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Milford chronicle., 1940-10-25
MAGNoLlA

There will be a Halloween social
in the Red Mems Hall on Wednes-
day evening October 30, al 1890
o'clock. A small admission will Be-
charged at the door and refresh
lnents will be on SALE Everyone in-
rited TO come and enjoy an evening
Of fun. Proceeds for the church bud
get.
The net proceeds OF the supper
on Thursday evening were $140.s2.
The president. Mrs. Margaret Far
row. wishes to thank all those who
helped IN any way to make the sup
per such a success.
Prayer meeting was announced
for Thursday evening at the home OF
James Kerbin.
Worlds Temperance Day will be
Milford chronicle., 1940-10-25

minglon called on many friends on
Thursday and stayed for the oyster
supper
Mr. and Mrs. William Balsch and
children Of Camden were guests on
Sunday Of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
L. j Roe
Mr.. and Mrs. George Davidson and
children. Irene and George, Jr.. OF
Frederica, were guests OF her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Maloney.
Mrs. George Charshea has regurn-
ed from a visit to her children IN
Philadelphia and while there attend
ed the Worlds Fair
Mrs. Everett Ruble and daughter
Ann spent the weekend with friends
in Washington.
Milford chronicle., 1940-10-25
Third Term + A Real Puzzle

Political analysts have not been
able to decide the Importance Of the
third-term issue. or reach satisfying
conclusions about how much Of a
figure 1t will cut in the voting next
month. The third term remains a
puzzle in politics."
Milford chronicle., 1940-10-25

Eat more vegetables and aid ma
ture in keeping your body healthy.
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Summary of Todoy's Star

Page. Page.
Amuse- Obituary Alb
ments ---B-20 Radio -----B-1S
Comics -B-1S-19 Society B-3
Editorials --A-10 Sports --A-14-16
Finance -A-17 Woman's
Lost, Found -A-3 Page Biz
Foreign
a35, 900 troops escaped trap, Church.
III says. Page Al
Italian cabinet okays war plans;
date undisclosed. Page Al
Nazi air targets were military points,
Paris admits. Page Al
Germans fighting way into Dun
kerque. Page Al
Notionol.
President asks $1,277,741,170 supple
mental defense funds. Page Al
House takes up amendments to
Wagner Act. Page A-9
Washington and Vicinity
Prince Georges policeman shot with
own gun IN parked car. Page Az
Trial of antitrust medical case in
1aI indicated. Page B-1
1ckes to be speaker at Capitals July
4 celebration. Page B-l
Color ceremony slated at pm. to-
day at Annapolis. Page B-1
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Nurses $4,000 Verdict
Against Hospital Upheld

Upsetting a legal tradition in the
Capital, Justice James M. Proctor
held today in District Court, in a
memorandum opinion, that hospitals
may be sued and so allowed $50, 900
verdict, recently rendered in favor
of nurse, to stand.
Nurse Susan M. Hughes, 3249 N
street NV, sued for $25 900, claim
ing injuries when she was struck by
swinging door at Georgetown Hos
pital on october %, 1884. The door
was flung open by student nurse.
Miss Hughes contended that because
of the injury she had fractured
left hip and has been completely
disabled since, on relief and required
the use of crutches.
Miss Hughes, through her counsel,
Emmett Leo Sheehan, John A. K.
Donovan and Maurice Lanman, jr.,
contended the president and direc-
tors of Georgetown College, who op-
crate the hospital, should be made
to pay.
Evening star., 1940-06-04

B. E. F north of Amiens and the
Abbeville gap might be lost.
When he set the time for with
drawal a week ago, he continued,
Il feared it would be my hard lot
to announce the greatest military
disaster in our long history"
Sacrifice Not in Vain.
However, he said, the Allies must
be very careful not to assign Ito this
deliverance the attributes of a VIC
tory"
Wars are not won by evacuation,
the Prime Minister said.
Mr.. Churchill said the B. E. F.
lost nearly 1000 guns in Flanders
and said the men who were with
drawn were brought back from the.
jaws of death by miracle of de-
liverance"
The whole root and core and
brain of the British Army around
which we were to build-and are to
build-the greater British armies of
later years appeared about to per-
ish or to be led into ignominous and
starving captivity" Mr.. Churchill
said.
He acknowledged that all Channel
ports are in Hitler's hands and
warned that I'VE must expect an
other blow will be struck almost
Immediately at us or at the French"
He said the British resistance at
Calais had enabled the Allies to
keep the port of Dunkerque open.
The British commander at Calais
was given one hour to surrender,
an offer which he "spurned" and
with rifle brigade of the 60th
Rifle and Queen Victoria's rifle bat
talon of tanks and a thousand
French, defended Calais Ito the
last"
only 80 unwounded survivors
were brought of by the navy and
we do not know the fate of their
comrades" Mr.. Churchill added.
These troops added a page to
the glory of the light DIVISION Mr.
Churchill declared.
Their sacrifice was not, however
in vain. Two armored divisions
which otherwise would have been
turned against the British Expedi-
tionary Force had to be sent to over
come them"
The time gained by the resistance
(See LONDON, Page A-5)
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Dunkerque in Flames
As Nazis Storm In 10
Bag $4,000 French
Area Is Alive With Roar
OF Planes and Shells as
Germans Crouch for Kill
BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER.

