Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1940, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1940, s A3 ‘Dive Bombers Create Hav Trenches and Streets Alike i o« SHOES FOR ROAD-WEARY REFUGEES—Refugees from war-ravaged cities select shoes to replace worn ones S ; ; / % after arriving at a French welfare center. TRAP THAT BOOMERANGED—French caterpillar car overturned in a Dutch tank trap, according to a Ger- man censor. The trap was built by the Dutch to hinder the German Army. NEVER HAD A CHANCE—This plane, according to German sources, is a Dutch Fokker, destroyed by a square hit by a German bomber during invasion of the Netherlands. M g I D day. The Weather Bureau predicted | president of the G. A. R. Memorial : and Lt. Col. Francis S. Key-Smit! emoria ay light rain late in the afternoon with | Day Corp. Children from the neighborhood % maximum temperature at 62 degrees, schools were to decorate the graves [S= conHnuedrnEE [F 1 S8 Boy Scouts gathered early at the e eaiotan atlex Tups: while the United States Navy Banc ette of the Fort Stevens Post No. 32 | Zero milestone on the Ellipse to pro-| The invocation was pronounced | played. A detachment of soldiers of > : st 3 : : i Drum and Bugle Corps. ceed to Arlington, where they deco- | by the Rev. William H. La Roche, | the 16th Brigade, U. S. A, were t9 Recallie A e ol ' More than a dozen bands set the | rated the graves with fl(lz‘wera taken | gepartment commander, U. s.|fire the salute, closing the services RESULTS ,OF DIVE BOMBERS—Wrecked railroad station in Belgium, “the result e oo the mardes RcATeRly]| YO0 eaay Loy five A police siaUon | vy iV L and) Gtesse | G Mol f a single bomb di d b f the f G dive-bombers,” accordin, e = S G e Tl | [ hIpe e schoole § department_commander, V. F. W.,|p ... . of a single bomb dropped by one of the famous German di 5 g London away than the Navy Band swung| In other parts of the Nation, the | PSrront Commancen U . Wo| Britich Seq Captain to the German censor-approved caption. into “Anchors Aweigh.” After that|effects of the European war were establishing Memorial Day. Harlan 2 . 3 (Continued From Pirst Page.) came “The Star Spangled Banner,”|felt in Memorial Day observances. Wood, past department corhmander |s K|”ed mn Achon G iih “God Bless America” and “America.” | The Associated Press reported that | %~ ! American Legion, recited and refugees landing after hazard-| With Brig. Gen. Albert L. Cox, [ in Detroit the German Veterans’ Lincoln’s Gettysburg Ad d;‘ess and By the Associated Press. ous voyages across the Channel|grand marshal of the parade, in the | Post had withdrawn from the an- | INCOS Getly e department | LONDON, May 30.—The death of merged with the flow of women and | reviewing stand were Rear Admiral | nual parade “to avoid any embar- Snmiandes bmble;i neritan glpt- David James Robert Simson, children from the southeast English [ H. F. Leary, director of fleet train- | rassment to other foreign BrOUDS.” | oo ans, gave excerpts from the kme;? while in command of his coast area to create a huge mass|ing, Naval Operations, U. 5. A.; Maj. | All but two of the post's 86 mem- Declaration of Independence. Atter | SiP” Was announced today. He movement toward the west from the | Gen. R. M. Danford, U. S. A.; Col. | bers are American citizens and the et mlksed b pWi Ry Kemp was the husband of Arlette Thal, oncoming Nazi blitzkrieg. Willam Bryden, deputy chief of |other two have their first papers | *bh PEVE PY WIneS Kemp| daughter of the late G. J. Thal and For the people of the United stafl, U.S. A, and Gen.E. A. Oster- | toward naturalization, it was re-| b, U nRiiee OO0 BR0C bIe| Mrs. Thal of New York and Paris. Kingdom, it was not a question of | mann, U. 8. M, C. ported. cha};lain of the Veberan‘s of Foreign Capt. Simson served on the battle- whether the fury of German arms Flags at Half-Staff. Philadelphia