The Stillwater Gazette (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 51, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, June 7, 1940 Page: 1 of 8
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Rome June 6---fLP)---The atH
thoritative newspaper Giornak!:
Al' Italia in an editorial signed by i
Virinio Gayda warned the United i
States Thursday against inter-!
Tiling in the European conflict I
because the "time might come I
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when some great European power
may e intervYarning ene" against America
Th by Gayda who of-
may intervene" against America
The Yarning by Gayda who of-
ten speaks for Premier Mussolini
"came as Italians talked only of
utulle US iLitlittlili WILIVULI uy vA
war and after the government had
warned world shipping that Ital-
Ian and colonial waters were dan-
perous presumably because of
tan and colonial waters were aan-
3tore Expected to Enroll
gerous presumably because of
Add Training Plane
'mines
Mines Indicate War
The mining indicated intention
of joining the war
4
If the U S takes sides in the
European conflict the Gayda edi-
torial said then the time may
come when some great European
1 power would intervene in favor of
i an American nation at war with
1 the U S -
"The possibility of a more im-
mediate and active war alliance
I between the U S and the Allies
I
t leaves Germany and Italy perfect--
1 ily calm" Gayda wrote
4 He charged that the U S had
aided the Allies since the start of
the war
I Saying that the U S would vio-
) late the Monroe doctrine by di-
rectly intervening in the affairs
I of otla A continents he continued:
i ' The United States cannot set
I itself up as an firmed julge of
l European quarrels the origin zinc!
substcnee of which owning to ii:i
distance from Europe it cannot
pretend to understand
Already Intervening
"The U S great and powerful
as it may be must not consider
4 self divested Nvith a high rnis-
P 3ion authorizing Washington to
lecide on the destinies of other
) - continents Already the U S has
: been intervening on bchall of the
Allies since the first days of the
war
"It is not true that the United
States has any duty io save the
4 old world Europe hi' not alone
expressed by England and France
There are oily 99000000 Allies
compared with 150000000 of the
axis powers Intervention by the
U S would therefore signify the
rash assumption of a position in
favor of a minority of Europe
0 against the majority of Europe
in favor of one European regime
- against another European regime
"Intervention would therefore
be an unjustified provocation and
could only produce the natural
Inevitable reaction in the future"
SUPREME COURT TELLS
JEHOVAH'S WRNESSES
Cetter Salute the Flag That is
Making Religious Freedom
Possible fur Them
supreme
1 NNT ashi nc'aodumr it t June 3 —
11 d a yupheld 12 T
tilliee
action of a Pennsylvania school
1 board in expelling two children
because they refused on religious
I grounds to salute the American
flag
1 The children are members of the
Jehovah's 1(Vitnesses sect which
! contends that saluting any flag
violates the second of the ten
commandments the prohibiting
t ' against worship of images
They were denied school privi-
k leges after refusing to comply with
a school regulation requiring pupils
to recite the pledge of allegiance
'! Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote
the majority opinion of a court
divided 8 to 1 Justice Ilarlan Stone
dissented Frankfurter wrote that
the right and freedom to follow
1 ones conscience in the matter of
religious worship must harmonize
1 with basic principles which pro-
! t tect mien rights
Smith Heads Committee
Jim Smith Stillwater was
named Monday as finance chair-
' trairl of the Payne county Demo-
cratic central committee The ap-
pointment was ty O H Laelien-
meye Cushing central commit-
t tee chairman
THE WEATHER
Weather conditions have had the
chatactrristics of summer time during
' the last week the mercury moving
upward high into the 80s each day
Thursday May 30 opened the week
with a fair condition and mercury
readings ranging upward to 88- Fri-
day was slightly cooler the high be-