hSSOCldleQ TTeSS WIT Correspondence.
WITH THE GERMAN ARMY,
June Al crouched yesterday in a
trench on the outskirts of Dun
kerque and watched as what Ger
mans called the last chapter in the
Wiping out of Frances Army of the
North began to unfold itself
Dunkerque was in flames. This
important English Channel port was
being bombarded by Stukas and
shelled by German heavy artillery.
We saw the burning city before us.
The British were already either
wiped out or captured or had made
a getaway to England. so that prac-
tically only the French remained.
Today we learned that the first
German vanguard entered the city
this morning.
Some 10000 Frenchmen, accord
ing to a German estimate, were left
in a small area 6 by 9 miles, with
Dunkerque as its center.
Following the German Army as it
dashed from place to place with
blitzkrieg rapidity, I had succeeded
in getting to Bergues, strongly
fortified suburb of Dunkerque, about
five miles from the Channel port,
by Sunday afternoon.
Rough Living.
For 48 hours we had had no warm
meals, but lived on hardtack, canned
blood sausage and champagne
drinking water being Of doubtful
purity.
We had slept on hard floors or
long tables, as for example in the
Chamber of Commerce at Cambria.
Faced with the impossibility of
getting military lines cleared for
Berlin, we finally motored 200 miles
to reach a telephone. All this time
we had been out of communication
with the world. We had reached St.
Evening star., 1940-06-04

pire. to strengthen the navy and
tighten discipline in the war indus
tries.
But Italy's position as a nom
belligerent ally of Germany re-
manned unchanged by the meeting,
to which the world had looked for
days for clue to II Duce's next
move.
The measure dealing with war
industries provided punishment for
infractions of discipline which would
interfere with output.
Mussolini's cabinet ministers, who
all hold army or militia commits
sions, were reported planning to
take their posts in command of
Italy's armed forces.
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo
Ciano and Ettore Mutt, secretary of
the Fascist party, were expected
to take command of aviation SQUAD
rons as they did in the Ethiopian
campaign.
There was report that Mussolini
might tell Italy's war aims in an
extraordinary session of the Fascist
(See ROME, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Germany Clamps
Down Censorship
On News Matter
Sy the Associated Press

~ the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June Germany
clamped the lid of censorship
tighter today on mail, telephone
and telegraph service between the
Reich and neutral nations.
The army high command became
the final authority on censorship
and communication the
transmission Of news to nom -bellig-
erent countries.
Under order of Col. Gen. Wilhelm
Keitel, chief of the high command,
no news about the military, eco
nomic or political situation can be
sent which would endanger the
welfare Of the Reich or the states
with whom she is allied or on
friendly terms"
Telephone and telegraph service
from non-belligenent countries and
telegram service to non-enemy
countries is permitted only to
licensed firms or individuals.
Evening star., 1940-06-04

