Evening Star Newspaper, June 3, 1940, Page 1

Weather Forecast Fair, continued warm tonight and to- morrow. Temperatures today—Highest, 85, at 2 pm.; lowest, 60, at 5:30 am. am. From the United States Weather Bui Circulation Gains The circulation of The Evening Star is 11,000 daily greater than at this time last year and 23,000 reau report. Full details on Page A-2. Closing N. Y. Markets—Sales, Page 16. 88th YEAR. No. 35,097. ch WASHINGTON, ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION M. RC ¢ Foening Star MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1940—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. %k greater than 2 years ago. P Means Associated Press. THREE CENTS. 300 NAZI PLANES BOMB PARIS; 45 KILLED ‘Dud’ Lands Six Feet From Bullitt; Many 3 149 Are Injured,Damage s Heavyi In Slums and Industrial Suburbs Airdrome Declared Target; 1,050 Missiles Dropped In Area of Capital BULLETIN. LONDON (#).—The Air Ministry announced today that formations of heavy British bombers ‘“attacked enemy airdromes and other military objectives in Northwest Germany.” PARIS (#).—Forty-five persons were killed and 149 injured in Paris and its outskirts today in the German air attack, it was officially announced tonight. The official figures were eight dead in Paris itself. 37 in the outskirts; 54 wounded in the city, 95 in the out- skirts. The raiders dropped a total of 1,050 bombs in the Paris area, the announcement said, of which 83 fell in Paris proper and 557 in the outskirts. By JOHN LLOYD, Associated Press War Correspondent. PARIS, June 3.—The Germans bombed Paris this sunny afternoon for the first time in nine months of war, killing 35 persons and wounding many. Unverified reports said one American was killed. Unofficial reports said between 250 and 300 German planes took part in the mass attack on Paris and its environs. The number of wounded brought the total of casualties to well above 100. (Here nine words deleted by censor.) Columns of smoke rose tonight from industrial suburbs of the capital where heavy damage was inflicted. | The bombing appeared to have been a reprisal raid fnllowing:r Nazi attacks on Southern France Saturday and a French reply in the Ruhr yesterday. Where the exchange would end, none could | tell, Bomb Falls Six Feet From Ambassador Bullitt. Many building were wrecked, numerous fires started and streets | ripped up. | One of those who narrowly escaped was William C. Bullitt, United States Ambassador. A bomb fell 6 feet from him, but failed to explode. | Mr. Bullitt, at the time, was about to have lunch in a building | which does not form a part of the Embassy. ! Most of the casualties, it was indicated in first reports, were | guffered in the outlying districts and in slum sections of the city. Several bombs fell on a particularly important building in Paris, but censorship, temporarily at least, banned transmission of its name or location. Bomb Falls Near Windsors’ Home. Soldiers immediately took over control of the bombed areas. With the swiftness and efficiency they have planned since last fall, the authorities put squads of men to work filling holes in streets and sidewalks. Up and down some of the city’s most fashionable boulevards and avenues, bombs smashed into buildings, broke the pavements, sent lamp posts bouncing into the streets and jolted trees to their roots. Several bombs landed near the house of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Down the street from where they live an apartment building caved in. Next door to that place the neighbors stared glumly through paneless windows into a hole 40 feet deep, scooped magically and thunderously out of their front yard. Bombing Continues Most of Hour. The first official bulletin on the raid, published by the Havas Agency, said “several bombs fell in the interior of Paris, notably on private buildings and on several points in the Paris region.” The police, however, said casualties apparently were small, considering the tons of explosives dropped. From the roof of the American Embassy, in the Place de la Concorde, I saw columns of smoke suddenly rising within the city. This continued for the best part of an hour. During the protracted raid we saw flames where bombs had started great fires. Windows and buildings along the Seine were smashed by the terrific concussion of falling bombs. burst into flames after incendiary bombs struck them. One Associated Press correspondent, who drove across Paris | behind one of the numerous ambulances, reached the apartment houses, in a slum district on the outskirts, as nurses and stretcher bearers were carrying out the dead and the wounded. And these were many. Some of the wounded were unconscious. Others were moaning. Come in Great Numbers. I was just about to have lunch at the Hotel Crillon, across the street from the Embassy, with Maynard Barnes, first secretary of the Embassy; Capt. Jack Sterling, air attache, and Comdr. