Evening Star Newspaper, June 8, 1940, Page 4

A—4 #x Minister Predicts Re-establishing of Norway's Freedom De Morgenstierne Sees Press on Anniversary Of Independence Expressing confidence that Nor- way will win its fight for independ- ence and that the Nazi invaders will eventually be driven from his coun- try, Wilhelm de Morgenstierne, Minister of Norway, held a recep- tion for newspapermen at the lega- tion yesterday to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the re-establishment of Norway as an independent king- dom. Though the German Army holds two-thirds of the country, Mr. de Morgenstierne pointed out that the Norwegian government continues to function from an Arc- tic capital north of Narvik. The government, he said, is in almost daily contact with the legation. Mr. de Morgenstierne praised the leadership of King Hazkon in the present crisis. The King is now with his government in the north. Minister de Morgenstierne blamed Nazi propaganda for the criticisms that have been directed against King Haakon for leaving Oslo. It is far better for Norway, he said, to have King Haakon head of the government that a Nazi captive. The legation, he revealed, has re- ceived no reports that Norwegian | labor is being conscripted for use in | German factories. This does not mean, however, that such may not | actually be the case. | Press dispatches emanating from | the occupied parts of Norway, the | Minister warned, are censored by the German military authorities. For this reason it is difficult to ob- tain accurate information as to what is actually happening in these | areas. | The legation’s new military at- tache, Col. Oscar T. Klingenberg, who arrived in Washington about a week ago, was present at yester- day’s reception for the press. Since 1936, Col. Klingenberg has | served as inspector general of army | artillery. According to his esti- mates, about 10,000 Norwegian | troops are now fighting with Brit- ish, French and Polish units in the Narvik area. A statement released by the lega- tlon yesterday said in part: “The peace time progress of Nor- way has been checked by wanton invasion. But history shows that fundamental moral values may only Se violated temporarily. Truth and Justice have always prevailed in the end, and surely the sun will rise once again over a free and inde- | (Continued From First Page.) front from the Channel to the Maginot Line waves of (one word | censored) defense posts were with- | standing Nazi assaults. Advance | guards consolidated new positions after withdrawing in the central zone between Amiens and Ham. Fighting ranged from the Channel resort of Treport, to the Aisne River, where the eastern end of the combat zone was marked by the villages of | Bourg and Comin af the junction of | the Oise-Aisne Canal. Between there and the Maginot | Line German batteries kept up their | artillery bombardments, drawing | fire from the French gunners. | German attempts yesterday to eross the Aisne east of Soissons | failed completely, military advices said. Resumption of fighting today | began north of Soissons, where the French continued to hold their posi- tions on the north bank of the Aisne. Northwest of Soissons advance guards battled on the north bank of the Oise. Fighting was particularly heavy in the glades of the Ourscamp Forest. Allied Planes Active. Allied aviation continued to at- tack German tank and motorized | eolumns with bombs and aerial can- 1 non. Hundreds of tons of high ex- plosive and incendiary bombs were | dropped on German rear guards, causing enormous losses, Paris ad- vices said. A French military spokesman said the western portion of the Weygand | Line, withdrawn altogether below | the River Somme, now follows an| almost straight line from the Up- per Bresle to the region south of Ham before joining the Oise and Aisne defenses. ‘The high command admitted the Nazi penetration in the west, but said the Weygand Line was hold- | ing “on all the rest of the front.” The spokesman said the German eolumn which moved southward | was composed only of tanks agd| there was not a sign of supporting Nazi infantry. French support groups moved in behind the German tanks immedi- | ately, the commentator reported, | with “all necessary dispositions” taken to isolate the armored spear- head. This was typical of the shock- absorbing, tank-trapping qualities of the defenses mapped out by Gener- | alissimo Maxime Weygand. Waygand at Front. These advanced Nazi units swung | the German attack south and slightly west of the original Allied defense lines on the wooded heights | along the Bresle River. | With Gen. Weygane himself at the front, the French troops which withdrew to new positions along the Aisne River, on the eastern part of the northern France battle line, car- ried out his command for strategic withdrawal in perfect order, the spokesman said. He added that they took up their re-established line only after having fulfilled their mission of harrying the German tanks. The military reporter said the French estimated the Nazis have about two-thirds of all their avail- for LATEST NEWS The Night Final Star, containing the iatest 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. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON FRENCHMEN LOAD BOMBS INTO AMERICAN-MADE BOMBER —A French crew is shown, according to the French caption, loading bombs into an American-made bomber in preparation able tanks in action at present along ' running eastward from the English | whole city was prepared. Barricades the Somme-Aisne front. 