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Germans Claim 16 Transports and Three Warships Sunk by Dive-Bombers
Fierce Rear-Guard Action Fought
To Hold Last French Channel Port
British Trapped in Flanders
'Cut to Pieces/ Nazis Say;
Lille Surrender Denied
BULLETIN.
PARIS (/P).—The first formations of the broken
* Allied armies of Flanders to escape the German cam*
paign of annihilation embarked at the English Chan*
nel today under the protecting fire of the French
and British fleets.
By thr Associated Press.
Retreating Allied troops fought desperate rear-guard
actions today against the smash of an estimated 440,000 to
600,000 Germans rushing across the plains of Flanders to
crush them before they can escape by sea at Dunkerque.
Many French units, completely cut off from their British
comrades in a 12-mile pocket around Lille, were reported
by Berlin as laying down their arms. This is denied by the
French.
The German high command declared the great battle of
Flanders was fast nearing its end with the destruction of
the English and French armies fighting there.
Hitler’s dive-bombing Stilkas sank 16 transports and three
British warships and damaged 34 other vessels waiting to embark
the fleeing Allies at Channel ports, the Nazi high command said.
The British expeditionary force was pictured by Berlin as
being “cut to pieces” almost within sight of the chalk cliffs of
Dover, across the English Channel.
Eighty-nine Allied planes were reported shot down or de
stroyed by the Germans in what appeared to be at least the prelude
to the biggest mass aerial battle of the 21-day-old war in the west.
The British Air Ministry said the Royal Air Force shot down
62 enemy planes, including 25 bombers, and damaged 17 others in
encounters with “many lafcfce formations of enemy aircraft en
gaged in bombing operations” on the French and Belgian coasts.
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Some Divisions Out
Bj the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 30.—The British
Expeditionary Force and its French
companlons-in-peril fought today
toward Dunkerque and possible es
cape in a tremendous rear-guard
battle against the death grip of the
Nazi military machine.
Germans were closing in on the
Allies despite continuous bombing
and machine-gunning by the Royal
Air Force.
Some success in the withdrawal
was indicated by a statement in
authoritative circles that some di
visions had reached the safety of
a southeast port in England.
Meanwhile the “grim struggle
goes on,” these circles added.
The southeast coast of England
took on a “front line” appearance,
with streams of women and chil
dren leaving it in fear of German
bombers, carrying portable posses
sions with them.
The government is expected to
order all civilians to leave the
southeast coast if Germany consoli
dates her air bases on the French
coask—only five minutes by bomber
sway from England.
Some French Evacuated.
Battling the numerically superior
Nazi air force, British aviators yes
terday claimed to have disabled 69
planes—a ratio of 7 to 1 to then
own losses.
The at least partial success of
the rear guard fight in Flanders was
seen in the fact that French as
well as British soldiers were brought
to safety, despite the German claim
that Dunkerque Harbor, from which
Allied Navy is removing the fleeing
troops, had been rendered untenable
by air attacks.
Many wounded soldiers are being
safely transported across the Chan
nel to England despite the fact, the
British charge, that a hospital ship
was bombed unsuccessfully yester
day and two others were sunk in
Dieppe Harbor recently.
The stream of soldiers, wounded
(See LONDON, Page A-3.)
Torpedoed Argentine Ship
Is First American Victim
By th« Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, May 30.—The
lint war torpedoing of a ship flying
the flag of an American republic,
the 3,425-ton Argentine freighter
Uruguay, brought expressions of
•deep concern’’ in the Foreign Min
istry today.
Foreign Minister Jose Maria
Cantllo, who announced the sinking
of the grain-laden ship, declined to
say what attitude his government
might take until he had studied all
the details.
He said the Uruguay, which sailed
April 26 for Antwerp, was halted by
a German submarine Tuesday night
140 miles off Spain; that Capt.
Antonio Garcia and his crew were
ordered to abandon ship and that
then a torpedo was fired into her
hull
Owners of the Uruguay said she
• had been sailing under Allied con
voy Tor Limerick, Ireland, having
changed her course after the Ger
man invasion of Belgium.
A fishing boat brought 13 of the
crew of 28 to Spain. The others were
last reported rowing toward the
Spanish coast in a lifeboat.
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Allies 'Destroyed'
Bt the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 30.—British and
French Annies in the Flanders
Artois trap have been destroyed,
the German high command an
nounced today, and the German
air force has sunk three Allied
warships and 16 transports trying to
effect withdrawals from the pocket.
