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Nazi-Held Belgian Cities Said to Be Returning Rapidly to Normal
Marketplaces Busy
With Only Brussels
Rationing Food
T
Much of Debris Cleared,
.'Correspondent Finds
C" Tour of Sector
: ■ By LOUIS P. LOCHNER,
Associated Press War Correspondent.
WITH THE GERMAN ARMY IN
THE WEST (By Telephone to Ber
lin), June 6—Conditions like those
of peacetime seem to be returning
rapidly to some Belgian cities now
under German occupation.
The same cities which during my
previous visit (Lochner made a tour
through Belgium two weeks ago)
seemed lifeless now teem with hu
man activity.
Outstanding is the case of Louvain
(where British and Germans fought
a bitter battle).
Two weeks ago it was' the most
forlorn city one could imagine. To
day the streets were crowded, shops
were op«i, streetcars again were
running in at least some sections
and the marketplace was as busy
as a beehive.
Much of Debris Removed.
Vegetables in profusion were
being sold at scores of market
stands. as were dairy products, meat,
fish, fruit and even flowers. One
jewelry shop seemed to be doing a
good business.
Certain detours which we had
had to make a fortnight before on
driving through the city no longer
were necessary. The debris had, in
many cases, been removed and the
streets cleared for traffic. Nor did
we see any abandoned tanks, guns
or other implements of war. Ail
had meanwhile been removed.
Only the ruins of bombed and
shelled buildings remained as re
minders of the tragedy which befell
the city only few- weeks ago.
A short distance from Louvain we
even saw a railway engine which ap
parently was making a test run.
Brussels Rations Food.
At Brussels, on the other hand,
the war seemed to have taken a
firmer grip now than when we visited
It right after its capitulation.
Then, nothing had been rationed.
Now, coffee was limited to a half
pound per family per week; bread
could be obtained only with bread
cards, and. asking for chocolate bars
in various shops, I was told that
what I saw in the window were
empty boxes. The old stocks had
been sold in a jiffy and nothing new
had come.
Tirlemont seemed almost strange
to us and we could orient ourselves
only by ruins. Otherwise the city
had returned to normal—so much so
that even many Belgian soldiers,
who already had been dismissed from
captivity by the German Army,
were mingling among the civilians.
On previous visits, much time had
been lost at Tirlemont because all
traffic had to pass over one em
ergency bridge. But in the mean
while an army of civilian construc
tors had erected parallel bridges, so
that traffic this time was practically
normal.
These bridges weren't things of
beauty, as had been those which
were destroyed, but they served their
purpose.
Abandoned Tanks Put to Use.
Our route to France took us from
Aachen via the Dutch city of
Maastricht—also practically narmal
again—and the Albert Canal through
Liege. Namur and Charleroi to the
completely shattered French town of
Maubeuge.
At the Albert Canal there w'as
Other evidence of changes following
the ‘'blitzkrieg": I looked in vain
for the graves of Belgian soldiers
and German parachute troopers
which had been dug there hastily
Just before we arrived the last time,
on May 20.
The bodies had been removed, in
the interim, to special military j
cemeteries which now have begun to ,
stud the Belgian landscape just as
the military cemeteries of the World
War mark the plains of Northern
France.
I also looked in vain for the aban
doned and shattered tanks which
had lined the road near St. Trond.
Field Marshal Goering's scrap-iron
collecting agency must have seized
them.
How careful the German Army is
not to destroy what later may prove
useful to the Reich may be seen
from the fact that the huge steel
mills, power plants and other in
dustrial undertakings at Liege were
unharmed.
Similarly, at Namur, damage was
only in spots, while the main part
of the city seemed to have gone
back to normal again.
Paris
(Continued From First Page.)
said, when the French counter-at
tacked. The Germans had sur
rounded a French outpost, but were
forced to retire, he explained.
Battle Front Is Traced.
The Somme-Aisne line was traced
fey French military' experts as fol
lowing approximately through these
towns and regions:
Saint Valery sur Somme, Abbe
ville, Pico.uigny, Amiens, Corbie,
south of Peronne, Nesle, south of
Ham. Chauny, Pinon, Neufchatel,
Asfeld, Rethel. Attigny, the region
Of Vouziers, the region of Grandpre
and Montmedy.
* The revised French tactics of
shifting from solid fortified positions
to a war of movement, allowing the J
enemy to filter through and then
attacking its advanced elements, has
Eliminated fear of the swift German
drives. French commenators said.
