Evening Star Newspaper, June 1, 1940, Page 3

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON British Flyers Claim 5 to 1 Score in Air Battles With Germans Declare Foe Losing 2 Planes for Every One Produced Report 12 of 80 Nazi Planes Shot Down By 21 R. A. F. Craft By DREW MIDDLETON, Associated Press War Correspondent. WITH THE ROYAL AIR FORCE, SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, June 1 (Passed by Air Ministry Censor).— Royal Air Force flyers believe they are shooting down German planes twice as fast as Nazi factories can turn them out. Between flights of the death pa- trol over the English Channel, a senior officer, who holds several medals and citations, said: “I think we are knocking down five for every one we lose, putting two out of action for every one their factories can produce.” Declaring that “Jerry never goes for us unless he's got good odds in his favor,” this officer emphasized, as all England has done, that “we need ships and more ships.” “Our ships are better armored,” he said, “and our ships are more maneuverable. Whether it's nature or training, when we see Jerry we attack. When he sees us, he counts us before he fights. But we need more ships.” Big Victory Claimed. A dozen flyers related how an R. A. F. patrol shot down 12 German planes in a battle yesterday over Dunkerque, France, although out- numbered 80 to 21, and lost only one plane in the action. Some of the pilots and their ma- chine gunners, members of a squad- ron which claims to have dropped 53 German planes in four days, de- clared that Britain's new two-man, four-gun Defiants can whip their weight in German Messerschmitts any time. In numbers, the Nazis have had the edge in most of the engage- ments of the last three weeks, they said. A voung pilot called “Cookie.” re- eounting a battle during the R. A. F.s protection of Allied forces re- treating from Flanders to the Chan- nel, pointed out the technical dif- ference in British planes. He said the Germans lost 38 planes while engaging British craft firing from power-driven turrets. “Those Jerries don't seem to be able to tell us from Hurricanes,” he said. (Hurricanes fire forward.) “They come along side us, or as we say, ‘on the beam’ and the gunner lets go. It's like knocking | apples off a tree.” Yesterday's battle of the 21 against 80 was little more unequal than most of the engagements fought in the air in the last three weeks. For sheer weight of num- bers, the Germans have been on top constantly. The conflict began when the 21 British planes sought and found the German squadron of 40 Heinkel bombers that had been harassing ground troops. “Just after we found them” a pilot said, “we were attacked from above by 40 more German planes, hMesserschmitts, the best plane they ave. Downed in Flames. INFERNO—This picture, cabled “In the running battle which #pread along the coast we shot down 12 enemy planes. They fell in | flames. We saw three more wobble and spin out of line. “We didn't chase them. You don't In this war.” The flyers related their experi- ences at their base, where, 10 min- | utes after they returned from patrol duty over Dunkerque, they were sipping tea and lolling in deck Chairs. One officer emphasized that sin- gle combat “business” is avoided as much as possible. “We fly in box formation,” he ex- plained, and heaven help the man who loses it. “I call the youngsters back when they str: It might be one of Jer- ry’'s decoys he's chasing. They're good at that.” The base at which the airmen told their stories is referred to Jokingly as “the halfway house be- | tween life and death.” Three thousand planes have been serviced and refueled at this base in the last three weeks. Day and night the planes come and go. The gas is poured in, the machine gun belts refilled, motors checked and general tune-up given. Then the ship is ready to go again. While the mechanics work on the ship, the pilots and gunners rest. As the planes return from the death patrol, the occupants, young, easy and confident, clamber eut and start swapping stories. They wear yellow life jackets which they call “Mae Wests.” NuziEroups Revealed, Uruguay on Guard By the Ascociated Press. MONTEVIDEO, June 1.