British and French troops able
to reach the Channel coast through
the raking bombardment of the
German air force and artillery
were said to have plunged into
the sea, trying to swim to the small
British boats lying at anchor to
carry them away.
These boats and protecting war
ships were the particular targets of
the German fighter and destroyer
units in the air.
More than 60 ships were said to
have been hit by the rain of bombs,
including 3 warships and 16 trans
port vessels reported sunk.
Ten warships and twenty-one
merchant ships of “all sizes” were
reported "seriously damaged or
fired.”
Battle Seen Near End.
The high command said the bat
tle of Flanders and Artois is "near
ing an end with destruction of the
English and French Armies fight
ing there.”
Many French units, cut off from
all hope of escape to the sea with
their British comrades by the Ger
man capture of Lille, French indus
trial city, were reported laying down
their arms.
These men—no one here knew
their number—were compressed into
an area 12 miles square south of
Lille, sliced off from the main
Flanders pocket.
At Lille Apex of Triangle.
This smaller pocket dangled at
the Lille apex of the trangular trap
around the British expeditionary
force and other French units. The
base of the triangle, about 40 miles
from Lille, was a 20 or 30 mile strip
of French and Belgian coast, Dun
kerque at the center of the line.
(Estimates of the number of
British and French troops
hemmed in by German attackers
and the Channel coast now
range from that made today by
voee j3E.KL.iiN, rage a-ih.;
First Cousin of King
Is Killed in Action
By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 30.—Lord Frederick
Cambridge, a first cousin of King
George VI, has been killed in action,
it was learned in London today.
Lord Frederick, a captain in the
Coldstream Guards, was the second
son of Queen Mary’s oldest brother,
the Marquess of Cambridge.
He was reported last Sunday as
missing in action.
No Late Editions
Today
The Star will follow its usual
holiday custom and eliminate
the 5:30, Night Final and Night
Final Sports editions todey.
Subscribers to these lete editions
will receive the regular home
edition.
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War Bulletins
LONDON (JP).—A hospital ship
arrived today at a South Coast
port, carrying British Expedi
tionary Force wounded. The port
holes had been smashed by
machine-gun bullets and the
funnels were riddled. British
sources said German planes at
tacked the vessel in a French
port yesterday while it was taking
on wounded men.
ALEXANDRIA (£’).—The Allied
fleet units off this Eastern
Mediterranean base have been
further increased and periodic
maneuvers are being held. Egypt
Is speeding special defense meas
ures.
PARIS (JP).—A Belgian govern
ment spokesman said today seven
groups of Belgian soldiers still
were fighting with the Allies de
spite King Leopold’s order to
surrender.
Britain Hastily Scours
U. S. for Light Arms to
Meet Invasion Threat
Only 195 Planes Sent
To Allies in April; Hull
Removes an Obstacle
By Ult Associated Press.
Facing the threat of invasion,
Great Britain has turned hurriedly
to the United States for machine
guns, rifles and small-arms ammu
nition.
British purchasing agents, it was
reported authoritatively today, have
canvassed the stores of dealers in
surplus munitions for weapons which
experts believed of use only to the
Home Guard units which have been
organized since the German Army
neared the English Channel.
At the same time actual orders
and negotiations suggested that both
Great Birtain and France were un
dertaking to build up in this coun
try a second-line sources of supply
for light weapons.
Aircraft, however, continued the
prime Allied concern, but the export
figures for April did not assume
impressive proportions. France re
ceived only 168 planes and 230 en
gines, the United Kingdom 23 planes
and 12 engines, and Canada 4 planes.
Large-scale deliveries of the thou
sands of planes now on order are
not scheduled until late 1940 and
1941.
One obstacle to prompter delivery
was removed yesterday when Secre
tary of State Hull ruled that United
States citizens might travel in bel
<See SUPPLIES, Page A-4.)
Mrs. Burleson Receives
12-Year Prison Term
By thf Associated Press.
COLUMBIA. S. C., May 30.—Judge
G. Duncan Bellinger today sen
tenced Mrs. May Walker Burleson
of Galveston, Tex., to 12 years in
the penitentiary.
She was convicted of manslaught
er in connection with the slaying of
the second wife of her divorced hus
band, Col. Richard C. Burleson of
the United States Army.