Despite the continued use of dive
bombers, the Germans were said to
be finding the new extensive French
defenses adapted to modern condi
tions, and as a result scoring only
small gains.
Aim to Converge at Compiegne.
The lines of the push toward Paris
appeared aimed to converge at
Compiegne, in whose forest the
World War armistice was signed.
An announcement last night said
French bombers, attacking in the
Faronne. St. Quentin and Cambrai
sectors, destroyed a railroad station
and s.eve’ral German convoys and
drtipped more than 6 tons of ex
plosives on German troops in the
St Quentin area alone.
A
U. S. Planes Would Turn Tide,
French Flyers Tell Eve Curie
Fleet of Douglases Would Give Allies
'Great Chance' of Winning War, They Assert
This is the first of several ar
ticles by Mile. Curie based on a
recent tour of air bases at the
French front. Mile. Curie is di
rector of women's activities in
the French Ministry of Informa
tion and daughter of Mme. Marie
Curie, co-discoverer of radium.
By EVE CURIE.
PARIS, June 6,—I am just back
from a 1,000-mile drive in the army
zone. I started two days after King
Leopold's treason at the most des
perate moment of this terrible week,
at the moment when every man and
woman every soldier could feel that
too much evil, brutal strength and
bad luck was accumulating against
the Allies. On purpose, I had asked
to go and see those French soldiers
who, among all others, would have
been entitled to be particularly dis
tressed—the pilots of our air force.
Why hide a truth that everybody
knows about? We have fewer planes
than the Germans. Some of our
planes are not as fast, not as new as
the German planes. During the ad
vance of Hitler's motorized units, re
inforced by methodical bombing from
the air, a bombing of French towns,
of villages, of infantry regiments, of
roads, of refugee columns, of trains
carrying wounded soldiers, of sani
tary cars, of everything, our pilots
have been called for help everywhere
at the same time. They have had
to stand drastic attacks to give the
maximum of their efforts. Those
were the people that I wanted to
meet.
iney bkin the Treetops.
Let us see at once the storm air
force—what we call “aviation d’as
saut.” In this dreadful emergency
these pilots are taking off every day
to attack the German columns, or
try to stop the offensive of the en
emy. They go as far as 40 miles
deep—sometimes more, in the terri
tory occupied by the Nazis, in full
daylight, in blazing sunshine. They
fly at 60 feet over the motorized units
which fire at them with guns, ma
chine guns, cannon, anti-aircraft
guns. The density of fire is terrific.
Nevertheless, the Breguet planes,
with their crews of two men. have
to stand it, to fight back, to fulfill
their mission at all costs.
“We fly at the height of the trees,”
a young pilot—the first one I met—
said to me laughingly. "To say hello
to us, the Germans have just to
climb on a chair.”
It was dinner time at the head
quarters of this "storm division.”
The general is a well-known pilot of
the last war. During the peace pe
riod he has made several daring,
far-reaching flights. He has a good
natured face, he speaks calmly, slow
ly He smiles. No bluff of any kind,
no stiffness, no conventional or of
ficial sentences. The facts, truth,
stated with complete objectivity, are
that 50 per cent of the pilots of some
of the squadrons have been lost since
the beginning of the war, most of
them, of course, since May 10.
Capture Worse Than Death.
"You see.” the general said, "be
cause of the job we have to do, we
don't happen to fall often on our
land. It nearly always takes place
on enemy territory, it is a bore; it
makes us lose planes which, under
different conditions, could be
brought back and used again. If the
pilots are not killed they are taken
prisoners. Our men hate this idea
much more than the idea of death.”
The dinner, a good, decent dinner,
was going on. That very night two
planes and their crews, which had
gone on a dangerous mission, had
not returned. The fact had been
mentioned casually to me with no
comments of any kind.
The conversation around the table
was quick, not too serious, not too
gay. The headquarters, which are
moved very often to escape bom
bardment, don't seem to care much
about having anti-aircraft guns to
protect the officers. But they are
protecting themselves against anec
dotes. talks or useless retrospective
strategy. On the long table, about
which 15 men sit, there is a yel
low ribbon of shining silk, knotted
so as to form a big soft necklace.
As soon as an anecdote is menacing
one of the boys gets up silently,
takes the ribbon and puts it around
the neck of the anecdote monger in
the smartest and most becoming
way possible. There is a general
laugh and a brief grumbling of
protestation from the victim. Con
sidering the kind of anecdotes the
boys could tell, a yellow ribbon may
prove very useful. As soon as the
laughs die down the conversation
becomes interesting and often tech
nical.
jusi z.uuu iviore Planes.
