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88th YEAR. No. 35,092.WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1940—THIRTY PAGES. *** THREE CENTS.
ALLIES FLEEING TRAP, FIGHT WAY TO COAST
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Narvik Is Captured by British;
Lille and Ostend Taken by Nazis;
French Claim 3 Somme Towns
Retreating Forces
Put Up Stiff Rear
Guard Resistance
>y the Associated Press.
In three pulverizing smashes
Hitler’s legions today stormed
Ypres—famed World War battle
field—and captured Lille and
Ostend, the high command an
nounced, to tighten the steel
jawed trap on 500,000 Allied
. troops encircled in Flanders.
On the strength of these re
ports it was apparent that the
Allies were now retiring to the
English Channel—seeking that
means of escape from the Ger
man “surrender or die” on
slaught rather than attempting
to break through the German
salient to the south.
The retreat toward the Chan
nel was subsequently confirmed
In London, where reliable sources
said the British expeditionary
force was fighting a “stiff rear
guard action” to cover its with
drawal. The retreat was de
scribed as in “complete order,”
with the morale of the troops
“quite unshaken.”
Military observers found no indi
cation today that any of Britain's
expeditionary force had yet es
caped by sea from the Flanders
pocket.
Counterattacks Repulsed.
The Nazi high command said des
perate French counterattacks had
been beaten off “with the bloodiest
Josses.”
The British Admiralty meanwhile
announced the capture of Narvik,
Arctic iron ore port in Norway,
where a German garrison has been
under siege more than six weeks.
German capture of Ostend nar
rowed the “back door” of the
trapped Allied forces to a width of
• about 40 miles.
Wave after wave of Nazi bomb
ing planes roared over the French
and British forces falling back to
the sea, but the British expedi
tionary force was reported “still
fighting as a unit” in the harried
withdrawal.
London military circles said the
B. E. F. had retreated “some miles
toward the coast.”
Fighting in Dunkerque.
Fighting in the streets of Dunker
que was reported by Berlin sources,
who intimated that the swastika
flag might be hoisted at any moment
over the port, main supply base of
the northern Allied armies pocketed
In Flanders.
The French admitted that the
situation in the north was “ex
tremely critical” as a result of the
capitulation of the Belgian Army,
but said the Allies still were holding
a 30-mile stretch of coast extending
northward from Dunkerque.
Unofficial reports that the French
were massing their armies of the
center for a drive to relieve the pres
sure in Flanders were giver color by
s Paris communique rnnouncing new
successes along the Somme and
Aisne Rivers.
Allies Push to Channel
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 29.—Undaunted by
19 days of steady action, the British
expeditionary force began a move
ment from Flanders toward the Eng
lish Channel today in a desperate
attempt to get through the steel
Jaws of a closing German trap.
Military circles declared the Brit
ish expeditionary force—aided by
French units fighting with it—had
started pushing toward the Channel
as word reached London of an Allied
success in Norway—the taking of
Narvik, Norwegian ore port.
Britain's expeditionary force was
said by reliable sources to be fight
ing "stiff rear guard action” to cover
Its withdrawal.
Morale Declared “Unshaken."
The fighting was reported in com
plete order, without chaos or con
fusion. Morale of the trapped troops
was termed “quite unshaken.”
The withdrawing army was said
to have established a strong rear
line, but it was regarded as “almost
certain” that much equipment and
material would have to be aban
doned. This, it was said, would be
destroyed to keep it from German
hands.
Military circles refused to give the
position of the British troops whose
fight to reach the Channel was made
more perilous by the Belgian capitu
lation which opened the way to a
swift Nazi attack on Dunkerque.
The port was reported still in
Allied hands as the British, under
going a heavy shelling, bombing and
machine-gunning, but still "fighting
as a unit,” dropped back.