LONDON, June 4 (R.-The gov
ernment pressed its roundup of
British Fascists throughout the ma
ton today, arresting two at Canter-
bury, from 30 to 40 at Manchester,
including several women; one on
the Isle of Wight, three at Lowestoft
and one at Blackpool. A quantity
of Fascist literature was seized at
Blackpool.
Evening star., 1940-06-04
10000 Prisoners
Seized in Port.
Berlin Claims
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June 4.-The German
high command today claimed cap
ture of Dunkerque, Allied escape
port from the Nazi trap in Flanders,
and with it complete mastery of the
entire French and Belgian Channel
coast as far south as the Somme
River.
The port fell after heavy fighting,
a communique said and the German
troops captured 10000 prisoners and
"a vast amount of booty"
The communique said:
The fortress of Dunkerque has
been taken after heavy fighting
Forty thousand prisoners and a
vast amount of booty fell into our
hands.
LAS a result of this action the
entire Belgian and French Channel
coast up to the mouth of the
Somme has been completely occu-
pied by German troops"
Dig OHCIlSlte EXpcCtcU.
The report that Dunkerque had
been captured, following swiftly
after announcement that German
troops had entered it, came as the
Nazi air force, back from an lex
perlmental" bombing of the Paris
region. waited orders to strike again
in conjunction with great land
offensive which most Germans ex-
pect to start in the west any day.
Puncture of the Allied rearguard
defending the withdrawal from the
German pocket in Flanders was
achieved in hard fighting, the nigh
command acknowledged.
The fight for Dunkerque is near
ing its end" the communique de-
clared. Our troops penetrated into
the town and captured Fort Louis
from the desperately fighting en-
emy. House-to-house fighting is
still going on with French troops
whose task it was to protect the
flight of the British soldiers to their
vessels"
Planes Destroyed on Ground.
The German air raids yesterday
destroyed between 300 and 400 Al
Lied planes in hangers and on air
fields in addition to shooting down
1O4, the communique reported.
supersedlng an earlier special an
nouncement.
The German flyers, sWarming over
in all kinds of warplanes, caught the
French unaware and in attacks at
high and low altitude obtain
the strongest effect on ports and
industrial establishments of the
French Air Force" the communioue
said.
Numerous fires and explosions
were observed" it said.
Despite the scope of the German
air assault, the high command said,
only nine German planes were miss
ing. 1t said Allied night raids on
Holland and Southern and Western
Germany met with success lust as
small as hitherto"
While getting set for the next
blow, Germany took extraordinary
steps in an effort to convince the
United States that she has no de-
sire to see the Western Hemisphere
involved in the war and that she is
taking unusual measures to avoid
even accidental affront to America.
The Foreign Office formally
warned the governments of the
(See BERLIN, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1940-06-04

and liberation of the Old"
He said the Allies had suffered
"a colossal military disaster"
that the French Army had been
weakened and Belgium lost.
The deliverance of the troops from
Dunkerque. he said, was largely due
to the work of the Royal Air Force,
guarding the 22O light warships and
$40 other vessels employed in the
work.
He said 10000 men in the B. E. F.
had been killed, wounded or are
missing, but added produly that
350.000 Allied troops had been saved
from annihilation or capture.
To Rebuild B. E. F.
Mr.. Churchill disclosed that the
r. A. F. used part of the main
metropolitan fighter strength" to
guard London to strike at German
bombers and their protecting fight
ers who were harassing the move
ment Of the troops across the Chan
mel
I'VE will reconstitute and build
up the B. E. F.. once again under
its gallant commander in chief, Lord
Gort," he said.
Against the loss of the 10000 men,
many of whom he predicted would
return home safely, Mr.. Churchill
said "far heavier losses were in
f1icted on the enemy"
Turning to the question of home
defense, he said:
I'VE have more military forces in
this country at this moment than
ever before in this war or in the
last"
He added, however, that this will
not continue. We shall not be con-
tent with a defensive war"
The fighting Prime Minister said
that although some good judges
had told him that 10000 or 10000
men might be re-embarked "it Ger
tainly seemed" as though the whole
OF the French First Army and the
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Nozi Bombers Start
Fires in lie Hovre

PARIS, June 4 (P.-German
1ncendiary bombs set fires in
the important French port of
LIE Havre today as Nazi flyers
resumed a series of raids car
ried out against the harbor dur
ing the last two weeks.
The German bombers at
tackled the city last night and
this morning.
On previous trips the raid
ers had carried numerous ex-
plosive as well as incendiary
bombs. causing some inhabi-
tants to leave.
Among them were the wife
and daughter of Samuel H.
Wiley, the United States Con-
sui there, whose home on the
city's outskirts barely escaped
being hit in the last raid. His
wife and daughter now are en-
route to the United States.
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Britain Expects 10 Resume
Soviet Relations Soon
NV tho Aecoc;afnd Drace