ing established at 80 Low was 68'
: and condition was fair Saturday again
found the mercury moving up to 88'
for the days high Low as 56' and
rendition was lam Sunday was fair
with a high reading of 83 A slightly
warmer condition prevailed Monday
the mercury moving up to 84' Low
was 64 and condition was fair Tues-
day was partly cloudy but continued
warm High was 82' and law was 64
Wedncsday-was warmer High read-
ing was 88' and low was 64 Condi-
tion was fair
High average readira for the week
was 84' and low was 61"
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cements for
St udent pilots
Granted
CIA Drops $10 Fee Young Says
31ore Expected to Enroll
CAA Drops SIO Fee Young Says
More Expected to Enroll
Add Training Plane
Civil Aeronautics authority of
finials in a communication to 11
W Young of the Oklahoma A and
M college engineering depart-
ment announced Thursday that
the government will pay all fees
In connection with the CAA ci-
vilian pilot training program for
those students who complete the
entire course of training success-
fully The announcement came as the
CAA launches plans for the train-
ing of 45000 civilian pilots be-
tween now and Ally 1 1941 and
apparently was a step to offer fur-
ther inducement to young men
and women to enroll for the
training
Students accepted for the train-
ing in the past have been requir-
ed to pay the insurance and phys-
ical examination fee of $40
Fee Held SOIlle Back
Young who is director of ground
training for the local training pro-
gram indicated belief that a
larger quota than the thirty as-
signed recently for training this
summer here might be filled with
I he $40 fee removed
Al Guthrie director of the flight
training said he will have two ad-
ditional instructors by July 1 and
that he will place an order for a
new training ship this week
As for the possibility of a larger
quota for this summer Guthrie
said:
"If we have a sufficient num-
ber of applications we may ask
: that the present quota be increas-
ed to forty-five With the 840 fee
!removed I believe we will have
enough applicants to fill such a
lquota"
Guthrie said Clint McCarty of
' Stillwater would be able to get
hie instructor's iating by July 1
and that Vance Keen instructor
in a CAA training program at Vic-
toria Tex had been employed and
ot Id join the staff here between
June 20 and July I Guthrie said
Name Your Own Quota
The program directors express-
ed belief that the CAA would grant
any quota increase request since
clticials of the agency have
eated eagerness to get as many
into the training as possible this
summer Guthrie said they offer-
ed to set the summer quota here
as high as 120 but that facilities
were not available to handle that
many students and it has been
considered doubtful that a quota
of more than thirty could be fill-
ed with the $40 fee attached
Under the new plan advanced
by the CAA the student Will be
required to make a deposit of 820
with the chief clerk at the college
at the time the appointment is
made This will go for the phys-
ical examination If the student
fails to pass this physical exam-
ination $14 of the deposit will be
returned to him If he passes the
examination the fee will remain
on deposit until he has successful-
ly completed the course by ob-
taining a private pilot's license
At that time the 820 deposit will
be returned in full
The training course consists of
thirty-five to fifty hours of flight
training at the local airport and
seventy-two hours of ground
school training at the college Stu-
dents must have had at least one
year of college work toward a de-
gree must be between 18 and 25
years of age and be able to pass
the physical examination for a
commercial pilot's license
U S WON'T APPROVE
TRANSFER OF ISLANDS
Washington June 4—(19)----Secretary
of State Hull Tuesday gave
the administration's unqualified
support of a" Joint resolution in
congress declarin g this government
will not 3 ppr3ve any transfer to
an other European power of any
governmental control of islands in
this or any ottier hemisphere
Hull said that the proposed bill
-is in effect a restatement of the
position which this government