Military circles said the retiring
British were being admirably sup
(See LONDON, PagTXT)
Man Dies in Swoon From Bolt
, 0h!?’ May 29 W—Three
hundred pupils escaped injury today
as lightning struck their school, but
Principal L. L. Weaver died of
shock. Mr. Weaver, 58, saw that all
S* lefl ‘he building, then re
afterward.’ ^ “d diCd ■*«*
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Invaders Pouring Through Gap
Left by Belgian Surrender
Battle Rages in Streets of Dunkerque;
Nazis Expect Flanders Victory in 2 Days
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN. May 29—The French
industrial city of Lille and the Bel
gian Channel port of Ostend have
been seized, the British Expedi
tionary Force is facing destruction
and an important segment of the
French line has collapsed, the Ger
man high command announced to
day as its legions circled for the
kill in the Flanders-Artois trap.
The powerful German right flank
crunched down through Flanders,
through territory yielded in the
Belgian capitulation, enveloping not
only Ostend, but also the Belgian
towns of Bruges and Langemarck,
while the air force stepped up its
drive to divide and destroy.
Hundreds of power-diving bombers
were thrown into the tremendous
battle and it was freely predicted in
Berlin that the entrapped British
and French, estimated at a half
million men, would be wiped out or
be behind German barbed wire
wire within two days. German com
mentators revised their previous
estimate of the "pocketed” British
French forces, 700.000 downward to
500.000.
Germans declared that counter
attacks to crack the steel Jaws of
the trap had been beaten off “with
the bloodiest losses.”
German troops moving from the
east and the west met at Lille, scis
soring through Allied forces. One
body of allied soldiers was said to be
pressed into an area about 12 miles
square, south of Lille
Dunkerque, one of th enext targets
for the Germans smashing along
the French coast of the English
Channel, was reported by flyers to
have been burning for three days
and there were unofficial advices
that fighting raged in the streets—
possibly Allied troops in combat with
another German mechanized flying
column.
With their strategic position im
proved tremendously by the Tues
day dawn capitulation of the 300,
000-man Belgian Army on orders
from King Leopold III, the Germans
were able to report, in addition, the
following successes:
Storming of Ypres, Belgian high
way center, some 20 miles from the
Channel coast between Dunkerque
and Ostend.
Simultaneous attack on Kemmel,
(See BERLIN, Page A-3.)
Jackson Asks Law
For Registration
Of All Firearms
Letter to Bankhead Says
Passage Would Be Big
Aid to National Defense
By J. A. FOX.
Enactment of a law which would
require the registration of all fire
arms on the ground that it “would
be of great importance in the inter
ests of national defense” was urged
today by Attorney General Jackson
in a letter to Speaker of the House
Bankhead.
Accompanying the letter was the
draft of a bill to put the Department
of Justice proposal into operation.
The law would cover all firearms
at present in the hands of private
citizens, as well as those which they
acquired in the future. The regis
tration plan for firearms already on
hand would require the owners to
list them with the Internal Revenue
Bureau Office nearest their place of
residence.
There already Is in existence a
National Firearms Act, but this ap
plies only to certain types of wea
pons, including machine guns, sub
machine guns, sawed-off shotguns,
sawed-off rifles and silencers.
Would Tax Transfers.
The proposed new law would im
pose a tax on all transfers. In the
letter to the Speaker, the Attorney
General said:
“I desire to recommend legisla
tion to require registration of all
firearms in the United States, and
a record of their transfers, accom
panied by the imposition of a nom
inal tax on each transfer.
“Such a step would be of great
importance in the interests of na
tional defense, as it would hamper
the possible accumulation of fire
arms on the parts of subversive
groups. It is also of outstanding im
portance in the enforcement of
criminal law. It is only too well
known to require detailed depict
ing that Federal, State and local
law enforcement officers have fre
quently been killed by desperate
criminals who equip themselves with
firearms and have no hesitancy to
use them in an endeavor to escape
apprehension. On a number of oc
casions in recent years, members of
the personnel of the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation met their
deaths in this manner while un
flinchingly performing their haz
ardous duties.