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, June 4.-R. A. Butler,
undersecretary for foreign affairs,
told the House of Commons today
that Britain was prepared to enter
into fully normal relations with So
Wet Russia.
Mr.. Butler added that he hoped to
be able to reply tomorrow when dip
lomatic representation by an am
bassador in Moscow would be re-
sumed.
The British Ambassador to Rus
sia, Sir william Seeds, arrived in
London last January 10 on leave
from his post and has not returned.
Evening star., 1940-06-04

$4,000 Allied Troops Escaped;
Dunkerque Fortress Falls to Nazis
War Bulletins

BERN, June 4 (P).-
The Swiss high command
announced today that
"twO or three" German
planes were believed to
have been shot down by
fighters in an air battle
over the Swiss Jura Noun
tains in which one Swiss
plane was brought down
and its pilot killed. The
battle occurred near the
towns of Lachauxde,
FOnds and LelOcles.
The German bOmberS
presumably were strays
from squadrons which were
reported to have attacked
the Rhone Valley in France
today.
PARIS, June 4 (P).-A
War Ministry spokesman
announced today tn at
French planes had bombed
airpOrtS and industrial
regions of Munich and
Frankfort in reprisals for
yesterdays German air
raid on Paris.
Evening star., 1940-06-04

Partial Tert of Prime Minister Speech Page A.
LONDON, June 4-Britan will fight from the outposts
OF Empire if need be alone until the New World comes to
her Winston Churchill told the House of Commons
today
In long war statement during which he listed the
British dead wounded missing in Flanders 900 and
the Allied rescued at 33500O Mr. Churchill asserted Britain
must carry on at all odds.
Should England part of subugaed "then
empire the guarded
Fleet" will continue the struggle.
Canada would be the point among
the empires domnions although Mr.. Churchill presumably
was speaking as well of Australasia India South Africa
all the other imperial colonies)
Mr. Churchill made plain that he Ibid moment
believe that the Nazs could subugae England
that Britain and France would together
rades However, he looked ahead to the eventua
1--WE shall to the end" the Minister said
shall fight in France We shall fight the
shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength
the air.
1--WE Shall Never Surrender"
I'VE shall defend island whatever the
shall fight the beaches We shall fight the landing
We shall fight in the fields and streets
I'VE shall never surrender and which
starving then empire guarded
British Fleet will the struggle until Gods
New World and all its strength and might forth
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Germans Usinq
Bomb Weighted
With Concrete
By H. TAYLOR HENRY.


Associated Press War Correspondent.
WITH THE FRENCH AIR FORCE
ON THE NORTHERN FRONT, June
4.-The German Air Force is using
a new reinforced concrete bomb in
its attacks on French airports.
The explosive is contained in q
core of concrete which is itself
placed inside an ordinary steel
bomb.
Ordinary explosive bombs have
been discovered to do relatively little
damage to a landing field because
the bombs explode almost on the
surface and spray out in a cone
rather than dig deep crater.
The new concrete bomb, how.
ever, gives added weight, forcing
the projectile deeper into the ground
and ripping out a gaping hole.
Evening star., 1940-06-04
President Asks
In Arms Request
Funds to Stort 68
Ships Sought; Army
Allotted 707 Million
BULLETIN.