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, naval attache, when the first air raid sirens shrilled across the quiet city. We hurriedly crossed the street and climbed to the Embassy roof. Sergt. John Cook of the air attache’s office, who helped Howard Hughes at Le Bourget Field in his record round-the-world flight in 1938, was there already with field glasses. The planes came over in great numbers and soon we heard the roar of ‘French pursuit ships taking off, and heard, too, the “sudden barking of the anti-aircraft guns. Then as the dreaded bombers moved in a fearsome parade across the ancient city we heard the chatter of machine guns. Thousands Caught at Lunch Hour. Three bombs fell in one section of the city, smashing a district postoffice, knocking off a corner of an apartment house, and smash- ing through the roof of a bank. The raid occurred at 1:20 p.m. and caught thousands of Parisians during the lunch hour. Men and women sitting in the bright sunshine on cafe terraces, heard the thunder of the planes as they moved across the city. Bome ducked for cover. Others, including Army officers, remained where they were, eating calmly. One man ordered more wine. (See PARIS, Page A-2) L3 WILLIAM C. BULLITT. German Division |s Wiped Out Near ‘Rethel, Brifish Say | French Claim Nazis | Have Lost 2,000 Planes And 600,000 Men (Text of War Minister Eden's ! . Address, Page B-6.) Airdromes Blasted | As Blitzkrieg at France Is Seen | BY the Associated Press. BERLIN, June 3.—German | bombers attacked the Paris air- drome of Issy-le-Moulineaux and other French air fields in the Paris region, it was announced today in Berlin. A brief communique said: “German bombing planes this { afternoon attacked the Paris airport at Issy-Le-Moulineaux |as well as other airports and ihangars of the French air force | in the neighborhood of Paris.” The announcement of the air attacks on Paris airports was gen- | | erally interpreted here as opening a | phase of warfare such as France‘ never has known. | The attacks were accepted as a | signal that the German high com- | | mand is ready to turn from a light- | ning conquest of Holland, Belgium, | Luxembourg and Northern France | | to a smashing blitzkrieg assault on the French army wherever possible. It was uncertain whether the| blitzkrieg would follow immediately or await a further breathing spell from the exhausting three weeks of the western offensive, but Germany’s strategy has been not to wait. 300,000 Prisoners Claimed. Meanwhile, the capture of 330.000 British and French prisoners “in the course of the big destructive battle | of Artois and Flanders” was reported | by the German high command. This count was “preliminary.” | Constantly increasing pressure on WoNDER F THEY'RE WILLIN' 1To FIGHT 1T OUT {ON THIS LINE ALL SUMMER?, /e Buildins Wr NATIONAL GUARD! Bomb Destruction in Paris | Described by Eyewitness Buildings and Streets Suffer Heavy Damage During Inte nse Nazi Attack (William J. Humphreys, native of Salisbury, Md.. @ member~of | the Associated Press staff in Paris, was off duty when the German | air raiders attacked today and go t a close up view of a modern air | fifths of the Nazi tanks and 2,000 of | Dunkerque, the Allies’ exit from the | Flanders trap, was reported by the NEW YORK, June 3.