Law Abiding Protected.
"It is to be particularly noted
that the legislation, the enactment
of which I recommend, would in no
wise improperly limit the freedom
of action of peaceful, law-abiding
persons. The contemplated legisla
tion would not hamper or hinder
any person from purchasing or pos
sessing a firearm. It would merely
require him to register the firearm
and to record any transfer of the
weapon. It would interfere with
the personal liberty no more than is
the case with the requirement that
is imposed in every State in respect
to registration of automobiles. It
is equally important that death
dealing weapons be registered so
that a record of the traffic in them
may be maintained for purposes of
nnHnnni defense and for enforce
ment of the criminal law.”
Moffat Approved
President Roosevelt’s appointment
of Jay Pierrepont Moffat of New
Hampshire as Minister to Canada,
succeeding James H. R. Cromwell,
resigned, won appro^l todayof
the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee.
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D. C. Police Checking
Groups and Meetings
For 'Fifth Columnists'
More Active Members
Of Possibly Subversive
Organizations Are Listed
Members of the Metropolitan Po
lice Department Public Relations
Squad are engaged in an intense
first-hand investigation of organi
zations and mass rallies in which
there is the slightest indication of
anti-American activities.
Although Maj. Ernest W. Brown,
police superintendent, declined com
ment on questions concerning in
vestigation of "fifth-column" activ
ity in the District, a member of
the Public Relations Squad said to
day that undercover men have been
attending ar average of one mass
meeting a day for some time.
Scores of pamphlets, dodgers and
leaflets have been collected by the
squad and prepared in report form,
it was learned, and detailed accounts
of meetings attended by the investi
gators are being compiled.
Names of officers and the more
active members of several organi
zations have been filed in the, squad
records for “reference when needed,"
among them a number of known
Communists.
One recent mass meeting attended
by a detective was preceded by dis
tribution of more than 1,200 an
nouncement leaflets, one of which
was received by the chief of de
tectives.
One officer said that the squad
for several years has compiled
records of activities of groups with
Communist and Fascist leanings
and that the Communistic Daily
Worker has been a regular clip
sheet in the squad headquarters.
This work, however, had slacked off
considerably until about 10 days ago,
it was explained, when there ap
peared renewed activities of "sub
versive elements.”
On occasion copies of reports com
piled by undercover men have been
forwarded to the White House, State
Department and Maj. Brown, it was
learned.
No arrests have been made. One
investigator said there have been "no
causes for arrests, but we have
orders to keep well abreast of the
situation.”
Lt. Horace Lineburg, chief of the
public relations squad, described the
activity of his men for the past
several days as “little more than
routine,” and declined further com
ment.
Summary of Today's Star
Page.
Amuse
ments _B-12
Comics ..B-10-11
Editorials A-8
Finance ...A-15
Lost, Found B-5
Page.
Obituary ..A-10
Radio .B-10
Society _B-3
Sports . A-12-14
Woman’s
Page-B-2
Foreign
French recapture three villages
along Somme. Page A-l
Capture of Lille and Ostend claimed
by Berlin. Page A-l
British battling way to coast to es
cape German trap. Page A-l
Lack of mechanized forces blamed
for British defeat. Page A-S
Italy on brink of war in Mediter
ranean. Page A-4
National.
Congress starts work on tax bill to
raise defense funds. Page A-l
Civil Service Commission to recruit
skilled workmen. Page A-l
Man sees two drown, rescued after
J-hour fight. Page A-4
Washington and Vicinity
Aviation forum considers national
defense problems. Page B-l
Aviation leader warns against Gov
emmnet plane plants. Page B-l
Editorial and Comment
This and That. Page A-8
Answers to Questions. Page A-8
Letters to The Star. Page A-8
David Lawrence. Page A-9
Alsop and Kintner. Page A-9
Frederic William Wile. Page A-9
Maj. George F. Eliot. Page A-9
Miscellany
Nature’s Children. Page. A-7
Serial Story. PageA-U
Service Orders. Page A-18
Vital Statistics. Page A-18
Bedtime Story. Page B-18
Letter-Out. Page B-18
Winning Contract. PageB-18
Uncle Ray’s Corner. Page B-ll
Cross-Word Pusde. Page B-ll
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Reich Casualties
Heavy in Violent
Battle, Paris Says
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 29.—On a great con
solidated front along the Somme
to Aisne Rivers, the main French
Army carried on continuous opera
tions today against the Germans,
while the position of the entrapped
Allied forces of the north was
acknowledged to be “very critical.”