“Why talk about our losses?” said
the general. “They are not very
heavy if we think of the enormous
damage we have done on the enemy's
side. The only fact to consider is
this: Had we had 400 more planes
for this particular job of storm at
tack by air, had we had 2,000 more
airplanes for the whole of the
French Air Force, we would most
certainly have stopped immediately
and for good the German offensive.
Now this is the past we cannot
help it.
“Let us face the future, the next
waves of offensive. Suppose we
could get, within a few weeks, some
American planes—Douglasses, to be
precise—the planes of which the
American Army has ordered a lot.
Suppose these planes could be sent
to us immediately and completely
ready to use—I mean with their
machine guns, their equipment,
their bombs, their munitions. I go
as far as to say with their pilots.
“I say their pilots, because if the
planes came from America with
their pilots, not a day, not a min
ute would be lost by our men to get
accustomed to these new machines.
The training would be much easier.
Speed is everything in this fight.
We would have a great chance of
winning the war by having these
planes before the summer, by being
able to use them during the de
cisive attack that the Germans will
launch.”
Missing Crew Returns.
At this moment of the conversa
tion the telephone rang. A young
lieutenant—the one with the yellow
ribbon on his neck—went to the
phone. He listened, motionless, for
a moment. The general and all the
young officers were suddenly silent.
In the end, the lieutenant said:
“Thank you, major. My respects,”
and he hung up. Then turning to
the general: “One of the missing
crews has been found. They have
been attacked by flveMesserschmitts
on their way back, after having
reached their objective satisfactorily.
The plane is damaged. The gunner
has three bullets in his leg. The
pilot is all right. They have landed
‘on their tummy’ in our lines.”
The general had a brief smile and
grumbled something like "good” or
"fine.” Two of the boys he had con
sidered as lost had just been resus
citated by this telephone call. The
lieutenant had taken the yellow rib
bon from his neck and was already
telephoning to some other head
quarters.
He sat down again. Coffee was
served. Then we felt it was time to
leave. The orders for the following
missions were already being given.
The names of the pilots were desig
nated automatically, following some
arbitrary order, giving each young
man the same chance to take off. A
call for volunteers would be com
pletely impossible. All the pilots
would ask to go. A pilot who would
not be chosen would be hurt, would
suik for hours, and ask dryly: “Am
I not good enough for the job?”
(Copyright. 1940.)
Italy Sows Mines
In 12-Mile Zone;
U. S. Being Notified
Liner Washington to Be
Given Safe Conduct
To Naples June 10
1 By the Associated Pres*.
ROME, June 6.—Mine fields have
been sown In a 12-mile danger zone
with which Italy seeks to protect
herself as a prospective war partner
of Germany, a reliable informant
disclosed today.
The Italian mine fields were in
tended to keep hostile warships
outside highly effective bombard
ment range of Italian ports dotting
the coast of the Italian “boot" ex
j tending into the Mediterranean.
It may be that mines also have
: been sown in strategic stretches of
sea along parts of the Italian Em
i pire, where 12-mile danger zones
! also have been created,
j An authoritative source said that
j Italian authorities are notifying the
| United States, among other nations,
of the “keep out" sign along the
Italian coast.
The informant said the United
States liner Washington would be
conducted safely through the 12
mile danger belt into Naples, where
it is scheduled to dock June 10.
The bounding of the Italian coast
and the coastline of parts of the
empire with the danger zone was
the newest major development in
Italy’s broadening preparations for
entry into the European war
Whether the empire coastline as
well was mined was not made known.
Nor was it known whether the min- j
ing of Italian waters had been dis- !
closed to the British and French
governments. Italy’s prospective
enemies.
Notification to countries with
shipping in the Mediterranean, how
ever, was regarded by naval circles
as fulfilling Italy's obligation under
international regulations to publish
the limits of any minefields.
Steamer Service Curtailed.
Regular steamship service between
Malta, British Mediterranean base,
and certain parts of the Italian
Island of Sicily was suspended today
as Italy widened preparations point
ing to her entry into the war.
It was disclosed that service be
tween Malta and Syracuse, on the
east coast of Sicily, as well as South- 1
ern Sicily, had been terminated.
At the same time, it was reported !
that a large number of Italians re- 1
siding in Turkey had returned to
Italy.
In another sector of Italian war
preparations, the German Minister
of Agriculture, Walter Darre, who
has charge of the Reich’s wartime
food supply, came to confer with
Italian authorities who seek to in
sure adequate supplies for Italy.
