Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 10, Number 30, DeMotte, Jasper County, 13 June 1940 — N A M E S . . . in the news [ARTICLE]

N A M E S . . . in the news

CL Former French Generalissimo Gamelin was said to have committed suicide, while General Corap, chief of the French Ninth army defeated at Sedan, was reported as executed. General Bodet of the French Medical corps got six months in jail for abandoning his post in thei ill-fated Sedan sector. Thus did la Hepublique crack down. CL General Robert Lee Bullard, distinguished ill. S. army officer and patriot, was! re-elected president of the National; Security league, which favors increased preparedness and is strongly “anti-subversive” in its hawkeye activities. C. Proving that American isolation sentiment was by no means dead, some 7,000 earnest Catholics prayed for peace, assembled at St. Patrick’s cathedral in New York. With the Catholics, members of other faiths—-peace-mindedj, despite war propaganda—participated. Here were 7,000 anonymous but highly important Names in the News. CL Jean Batten, well-known and wellfavored young aviatrix, was exhibited as an ambulance driver in the Anglo-French corps, hooked up with the Gallic army. She looked wonderful in uniform.