These hard-pressed men in the
Flanders pocket, fighting desperately
against annihilation, were declared
to be inflicting heavy losses on the
Nazis.
The operations to the south, which
the French authorities cautiously
had called “important,” apparently
were aimed for the moment at
wiping out the last German pockets
as part of a general push forward in
an effort to relieve the northern
forces.
Whether such an offensive had
gone beyond this preliminary stage
was not immediately clear.
Three villages south of the Somme
were declared to have been recap
tured and French troops likewise
were reported to have succeeded in
eliminating all but a few bridgehead
positions previously occupied by the
Nazis.
Most of Amiens Won Back.
Most of Amiens was said now to
be in French hands, and a German
raid on French positions in the Ar
dennes sector near the town of
Chateau Porcein was thrown back,
said a communique, by heavy
French fire. The Maginot area to
the east remained quiet.
But, however important was this
operation of the southern Allied
wing, it was overshadowed in the
great drama to the north.
The battle in the Flanders pocket
was described by a War Ministry
spokesman as “murderous,” but he
gave no indication of the turn it
was taking. The French and Brit
ish were said to be showing “admir
able courage.”
Along the Channel, it was said,
Dunkerque itself “is not directly
menaced.” Calais was also still in
French hands at the latest reports
last night, the sources added.
The French and British air forces
violently attacked fuel reserves at
the North German ports of Bremen
and Hamburg as well as communi
cation centers and armored columns
behind the German lines, according
to the War Ministry.
Fighting "Extremely Violent.
Fighting in the northern sector
was described as “extremely violent”
on the Lys River, which runs through
the area in which the Allied forces
have been encircled by the swift
German troops and left alone by
the surrender of King Leopold's Bel
gian Army.
Along the Rhine the French
opened a terrific artillery fire which
shattered a railway line and an un
identified station, the spokesman
said.
German troops were said to have
been repulsed “without difficulty”
when they struck at the French
forces along the Aisne in the vicinity
of Chateau Porcien.
The high command communique
said the Germans were "thrown
back” at this village, which lies on
the river 5 miles west of Rethel,
which for about a week has been the
(See PARIS, Page A-4.)
Seyss>lnquart Takes
Charge in Netherlands
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 29.—The German
controlled Dutch radio heard in
London today announced that
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, former
Austrian Nazi leader, assumed su
preme authority over civil govern
ment in the conquered Netherlands
at noon.
A proclamation by Seyss-Inquart
said Dutch law would remain in
force “as far as possible” and that
he would consult Dutch authorities,
whom he requested to continue
their duties.
He declared, however, that every
thing, including Dutch economic in
terests, must be subordinated to “the
vital struggle of the German people,
fighting for their very existence.”
The Spirit of '40
Civil Service Commissioner Bars
Communists and Bundists
D. C. to Share in Increase as Navy
Adds 50,000 Civilian Workers
By OLIVER McKEE.
With the Government poised for
its greatest peacetime civilian re
cruiting drive, the Civil Service
Commission announced today it will
no longer certify for employment
persons established to belong to
"the Communist party, the German
Bund or any other Communist or
Nazi organization.”
Assigning no reason for this step,
the commission is following a prin
ciple laid down by the House in
passing the relief act; the Senate
has applied a similar proscription to
employment in interstate commerce
in passing the La Follette civil lib
erties bill.