Darre intended to visit the princi
pal agricultural region, where har
vest is expected to be over within
three weeks.
Italy continued to keep her watcn
on the war with an indication that
she was waiting to see what success
the Germans would have in their
drive on France before entering the
war.
The newspaper II Tevere said that,
barring a miracle, it seemed that
France’s fate will be decided in the
next few days.”
After that, the newspaper went
on, the war will enter the third
state, "which will be more interest
ing and will decide the war and the
destiny of two empires”—the Brit
ish and French.
Telephone communication with
foreign countries became more dif
ficult. Calls to the long-distance
office in Rome brought busy signals
for long periods.
Requires Notice of Approach.
In declaring the 12-mile zone
around the coast of Italy and off
the shores of her possessions, in
cluding Albania, dangerous to navi
gation, Italy required advance au
thorization for approach of any ship.
The power of Italy’s submarines,
surface craft and air fleet backed
up the warning.
Ships now en route to Italian ports
were warned to give port authori
ties immediate notice of the day and
hour in which they would enter the
danger zone, indicating their ap
proximate positions.
Two American boats which ar
rived at Genoa' yesterday must con
tinue their schedule under the dan
ger zone surveillance. They are the
passenger and freighter ship Excali
bur, booked to capacity by Ameri
cans leaving Europe, and the
freighter Exmouth.
Thousands of Fascist soldiers de
parted today to join 2.000.(100 com
rades assembled in Italy and along
the roads of her empire, expecting
a signal from Premier Mussolini
which would launch a campaign for
the nation's territorial aspirations.
It is rumored that Ettore Muti,
secretary of the Fascist party, prob
ably will command the corps of
volunteer paracl*itists being formed
along the lines of the German corps.
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo
Ciano and Alessandro Pavolini, Min
ister of Popular Culture, are expect
ed to assume posts of command in
the air force soon. Assistants will
, take over their ministerial tasks.
New Blackout Preparations.
New blackout preparations, to
gether with prohibition of the use
of fire sirens and factory whistles
except for bombing alarms, were
ordered.
Italians expected to learn any
morning that their armies already
had marched across one or more
frontiers.
Newspaper dispatches from Athens
declared that Greece, sandwiched
between Italy and Turkey, was
nervous over a war threat in that
corner of the Balkans.
A dispatch from Athens to the
! newspaper II Messaggero insisted
| that Turkey, which has mutual as
; sistance pacts with Great Britain
and France, had asked permission
to land troops on Greek islands in
the Aegean Sea. The Turks have
denied making such a request.
Turkish troops were declared to
be concentrated qtnd ready to em
bark. while Allied vessels cruised
among the islands.
At Istanbul, the Turkish govern
ment last night ordered partial re
moval of citizens from the city and
i spraying of wooden roofs with a
! fireproof chalk mixture to lessen
danger from incendiary bombs.
A civilian mobilization order
needed only II Duce s word to place
the entire nation in a state of war,
with women and minors substi
tuting in farm, industrial and pub
lic service jobs for men called to
arms.
Italians in Jibuti
Advised to Leave
JIBUTI. French Somaliland. June 6
W*>.—Italian subjects in Jibuti were
advised to leave by their Consul to
day as tension continued between
France and Italy.
Jibuti is one of the points named
in rising Italian clamor for con
j cessions, territorial and otherwise,
which started before the European
war broke out.
Jibuti is a port on the Gulf of
Aden and the terminus of the
French-owned railway into Italian
conquered Ethiopia. The railway is
Ethiopia's main outlet, and at first
Italians called for an increased voice
in controlling the line and special
port facilities in Jibuti. Later de
mands were voiced for Jibuti itself.
NICE, France, June 6 (/Pj.—
Tightening precautions in the areas
adjoining Italy, French authorities
today forbade the circulation of
all motor cars within the Maritime
Alps Department between 10 p.m.
and 4 a.m.
Chungking Area Bombed
CHUNGKING, China. June 6 </P).
—Large squadrons of Japanese
planes bombed points near Chung
king today. Fifty-four planes at
tacked the Chungking - Chengtu
highway, 10 miles west of this pro
visional Chinese * capital. Chung
king itself had a three-hour alarm.
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Measures Speeded
To Combat Spies
And Control Aliens
Jackson Denies
'Wholesale Arrests'
Are Contemplated
While Congress and the executive
departments of the Federal Govern
ment today speeded measures to
thwart “fifth column” infiltration
into the United States, Attorney
General Jackson declared any in
ference that the Justice Depart
ment contemplated a "mass drive or
wholesale arrests” in connection
with the national defense program
was “wholly unwarranted."