police were assigned Wars and the American Legion, of- | ShiP King George V, which led the would strike at the British Isles, but| Flags were at half-staff on Gov-| to guard services at Fort Hill, near fered ths bensalcrion % line of the British battle fleet in the when the attack would come. ernment buildings until noon, and | Fort Washington, Pa., after Amer- ihe atte 5 M ial battle of Jutland in 1916. Siavatabes 1 Paris said | 8¢ Arlington wreaths were laid by|ican Legion officials reported they | Later in the afternoon, Memorial | BED G e el R S patriotic organizations on | heard that the German-American | D8y exercises were to be held at aexmant mit ey B e AT L I e TombYor the Unknown Soldier. | Bund planned to hold a “special | Battle Ground Memorial Cemetery Zeeland, seized from the Dutch, and | h¢, Bl L P e. |in tribute to the 41 veterans who A BETTER DEAL in Norway, captured last month, x aides represented the Presi- | meeting” simul taneously with Me- ticipated in the Battle of Fort oN dent in laying wreaths at vari-|morial Day services. pardicip could nokipefexplatned astlocaliop ol o ot i NavaliVaiAes s piaeea | IATE TN et the Stevens at Brightwood, July 11 and ° N T i A erations. pol 5 val aides placeg n the Cspital, the parade down 12, 1864, and are buried in the wreaths at the Spanish War Me- | Constitution avenue included men |12 i € SIX—EIGHT—TORPED! “Numerous troops lately stationed | morial and at the mast of the|from all branches of the gervice as | cemetery. BR P 9 in Southern Germany and parts of | U, 8. S. Maine in Arlington Na-|well as veterans’ groups, their aux- | The program, sponsored by the || H. J. BROWN PONTIAC, Inc. Austria have been withdrawn,” \iiona] Cemetery. Army aides laid | iliaries and civic organization bands. \G. A. R. and the Brightwood || gouyn Ve a5 Aoron aer aridre) wrote the correspondent of the Lon- | yreaths at the tomb of George| After the 3d Cavalry Band [Citizens' Assocation, was to open | don Telegraph from Paris. “If the | washington, at the Tomb of the |marched the 3d Battalion, 12th Tn. | with Maj, John Deavy leading the northern offensive had falled, the | gpknown Soldier of the World War, | fantry. Then came section after | assemblage in the salute to the Quality German command would have tried | 5t the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier | section of mounted men. Guns | colors. Senator King of Utah was Since to seize Switzerland. Now 1t has|of the Civil War and at the Con- |rumbled down the avenue as the | to be principal speaker and Fran- 1865 determined to stake all its resources | foderate War Memorial. 16th Field Artillery came into view. | ¢esco Della-Lana was to be soloist. | ff - in Northern France against the | Federal Security Administrator Detachments of marines and blue- | Others scheduled to participate in Mm British. Paul V. McNutt was the speaker at|jackets followed their respective | the services were R. J. F. McElroy, British military circles said that | the amphitheater at Arlington dur- |bands. The Coast Guard was rep. | Department ~Commander _Kline, | 110 B the expeditionary force still held its | ing services sponsered by the Grand | resented by a color detachment. John Clagett Proctor, the Rev. F. MATER'ALS A, 6386 main base depots in Flanders, but | Army of the Republic Memorial Day Kline Rides to Stand. Ernest Warren, Talbot O. Pulizzi acknowledged that “we, of course, | Corp. Five bands and drum and, bugle have lost a great deal of material.” Mr. McNutt, former national com- | corps sounded the beat for the sec- In new defense regulations the [ mander of the American Legion, in|ond division, composed of the men government gave the home secre- | his address declared, “America|whose comrades lie in Arlington. tary power to “suppress any news- | must meet the threat of total war Included among those in the line of paper which systematically pub- | with total preparedness. We need | march were the United Spanish War lished matter which in public opin- | not count the cost, for whatever it | Veterans, the Veterans of Foreign ion is calculated to foment opposi- | is, it will be cheap.” Wars, the American Legion and the tion to the prosecution of the war.”