Under civil service law, no person
may be admitted to an examination
who is not a citizen or owes al
legiance to the United States, un
less there is a lack of eligibles who
are citizens.
To carry out its part of the na
tional defense program, the Navy
Department, it was disclosed today,
is planning to add about 30,000
civilian employes to its rolls during
the next few months.
Though the War Department has
not yet completed its estimates of
the additional personnel required,
the expansion in the military estab
lishment will result in increasing
the number of civilian workers by
many thousands.
Moat of the increase in civilian
personnel in national defense
agencies will take place in the field.
The District of Columbia will share
in the increase, it was said at the
Civil Service Commission today.
In addition to the War and Navy
(See CIVIL SERVICE, Page A-6.)
U. 5. Considering
Offering Haven to
Belgian Refugees
Problem Studied,
But No Decision
Made, Says Hull
By the Associated Press.
Secretary Hull said today active
consideration was being given to
the possibility of receiving Belgian
refugees in the United States.
The State Department chief said
conversations had been held with
representatives of the British and
other governments about many
phases of the refugee problem as
well as with private individuals and
groups.
Mr. Hull said also there had been
no developments concerning diplo
matic relations with the Belgium
government now in refuge in Paris.
This statement was taken to indi
cate continuance Of United States
recognition of the present govern
ment.
On the question of refugees, Mr.
Hull said the matter of whether it
would be feasible to receive war
refugees here had been discussed,
but thus far there had been no de
velopments.
He said conversations were con
tinuing on this point as well as on
other phases of the refuge problem,
and added that this Government
was naturally interested because It
was a problem of very far reaching
importance.
Mr. Hull’s statement was prompt
ed by a declaration to the House of
Commons today by R. A. Butler,
British Undersecretary for Foreign
Affairs, that an appeal to the
United States to take as many war
refugees as possible was under con*
sideration.
Lindbergh Offers Home,
Scene of Tragedy, to State
By the Associated Press.
TRENTON, N. J., May 2#.—Gov.
A. Harry Moore said today Ool.
Charles A. Lindbergh had offered
to New Jersey as a gift the home
at Hopewell from which the infant
Charles A. Lindbergh, jr„ was kid
naped March 1, 1932.
The Governor said he was "all in
favor" of the State accepting and
added that he was advising Col.
Lindbergh to that effect.
Gov. Moore suggested that the
big-gabled, white house, once oc
cupied by the famous flyer and his
wife, the former Anne Morrow, could
be converted into a State children’s
home.
The property includes about 382
acres. The home was built In 1931
at a reported cost of $50,000.
Acceptance would require legis
lative approval.
A
Hatch Act Extension
Approved by House
Committee, 16 to 7
Bill Affecting Nearby
Communities Offered
By Sasscer
The House Judiciary Committee
today voted out the Senate-approved
Hatch bill to extend to Federal
State employes restrictions on po
litical activity now applied to Fed
eral employes alone.
The committee, which once
shelved the legislation, and then
reversed itself and agreed to give
it further consideration, was re
ported to have approved it by the
vote of 16 to 7.
The Hatch legislation would
broaden the so-called Hatch “clean
politics'’ act passed last year for
Federal workers. It would apply to
State workers paid in whole or in
part by Federal funds the act’s re
strictions on "pernicious" political
activity.
It also would limit the expendi
tures of a national campaign com
mittee to $3,000,000 in any campaign.
(In 1936 the Republican National
Committee disbursed $8,065,524 and
the Democratic National Committee
$5,030,848.)
Another provision would limit the
total of campaign contributions by
any one person to $5,000.
Meanwhile, a separate amend
ment to the Hatch Act providing
that Government employes residing
in communities within 50 miles of
Washington could hold municipal
offices paying salaries of less than
$600 annually was introduced by
Representative Sasscer, Democrat,
of Maryland.
Government employes living in
places where they made up a large
proportion of the population were
enabled by civil service regulations
to hold municipal office until the
passage of the Hatch -Act limiting
political activities inadvertently re
voked this privilege.