—A British | high command, but it lclgnowl?dleg | Broadcasting Corp. announce- that Nazi forces were being slowe ment in German, heard here by d‘fi;‘ hc’;:‘g““;‘mr“;:;“’c::fi"’&c:" N. B. C, said an entire German Northern France still was the main | division had been wiped out by |battlefield Althéugh Nazi armies| French forces near Rethel during “"v":l’:"gi r}?r_ o d‘m“‘: in s'::; | a German assault on French po- | est Which informed quarters | might be launched anywhere be- sitions. The report did not say | tween Norway and the Swiss border. when the fight occurred. “No rest for the enemy” was the | In a report from Paris, an N. B. German watchword. C. correspondent said French Allies Still Hold Dunkerque. sources had declared Germany's 3 x losses in Flanders in the last 23 hThellhlgh command nfilm}:lgsd = days totaled 600000 men, three- Lhe Allied rearguard still held Dun- + kerque and that the German pro- gress on the English Channel port By the Associated Press. bombardment from his own escape. Several paragraphs mear the start of his dispatch were eliminated by the censor.) By WILLIAM J. HUMPHREYS, Associated Press War Correspodent. PARIS, June 3.—The sirens across the river from where I| live bégan wailing at 1:20 pm. (7:20 am., E. 8. T.) today And thé thunder of the first exploding bombs was heard 10 minutés later. My Polish maid, Anna Malarz, who used to live in Massillon, Ohio, rushed in and shut all the windows. Then she gathered together a few ¢ —m—— X @ —M9¥ X X —————————— possessions and hurried to the air- " raid shelter in the basement. AT St Gl Then the bombing began in earnest. For more than half an hour the bombardment kept up steadily, bombers circling around away, however. sored.) (Fourteen words censored.) Four | | of the wounded. none of whom was | hurt seriously, were treated at (one High Court Refuses To Review A. M. A. Anfi-Trust Case Doctors Are Expected to Go on Trial Before D. C. Tribunal in Fall The way was cleared today for the trial of the Government's anti- trust case against the medical pro- fession when the Supreme Court re- mfied a defense plea for review of decision of the United States Court of Appeals upholding the in- dictment. Action was announced as the Supreme Court adjourned for the summer. The case presumably will be docketed for trial in District Court at the fall term. Named in the indictment are the | American Medical Association, the | District of Columbia Medical So- ciety, the Harris County- Medical Society of Houston, Tex.; the Wash- Three apartment houses | | their first line planes. Withdrawal Continues, British Declare Bs the Associated Press. LONDON, June 3 (#).—An au- thoritative source said tonight that the withdrawal of British and | French forces from Northern France | 1s still going on. | Those taken out by the French Navy were reported to be now in | France and it was extremely diffi- | cult to give even an estimate of the number brought out in the dual | withdrawal. | Italy Watched Closely. Britain kept a watchful eye ‘on Italy, meanwhile, as the first phase | of the Nazi blitzkrieg in Northern | France entered the mopping-up | stage. | Growing opinion that Italy soon will enter the war was expected in the Evening Standard, Aircraft Pro- duction Minister Lord Beaverbrook’s mewspaper, which said Italy might be an enemy “within a few days.” | | confidence was summed up by the | Standard in these words: | “There’s no difference between Italy and Britain which cannot be peaceably settled, but if Italy | back.” Nazis Close In on Dunkerque. The flow of British Expeditionary Force survivors from across the Channel earlier had thinned to a trickle as the Germans, attacking under a punishing bombardment by fleets, slowly closed in on rear guard units fighting ‘o escape from Dun- kerque. Two British hospital ships. " (See RETHEL, Page A the This nation’s mood of fatalistic | | chooses war we are ready to fight the Royal Air Force and the Allied | from the west, south and east was | slow because of “terrain which has | been inundated and crisscrossed by | numerous ditches.” Nevertheless, it said, Nazi forces entered Bergues, about 5 miles south of Dunkerque. Air force and artillery supporting the steadily narrowing German line around Dunkerque are keeping the Allies under heavy fire without let- up, the communique said. It reported two destroyers, a patrol boat and a 5,000-ton freighter sunk and a warship, 2 destroyers and 10 | merghant ships damaged by bomb | hits'in raids yesterday on Dunkerque. On the other hand, it charged. | “the enemy continued air raids | against non-military targets in West- ern and Southwestern Germany | | without damaging much” last night. | | New Raids in Rhone Valley. | For the second successive day, it | | said, German air raids “extended as | far as the Rhone Valley and| Marseille” yesterday. These attacks were featured prom- inently in the Berlin press. The newspaper Zwoel Uhrblatt, | | calling the importance of the at- tack on Marseille obvious, pointed out that the Mediterranean port “is France’s most important harbor for supplies whereto are directed all (See BERLIN, Page A-3.) 