1 The French defenses are holding | and isolating the motorized spear- heads, he declared, while artillery and infantry on both sides clashed in front-line battles. The combat was renewed this morning with full violence but the French high command was reported “satisfied” with the progress of the fighting. Meanwhile Paris heard anti-air- craft fire at 11:31 am. The firing ceased after a few shots. Two Tank Divisions Brought Up. Two divisions of German tanks— | between 800 and 1,000—were said to have been brought from Abbeville, near the mouth of the Somme, to the central front to join some thou- sand others already operating in | the region south of Peronne, where the Nazis are driving at th Oise River and its two highways leading to Paris. | French 75s continued to blast the | rolling fortresses, the spokesman said. He declared that a single battery of these famous guns de- stroyed 25 tanks yesterday. Pub- lished reports of the Nazi losses in tanks have run as high as 700. Heavy forces of Allied planes sup- | ported the artillery and infantry | by breaking up troop concentrations, } reducing infiltrations and halting | supply trains. At the same time Nazi planes conducted scouting and bombing | expeditions against Allied com- | munications. A number of bombs were dropped on railway lines| leading west, north and south from | the Paris region, the spokesman | said. He said several ports also | thought of retreat,” held onto the | | left bank as the Nazi detachments, were bombed, but did not identify them by name. | Lt. Gen. H. R. Pownall, chief of | staff for Gen. Gort, commander of | the British Expeditionary Force, ar- | rived in France today and conferred with Gen. Weygand. His arrival was | announced by the British Embassy. Hold New Positions. i Under relentless pressure of Ger- | man tanks and infantry hurled into | the fight “without counting their! losses,” Allied troops entered the | fourth day of the “battle of Frnnce“‘ in newly-established, straightened < 3 Channel. The most powerful Nazi thrust threatening Paris was aimed at the Oise River Valley, broad natural route through which two man-made highways lead to the capital. The tank-led German push south of Peronne appeared to be the Nazis’ greatest effort. It was esti- mated that 1000 tanks suddenly swung into action in this sector on ‘Wednesday with the opening of the new northern offensive. Infantry action was fiercest on the | Aisne, east of Soissons in the re- | gion of the heights of Chemin des Dames. There the Germans un- leashed a violent artillery barrage to cover construction of a bridge ' they succeeded in throwing across | the river. But the French, under Weygand's stirring order to his army “to defend our positions without at the heavy cost of men described | by Gen. Weygand in his own night communique, streamed across under raking French machine-gun fire. The few Germans who stumbled blindly onto their objective “were | wiped out,” the communique said. | Bridge Builders Reckless. Passage of the Nazi tank fleets across the Somme evidently was prepared by reckless German bridge- building engineers. Allied machine | guns and artillery have had the north bank of the river under con- | stant fire for days. Not all the tank action was re- stricted to the Germans. British~ manned tanks, in support of in- fantry on the Somme front, were| reported to have captured a Nazi infantry detachiment. A correspond- ent with the B. E. F. said the pris- | oners told of having to march 30| miles a day and then plunging into battle without a chance to rest. Military observers described the terrain near the coast, between the | Bresle and the Somme, as poor for | defense but possessing, in its| swamps, excellent natural traps for | tanks. Many of them were said to| have bogged down. In Paris itself, where anti-aircraft fire was heard shortly before mid- night last night, although air-raid | > 1 " WOODWARD & LOTHROP 10™ 1I™ F anp G STREETS W were placed at strategic gates, gars bage trucks equipped with machine guns roamed the streets and the Champs Elysees was a fleld of steel spikes erected to forestall any at- tempted plane or parachute troop | landings. London (Continued From First Page.) | not yet have delivered their main attack.” An official source stated that “the | balance of naval strength in favor for battle activity. Describing these bombers quality, the French source said they were used to disrupt enemy communications and break up mechanized formations. of the Allies is now far greater than | at the outbreak of war.” Text of Statement. The statement said: “Since the beginning of the war, in addition to reinforcements of warships in all classes except battle- ships, the navy has been strength- ened by more than 50 armed mer- chant cruisers and more than 1,500 minor war vessels and auxiliary craft of which 58 have been lost. “The French Navy is a very power- ful and rapidly growing force. “The Allied fleets have been re- inforced by active co-operation of | Polish, Norwegian and Dutch naval forces. “During the next few months, the Royal Navy will receive a further large increase in strength compris- g every category of warship from battleships to motor torpedo boats and a very large number of auxiliary craft.” The statement listed the following | losses: One of 15 capital ships; 1 of 7 aircraft carriers; 2 of 62 cruisers; 20 of 185 destroyers; 8 of 58 submarines; 6 of 108 minesweep- ers, sloops, patrol vessels and gun- | boats. The statement said nearly a mil- lion tons of warships are being built in British shipyards and “the contrast between German naval weakness and the great and grow- ing strength of the Allied navies has apparently alarmed the Ger- man high