The bill approved today by the
House Judiciary Committee would
restore- the privilege, but pas
sage of the Sasscer bill would take
care of the situation in the event
the other measure is blocked.
Britons Reach Sweden
After 75-Mile Fight
■7 the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, May 29 (By
Radio).—The Swedish News Agency
safd today 180 British officers and
soldiers—cut off several weeks ago
by the German advance from Oslo
crossed into Sweden after fighting
their way 75 miles to the frontier
from the vicinity of Lillehammer,
north of Oslo.
The soldiers, many suffering from
exposure, were taken to hospitals
and internment camps.
i.
Congress Tackles
Job of Raising
Defense Taxes
Navy Shipbuilding
And Air Measures
Sent to Senate
BULLETIN.
Chairman Dough ton of the
House Ways and Means Com
mittee said today the adminis
tration hoped to raise $656,000,
000 for defense taxes in a new
tax bill which he will introduce
tomorrow. The Senate Finance
Committee, meanwhile, agreed
to meet and discuss the tax pro
gram informally until House
action is completed so that all
speed possible toward passage
would be attained.
Congress buckled down today to
the admittedly thorny problem of
raising $683,000,000 a year in new
taxes and of borrowing more money
for tne $3,000000.000 preparedness
bill proposed yesterday by admin
istration and congressional leaders.
Both the Senate Finance and
House Ways and Means Committees
started consideration today of the
defense tax problem.
The legislative blueprinting of de
fense details continued apace, the
House dispatching to the Senate a
brace of newly-approved bills de
signed to speed up shipbuilding and
to authorize a $1,137,000,000 expan
sion of the Navy’s air force and air
bases. Representative Marcantonio,
American Labor, of New York cast
the only vote against them.
On defense financing. Congress
appeared agreed on a two-fold ap
proach
The first called for an immediate
increase in the national debt limit
from the present $45,000,000,000
now almost reached—to $48,000,
000,000. This step would permit the
flotation of $3,000,000,000 of “Na
tional defense obligations,” to be
paid off in five years.
The second step involved new
taxes earmarked specifically to
liquidate the $3,000,000,000 "Na
tional defense loan.*’ The taxes
would be effective for the five-year
(See DEFENSE, Page A-6J
Exile Parliament
To Decide Legal
Fate of Leopold
By the Associated Press.
PARIS. May 29.—The legal fate of
Leopold III as King of the Belgians
will be decided Friday by the Belgian
Parliament.
The refugee parliament, in emer
gency session in a Paris dance hall,
already has approved the action of
Leopold’s cabinet yesterday in "dis
owning” him as sovereign because
of his surrender to Germany.
A dispatch from the Belgian
frontier reported that Leopold had
been returned to the Brussels palace
by the Germany Army.
For the Friday session the Parlia
ment will move to the Paris Town
Hall. There, besides taking up
formal action on the King, new
statutes for the government of the
fugitive peoples of invaded Belgium
will be mapped.
The Paris press quoted informed
circles as saying Belgium’s gold had
been rushed safely out of the coun
try and would be placed at the dis
posal of the new government.
Belgian Foreign Minister Paul
Henri Spaak said in an interview
he was “completely without infor
mation” on the present whereabouts
of King Leopold HI following the
Belgian monarch's capitulation.
Wherever he is, Spaak declared, “he
no longer has any power.”
Spaak said King Leopold lost his
sovereignty and that if he should
conclude a peace treaty with the
Germans it would not be valid “be
cause we consider that any act he
can accomplish now will be invalid.”
The newspaper Paris Soir reported
today the Belgian royal children
had arrived at Lisbon, where they
are expected to remain for the rest
of the war.
President to Ask
More Millions
To Equip Army
Supplemental Fund
For Mechanization
Planned at Parley
BULLETIN.
The administration drafted
another business leader today to
facilitate the defense program,
appointing Donald M. Nelson of
Chicago as procurement director
of the Treasury, the key position
of Government purchasing agent.
