer; tomorrow increasing cloud_iness and continued warm,

ICKES QUESTIONS AIDS WASHINGTON, June 3 (U. P.).— Secretary of Interior Harold .L. Ickes today asked all employees of his Department of State, under oath, whether they are members of any political organization or party advocating the “overthrow of our constitutional form of government.” -

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to U. S. Flag

Is Upheld by Supreme Court

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action of, & Pennsy on reli The ‘children, William ‘and. members -of the Jehovah's Witness against p ‘of - images. They were ‘denied school privileges after refusing to comply with a school regulation requiring pupils to recite, with hand outstretched to the flag, these words: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic’ for which -it stands; one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice :to. all.”

Stone Lone Dissenter

In the flag salute case, Justice| Felix Frankfurter wrote the majority opinion of a court divided 8 to 1. Justice Harlan F. Stone alone dissented. In an eight-page opinion; Mr. Frankfurter said that the right|a and :freedom to follow one’s conscience in the matter of religious worship must harmonize with basic pririciples which protect such rights. “The flag is the symbol of our national unity, transcending all internal differences, however large, within the framework of the Constitution,” Mr, Frankfurter said. “This Court’ has had occasion to say that . the flag is the symbol of the naTo's power, the emblem of freedom in its’ truest, best sense ... it signifies. government resting on consent of the governed; liberty regulated by law;ethe protection of the weak against the strong; security against the exercise of arbitrary power, and absolute safety for free institutions against foreign aggression. The Court announced that it

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WILLKIE BOOSTERS

Delegates to Name Resolu- ~ tion Aid Tomorrow. (Another Story, Page 13)

By DANIEL mM KIDNEY Times Staft Writer WASHINGTON, June 3. — Boosters of Wendell Willkie are hopeful today that his strength as a possible Hoosier “favorite son” will be increased at a meeting of the Indiana G. O. P. National Convention delegates to he held in Brown County tomorrow. Their hope is based on tite fact |, that Will' Irwin, Columbus capi=

jional Committeeman, is to be the ost. " Mr. Irwin long has been an out-

instructed delegate-at-large to the convention in Philadelphia June

vote. . Jerome 'D. Beeler, last week that he also is for Mr. | e. There may be several others, it was said. : The Indiana delegation meeting was called to select a member of the Resolutions Committee for the convention. It has been predicted that the choice will be Rep. Charles

A, Halleck, dean of the Indiana ). P. Congressmen

would accept for review four impor-|1€] | Public Service Commissioner Perry

EYE STATE MEETING

pS "Stipréme- Court today. _umbeld he said, in expelling two:

: s grounds, to salute the ao suid in i Lillian Gobitis of Minersville, Pa., are

sect, which eontends that saluting

the flag violates the second of the 10 ‘Commandsnts—the prohibition

OMER JACKSON ‘STROKE VICTIM

Party. Leaders dors Moy State Attorney General, McNutt - 4 Appointee.

jana today mourned the death ts attorney general, Omer Stokes Se , who died late Saturday of a ‘heart attack at his home in Grfentily Funeral services for Mr. Jackson, who rose from a precinct commitan to a high place in Democratic politics, will be held at 2'p. m. tbmorrow at his home. The Rev. Herschel Reed, pastor of the Greenfield Christian Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Park Cemetery, Greenfield. Honorary pallbearers will be Governor M. Clifford Townsend, Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker, U. S. Senator Sherman Minton, U, S. Senator Frederick VanNuys, Federal Security Administrator ‘Paul V. McNutt, Congressman William H. Larrabee, Democratic National Committeeman Frank McHale, Democratic State Chairman Fred PF. Bays, €onservation Commissioner Virgil Simmons, Supreme Court Judge Michael Fansr, U.S. District Attorney Val Nolan,

[cCart, Internal Revenue Commisoner Will H. Smith. E. C. Gorrell, president of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Asso- | (Continued on Page Three)

SCHENCK INDICTED . IN INCOME TAX CASE

NEW YORK, June 3 (U. P.)).— oseph F. Schenck, chairman of the oard of Twentieth - Century-Fox Im Corp., was indicted by a Fedal Grand Jury today on charges income tax fraud. { Mr, Schenck, long one of the most important men in the motion picture industry, is charged with conspiracy, perjury and making false statements to a Federal inyestigator in addition to the income tax count. - | Mr. Schenck faces penalties, if convicted, aggregating 167 years in ‘and fines of $160,000.

fpalist' and Indiana Republican Na- J,

spoken backer of the Willkie presi- | dential boom. Since he is an un-|

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Evansville, | | Bighth District delegate, stated here |

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. Joseph H. Moskowitz, who served bookkeeper for Mr. Schenck at 2,000 a year, also was named in he counts of the indictment relating to income tax conspiracy.

