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300 NAZI PLANES BOMB PARIS; 45 KILLED
‘Dud’ Lands Six Feet From Bullitt; Many Buildings Wrecked, Great Fires Rage
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149 Are Injured, Damage Is Heavy
In Slums and Industrial Suburbs
Airdrome Declared Target;
1,050 Missiles Dropped
In Area of Capital
BULLETIN.
LONDON (TP).—The Air Ministry announced today
that formations of heavy British bombers “attacked
enemy airdromes and other military objectives in
Northwest Germany.”
PARIS (TP).—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 following
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
suffered 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. Three apartment houses
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.
Borne ducked for cover. Others, including Army officers, remained
where they w'ere, eating calmly. One man ordered more wine.
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(See PARIS, Page A-2.)
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WILLIAM C. BULLITT.
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German Division
Is Wiped Out Near
Rethel, British Say
French Claim Nazis
Have Lost 2,000 Planes
And 600,000 Men
(Text ot War Minister Eden's
Address, Page B-6.)
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 3—A British
Broadcasting Corp. announce- j
ment in German, heard here by |
N. B. C., said an entire German
division had been wiped out by
French forces near Rethel during
a German assault on French po
sitions. The report did not say
when the fight occurred.
In a report from Paris, an N. B.
C. correspondent said French
sources had declared Germany's
I losses in Flanders in the last 23
days totaled 600.000 men. three
' fifths of the Nazi tanks and 2,000 of
' their first line planes.
Withdrawal Continues,
British Declare
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. June 3 (A5).—An au
thoritative source said tonight that
the withdrawal of British and
French forces from Northern France
is 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
newspaper, which said Italy might
be an enemy “within a few days.”
This nation's mood of fatalistic
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
chooses war we are ready to fight
1 back.”
Nazis Close In on Dunkerque.
The flow of British Expeditionary I
i Force survivors from across the i
| Channel earlier had thinned to a j
trickle as the Germans, attacking j
under a punishing bombardment by ;
the Royal Air Force and the Allied 1
fleets, slowly closed in on rear guard j
units fighting to escape from Dun- i
kerque.
Two British hospital ships, the
(SeFRETHEL, Page A-4J 1
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
hangars 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
[he 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
Dunkerque, the Allies' exit from the
Flanders trap, was reported by the
high command, but it acknowledged
that Nazi forces were being slowed
down by Allied rearguard resistance.
Its communique indicated that
Northern France still was the main
battlefield Although Nazi armies
prepared for a new smash in the
West which informed quarters said
might be launched anywhere be
tween Norway and the Sw’iss border.
“No rest for the enemy” was the
German watchword.
Allies Still Hold Dunkerque.
The high command admitted that
the Allied rearguard still held Dun
kerque and that the German pro
gress on the English Channel port
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
merchant 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.)
250 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.
Universal Non-Military Training
Is Urged by Mrs. Roosevelt
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
Flandara,
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
(See MRS. ROOSEVELT, Page A-6.)
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Bomb Destruction in Paris
Described by Eyewitness
Buildings and Streets Suffer Heavy
Damage During Intense Nazi Attack
(William J. Humphreys, native of Salisbury, Md.. a member*ot
the Associated Press staff in Paris, was off duty when the German
air raiders attacked today and got a close up view of a modern air
bombardment from his own escape. Several paragraphs near the
start of his dispatch were eliminated by the censor.)
By WILLIAM J. HUMPHREYS,
Associated Press War Correspondent.
PARIS, June 3.—The sirens across the river from where I
live began wailing at 1:20 p.m, (7:20 a.m., E. fi. T.) today And thA
thunder of the first exploding bombs was heard 10 minutAs 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
possessions and hurried to the air
raid shelter in the basement.
Then the„ bombing began in
earnest. For more than half an
hour the bombardment kept up
steadily, bombers circling around
• here one word censored i suburbs.
None fell nearer than a block
'f
away, however. (Eight words cen
sored.)
(Fourteen words censored.) Four
of the wounded, none of whom was
hurt seriously, were treated at (one
word censorea) 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
American flag, the Supreme Court
"Said today in an 8-to-l 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
(See 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.
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Schenck, Movie Head,
Is Indicted as Evader
Of $400,000 in Taxes
Conspiracy and Perjury
Also Laid to Official
Of 20th Century-Fox
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. June 3.—Joseph
Schenck. board chairman and exec
utive director in charge of produc
tion of the 20th Century-Pox 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
I Mr. Schenck had defrauded the
i 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
ostensiWy selling stock to friends
in Holjjvood. and that he had
written off as business expenses
(See-SCHENCK, Page A-6.)
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Patient at Walter 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.
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High Court Refuses
To Review A. M. A.
Anti-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-1
Jected a defense plea for review of
the decision of the United states
Court of Appeals upholding the in
dictment. Action was announced as
the Supreme Court adjourned tor
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 Medicai
Society of Houston. Tex.; the Wash
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
being returned in December of that
year. The defense then filed a de
murrer to the indictment, which
was upheld by District Judge James
M. Proctor, who said the medical
profession wTas not a ‘‘trade" within
the meaning of the Sherman Act,
which prohibits restraints of com
merce.
The Justice Department there
upon noted an appeal to the Court
of Appeals, but sought at the same
time to shorten procedure by ask
ing the Supreme Court to review
the District Court findings. In
October last year the Supreme Court
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
the Court of Appeals, which, in
March, in an opinion by Justice
Groner, reversed District Court.
“We must hold that a restramt
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.E.A. Administrator
Discusses Program
Harry Slattery, administrator
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 about the
R. E. A. program, its 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
coast-to-coast network of the
National Broadcasting Co. j
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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 Mean
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
for 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
in 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, w’hich
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 a 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. Speaker Bankhead. Senate
Majority Leader Barkley and House
Majority Leader Rayburn; Maj.
Gen. John F. O'Rvan 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 to 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 t 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 a Clipper
plane from Lisbon last night.
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