1250 U. S. Planes Shipped For France in 48 Hours | | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 3.—One hun- | dred and fifty American bombing} | planes destined for France were| | loaded today on three freighters, British, Norwegian and Greek, at | Staten Island. | | By MIRIAM OTTENBERG. Mrs. Roosevelt today recommended a compulsory non-military service program embracing everyone in the country. Outlining her plan at her press conference today, the President's wife said the universal service pro- gram would be designed to develop “obedience, self-discipline, a strong physique, the skill to do a number of things with their hands and the ability to get along in groups.” She said she was opposed to com- pulsory military training. The manual of arms, she declared, could be learned in a month. When one of the reporters ex- pressed the belief that the British retreat from Flanders was an ex- ample of fine military training, Mrs. Roosevelt said she thought char- acter, dogged resistance and the ability to stand up under great strain were more necessary at Flanders. . Universal Non-Military Training Is Urged by Mrs. Roosevelt Although she said she would leave up to Congress and the people the details of the plan, she declared that three months was too short a time for the period of training. Declaring that no one group, such as the unemployed, should be singled out for the compulsory program, she said it should include girls as well as boys, the old as well as the young. Her plan, she enlarged, would make people better able to meet emergencies and would teach them more about what it means to care about the whole situation of a country rather than their indi- vidual situations. She predicted that the time would come when people would have to face the whole Nation's problems. Although she expressed herself in favor of making it compulsory, she said she doubted if the people of the country would submit to any but voluntary service. When a reporter Bes ROOSEVELT, Page A-6) ] (here one word censored) suburbs. None fell nearer than a block word censored) hospital, ~directly | (See EYEWITNESS, Page A-6.) Supreme Court Rules State May Require Pupils to Salute Flag Justice Stone Is Lone Dissenter in Case Brought | By Jehovah's Witnesses By J. A. FOX. ‘The State has the right to require public school children to salute the | ;Amerlcan flag, the Supreme Court said today in an 8-to-1 decision by Justice Frankfurter. Justice Stone was the sole dissenter. The ruling upheld a requirement of the Board of Education of the Minersville (Pa.) school district that pupils participate in the salute cere- mony at the opening of the school. The board ruling was challenged in behalf of Lillian Gobitis, 12, and her brother, William, 10, who were expelled from school for refusing to salute the flag. As members of Jehovah's Witnesses, it was con- tended that the ceremony violated the religious tenets of the children | which forbid the worship of “graven images.” Actions Before Adjournment. Among other actions, before ad- journing until next October, the | court: | Agreed to pass on litigation in- | volving constitutionality of the wage- hour law, which fixes minimum pay and a maximum work week for em- ployes. The Justice Department sought a review of a decision hold- ing the act could not be applied to the production of goods not “di- rectly connected” with interstate commerce. A Georgia lumber com- pany challenged the law. Agreed to review a case in which the Los Angeles Times was con- victed of contempt of court for pub- lishing editorials concerning two la- (S8ee FLAG SALUTE, Page A-2) George Jessel Stricken With Paralytic Stroke By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, June 3.