Mr. Jackson made that assertion
to the press at the Capitol in refer
ence to statements in a Budget
Bureau letter dealing with a request
for additional funds to increase the
number of agents of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and to pro
vide more salary and expense money
for United States marshals. The
Budget Bureau's letter aroused com
ment in saying:
“It is anticipated that there will
be a great number of prisoners to
be handled. * * *. In addition
thereto marshals and deputy mar
shals may be called upon to guard
and protect Federal or seized prop
erty and to serve a large volume of
processes.”
Alien Kestrfctions Tightened.
The President's request that an
extra $6,558,800 be made available
to the Justice Department for
immediate use by the Federal Bu
reau of Investigation and the Bu
i reau of Immigration and Naturali
j zation was before the House Ap
I propriationx Committee and vir
! tually sure of quick favorable action.
Meanwhile two executive orders
promulgated bv the State Depart
ment tightening entry and travel
regulations for alien and curtail
ing short leave privileges of for
eign sailors were operative at once.
Strictly barred from admission to
this country were aliens who may be
unable to establish a “legitimate
purpose or reasonable need” for
entry. The restriction on crew mem
bers of foreign vessels banned shore
leave for all whose names are not
listed and fully accredited on the
crew roster: those permitted to land
must present fingerprint and iden
tification papers.
Sent to the Senate today after
House passage late yesterday was a
bill to expedite deportation of aliens
who engage in espionage or sabotage,
or who are convicted of felonies.
And recommended for Senate pas
sage by its Appropriations Com
mittee was another measure already
enacted by the House, barring aliens.
Communists and Nazi Bund mem
bers from W. P. A. rolls.
The administrations request for
expanded facilities for the Justice
Department is in furtherance of an
obvious intent^jn to give that agency
broad policing powers to pomba’t
espionage and sabotage threads hete.
Included in the F. B. I. funds was
$500,000 earmarked for increases also
in the staff of United States mar
shals. It was the Budget Bureau's
references to this increase that in
spired Attorney General Jackson's
remarks this morning. He saw
newspapermen just before he and J.
Edgar Hoover, F. B. I. director, ap
peared before a House Appropria
tions Subcommittee to explain the
fund requests.
"We do not anticipate any abnor
mal increase in the number of
prisoners,” Mr. Jackson said. “The
statement of the Budget Bureau
does not say that an Increase is ex
pected. The number of Federal
prisoners has been for years in
creasing steadily, and the statement
points out the fact that a great
number require handling.
•‘Any inference that we contem
plate a mass drive or wholesale
arrests because of the defense pro
gram is wholly unwarranted. There
is not one cent asked for additional
prison facilities. Our emphasis is
on preventive work.”
Danger to Canal Seen.
Meanwhile, a former Army officer,
E. G. B. Riley, told the Senate Mili
tary Affairs Committee today there
was danger that foreign bombers,
outfitted in South America, might
bomb the Panama Canal or airplane
plants in this country at any time.
Senator Downey, Democrat, of
California interrupted Mr. Riley to
say, “| believe you’re too pessimistic.
Hitler in his ‘Mein Kampf’ said an
attack upon this continent would be
too difficult.”
Mr. Riley, transportation con
sultant from Laconia, N. H., was
testifying in support of a bill intro
duced by Senator Bridges, Repub
lican, of New Hampshire proposing
a "national home defense force"
composed of war veterans, citizens
and former C. C. C. enrollees.
Bund Activity Cited.
Earlier, C. H. Chernosv, Houston, I
Tex., testified that German-language
newspaper published in this country
were ‘attempting to undermine our
form of government.”
Mr. Chernosy read extracts from
! letters in a Texas German-language
j weekly urging the ‘‘20,000.000 Ger
mans in the United States to pre
pare for a new order after a German
victory m Europe.”
The Texas witness said the Amer
ican German Bund was to lead the
“new order" in the United States
and said he was to present his data
later to the House Committee on
un-American Activities.
Senators Thomas, Democrat, of
Utah and Austin. Republican, of
Vermont suggested that Mr. Cher
ncsv present his material to the
Justice Department for investiga
tion.
Concerned not only with threats
of "Trojan horse” penetration in the
United States. Federal officials also
were reported by the Associated
Press as becoming increasingly ap
prehensive about rumored Nazi ac
tivities in Latin America.