STOCKS TURN LOWER; TRADE VOLUME LIGHT

New York stock prices turned

afternoon trading today after moving narrowly during morning dealings. Volume was light. Steel shares were weak after being strong earlier in the day. Steel

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bassador William C. Bullitt. killed. a A bomb that

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Five schools hit by 15 bombs,

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FD. R. MOVES T0 ECONOMIZE

10 Per Cent Cut in. Costs Calculated to Boost Defense Funds.

WASHINGTON, June 3 (U, P.).— President Roosevelt today began work on a program to reduce general Government expenditures by 10 per cent and apply the savings to the national defense fund. He scheduled a conference with Budget Director Harold Smith cn ways of impounding part of the normal appropriations for the varlous executive departments. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said the President believes that 10 per cent is the proper cut

also realizes, he said, that some de= partments cannot give up their ap=| propriations and may éven incur

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Salary ‘Cuts ‘Not Considered. The question of general salary reductions has not come under consideration, Mr. Early said. He added that the Administration hopes that increased defense expenditures will result in considerable re-employ-ment and permit a reduction in relief expenditures. Mr. Early pointed out that frequently, under normal conditions, a certain amount of budgeted appropriations are saved and returned to the Treasury each year. For the fiscal year 1939, such. savings amounted to $179,534,000, he said. In fiscal 1940, which ends June 30, a total of $184,978,000 should be returned. Mr. Early said that it Is hoped the normal savings for fiscal 1941 would exceed this 184 million dollars. He explained, however, that no definite figure could be set at this time. Mr. Early’s announcement came after Mr. Roosevelt had conferred with his legislative leaders, presumably about the economy move, the dispute over his request for added authority over the National Guard, and other aspects of the defense program.

Byrd Urges Economy

Senator Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.) has announced ' his intention of seeking a mandatory 10 per cent reduction in all non-defense appropriations, including such a cut in Congressional salaries, The House Ways and Means Committee went into its final two days of hearing on the 10 per cent defense ‘“super-tax” bill to raise 656 million dollars annually. Noel Sargent, secretary of the National Association of Manufacturers, urged the (Continued on Page Two)

TECH WILL ENROLL INDUSTRIAL CLASS

» Men over 18 who wish to take the six weeks’ industrial training course at Tech High School may enroll at the School Administration Building, the office of Vice Principal Edward E Greene at Tech or Crispus Attucks High School from 1 to 5 p. m, Thursday and Friday and from 8:30 a. m. to noon Saturday. The course will begin at 9 a. m. next Monday. It includes training in machine shop practice, foundry work, blue print reading, shop drawing and related work.

By PERCY NOEL United Press Staff Correspondent

PARIS, June 3.—Six waves of 155 German airplanes bombed Paris and its suburbs today with more than 120 incendiary and high explosive missiles that caused an esti- | mated 100 casualties and narrowly missed United States Am-

proved a dud crashed through the ceiling of a building in which Mr. Bullitt and other distinguished guests of Air Minister Laurent Eynac were drinking sherry. [Flying glass showered the luncheon party but the American pd injury. The bomb missed Mr. Bullitt “God must be with me,” Mr. Bullitt later told Freie Fone trans-Atlantic telephone, ere struck and a temporary hospital was it was officially stated. Two nurses were

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1 witnessed the early afternoon poring raid—first-on a belligerent capital—from the. highest point in the city}

Montmartre and later toured

around the Capital where I saw rescue units digging into the wreckage of apartment houses. /

The German planes were French fighting craft and by

the sky with white puffs of smoke to fly at an altitude of

probably 32,000 feet. (An Exchange Telegraph

six German planes were shot down and that 35 persons, including an American, were killed.