—Come- dian George Jessel has suffered a paralytic stroke, his attorney in- formed a superior judge today in requesting continuance of a damage suit. Mr. Jessel, 42, recently came here with his 16-year-old bride. The attorney, Burnett Wolfson, said one side of Mr. Jessel's face was paralyzed and that he would be unable to leave his home for some time. Today’s action was brought by an agency which alleges Mr. Jessel owes it $3,600 in commissions, ¢ Schenck, Movie Head, Is Indicted as Evader 0f $400,000 in Taxes Conspiracy and Perjury Also Laid to Official Of 20th Century-Fox | By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, ‘ June Schenck, board chairman and exec- utive director in charge of produc- tion of tHe 20th Century-Fox Film Corp., was indicted by a Federal grand jury today on 24 counts of income tax fraud, conspiracy and making false statements to a Gov- ernment investigator. The indictments resulted from a three-month inquiry. Mr. Schenck’s bookeeper, Joseph H. Moscowitz, was named a co- defendant. Two indictments specified - that Mr. Schenck had defrauded the Government of more than $400,000 | in taxes in 1935-7. The indictments said Mr. Schenck had fraudulently deducted from his gross income “losses” registered by ostensi selling stock to friends in Holgwood, and that he had written off as business expenses Pafient at Walfer Reed Found Dead of Shot Capt. William O. Van Giesen, 40, United States Engineer Corps, was found dead today from an apparent- ly self-inflicted gunshot wound at Walter Reed Hospital. Capt. Van Giesen was shot through the top of the head, and a sawed-off shotgun lay near his body, which was found in a basement washroom. Authorities said they could not understand how the gun could have been smuggled into the hospital. A native of Michigan, Capt. Van Giesen had been a patient at the hospital since last February. For- merly he was stationed in Puerto Rico. Officers of the post said Capt. Van Giesen apparently was dissatisfied with the progress he was making at the hospital, and this morning he had planned to confer with an offi- cial in regard to his case. Detective Sergt. Jerry Flaherty said several notes were found on the captain, who was attired in civilian clothes. Capt. Van Giesen'’s widow, Gladys, was listed as a resident of Bing- hamton, N.Y. An Army board was appointed to investigate the death. A 3.—Joseph | ington Academy of Surgeons and 21 doctors, who are leaders in the American Medical Asociation and | the local medical group. Prosecution Started in 1928. They are alleged to have sought to block the operation of Group Health Association, Inc., of the Home Owners’ Loan Corp., a med- ical co-operative of Government employes. The Government prosecution was instituted in 1938, the indictment year. The defense then filed a de- murrer to the indictment, which | M. Proctor, who said the medical | profession was not a “trade” within | which prohibits restraints of com- merce. upon noted an appeal to the Court ing the Supreme Court to review the District Court findings. rejected this plea. No action was | assigned, but it was presumed that the high tribunal wanted the case to follow regular channels. | District Court Reversed. Arguments then were heard in March, in an opinion by Justice | Groner, reversed District Court. | “We must hold that a restraint | imposed upon the lawful practice of medicine—and, a fortiori—upon the operation of hospitals and of a lawful organization for the financ- ing of medical services to its mem- bers, is just as much in restraint of trade as if it were directed against any other occupation or employment or business,” the court said. When the medical groups asked the Supreme Court to review the appellate tribunal ruling, the Gov- ernment objected, Solicitor General Francis Biddle telling the court there were “no exceptional circum- stances” to justify a review at the present stage of the proceedings. R Administrator Discusses Program Harry Slattery, admmistrator of the Rural Electrification Ad- ministration, will be the guest speaker tonight on the National Radio Forum over WMAL at 10:30 o'clock. Mr. Slattery will give an in- formal discussion sbout the R. E. A. program, extent, what has been done to date, its cost and effect on the social and economic life of the rural popu- lation. The program is arranged by The Star and is heard over a cosét-to-coust network of the National Broadeasting Co. being returned in December of that | was upheld by District Judge James | | the meaning of the Sherman Act, | The Justice Department there-| of Appeals, but sought at the same | time to shorten procedure by ask- | In| October last year the Supreme Court | the Court of Appeals, which, in| ecked, Great Fires Rage LET US BE YOUR Roosevelt Plans | Non-Defense Economizing No Reference Made To Reduction of Federal Salaries In an economy move aimed at | raising funds for national defense, | President Roosevelt planned to |launch a survey today with Budget Director Harold Smith to determine how much money from appropria- tions for the coming fiscal year for | regular Government agencies and | executive departments unconnected | with the defnese program could be turned back to the Treasury. Stephen Early, White House press secretary, said the goal is 10 per cent | of the funds appropriated for each agency. The question of cutting Federal salaries has not come up, Mr. Early added. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Smith in- | tend to begin their study with a conversation at the White House scheduled for 2 o'clock this after- noon, Mr. Early said. The move is in line with steps undertaken by the President in the last two years toward having unneeded money re- turned to the Treasury for im- | pounding. Broader Tax Base Urged. While plans were getting under way at the White House for the survey, the House Ways and Means Committee, in a hearing on the defense revenue program, was urged by the National Association of Manufacturers to broaden the in- come tax base and reduce personal exemptions. | Noel Sargent, spokesman for the association, recommended that ex- emption for married persons be cut | from $2,500 to $1,500 and for single persons from $1,000 to $500. Mr. Sargent also suggested changes in the corporation tax | structure, including lessening the | present surtax range. In connection with the economy proposal. it was pointed out that tror the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, an unexpended reserve of $179,534,000 was returned to the Treasury in accordance with this policy. On June 30 this year this sum is expected to be about $184.- 978,000 Estimate of $184,000,000. Although there is no way now of telling how much money can be sent to the Treasury from the 1941 ap- propriations—the topic of today's White House conference—Mr. Early | said he expects the amount will be iin excess of the $184,000.000. Some departments, Mr. Early pointed out, are in no position to save money and indeed may run up deficits, such as the State Depart- ment. Other agencies like the Civil | Aeronautics Authority and the Civilian Conservation Corps, which are part of the defense program, will not be cut. Mr. Early said Mr. Smith had pointed out to him that this method of saving money indicates the budget system of control is working excel- lently and “justifies itself in & big way The economy study is a step in the realization of the policy which the President partly defined two weeks ago in his veto message re- jecting $207,720,140 appropriation bill for river and harbor work. Priority of Attention. In that veto message he said: “Regardless of every other con- sideration, it seems to me that the non-military activities of the War Department should give way at this time to the need for military pre- paredness. This is a need, not so apparent at the time the bill was under consideration by the Con- gress, that must now be recognized by all as a matter demanding prior- ity of attention.” Budget Director Smith is the only visitor with whom the President ex- pected . to talk after lunch. His earlier appointments included the four principal presidential advisers from the Capitol, Vice President | Garner, Spéaker Bankhead, Senate | Majority Leader Barkley and House | Majority Leader Rayburn; Maj. | Gen. John F. O'Ryan of New York, | commander of the A. E. F. 79th Di- | vision: Gov. Rivers of Georgia and (See DEFENSE, Page A-5) | Allied War Aide Reported {On Way fo See Roosevelt | By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 3.—Count Rene de Chambrun, just returned from the battle of Flanders, was reported to be flying to Washington today to inform President Roosevelt on French military operations. Nephew of the late Nicholas Long- worth, House Speaker, he is a de- scendant of Gen. Lafayette, whose hereditary United States citizenship he inherited. His wife is Marie Laval, daughter of former Premier Pierre Laval They were married in 1935 and spent their wedding trip in the United States and Canada. He retreated with the British to Dunkerque and was hurried to Lon- don with the first Allied troops to be taken from Northern France so as to go to Washington as assistant military attache in the French Em- bassy. Relatives said he took s Clipper plane from Lisbon last night. ¢