—Uruguay pushed a home defense program to- day with arms purchases and com- pulsory military training in the schools as. a special parliamentary commission reported finding evi- dence of Nazi organizations bossed {rom Berlin. Hugo Fernandez, who heads the eommission, said 3,000 Germans in Uruguay were dominated by such organiaztions. Ke told of raids in which evidences of espionage were uncovered. Marcantonio Bets $1 To $10 U. S. Enters War by July 15 B the Associated Press. Representative Marcantonio, American Labor, of New York bet $1 to a newspaperman’s $10 yesterday that the United States would be in the Euro- pean war by the time of the Democratic Natibnal Conven- tion “provided there still is a war.” : The Democratic convention starts July 15. Representative Marcantonio has voted against some military bills recently on the ground they were likely to involve the country in the conflict abroad. | through England: | the equal of their fathers who fought B.E F. (Continued From First lfage.) with the British to keep the Dun- | kerque defenses intact. Parts of a French Army fighting its way from the Lille sector toward the coast— a distance of 40 miles—were re- ported to have reached Dunkerque. | The Poilus who landed here good- naturedly accepted the B. E. F.s | name for the Dunkerque defenses— | the “Corunna line,” recalling Sir DESTROYER BRINGS TOMMIES HOME FROM FLANDERS John Moore's exploit in saving a | British Army from annihilation by Napoleon's legions in the Peninsular War, | British and French alike praised the fighting qualities of the Belgian | soldiers, many of whom refused to comply with the King’s order to sur- | render. The Tommies expressed their contempt for the Belgian mon- arch with a joke that rapidly spread | “What's the difference between Leopold and Judas?” “Leopold didn't take the time to kiss us.” The B. E. F. officers were high in | praise of their men, many of them territorials (the equivalent of United States National Guardsmen) who had their first baptism of fire | in Flanders. | They declared that mass bombing attacks have proved to have a stun- ning effect on troops, but to cause surprisingly few casualties; that this generation of German soldiers is not in the World War, and that the German blitzkrieg depends upon a heavy infiltration of spies for a major share of its success. Fishing Boats Aid Rescue. Swarms of fishing boats able to penetrate the shallow waters of the Belgian coast where warships could not, go are playing a big part in the rescue of the B. E. F. Hardy fishermen and merchant seamen in blue jerseys and high seaboots responded to the call to “get the lads out.” They pointed the noses of their saucy little craft at the heavily bombed shores and res- cued thousands who otherwise would have been left behind. A silent lot, they had little to say about their share in the exploit. But they praised the pluck of the troops. One fisherman said: ¢ “When we got there the beach was as crowded as Blackpool (an Eng- lish seaside resort) on a bank holi- day. Just as we had taken our full load aboard—and a bit over—Jerry spotted us and started bombing. J “But the lads were too pleased to be in a boat to worry. They sang and shouted their defiance at the planes.” The skipper of one boat told of his rescue of a Royal Air Force man on the way across the Channel. “I saw him in the water but I EDUCATIONAL. Editorfal Clerk. Trial Examination Material. Prepared by the Mount Pleasant School for Secretaries o Complete with corrected ma upon receipt highly indorsed. BUSINESS SERVICE BUREAU. Tivoll Blds., 3318 14ta St. N.W. from London to New York yes- terday, shows a destroyer laden with British soldiers from Flanders nearing a Southeastern English port, unidentified in British caption. London reported 90,000 survivors of the Flan- < D. C,. SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1940. ders fighting had reached En planes showered them with a gland. Survivors said German blizzard of bombs and machine gun bullets until the ship neared the British port. REPRIEVED FROM “HELL ON EARTH”—A Royal Navy petty officer helping a wounded soldier board a destroyer at an un- identified embarkation point in France through which Allied troops escaped from the “Hell on Earth” of the Flanders pocket. French soldiers can be seen behind the wounded soldier. Photo passed by British censor and cabled from London. —A. P. Wirephoto. didn’t know whether he was a Jerry. So I yelled, ‘Can you speak English?’ He shouted back, ‘Of course I can, you —— —— fool!” . “When we went ashore to look for B. E. F. men, the airman came with us. “As we were passing a bomb crater I heard a whistling sound. I don’t think I should have realized what it was. But the airman pulled me down into the crater. A second later a bomb went off right beside us. “If T had not been in the crater I should have been killed. Funny, isn’t it, that the man whose life I saved should have saved mine?” An artilleryman told how thou- sands of soldiers had spent two days among the sand dunes without food or shelter as German planes bombed them continually. He said the men FULLER BRISTLECOMB HAIR BRUSH Doesn’t Disturb rt Time mflllv joked and played cards, and even started a football game to keep up their spirits. . An officer said that, when the Nazi bombardment was at its peak, “I spent hours lying in ditches, with | my teeth clenched and my fingers wedged in my ears, my face buried in the weeds.” Truce to Bury Dead Refused. - Another artilleryman said: “The Germans asked for a truce to bury their dead after a 36-hour bar- rage had held up their advance. We replied, ‘There’s no truce,’ and gave them another seven hours of barrage.” But if the Tommies were cheery, the lines of women and children that u_ned station platforms as the troop RoIoR REVOLVING TOOTH BRUSH ] CLE!AVNS TEETH VERTICALLY LIGGETT'S DRUG STORES. —A. P, Wirephoto. < trains rolled in were strained and tense, They plied the men with fruit, cigarettes, tea, sandwiches— but at the same time they searched frantically for sight of husbands, sons and brothers. Elsewhere they waited, their hearts filled with dread, for publication of the inevitable casualty lists. several hundred French artillery- men who had been firing heavy gups in the Ypres sector up to the last minute, They were part of some thousands of the French rear guard and in- cluded a shipload of dusky colonial troops, who defied the threat of Nazi annihilation and fought their way out to the Channel. German Troops Advance Info Bodo, Norway By the Assoctated Press. STOCKHOLM, June 1—German troops moved into Bodo, Norway, end of the road north, yesterday,| after bombing its defenders out of town. 5 Other German units fought des- perately along a railroad through the mountains near Narvik, 118 miles northeast of Bodo, to keep a line of retreat open to the nearby Swedish | frontier. The Allies captured Narvik | earlier this week after a long siege | of the ore port. (In a communique dated some- where in Norway the Norwegian Army headquarters reported cap- ture of several hundred Germans driven east from Narvik and said others fled in civilian clothes.) A Norwegian spokesman said Bodo was abandoned after systematic bombing which “virtually wiped the city off the map.” Norwegian sol- diers fell back into the roadless mountains north of the city to block any attempt to break through toward Narvik by land. Norwegian sources said the Allies were steadily widening their hold around Narvik. The town was pic- tured as wrecked. Archduke Felix Visits D. C. Archduke Felix, 23-year old brother of Archduke Otto, pretender to the Austrian throne, was at the Wardman Park Hotel today on a brief visit to the city. He is here to see friends. He plans to go to | France, but expects to return in September for a lecture tour. SWAT THE FLY Take advantage of an early start by an aggressive war on the fly at the beginning of the season. The Star has for free dis- tribution wire-handle fly swat- ters. Ask for one at the main office of— The Star 11th end Pe. Ave. N.W. One of the rescue ships carried | "Aid-the-Allies Drive Due Among Students And Women's Clubs ‘William Allen White Organization Sets Up Unit in Capital A campaign to enlist support of college students, women's clubs and other educational and civic groups will be launched here soon by the Washington branch of William Allen White's National Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, Huston Thompson, head of the local unit, said today. The organization, formed here yesterday, believes the United States must in its own interest make every effort to send far greater quantitites of airplanes, tanks and other sup- plies to the Allies, according to Mr. Thompson, lawyer and former spe- clal Assistant Attorney General. “We are convinced that, despite the actions of a few isolated groups, most college students heartily favor helping the Allies,” said Mr. Thomp- son. He declared a committee led by Dr. Charles Collier of George Washington University would begin organization work among college- age groups in the next few days. Dr. Brunnauer to Assist. Dr. Esther C. Brunnauer is to have charge of the Women'’s Clubs Sub- committee, Mr. Thompson added. As the local group was formed at the Metropolitan Club, a telegram | to Congress from Mrs. Dwight Mor- row, mother-in-law of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, isolationist