(A Berlin dispatch said

tacked the airfield of Issy Les Moulinaux, near Paris, and

other air fields nearby.)

Smoke from the Paris suburbs indicated that at least five fires had been started, one at a suburban factory.

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French Fliers Report Germans Execute Giant Turning Movement in North.

PARIS, June 3 (U. P.).—French reconnaissance planes reported today that the German Army of the North, totalling more than 600,000 men, was executing a gigantic turning movement and it was reported here that the German High Command was massing tanks, artillery and infantry for an attack on the Oise-Aisne-Argonne ' front as its next step in a desperate attempt to bring the war to a quick end. French air squadrons were sent out to bomb roads and troop concentration points behind and in the path of the German Northern Army. Gen. Maxime , Weygand, Allied generalissimo, was reported to have made his troop dispositions in readiness to meet an attack on the Oise-Aisne-Argonne front within from 48 to. 72 hours.

Transports Attacked

Possibly as the preliminary to an all-out bombardment, in preparation for mass attack, the Germans increased: the tempo of their heavy gun fire between Rethel and Sedan at the eastern part of this front, in the Argonne Hills. Two minor German attacks, of local nature, against French advanced outposts in front of the Maginot Line east of the Moselle were taken for a.tempts to divert attention from the Northern Army’s turning movement, Germany opened a furious attack on the 200¢ransports and 100 warships evacuating the Allied Northern Army from Dunkirk.

The War Office here refused to (Continued on Page Two)

Max Emmery, Municipal Airport control tower operator, sat upright as a message cracked over his radio yesterday afternoon. i “NC calling the control operator,” said a voice, steady but tense. “0. K., NC,” Emmery replied. “The plane is on fire,” the voice said. “Call an ambulance and a fire truck. We're going to try to make it back to the fog ia ; “Where are you?” Mr. Emmery asked. tat Nenty-Nve miles south at 2500 Mr. Emmery went into high gear. He ordered the fire truck and am-

‘oil line had broken,

tem and ie large crowd at the airport ‘up its ears,

'NC Calling --- Plane on Fire! 'O.K.NC, Ambulance Coming’

and ambulance raced across the field and the crowd surged after them, scanning the sky. A smoking, cream-colored Stinson cabin plane appeared at about 1000 feet, its motor feebly puttering. Then the motor stopped. and the plane circled down and slid in for a perfect landing. The plane was covered with oil 8 nd belching smoke. Out climbed four frightened occupants, including the pilot, D. H. Smith, Birmingham, Ala. A quick examination revealed the

thrown on to hot motor parts, which caused the smoke. The party had just left the local airport for Atlanta when the acci-

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In Sussex There Was—a Chicken

LONDON, June 3 (U. P.).— Bombs: dropped by a German. airplarie near Forest Row, Sussex, during the night scored a direct hit on a chicken and killed it, residents reported today. There were no other casualties and material damage was slight. ' It was believed the German plane was in difficulty and jettisoned its bomb cargo. The bombs fell near a mansion in which the Duke and Duchess of = Windsor had stayed for a time last year.

REFUGEE DESCRIBES TERROR IN DUNKIRK

Tells of Civilians Without Food Huddled in Cellars.

LONDON, June 3 (U. P).—A Frenchwoman who landed from Dunkirk this afternoon reported that almost every house in Dunkirk and the adjoining town of Malo Les Bains had been razed- and that civilians, many of them without food, were huddled in cellars. Piles of dead lie in the streets and cannot be removed because of Gorman bombing and shelling, she said. - German incendiary bombs, she said, had started so many fires that the whole town seemed to be ablaze at one fime. Civilians in many instances have been with little or no food for 15 days except what has been distributed - by the British troops. : One day, the Frenchwoman said, planes flew over in waves of 20, attackirig the city at 10-minute intervals between 7 a. m. and 10 p. m The vvoman was brought here on cne of the boats evacuaiing Allied troops from Dunkirk.

REPORT JESSEL’S FACE IS PARALYZED

HOLLYWOOD, June 3 (U. P.).— George Jessel, 42, radio and film comedign, who recently married Lois Andrews, 16, today was reported seriously ill. One side of his face is paralyzed. Announcement of Mr. Jessel's condition was made by his attorrey, Burnett Wolfson, who asked for continuance of a suit against the actor for $3600 in agency commissions scheduled for trial. today in Superior Court.