The judge said in passing sentence
he would have given the 51-year-old
defendant the maximum of 30 years
if the jury had not recommended
mercy.
Mrs. Burleson gave no sign of
emotion as she heard the sentence
pronounced.
Judge Bellinger termed the shoot
ing “a sordid case.”
Defense attorneys withdrew the
motion for a new trial, which had
delayed sentencing since the verdict
was rendered Tuesday night.
Chief Defense Attorney Claud N.
Sapp said immediately after the
sentencing that “we will not appeal”
to the Supreme Court.
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Shuttle System
Aids Removal
Of Troops
By the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 30.—With the Allies
accepting final defeat in Planders,
the French and British navies set
up a shuttle system at the heavily
bombed Channel port of Dunkerque
today to supply bitterly-fighting Al
lied troops and remove contingents
by degrees from the Nazi trap.
A military spokesman said the
operation was progressing method
ically amid violent combats on the
two flanks where, with one excep
tion at Mount Cassel, the German
advance was being held.
The Germans were believed to
have captured Mount Cassel, 2 miles
from the city of Cassel and less than
20 miles south of Dunkerque.
The spokesman estimated the Ger
mans had thrown 40 divisions, be
tween 440,000 and 600,000 men, into
a converging offensive against an
estimated 300,000 French and British
troops being rushed to the coast to
escape by sea. *
Dogged resistance of rear guards
is protecting the retiring forces and
has allowed an orderly backward
movement.
The sharp fight of the Allies also
has blocked the Nazi push on the
Allied flanks.
situation In Flanders.
The military spokesman pictured
the Flanders front as follows:
Allied troops hold a double line,
the first running along the Yser
River from the vicinity of Nieuport
to Ypres and the second from thy
region of Oravelines to the out
skirts of Cassel.
British troops are consolidated
principally on both sides of this
corridor with strong defenses estab
lished along a counter-sec ting "line
of mounts” which separates Ulle
from Dunkerque.
In the bottom of this pocket,
southeast of the mounts, French
troops are protecting the rear.
German attacks have been con
centrated from St. Omer to Cassel.
Attack Directly on Town.
A secondary Nazi attack was re
ported launched directly on Dunker
que by strong armored forces, but all
failed except the Mount Cassel
action.
Dunkerque itself is solidly en
trenched against German attacks,
and, witf! Calais, is holding firmly,
military reports said.
Off the coast the Allied fleet, de
scribed as "numerous and powerful,”
bolstered Dunkerque’s defense by
fire from its guns while other vessels
shuttled in and out of the harbor.
Authorized French circles said
there had not been a "single sur
render” among the French units
fighting up the Flanders corridor
toward Dunkerque.
. Flood Gates Opened.
Once deciding that the fight in
Flanders was lost, the Allies opened
flood sluices around Dunkerque and
let the water into an area criss
crossed by canals and streams to
cover their retreat.
Locks were opened southwest and
northeast of Dunkerque on the great
canal that flows by the city and*
follows the coast for many miles.
The French are defending the
region between St. Omer and Cas
sel while the British are fighting in
the general direction of Bruges to
Dunkerque.
The British are holding oft strong
Nazi attacks in the Yser Canal re
gions
Strong Allied defenses were estab
(See PARIS; Page"fpu
Dollfuss7 Widow to Sail
For Canadian Refuge
B» the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 30.—Frau Engle
bert Dollfuss, widow of the Austrian
Chancellor who was assassinated in
an attempted Nazi putsch in 1934,
has arranged to sail for Canada with
her two children.
The westward drive of Adolf Hit
ler’s forces influenced her decision
to leave the quiet rural cottage in
which she has lived for two years.
Summary of Today's Star
Page.
Amusements,
A-14-15
Comics B-20-21
Editorials ..A-10
Lost, Found B-16
Obituary __A-12
Page.
Radio .B-20
Serial Story A-19
Society ‘.B-3
Sports ..A-17-19
Woman's Page,
B-19
Foreign
Britain hurriedly seeks machine
guns, small arms here. Page A-l
National.