has consistently taken for more
than a hundred years" in the Mon-
roe doctrine
Scrip and Sanford writing inks
Hinkel & Sons 620 Main St
BRITISH BOMBERS HI
11
1 BACK OF GERMAN
BRITISH BOMBERS HIT
BACK OF GERMAN LINE
Oil Tanks Supply Depots Prove
Targets For Royal Air Force
In Retaliatory Bombing
I London June 6-40—Briti8h
I bombing planes struck behind the
!lines at Germar armies battling
I along the River Somme the air
ministry announced Thursday af-
ter German planes had raided a
250-mile stretch of the English
lcoast
l Medium and heavy bombers of
the Royal air force attacked en-
! emy troop concentrations haras-
sed enilny movements behind the
li:l!hting front and bombed mili-
tary objectives deep in the Ruhr
valley and other districts of Ger-
many the ministry said
I It was announced that British
coastal command planes bombed
l and machine-guimed oil tanks at
German-occupied Belgian city of
I Ghent early Thursday
Greatest activity of the British
planes which shot down siy enemy
craft and lost one of its ow n was
directed as a series of attacks on
!German lines of communications
leading to the Somme battle-
field where British military ex-
perts said the Germans had mad'
some progress but failed to pene-
trate the deep French defrnses
"Other formations of heavy
bombers struck at junctions west
from the Ruhr JA bile others at-
tacked many military objectives In
Germany" the ministry said
"Two of our aircraft are miss-
ing (in addition to One lost near
the Somme) The aircraft coast-
al command made further raids on
oil and fuel depots in Belgium"
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411 OFFICERS
ARE SELECTED
FOR NEW YEAR
Enid Youth 1'111 Be President
Centats Continuing Today
on A and M Campus
Four-H club delegates started
competition in the timely topics
and song contests Thursday after-
noon the closing events of the an-
nual state Round-Up at the Okla-
homa A and M college and after
a final general program Thurs-
day night will start homeward Fri-
day morning
In one of the most important
business meetings of the Round-
Up the voting delegates late Wed-
nesday named Aaron Gritzmaker
Enid youth as state president for
the coming year As vice-preLident
they selected Steve Synar
Warner and for secretary Doro-
thy essel Hitchcock: was named
Joan 1udeman Manchester in
Grant county was elected state
song leader
The election followed three days
of intensive campaigning by cam-
paign managers of the various
candidates Gritzmaker who has
piled up an enviable record dur-
ing his nine years of 4-H club
work was able to defeat Wayne
Thorndyke of Alfalfa county by
only a close vote Both candi-
dates have done outstanding work
In state club circles
Gritzmaker has won $164169 in
premiums in club work: has sold
$615054 worth of products in club
work and has $1000 worth of
livestock and 6roducts on hand
No additional individual or team
winnings were available early
Thursday afternoon pending com-
pletion of timely topics and song
contests During morning hours
Thursday the club delegates were
engaged in short course study in
the dozen subjects being offered
the club boys and girls during
their stay on the campus
Actor in Uniform
Paris June 1--(19)—Robert
Montgomery movie actor
Saturday received his uniform
and will start to the front
Monday with the American
volunteer ambulance corps
Glencoe P M Approved
Washington June 1—(LP)—
The senate Friday night con-
firmed the appointment of
James W Kincaid to be post-
master of Glencoe Ok
OLD WORLD HATREDS
ARE FORGOTTEN HERE
Czech Girl 1Veds German—Who is
However An American—In a
Pretty June Ceremony
America is the melting pot
where old world hatreds fade
away and this fact was notably
impressed Saturday afternoon
June 1 1940 at the country home
of Mr and Mrs J R Brazda near
Yost Lake when their daughter
Helen was married to Mr Rich-
ard Jurgens of Stillwater The
Rev Luther V Stephan of the
Lair Tan church here read the
vows
The bride and groom it should
be stated at once are Americans
first and last But she is Czech°
Slovakian by nationality and he
was German born Here was a
marriage that no doubt could
hardly have occurred la the old