command.” “This anxiety is shown by German efforts to convince neutral opinion | Security | support for her French ally. | as being of high —A. P. Wirephoto. power has achieved spectacular ascendancy over British naval power,” the staement said. It added: “Concentrated airpower in close proximity to its own airdromes can inflict losses on the less strongly ar- mored naval units. It has signally failed, however, to annul the decisive advantages conferred by sea power. A recent and striking example was the successful withdrawal of the Al lied armies from the Belgian coast.” Third Night of Raids. For the third successive night, German air raiders carried the war into the south and east coast coun- ties of England last night in a series of attacks marked by machine- gunning of houses at a southeast port town. The Daily Mail described these latest assaults as “terror raids.” A communique of the Air Min- istry and the Ministry of Home said “some bombs were | dropped but little material damage was done and no casualties have been reported.” Nazi Bomber Crashes. One Nazi bomber crashed and another injured and one captured. | The injured fiyer later died. The | captured German flyer struggled with police declaring he wanted to keep on fighting. While anti-aircraft units blazed away at the raiders, the Royal Air Force bore the weight of British | The Air Ministry said last night that R. A. F. bombers ranged the full length af the German ltnes and | behind the lines in Northern France, | setting fires at a large oil refinery south of Hamburg, smashing one end of & main railway tunnel south of Aachen and slashing at German- | held airdromes, rail lines, marching | troops and motorized columns. | . Alarms in 10 Counties. Air-raid alarms echoed last night in 10 English coastal counties— Cambridge, Norfolk, Essex, Suffolk, | $& Kent, Northumberland, Durham, | Yorkshire, Lincoln and Hertford- | g shire. The machine-gunning plane Jy constant issue of groundless claims | which struck at the unidentified | positions along an 80-mile front'sirens did not sound an alarm, the | of naval sinkings that German air | coast town did not drop bombs, but PHONE DIsmricr $300 bring you... 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Aerial danger of another sort momentarily imperiled Sir Stafford Cripps, new British Ambassador en route to Russia, Reuters (British) news agency reported from Bucha- rest, when lightning struck the air- plane in which he was flying near Salonica. He was unhurt and the plane reached Bucharest safely, Reuters said. U. 8. Entry Into War Seen. The Yorkshire Post, influential northern newspaper which often has been called the mouthpiece of War Minister Anthony Eden, de- clared that responsible American opinion soon might come to believe that the United States should de- clare war on Germany. The newspaper predicted this opinion would want to “give the ut- most moral weight to America’s condemnation of the foul ideas of conquest, that Hitler is rushing into effect,” and expressed hope that “America will decide to send us war supplies at extreme war speed.” ‘The press generally played up the speeding of United States plans to send armaments to the Allies, The Daily Telegraph, in its lead- ing editorial, said: “The master word is ‘what thou doest, do quickly.’ Anything that hastens victory is of immeasurable value to the whole world.” As the government heightened ! air raid precautions, Home Secre- tary Sir John Anderson broadcast an appeal for volunteers to man | defenses and said compulsory pow- | ers could be invoked if necessary. The Evening Standard, owned by Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Air- craft production, said today that | Britain “must not fall into the grasp” of “a perpetual threat of | air attack” on England by which the Germans “may believe they can | keep great numbers of our fighters | idle on the ground.” “We must hold fast to the princi- | ple that the life of one soldier in | France is more precious than the | lives of many civilians in Britain,” the Standard said, urging that | “the maximum number” of fighting ; planes be kept in action above the | battle lines. | Miller asserted the Texas legislator Rise in Anti-Semitic Agifation Described By Rabbi Miller Dies Is Described as Self-Appointed Savior Of American Liberties An alarming increase in anti- Semitic agitation has been noted by American Jewish leaders during re- cent months, Rabbi Moses Miller, | president of the Jewish People’s| Committee, told the second session of the National Conference on Con- stitutional Liberties in America in the National Press Club Auditorium today. Describing Chairman Dies of the House Committee on un-American | Activities as “self-appointed savior of the American liberties,” Rabbi had been giving the forces of anti- Semitism vigorous assistance. Too few who call themselves lib- erals have been willing to “go where the fight is thickest” and back up words with action, Prof. C. Fayette Taylor, member of the American Committee for Democracy | and Intellectual Freedom, told the meeting. He said he felt true lib- erals must be ready to defend civil liberties even in behalf of “those who denounce civil liberties.” Determined to Defend Rights. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, member of the National Committee of the Communist party, said her group was determined to defend what it considers its rights as a legal polit- ical party. Condemning “war hysteria,” which she declared was overwhelming the nation as a destructive force which would inevitably undermine civil liberties, Miss Pearl M. Hart, chair- man of the Civil Liberties Com- | mittee of the National Lawyers’ Guild, last night told the delegates that they must present a united front to preserve those rights. Citing recent cases from Illinois records which she claimed were in- fringements on civil rights, guar- anteed by the Constitution, Miss Hart, principal speaker at the open- ing session of the three-day con- clave, advocated more liberal use of the Federal civil rights statutes in prosecuting individuals, includ- Great Britain today raised the age | limits of many reserved, or exempt, | occupations, making 30,000 white- | collar workers immediately available | for service and calling up many | others by August 1. 1 The reservations were extended to agricultural workers and “distribu- | tive workers,” chiefly proprietors or | managers of businesses. {Canada Starts Work | burned in East Suffolk. One mem- | | ber of its crew was reported killed, | On 300 Allied Tanks By the Associated Press. | OTTAWA, June 8—Construction | of 300 tanks for the Allies will start | in Canada today, the director of public information announced last night. | The British government has ac- cepted an offer by the Canadian | Workers of America, speaking on | ing public officials, who violate those rights. Calls for Statements. In addition, the speaker called for public statements from leading executives and law enforcement agencies clarifying their duties and the responsibilities of those agencies for the general public's enlighten- ment. She suggested organization "Promising’ New Way Of Treafing Cancer Is Reported Dr. Millikan Discloses Further Purification of Important Substance By the Associated Press. PASADENA, Calif,, June 8—Dr. Robert A. Millikan, chairman of the | Executive Council of the California Institute of Technology, has dis- closed a “promising” new attack by science on cancer. Dr. Millikan, giving his annual report of institute progress at the commencement exercises, said: “The cancer research program has had a remarkable chemical develop- ment—the further purification of a substance which, on injection into & tumor in an experimental animal, causes the tumor in many cases to shrivel up and disappear. “The further study of this most promising attack on the cancer | scourge is being carried out vigor- ously.” Among 300 research projects com- pleted during the year, Dr. Millikan mentioned these: % “The study of the structure of proteins by X-ray and other physi- cal methods has led to the develop- | ment of a radical new theory of immunology which explains the for- mation of the antitoxins and their activity in protecting the body from disease. “Long sought by the best chem- | ists in the world because of pos- | sible medical value, a substance : which is physiologically active has | just been isolated from marijuana.” | Motorcyclists Are Added To Paris Defense Corps By the Associated Press. PARIS, June 8—Paris appealed today to motorcyclists with racing experience to join a special corps of | crack parachutist-chasers. | The city’s 110 motorcycle police will serve as a basis for the corps, which will be armed with regulation automatics, firing 32 rounds in 10 seconds. | member of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare, who spoke on “The Poll Tax”; Daniel Gillmor of New York, publisher of Friday Mag- azine, now in its 14th week of pub- | lication, and Prof. Robert K. Speer | of New York University, conference of civil liberties committees in the country’s American Legion posts, | all labor unions and other organiza- tions as a means of improving the situation. Other speakers were the Rev. Owen A. Knox of Detroit, Mich., president of the Civil Rights Feder- ation of Michigan, whose topic was “The Detroit Raids”; Harold J. Pritchett of Seattle, Wash., presi- dent of the International Wood chairman, who directed the session. " ar BUY YOUR [ FUEL OIL through us NA. 8680 HEATING 4 E. J. FEBREY & CO. government to build the tanks “of | “Terror in Grays Harbor”; James‘\ INCORPORATED a type now in use.” Dombrowski of New York City, a National Defense And The War HE United States today faces grave problems, problems the extent of which now can be but guessed. The outcome of the war in Europe will have a profound effect on American economy, regard- less of which side wins. The Editorial Section of The Star will bring you authoritative articles tomorrow to aid you in your consideration of the developments as they come. THE WEYGAND STRATEGY, on the success of which must hang the fate of France, of Europe, and to some extent of the New World, is discussed by Constantine Brown, based on the latest developments. Lloyd George also will write of the most recent moves in this stupen- dou§ conflict. THE AMERICAN ECONOMY must undergo far-reach- ing readjustments. Oliver McKee will discuss the im- mediate effect on employment and business of the $5,000,000,000 projected defense program. What are the prospects for new industries? How will the national income be affected? Mr. McKee will offer answers ‘o these questions. THE G. O. P. AND THE WAR—William Allen White will discuss the probable change in Republican strategy as the party leaders seek to return their men to power. He forecasts an effort to place the blame for our lack of preparedness directly at the feet of the present Administration. AN INTERVIEW WITH WILLKIE—Charles G. Ross has had a long and serious talk with Wendell L. Willkie, the fastest moving long-shot for the Republican nomi- nation. His opinions will be given tomorrow. You will find all of these articles interesting reading in another outstanding issue of the Editorial Section of . he Sundwy St