Non-combatant military training for
C. C. C. proposed. Page A-l
Defense Commission members meet
with President today. Page A-l
U. S. priority to plane production is
urged by A1 Williams. Page A-2
Washington and Vicinity
Capital pauses to pay honor to war
dead. Page A-l
Federal job seekers to face "fifth
column’* oust/. Face B-l
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Editorial and Comment
This and That. PageA-ll
Answers to Questions. PageA-ll
Letters to The Star. Page A-ll
David Lawrence. Page A-ll
Alsop and Kintner. Page A-ll
G. Gould Lincoln. PageA-ll
George Pielding Eliot. Page A-ll
Constantine Brown. Page A-ll
Sports
Walters of Reds ahead of most val
uable record. Page A-17
Fishing declared much affected by
atmosphere. Page A-ll
Roosevelt net team has school title
in grasp. Page A-ll
Miscellany
Nature’s Children. PageA-ll
Vital Statistics. PageB-lt
After Dark. PageB-li
Service Orders. Page B-1S
Bedtime Story. Page B-M
Letter-Out. Page B-M
Winning Contract. Page B-M
Unde Ray’s Oornsr. Page B-Sl
Cross weed Paste. PagsB-tl
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Memorial Day, 1940!
Non-Combatant Training
Proposed for C. C. C. Members
Senator Byrnes, With White House
Approval, Offers Plan to Senate
By J. A. OXEARY.
The administration took the first
move today to establish non-com
batant military training for thi
900,MO members of the Civilian
Conservation Corps.
With the White House approval
Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South
Carolina, introduced in the Senate
at noon an amendment he will of
fer to the relief appropriation bill
for this purpose.
At the same time. Senator Byrnes
made known that the Appropria
tions Subcommittee now considering
the relief measure may earmark be
tween $25,000,000 and $50,000,000 ol
the pending $975,000,000 w. P. A
fund for national defense projects,
Senator Blymes emphasized that
the C. C. C. training will be strictly
non-combatant, that is, instruction
in engineering, radio and similar
fields of activity that would help tc
fit the young enrollees for gainful
occupations in private life.
“It will not require any boy to en
ter the Army or the Navy,” he
added.
At the same time, he said, it would
mean that iir the event of war these
men, because of their skill along
certain lines, would have a prefer
ence for the branch of the service
in which they were schooled.
Administration Shift.
Although several members of Con
gress previously had urged military
training for the C. C. C„ the Byrnes
proposal was the first indication the
administration had taken up the
suggestion. Senator Byrnes is a
close administration adviser and is
understood to have taken the ques
tion up with President Roosevelt
before drafting the amendment. By
offering it to the relief bill, it can be
taken up for action within a few
days, as that measure will soon be
ready for Senate consideration.
Senator pyrnes said 85 per cent of
the C. C. C. boys are already volun
tarily taking some form of educa
tion instruction. This will mean the
remaining 15 per cent will do so. and
that it will be directed along lines
useful in time of emergency.
Text of Amendment.
The amendment reads as follows:
That notwithstanding the provi
sions of any other law, the President
is authorized, in his discretion, and
under such regulations as he may
prescribe, to provide within the
Civilian Conservation Corps such
training of enrollees therein in non
combatant subjects essential to the
operations of the military and naval
establishments as he considers may
contribute materially to the interests
of the national defense. Such sub
jects may include, but are not re
tricted to, cooking, baking, first aid
to the injured, operation and main
tenance of motor vehicles, road con
struction and maintenance, photog
raphy, signal communications and
other matters incident to the suc
cessful conduct of military and naval
activities: provided, that as to per
sons already enrolled in the Civilian
Conservation Corps such training
shall be voluntary: provided fur
ther, that no person shall hereafter
be enrolled in the Civilian Conser
vation Corps unless he shall sign a
statement that he will conscien
tiously pursue such of the courses
authorized herein as he may be
required to take.
Shaw Leading at 100 Miles
In Indianapolis Race
B; the Auoclatcd Preu.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 30.—Wilbur
Shaw, dapper. Indianapolis driver,
was leading the 500-mile Indianapo
lis Speedway race at the end of the
first 100 miles today, with Rex Mays,
Glendale, Calif., in hot pursuit, 6
seconds behind him. Three acci
dents, without fatalities, had oc
curred up to that time. A crowd of
142,000 watched the race in topgoat
weather.
Shaw, seeking his third victory^
snatched the lead at 85 miles from'
Mays, who was setting a 121.6rm.pii.
pace. Mauri Rose, Columbus, was
running third, and Ralph Hepburn,
Los Angeles, fourth. Cliff Birgere,
Hollywood movie stunt man, was
fifth. (
Paul Riganti, South American
driving champion, had the first
crackup, overturning on the south
east curve after crashing into the
wall. Riganti was thrown out of his
car into the infield. First reports
from the hospital to which he was
taken said he was not injured dan
gerously.