country where all is not well with
the Czechs and the people of the
reich—where the Czechs even now
think bitterly of their indepen-
dence that was lost at Munich
Their ebuntry whose indepen-
dence was born of the World war
finds itself a victim of World war
11
Richard Jurgens came to Amer-
ica eleven years ago and is a
naturalized citizen His parents
still live in the old country He Is
a salesman for the Harold Good-
holm company here
His bride is a junior at A and
M Two years ago she was grad-
uated from Eureka highschool
with honors In fact no student
had compiled such a record as
Helen Brazda Valedictorian of
her class the star of a champion-
ship basketball team active in
dramatics music and other stu-
dent affairs she was the toast of
the school One of her teachers re-
called Saturday night when asked
what activities Helen engaged in
at Eureka !'Why she engaged in
all the activities"
LOLLAR DAY PROGRAM
PLANS WILL BE MADE
Committee Meets Thurstlay Night
To Complete Arrangements
Members of the Dollar Day com-
mittee of the Stillwater chamber
of commerce will meet Thursday
night 7:30 o'clock to complete
arrangements for the first quar-
terly Dollar Day to be held by
merchants on June 11 it has been
announced by John McBride
chairman of the committee
Members of the committee be-
sides McBride are C L Murphy
vice-chairman Murl Penny H IL
Hawley Jake Katz J R Dvorak
J M Patterson Walter Creech
Jack Moore E E Johnson Ray
Heath Philip Smith and Gus
Wilson
Virtual cP v-wide participation
of retail stores has been indicated
for the big Dollar Day program
according to reportsimade by Mc-
Bride The term "Dollar Day"
does not mean that bargain
prices on merchandise to be fea-
tured during the day will be
strictly $1 items it has been
pointed out But merchants co-
operating are being urged to fea-
ture outstanding barains that
will mean savin6s in dollars to
buyers during the day
More definite details concerning
the bargain day will be available
following the Thursday night
committee meeting
Billion For Relief
a
Washington Juv 5 --d9)-- The
senate PPro
priations committee
Wednesday approved the $1073-
000000 1941 relief bill carrying
$975000000 for the WPA and $75-
C00000 for rural rehabilitation
Amended to the bill were pro-
posals Authorizing the Civilian
Conservation corps to institute a
program on non-combantant mili-
tary training for new enrollees
LGIVER 116111' RA'l ES
IN STILLWATLIZ
Mayor Astoi For New Mures to
uge Possible Effect Are !
Opening AVater Studies
Supt George H Rendleman of
the water and light department
told city commissioners Monday
1 night that the city electric plant
I and distribution was now in shape
to warrant a reduction of light and
power rates and that in his opin-
ion the lowered rate could be ef-
fected without appreciable loss of
city revenue
Mayor M J Bradley instructed
the superintendent to prepare a
new scale figure what reduction
seemed advisable and bring in an
estimate of what the reduction
might be expected to bring in in-
creased usage—to get a working
I estimate of what the result would
1 be to the city income
Members of the commission all
Ifavor reduced rates up to a point
where they might cause a
I troublesome drop in city revenue
Water Plans Advanced
The board also wrestled With its
No 1 problem the water situa-
tion and Bradley is to confer fur-
ther with college officials relit-
ILive to a contract agreement as
between college and city relative to
the use of Lake Carl 131arkwell
water by city and college Mean-
while Rendleman a as instructed
to get an estimate on the cost of
laying a line from the lake to the
city and bring in a recommenda-
tion on the size of pipe advisable
It will take 45000 feet of line the
size to range between 18 and 24
inches probably and the price be-
tween $5 and $6 a foot installed
' Bradley and the board believe
that a bond issue for a water line
to the big lake can be carried
readily—when a black-and-white
agreement has been readied with
the college
Boomer Lake Low
Rendleman reported Boomer
lake at the 16-foot level A year
ago at this time the level stood
at 23 feet Hoped-for rains in