By JOHN C. HENRY.
President Roosevelt probably will
ask Congress for a supplemental
defense appropriation ranging be
tween a half-billion and a billion
dollars, it was indicated after tha
Chief Executive conferred at the
White House today with Treasiuy
and War Department advisers.
With the request likely to go to
the Capitol within a week it is now
expected that emphasis will be
almost entirely, if not exclusively,
on Army materiel.
Likely to be proposed are consid
erable increases in War Department
orders for fighting planes, tanks
and other mechanized equipment.
It is believed that the startlingly
successful operation of such equip
ment by the German armies in
vading Belgium and France has
prompted defense experts here to
intensify our own rearmament in
this direction.
3,000 Planes Planned.
It is believed possible that im
mediate orders for 3,000 military
planes, in addition to the number
just approved by Congress, will b«
asked.
Conferring with Mr. Roosevelt
today were Secretary of Treasury
Morgenthau, Secretary of War
Woodring, Assistant Secretary of
War Johnson and Gen. George C.
Marshall, Army chief of staff.
In asking Congress on May 16 for
the essentials of developing “a larger
and thoroughly rounded out Army,”
the President recommended that
$546,000,000 of an immediate $896,
000,000 appropriation be earmarked
for Army purposes. In addition, the
^rmy would share in the $186,000,000
of contract authorization which he
proposed.
To See Dorothy Thompson.
Likewise bearing on the war crisis
and our own defensive steps were
several other conferences scheduled
for the President today.
First on the list was Dorothy
Thompson, newspaper columnist,
who has just returned from Europe.
Shortly after noon, Mr. Roosevelt
was to see Count de Salnt-Quentln,
the French Ambassador, at the re
quest of the State Department.
Marriner S. Eccles of the Federal
Reserve Board also was to see tha
President, and for his luncheon ap
pointment Mr. Roosevelt asked At
torney General Jackson to tha
White House.
It was believed that conversations
with Mr. Jackson would deal prin
cipally with Justice Department
plans for integrating the Bureau of
Immigration and Naturalization
into the broad program supervising
alien regulation in this country.
The bureau is to be transferred to
Justice from the Labor Department
by terms of the President’s last re
organization order.
Tomorrow Mr. Roosevelt plans his
first meeting with the commission
of seven civilians named yesterday
under the Council of National De
fense Act to co-ordinate and imple
ment the Nation’s resources behind
the defense program. Headed by
Edward R. Stettinius, jr., and Wil
liam Knudsen, two of the Nation's
leading industrialists, the group was
to come to the White House at noon.
Mr. Roosevelt saic^ the «ix men
and one woman—drawn from the
ranks of business, labor, Govern
ment and consumers—would have
the job of seeing that defense orders
are filled as expeditiously as possible,
without upsetting the normal trend
of things more than necessary.
The appointments evoked critical
comment from Alf M. Landon, 1938
Republican presidential nominee.
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3.)
Committee Speeds Bill
To Deport Bridges
By tbe Associated Press.
The House Rules Committee voted
unanimously today to give legisla
tive right of way to a bill directing
the Secretary of Labor to deport
Harry Bridges, West Coast C. I. O.
leader.
The committee acted a short time
after Representative Allen, Demo*
crat, of Louisiana, author of the
legislation, testified that the House
Immigration Committee had adopt
ed a special resolution urging the
Rules Committee to give the meas*
ure preferred status on the calendar.
The deportation measure would
direct the Secretary of Labor, who
recently dismissed deportation pro
ceedings against Mr. Bridges, to
take him into custody and deport
him to Australia, the country of
which he is a citizen.
Travancore's Troops
Offered to Britain
By the Auocuted Preu.
BOMBAY, May 29.—Services 'of
all armed forces of the State of
Travancore, which has a popula
tion of 5,000,000 have been offered to
Great Britain, the native Prime
Minister declared today in an ad
dress to planters.
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