advocate, was made public. | Mrs. Morrow urged that the| United States make available to the Allles as many planes as possible without impairing national defense, that $100,000,000 be appropriated to aid millions of refugees in the French war zone and that export of all war materials which may find their way to aggressor nations be stopped. | Mr. Thompson asserted that Mr. | White, editor of the Emporia (Kans) Gazette and founder of the | movement, had been invited to set up a national headquarters in Wash- ington. Local headquarters are in room 714 of the Evans Building, 1420 New York avenue N.W. Roper Among Members. Membership of the Washington | branch includes Daniel C. Roper, | former Secretary of Commerce; Dean Acheson, former Undersecretary of | the Treasury; Phillp Marshall Brown, educator; Dwight F. Davis, | former Governor General of the Philippine Islands, and Dean Wil- | liam Crane Johnstone of George | Washington . University Junior Col- | lege. Thomas P. Morgan, jr., was named treasurer of the local group, and Melvin D. Hildreth, secretary, | Hitler "Bifing on Granife, Brifish Minister Says By the Associated Press. LONDON, June 1.—Arthur Green- Wwood, minister without portfolio, as- sured radio listeners last night that Adolf Hitler is “biting on granite” | and told them there “is no need to be downhearted.” 5 “The enemy beats on our very | 8ates with his mailed fist,” declared | | the Laborite member of Prime | Minister Churchill's war cabinet. | . “We have suffered grievous losses. | We have inflicted greater losses on the enemy. “Our power in the field, on the | seas and in the air waxes as his | wanes. Our economic resources ex- pand as his are eaten up. Our eco- | nomic stranglehold makes it more | and more difficult for him to replace his weapons of war.” | A’hint of a new call on the serv-| | ices of civilians in the British war | effort was given when Greenwood told the nation we “must face far- reaching changes.” “More and more,” he said, “we shall all become active combatants in the war, serving the national cause in different ways.” for LATEST NEWS | The Night Final Star, containing the latest news of the day during these dramatic times, is de- livered every evening | throughout the city and suburbs between 6 P.M. and 7 P.M. | Telephone National 5000 for immediate delivery. DISCOUNT COMPANY OFFICIAL Cars ® New Guarantee ©® New Terms-Service ©® Liberal Trade-in 1940 MERCURY 4-door Trunk Sedan . 1940 FORD 85 De Luxe Fordor 1940 FORD 85 5 Pass. Coupe STEUART MOIORS 6th & N. Y. Ave. N.W. NAt. 3000 Open Evenings Belgian Pavilion At Fair Is Closed By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 1—The Bel- gian Pavilion at the World's Fair was closed to the public yesterday. No official explanation accom- panied the closing. Dr. Joseph Gevaert, Belgian commissioner gen- eral to the fair, retired from the building and members of hiz staff declined to comment on the closing. A Belgian restaurant in the build- ing remained open. Defense Program To Increase Deficit $4,173,700,000 U. S. Expenditures For Fiscal Year Put At $10,451,000,000 By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt's expanded national defense program, it was estimated officially today, will swell | Federal expenditures in the fiscal | year beginning July 1 to $10451.- 000,000 and the year's deficit to $4,173,700.000. | When the President sent his an- | nual budget message to Congress Jjust five months ago he anticipated spending $8,524,200000 and having a deficit of $2,976,200,000. " Revised estimates by the Budget Bureau and Treasury showed today that, on the basis of legislation already pending, the defense budget | has since been increased about $1,500,000,000 to a total of $3,600,- 000,000 and the work relief estimate has been raised from .$1,122,800,000 to $1,400,000,000. | These figures are based on the actual checks to be written by the Treasury in the coming fiscal year | and do not include approximately | $500,000,000 of additional Army and | Navy contracts to be let at once, | | but not to be paid for until some time after July 1, 1941. | Small reductions were shown for most other items, such as regular 1941 departmental running expenses, which have been cut by Congress in action so far taken. Meanwhile the Treasury has raised its estimate of receipts from exist- ing taxes from $6,150,800,000 to $6,- | 1261,000,000, and is looking toward an extra $525,000,000 from the new tax program. 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