the spring just passed have not
materialized The lake has an
estimated 120000000 gallons of
water The city uses 1000000 gal-
10113 a day and evaporation in
hot weather will take as much as
I the city uses each day
The city now is pumping its
nine-mile corner wells 18 hours a
day and mixing the supply with
Boomer
Commissioner Val Schott intro-
duced discussion of the well situa-
tion and the board studied the ad-
visability of sinking possibly two
more wells to augment the sup-
ply Such a temporary measure
may be necessary to tide the city
over during the present summer
and the board is seeking to have
its water plans in shape to meet
possible emergency if it comes
About $7000 would be needed to
add two wells and hook into the
line and they could be in opera-
tion in thirty days after date of
start
AVells Are "Insurance"
The wells represent the "hole
card" for the city in event of
mid-summer drought and a de-
pleted lake supply It would be a
matter of months at best before
Blackwell lake could be tapped
Bradley introduced another mat-
ter that of buying city supplies
such as pipe and wiring for gen-
eral usage in quantity lots and
expressed the belief that the city
might do well to stock heavily in
necessary future supplies antici-
pating a rising war market
A resolution from the American
ILegian was received Monday night
asking the registration of all fire-
arms owned in the city Business
and Professional Women's club
Woman's club and Lions club sub-
1 mitted resolutions favoring air-
port Improvement
Set Up Planning Board
1
' Ordinance 736 was passed au-
: thonzing a regional planning corn-
' mission for Stillwater on which
will serve the mayor city engineer
'chairman of the board of county
commissioners and seven others to
be appointed by the mayor
Application for a sidewalk proj-
'ect in Miller addition was receiv-
ed A painting of the late Harry
Jones former mayor was received 1
by the board It was presented I
by Senator Ray Jones on behalf
of his mother and will be placed
in the commissioner room at city I
hall
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A tattooing specialist in England
says some soldiers and sailors are
having their blood types tattooed
on them in case of need for transfusion
New Oil Test
Started West
of City Lake
Wildcat on 1500-Acre Block in
8-19-2 Only Two North and
Two West of Stillwater
Stakes were being driven for
a wildcat test two miles north and
two miles west of Stillwater Wed-
nesday as Payne county's reviving
oil interest took another shot up-
ward Sun-unit Drilling company of
Tulsa -will operate and cellar and
I pits are to be under construction
at once it has been announced
The well is on the Robert A Ar-
nold farm in the NW NE NW of
8-19n-2e in the vicinity of the
old Cow creek dam The well is
almost directly west of Boomer
lake dam near the section line
road
Interested with J A Padon are
Sinclair-Prairie Ohio Oil com-
pany Sun Oil Carter Oil company
and Ilanlon-Buchanan Inc
The test is contracted lot' the
second Wilcox sand The location
is on a seismograph high in a
cmnmunitized block of some 1500
acres
Robert A Arnold is living now
at 105 Duncan street here The
well will be designated as the No
1 Arnold it is understood
WILDCAT PLAY ADDS
PAYNE OIL INTEREST
Oil interest picked up in Payne
county this week with the an-
nouncement of two 'wildcat oper-
ations work on both now being
under way
The No I Freeman has been
staked hi the SW SW SF of 24-
I9-e a mile southeast of the Yale
townsite by W O Allen of Tulsa
It is on a block of 1360 acres
The No 1 Linsenmeyer in the
SE SE SW of 3-18-4e about two
miles south of the old Ingalls
pool and west of the West Nor-
folk pool is under way with It &
H Oils of Oklahoma City oper-
ating The test is on a spread of
about 600 acres
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FCRMER AGUIE DIES
IN ARMY AIR CRASH
Bch Olson Of Air Corps Dies
in Early-Morning Mishap
Kelly Field Student
San Antonio Tex June 4—(IP)
—Rcbert Olson 26 army flying
cadet from Kelly field was killed
in an airplane crash near Kerr-
yule Tuesday
He apparently crashed while
looking tor a place to land in the
early-morning darkness Residents