Tommy Hennershitz’s car struck
the wall, its crankshaft was broken
and he was forced out of the race
at the end of 80 miles.
Physicians reported the Reading
(Pa.) driver suffered a slight cut on
one arm. There were no cars hear
when he crashed. The car began
skidding just as it crashed the start
ing line, spun sidewise of the track
and hit into the wall. Hennershitz
righted it, however, arid headed
down the track before any of the onr
coming speedsters reached'him.
(larlier Story on. Page A-17.)
Malta Schools Closed
VALETTA, Malta, May 30 (JP).—
The government of this island,
British Mediterranean naval base,
today announced closing of all
schools, effective tomorrow, "as a
Mrs. McAdoo to Sponsor
Launching of Liner
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 30 —Mrs. Wil
liam Gibbs McAdoo, wife of the
former Senator, has been invited by
the Maritime Commission to sponsor
the launching of the liner President
Jackson at Newport News June 7.
Mrs. McAdoo said her matron of
honor would be Mrs. Brice Clagett
of Landover, Md.
Windsors on Riviera
NICE, France, May 30 OP).—'The
Duke and Duchess of Windsor,
traveling incognito, have arrived at
their La Croe estate on the Riviera.
They will stay for an indefinite
period.
Wagner Act Delayed
* House consideration of amend
ments to the Wagner Labor Rela
tions Act was put off today until next
week, perhaps Tuesday.
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Memorial Day Parade
Held Without Single
G. A. R. Man in Line
3,000 Witness March on
Constitution Avenue;
Many Rites Conducted
The Nation paused today to pay
Memorial Day tribute to its war
dead.
In Washington, while President
Roosevelt and Congress labored to
make peace more secure, memorial
services in tribute to those who died
in the Nation’s wars were held at
Arlington and elsewhere throughout
the city.
Constitution avenue echoed to the
tramp of marching feet and the
ruffle of drums as marchers in the
annual Memorial Day parade passed
the reviewing stand.
But something was missing from
the parade. For the first time, the
Grand Army of the Republic had
no one in the line of march.
The rainy mist that made flags
droop and spectators shiver kept at
home 93-year-old Col. John M.
Kline, commander of the Depart
ment of the Potomac. Of Wash
ington’s other two Civil War vet
erans one was confined to bed and
the other was en route to Colorado.
Hopes to upen services.
Comdr. Kline hoped to open the
services in the Arlington amphi
theater later today. Memorial Day
wouldn't be quite the same without
the spry veteran.
Neither rain nor age could keep
Mrs. Katherine Wells from march
ing. The 77-year-old Spanish War
widow marched between her two
daughters in thq detachment of the
United Spanish War Veterans Aux
iliary.
Most enthusiastic of the 3.000
spectators who lined Constitution
avenue for the parade was 3-year
old Donald O’Brien, 2327 Fifteenth
street N.W. It was his first parade,
and he was making the most of it,
alternately emulating the drums
with a steady "boom-boom” and
waving a flag almost as large as he.
“I went to the circus once, but
there weren’t any drums,” he con
fided.
The enlisted men of the Army,
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast
Guard made up the first division,
stepping along briskly behind their
respective bands or controlling high
spirited horses which seemed to dis
play their skittishness most fre
quently before the reviewing stand.
Spanish War Veterans in Line.
Less briskly came the United
Spanish War Veterans. Fewer than
last year, the veterans of more than
40 years’ standing walked slowly
past ine reviewing stand, many of
them wearing raincoats.
Not many detachments away was
the most energetic marcher in the
parade. She was the drum major
(See MEMORIAL DAY, Page A-3.)
12 British DeffHlfc Credited
With 37 Nazi Planes in Day
By th« Associated Press.
Twelve Boulton'Paul Defiants shot
down 37 German planes yesterday
with the loss of only one machine,
whose pilot parachuted to the sea
and was rescued, the British Air
Ministry announced today.
The Defiant, armed fore and aft
and powered to a speed of over 335
miles an hour, is the “secret’* plane
England built to answer the chal
lenge of German’s light, fast
bombers.
The new two-seater, low-wing
monoplanes were mentioned in dis
patches for the first time May 13,
whan thqr ware reported to have
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scored successes In fighting over the
Low Countries.