| With the Marine Corps Band ac- | Disabled American Veterans of the ‘While Tommies of the British Ex- companying him, Joseph Bentonelli| World War, the Army and Navy peditionary Force fell back to the | sang “Good Will to Men” and “There | Union and the Military Order of the English Channel, the press warned | Is No Death.” His voice went out | Purple Heart. the public to beware of a German |over the gravetops of Arlington,| More veterans and women'’s auxil- propaganda drive to split the Allies | where thousangs of America’s heroic | laries made up the third division, by capitalizing on the Flanders | dead are buried. among them the American Gold disaster. Stake in European War. Star Mothers. ' The National Train- The Daily Express, published by “There is no use in pretending we | ing School for Boys’ Band closed the Lord Beaverbrook, now minister for | have no stake in Europe's war,” Mr. | Parade. aircraft production, declared that| McNutt said. “Every clear-thinking| Among the organizations sched- civilians could “help their fighting | man. and woman in this Nation who | uled to lay wreaths at the Tomb of forces by resisting “Hitler's attempts | j5 devoted to America and to the|the Unknown Soldier were the to rouse recrimination between | hrinciple of populsr government | G- A. R. Memorial Day Corp., United Prance and Britain” over incidents | ynows better.. Spanish War Veterans, Veterans of leading to the final rout in Flanders.| «Indifference to the outcome of | FOreign. Wars, American Legion, Last night's war office communique | 1,5 tragic struggle means indif-|Disabled American Veterans, Ladies on the fate of the beleaguered B. E. | ference to the future of the United |Of the G. A. R., United Spanish War P consisted of an exchange of mes- | geotes of America. And the cit- | Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreign Wirs sages between its ~commander,|izens of this country now recog. |AUXilary, Arerican Legion Auxili- “Tiger” Lord Gort, and King George | ;o it America has at last|®7, Disabled American Veterans VI lauding the courage of the re- | uoyencq ‘¢ o o Au:fl’hry m;l “:t;her patriotic, civic treating army. “Because neutrality and isola- | 20d fraternal units. Lord Gort said “the army 15 GoiNg | y1on insure no peace, 1t does mot all in lis power to live up 0 3] fellow that America should go to proud tradition” in response to the | &, °% (I8¢ ATEETR Shew'e 89 10| Kiine of the G.'A. R called the King’s ‘message, which said: “The we are in grave dn.'nger of };"m. amphitheater assemblage to order. . N.W. 3401 Conn. Ave. N.W. hearts of every one of us are all with s war thrust upon us. And to He introduced James G. Yaden, past A 8th and G Ste. SE. you and your magnificent troops in 2 department commander of the o . Ave.N. oh & E : this hour of peril” e o Dy e A I | Unlted Spanish War Veterans and SIE Canlelicie tesmanship, courage | U0ited_Spenish War Veterans and d wisdom that & unified and de- Leaves Estate to Family Soriathad A astioa) iSRG ANAMAS fodoral dopoctt asurance corporation ROCKVILLE, Md., May 30 (Spe-| Excursion trains brought thou- 5 ) . 3 . ~ ds of visitors to Washington : CLEANED—BLEACHED ¥ ok} AFTER ROTTERDAM FELL—Wrecked buildings and street trenches in Rotterdam, | ficiaries under the Brookeville, 2¢d. | town. ] : Holland, are shown in this German photo, taken after the city fell to Nasi lcm'om: :‘u‘lanh:.“::: :‘dmmw n:‘:%.' The sun was expected hide BAC“RACHI to —All Photos by A. P. W in the Orpbans Court heee. bebind the cloyds most of the s 114 5 LW A Q- ¥ .