lof Kerrville were attracted by the
Ipline shortly before 1 o'clock a
Then they saw flares dropped
from it as the flyer tried to land
Motorcycle police noticed the
flier's plight and tried to guide him
to an airport but he crashed with-
out reaching it
Olson was the son of Albert Ol-
son of Oklahoma City and a
former member of the A and M
college basketball team in 1937-
3
He was a member of the Mis-
scull Valley championship team
of that year and a member of the
squad that made A and M's first
invasion of Madison Square Gar-
den New York city for the na-
tional invitation tournament
NEGRO SENTENCED TO
10 YEARS IN PRISON
Penalty Assessed itionday Against
William Wood ley for Stabbing
Man to Death in Cushing
William Wood ley Cushing Ne-
gro was sentenced Monday to ten
years in the state penitentiary
at McAlester for the slaying last
month of another Negro Bud
Worley cluring a fight in a pool
hall at Cushing
The Negro pleaded guilty two
weeks ago before District Judge
Henry W Hocl to a charge of first
degree manslaughter He was ac-
cused of stabbing Worley to death
during a fight that reportedly fol
lowed many years of ill feeling
between the two men
Wood ley first was charged with
murder but the charge was re-
duced to first degree manslaugh-
ter to which he entered a plea et
guilty
lowed many years of ill feeling
RURAL HOME STRUCK
BY LIGII I NINO BURNS
Red Cro Fs Asks Reusehold Goods
to Aid in Rehabilitation
A call for household articles to
assist in the rehabilitation of a
family of eight whose home west
of Ripley was destroyed Tuesday
morning by lightning was issued
here Thursday by Mrs W P Flow
of the Red Cross
The family consists of Mr and
Mrs Robert Willard their four
children ranging in ages of from
1 year to 11 years Mrs Willard's
mother and hcr brother The home
was struck by lightning during the
early morning electrical storm
In the storm cellar at the time
the lightning struck members ol
the family did not know theh
home was on fire until it was tot
late to save anything in the way
of clothing or household goods
The Red Cross has furnisher
the family with clothing and bed
ding Mrs Flow said and mat'
tresses have been obtained throng'
the state relief office Anothe
home in Ripley has been found b:
Willard if he can obtain house
hold articles such as furniture
dishes and other necessities
Willard until recently was em
ployed on WPA but at this time i
unemployed Persons who hav
dishes furniture or other house
hcld articles they would give ma:
call Mrs Flow at 650-J
Allen Davis
Anniversary
Date Noted
VeterAn Fastor Ordainod Forts
Years Ago 'Wedding Day is
Nearly Coincident
—
The 40th anniversary of th(
day the Rev Allen S Davis wa:
ordained to the Presbyterian min-
istry and the wedding anniversar
of Doctor and Mrs Davis—was
observed in a Presbyterian churel
dinner Wednesday evening 6:31
o'clock
Rev Dr Davis was ordainec
1 June 5 1900 at Emporia Kan
He was called to the Stillwatei
pastorate in 1919 and now is in
his 21st year here being the
1 decin of Stillwater's ministers
Doctor Pr Mrs Davis WM
married ' I and the ordination
and wec—qg anniversaries were
observed Jointly by members ot
the congregation the couple has
served so long
AVDONALD TAKEN TO
SANTA FE HOSPITAL
W J McDonald agent here for
the Santa Fe Railway company
was taken to Mulvane Kan to
the Santa Fe hospital there Sat-
urday He became ill Thursday Dr L
A Mitchell accompanied McDon-
ald to Mulvane and had not re-
turned late Saturday Nature ol
McDonald's illness could not be
learned here until the physician's
return but friends said they had
understood earlier that McDon-
ald suffered either from a attack
of appendicitis or a gall bladder
disorder
CENSUS FIOURE HITS
10050 ARCHER SAYS
A few names still were coming
in Tuesday to be added to the
Stillwater population figure and
in early afternoon Ralph Archer
chamber of commerce secretary
said the number stood at 10050
Although several duplications
may appear in names that have
been obtained in the 'clean-up
phase of the census campaign be-
lie i was expressed that the city
will be safely over the 10000
mark when the final official total