Closely guarded factories have
been working on production of the
Defiants since last winter.
Described as larger than the Spit
fire—Britain’s principal pursuit
ship—and smaller and faster than
the widely used Hurricane, the De
fiant is listed in Jane’s All the
World’s Aircraft as "Relieved to be
the fastest airplane of its class in
service.”
It has a wingspread of 39 feet 6
inches, a 1,030-horsepower Rolls
Royce Merlin 111 engine, and a
power-driven, four-gun turret which
can fire to the rear as well as ahead.
President to Ask
Added Billion
For Detense
Congress to Get
x Plea Tomorrow
For Speedy Action
By JOHN C. HENRY.
President Roosevelt will ask Con
gress tomorrow for the quickest
possible action on a supplementary
defense program running to more
than one billion dollars.
Salient features of the program,
it was announced at the White
House today, will cover purchase of
mechanized equipment for both
Army and Navy, vital reserve sup
plies and a training program, com
batant and non-combatant, expect
ed to involve 1.000,000 men.
Disclosure of the plans was made
by Stephen T. Early, secretary to
the President, just before the Chief
Executive held an extraordinary
conference with his newly ap
pointed Defense Commission of
seven civilians, his full cabinet, top
officers of the War and Navy De
partments and Democratic congres
sional leaders.
Unexpectedly, Mr. Roosevelt also
conferred today with William M.
Martin, president of the New York
Stock Exchange.
At the conclusion of his confer
ence, Mr. Roosevelt planned to see
the press later in the afternoon and
to devote most of tonight to prepar
ing his message to Congress.
Based on War Developments.
Urgency of the. pending recom
mendations and administration
hopes for speeding legislative action
was emphasized by Mr. Early in an
nouncing the plans to the press.
Nucleus for the President's request,
Mr. Early said, lies in new and
urgent recommendations submitted
to the White House by the War and
Navy Departments and based on
combat developments in recent days
in France and Belgium.
For these two defense services, Mr.
Early explained, the emphasis will
be on airplanes, tanks, miscellaneous
mechanized equipment, heavy guns
and reserve supplies.
To this part of the President’s
request will be tied in a recom
mendation for legislative authoriza
tion for a ‘great training program.
In effect, this part of the program
will be divided into two sections,
with means to be provided for the
Army and Navy to train additional
combat personnel while non-com
batant instruction will fall under
general direction of Sidney Hillman,
as a member of the Civilian Defense
Commission.
Hillman Is 111.
In announcing today's conference.
Mr. Early said Mr. Hillman will be
prevented from attending because
of illness. Secretary of State Hull,
Postmaster General Farley and Sec
retary of Labor Perkins also were
unable to sit in with their cabinet
colleagues, but the State Depart
ment head was to see Mr. Roose
velt later today. Gen. George C.
Marshall, Army chief of staff, and
Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of
naval operations, were invited to
represent the technical end of their
services.
Invited from Capitol Hill were
Senate Majority Leader Barkley and
House Majority Leader Rayburn.
The President also conferred to
day with Budget Director Harold D.
Smith.
Although he offered no explana
tion for Mr. Martin’s visit, Mr.
Early said he believed the President
had no thought of suggesting that
the New York securities exchanges
be closed.
The Nation's huge defense prepa
rations which fall now into the
three classes of Regular Army and
Navy expenditures of approximately
$1,000,000,000 each for the 12 months
beginning July 1, the emergency
program of $1,182,000,000 which
President Roosevelt asked in his
special message to Congress last
(See DEFENSE, Page A-4.)
Midair Crash Kills
Army Reserve Pilot
By the Associated Press.
The death of Second Lt. Sulllns
Preston Turner, Air Corps Reserve
pilot, in an air collision yesterday
afternoon near Grafton, Va., was
reported today to the War Depart
ment.
A message from Langley Field,
Va., said Lt. Turner was killed when
his fast P-33A Army pursuit plane
collided with an unidentified air-,
craft in the vicinity of Grafton,4
about 10 miles northwest of Lang
ley Field.
Details are missing from the first
official report.
British Getting Men
Out of Nazi Trap,
Berlin Hears
By the Associated Press.
/ BERLIN, May 30.—Neutral
military circles here expressed
the belief today that the British
must have succeeded in getting
quite a number of men out of
the swiftly closing German trap
in Flanders, since movements
of transports off the English
Channel coast have been re
ported under way lor the last
four days.