EARL KILLED IN FRANCE LONDON, June 3 (U.P.).—The Earl of Erne, godson of the late King Cieorge V and Lord-in-waiting to King George VI, died of wounds

the bomb-pocked boulevards

forced by fiercely attacking | anti-aircraft fire that dotted

dispatch from Paris said that|

the German planes ‘had at-

William C. Bullitt. . . . "oa;

‘must be with me.’

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600,000 GERMANS MASS FOR DRIVE |

Hitler Expected to Try for Quick Knock-out ° 'As Signs Multiply That Italy Will Enter War Within Few Days.

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor

German bombs crashed down on Paris today in the war's first raid on a belligerent capital amid increasing signs that Germany is poising her military might for a crushing blow at France before tackling England. . One bomb, a dud, narrowly missed U. S. Ambsssaiion William C. Bullitt and it was reported 100 civilians wera killed or wounded.

The German Avy in sorthern France was Joported to be executing a great wheeling movement, presumably-pres paratory to an a n the French Sommeé-Aisne line, The tank-led German army in the north was estimated at more than 600,000 men.

This coincided with fresh indication. of an imminent move by Italy. The great Italian exposition scheduled to be held in Rome in 1942 was postponed indefinitely. ie It was recalled that at the outbreak of war last Septem ber Premier Benito Mussolini ostentatiously called attention to plans for the fair which was taken as evidence that Italy, would remain a non-belligerent. !

Battle of Flanders Continues

Chancellor Adolf Hitler was described in Berlin as fol« lowing operations most closely and even going into the front lines. The battle of Flanders—admittedly won by Ger. many in a military sense—went on before the devastated French port of Dunkirk, where the last British and French soldiers fought against great ‘odds with courage that aroused the admiring comment even of the Berlin newspapers. German armies, according to the High Command, cap= tured 330,000 British and French prisoners in addition to the entire Dutch and most of the Belgian armies (probably an=:: other 700,000 men). At the town of Cassel alone, the Germans said, the, British and French lost 3500 prisoners, 700 . dead and 50 armored cars. : But, it-was admitted by Berlin, the small Allied force pushed back against the port of Dunkirk still was fighting with tremendous courage and tenacity against a massive German attack from three sides. The Germans, , i was stated, are advancing slowly.

Garrison at Calais Holds Out

At Calais, too, a little Allied garrison still held out, it was believed, while the Royal Air Force continued to make daring flights through anti-aircraft fire and the smoke of the burning port to drop them supplies in the citadel. Everywhere else in that part of France north of the Somme River, the German forces appeared fo be in control, There still were no definite figures on losses by either side in the Battle of Flanders. he British said they had , rescued 80 per cent of the troops Germany claimed to have ' surrounded, but the number of British soldiers involved was still uncertain. The B. E. F. had)been estimated at mere

than 300,000 men. ~

iT ¢ The French said that a large number of their troops in ° the north also were evacuated by Dunkirk but casualties and

prisoners were indefinite. ‘

Both British and French sources claimed that Germany, had suffered tremendous losses in both men and materials (Confgnued on Page Three)

‘Nazis Closing In Berlin.

BERLIN, YJuné 3 (U.P.).—German operations in the Dunkirk ares, where air and Jand forces were closing in on the Allied rear guard, were admitted b e High Command today to be encountering difficulty be= cause of the flooded terrain, but it claimed that 330,000 British and French prisoners had been taken in the “battle of annihilation in Fland~| 1 ers and Artois. A communique issued from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters claimed German capture of the fortified town of Bergues, south of Dunkirk and just east of Calais. Earlier military quarters had said that the quick cap of the Dunkirk fortress was a certainty. Other claims by the High Command: Allied plane losses yesterday totaled 59 plates, ‘against 15 listed as the Germans.

and ope merchant ship were sunk | ; at D k and two destroyers, one warship and 10 merchant damaged by bombs. German forces maintained t defenses of the Narvik, Norw area against tremendous odds foe the enemy. One enemy merchan : ship was sunk at the entrance to | the Ofoten Fjord, the apploach to Narvik. } The High Command said enemy continued air a

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