Reliable sources, the Associated
Press says, have reported that Ger
many, despite her preoccupation
with the war in Europe, is making
deliveries of field guns, machine
guns and other military equipment
which Brazil has bought from the
Reich. These orders were placed
by Brazil before the war began, it
was said, and were given to Ger
many because United States Gov
ernment arsenals turning out simi
lar equipment were forbidden by
law to make foreign sales.
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Marshall Proposes
Regular Army of
400.000 Men
Offers Recruiting Plan
As Substitute for
Calling Guard
Bj the Associated Press.
A Regular Army of 400,000 men
was recommended today by Gen.
George C. Marshall, chief of staff,
who proposed that recruiting of
120.000 additional troops be au
thorized.
A standing Army of this size, he
said, was the alternative to granting
President Roosevelt’s request for
power to mobilize the National
Guard in an emergency during the
absence of Congress.
Unless the Army is expanded or
the mobilization authority is dele
gated to the President, Gen. Marsh
all said, the general staff would be
handicapped in planning quick ac
tion in the face of any Western
Hemisphere threat to American se
curity.
‘‘We can expand the Army more
quickly than we can mobilize the
National Guard,” he explained.
“The main purpose is to avoid the
necessity of calling on the Guard.”
Paper Plans Worked Out.
Paper plans for a fighting force of
400.000 were worked out months
ago, the chief of staff disclosed.
They provide for creation of a sec
ond fully mechanized, heavily-armed
division of the type that has been
making military history in Europe.
By conventional recruiting meth
ods the 50,000 recruits now contem
plated by Congress should be ob
tained by September. Gen. Marshall
said. Should the further expan
sion to 400.000 be authorized, he ex
piessed belief that by using existing
Nation-wide machinery designed for
wartime selective service, the 120.000
additional volunteers could be signed
up in “one or two months.”
Use of the selective service organ
ization would require a presidential
order, he said.
Existing laws limit the Armv’s
strength to 230.000 men, but an in
crease to 280.000 already has been
approved by the Senate and House.
65,000 for Air Corps.
Detailing the projected organiza
tion of a Regular Army of 400.000.
Gen. Marshall said at a press con
ference yesterday that 335.000 troops
would be required for nine "stream
lined,” partially motorized infantry
divisions, two mechanized divisions
and one cavalry division. The Air
Corps would get most of the remain
ing 65.000 men.
There are now in existence five
"streamlined” infantry divisions. A
sixth is being created and pending
defense estimates provide for equip
ping two others. The Army’s single
mechanized cavalry brigade is being
expanded into a full division and
there is also a cavalry division on
duty in Texas.
With 335,000 men, exclusive of the*
Air Corps, Gen. Marshall said at
ninth division would be organized,!
along with special corps troops,'
anti-aircraft battalions, anti-tank
companies and reconnaissance
troops.
Action on Request Sped.
Meanwhile, the House Appropria- '
tion Committee hurried along Mr.'
Roosevelt's second extraordinary de
fense request for $1,277,000,000, using
only a day and a half for subcom
mittee hearings.
The House approved a Senate bill
for partial reorganization of the
Navy Department. The measure
went back to the Senate for rati
fication of House changes.
The bill would legalize the already
accomplished merger of the Bureaus
of Engineering and Construction
and Repair into a Bureau of Ships.
The House struck out Senate pro
posals which would have created
the post of Undersecretary of the
Navy and abolished the post of As
sistant Secretary for Aeronautics.
The latter post has been vacant for
years.
Tinkham Hits Proposal.
The Navy’s request for $1,500,000
to establish a seaplane base on tiny
Canton Island in the Pacific—which
this country and Great Britain
jointly control—drew a protest from
Representative Tinkham, Repub
lican, of Massachusetts that it
might involve the United States in
the European war.
Senators Wheeler of Montana and
Clark of Idaho and Representative;
White of Idaho urged Secretary of
War Woodring and Gen. Marshall
to permit West Pointers who have
resigned from the Army to re-enter
the service as officers.
British Woman Praising
Hitler Put on Probation
By the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM. England. June 6.
—A woman who shouted “Heil
Hitler! Long may he reign!” was
put on six months’ probation today
for violating blackout regulations
and causing a crowd to collect.
The woman. Cecilia Davkin, 24,
told police:
’ The German government will be
here in a few months, and you scum
will be shot. I would betrav the
country any time if I knew how."
During a fierce tussle with her
guards in the courtroom, the woman
cried: “I love Germans and will
help them. When they come I will
be the first to greet them with open
arms.”
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