is taken However Archer said
all possible names still will be
added to the list before the
enumeration is closed
Reject Pepper Bill
Washington Jun w 5 For
the second time within a week the
senate foreign relations committee
'Wednesday rejected a proposal by
Senator Claude Pepper Democrat
of Florida to authorize sale of
'warplanes warships and military
!supplies owned by the II S army
and navy to the Mlles
I 'It& committee voted 19 to 2
1 against the Pepper resolution
lEarlier it rejected the similar
!proposal 12 to 1
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TANKS CAUGHT
IN TRAP SOME
AREA IS LOST
--
French Admit Some Losses Claim
No Impertant Gains Made By
Germamt Battle Raging
1 Paris June 6-JIM—Hundreds of
German tanks have been destroy-
ed in the Allied stand against
strong pressure along the Rivers
Somme and Aisne Premier Paul
Reynaud said Thursday in quot-
ing General Weygand as saying
hat he was satisfied with the
trench "answers" to the German
Alensive
The French high command said
ts forces were successfully resist-
rig the German ' onslaught At
east 166 tanks have been put out
If action it was reported unoffi-
ially Reynaud in a radio speech to
he people said that Adolf Hitler
las used every airplane and tank
hat he could muster in the pres-
nt offensive but that French op-
ations were being carried out
atisfactorily
Fateful Battle of June
This "Battle of June 1940" may
ecide the fate of the world for
hundreds of years he said and in
nis fight France "has only one
hought victory"
"German dreams of domination
All be smashed by French resis-
ence" he said
Tank attacks have been met
uccessfully it was said by allow-
ng them to infiltrate into the
I'rench lines then cutting them
)1f or capturing them individually
As each group of tanks has
dowied into the French lines it
IRS been enveloped by the French
t was said preventing the masses
if German infantry from follow- -
ng up the advance -
Admit Some Gains
However it was admtited the
:termans had made a gain of some
ive or six miles in a drive south
If Teronne It appeared that the
3ermans were trying to straight-
m out their linez in this area
vhere the French hold a curved
:anent
(In Berlin German military
quarters asserted Thursday that
ierman troops had made impor-
tant gains through the Weygand
line particularly near Amiens
Teronne and close to the English
channel coast German forces
smashing through the French de-
fensive lines with mass assault!)
eci by tanks and aided by dive
bombers captured large quanti-
ties of French war materials the
military spokesman said)
Planes Strike Back
Allied airplanes struck back at
the Germans from the Somme riv-
er to the Ruhr valley blasting
communications lines and supply
depots and bombing the great port
of Hamburg where the Germans
said three persons were killed and
twenty-one injured
German planes bombed the
English coast striking at air bases
With Italian entry into the war
apparently becoming more and
more likely it was reported that
Pope Pius had been offered refuge
in the United States by President
Roosevelt if he should be forced to
leave Italy
The pope was said to have writ-
ten a personally-written commun-
ication to Premier Mpssolini
possibly a last-minute appeal for
peace
i In Washing ton the White
Howse denied reports from Rome
1-)at President Roosevelt has of-
fered Pope Pius refuge in this
country)
Shake Up Cabinet
Premier Reynaud shook up his
cabinet again and dropped from
the government Former Premier
Daladier
In London it was announced
that England soon would drop
Neville Chamberlain and Sir
Kingsley Wood both holdovers
from the old cabinet
The British invoked the drastic
powers which the government now
has to put labor on a wartime
footing Strikes and lockouts were
forbidden and shifting of labor
from essential industry was put
under government control
Another fifth column scare was
caused in Costa Rica in Latin
America when a cache of grenades
was discovered at Crolfito not far
from Panama However it was as-
serted the weapons were designed
to use in a plot against Panama
rather than Costa Rica
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