Inc senate approved legislation
today authorizing expansion OF
the naval air force to 10000
planes, manned by 10000 pilots,
and providing for the establish
ment of defensive ring of air
bases around the United States.
Congressional tax leaders were
reported authoritatively today to
be considering boost in the
pending defense tax bill to more
than $1,000, 100000. One method
proposed was broadening the in
come tax base and increasing the
rates on incomes below S60,000
By the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt asked Con-
gress today for funds to start 68
new naval vessels in submitting a
defense request for s1,277,741 ITO for
both the Army and Navy. The
Executive said last week he would
ask for lover billion"
The presidential request, sent to
Speaker Bankhead and dispatched
Immediately to the House Appropri-
ations Committee, was for $507 .253,-
ITO cash and $63 $4,000 contractual
authority for the Navy and S452 ISL
239 cash and s254,1767 761 contractual
authority for the Army.
The vessels for which Mr.. Roose-
welt asked initial construction funds
were 3 aircraft carriers, 13 cruisers,
% submarines and 80 destroyers.
Another large item in the request
included $3.50, ,889, 1895 cash and sl09.-
259, ,597 contract authority for Army
Airplanes.
Defense Bill 4.6 Billions.
The requests laid down by Mr..
Roosevelt today placed the Nations
regular and emergency defense bill.
as projected in various appropria-
tions measures pending before Con-
gress, at $4,6O0 100000.
The Presidents main previous
recommendations were for $1,823,-
100000 in regular and emergency
funds for the Army and 81 ,473 ,00O,-
900 in regular and emergency naval
appropriations.
His latest request put into
specific form the general request he
made last week when he said that
more than a billion dollars addi-
tional would be needed.
The Navy would be provided with
s22885 900 for new airplanes and
equipment under the Presidents
new proposal.
The request included $103, 3,800, 900
for improvement of naval shore
stations, including establishment of
far-f1ung airbase system.
A cash fund of $2900,000 for
Army flying fields also was proposed.
The cash request for starting work
on the new naval vessels was sl44,-
100000, and s78,40O,O0O was pro-
posed for armor, guns and am
munition for new vessels, while
s63 028, ,370 cash and $28,650,00O con-
tract authority was asked for ord
nance, which covers such items as
guns and torpedoes.
Earlier. Secretary of State Hull
announced that Il heartily ap-
prove" a resolution declaring the
United States would not recognize
or aquiesce in transfer of any West
ern Hemisphere region from one
American power to another.
Secretary Hull made the state
ment in letter to Chairman Bloom
of the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee. Representative Bloom made
the letter public after the COM
mittee had discussed the resolution
for two hours without taking any
action.
THE proposed resolution" Sec
retary Hulls letter said, lis based
(See DEFENSE, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Italian Line Revises
New York SoiIinqs
Through July IS

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 4.-The
Italian Line today began plac-
ing advertisements listing a
revised schedule of sailings
from New York to Italy.
The Rex, largest ship in the
Italian merchant marine, is
scheduled to leave New York
June % and other sailings
were listed for June 20, July 6
and July 13.
The line recently postponed
all passenger ship sailings be-
tween Italy, the United States
and South America, giving
lack of business as the cause.
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Fumes Fatal 10 Lawyer,
FeI|ed Trying 10 Save Pets

A man identified by police as
Edward F.. Mcmahon, an attorney
in the tax division of the Justice
Department, died today in physi-
clans Office after having said he
had been taken i'll while rescuing
pets from his fumes-filled Glen Mar
(Md) home.
According to police, DR.. William
T. Gill, jr., 1746 K street NV, told
them Mr.. Mcmahon said he had
been fumigating the house with
sulphur candles.
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Marshall Favors
Presidential Control
Over National Guard
Dangers That Might Be
Serious for Panama
Canal Seen by General
BULLETIN.

Chairman Walsh of the Senate
Naval Committee told his COL
leagues today he believed the
United States was now making
arrangements" for new defense
bases in Central and South
America.
BY the Associated Press.
Gen. George c. Marshall said to-
day that President Roosevelt should
have peace-time power to call up
the National Guard because there
were "a variety of minor involve
ments that could easily grow to
more serious proportions.
The Army chief of staff told the
House Military Committee that
there we're dangers that might be
serious, specifically with relation to
the Panama Canal.
With regard to possible use of the
National Guard, Gen. Marshall said
he and the War Department were
thinking exclusively of the Western
Hemisphere. The proposed au-
thority for summoning the Guard,
he said. would include power for
the President to send it outside
Continental United States.
When the committee evidenced
interest in this and related con-
siderations behind the request for
authority to call up the Reserve, in
GLIDING the National Guard, Gen.
Marshall expressed reluctance to
discuss such questions in open ses-
sion. Immediately a closed session
was ordered.
Gen. Marshall had declared pre-
vious to that that the President
should have the peacetime authority
to eliminate the necessity for sum-
moning Congress into special ses-
sion should occasion for use of the
Guard arise.
Emphasizing that the War De-
partment contemplated no large
expeditions, he compared the Ma
tional Guard to fire extinguisher, /"
(see MARSHALL, Page A-20
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Mats, in Batting Spree,
Lead Indians, 5to |

A barrage of five straight singles
and a double off the bats of the
Nationals sent Mel Harder, veteran
Cleveland pitcher, to the showers
in the fourth inning of today's
game at Griffith Stadium and the
Mats were leading, to l.
Ken Chase was on the mound for
the Griffmen and gave up run in
the second inning.
Evening star., 1940-06-04
Italian Cabinet 0kays
War Plans, but Date
Is Not Disclosed
Speculation Ranges
From This Week
To End of June
BY the Associated Press.

ROME, June 4.-Speculation on
the date of Italy's plunge into war
ranged today from the end of this
week to the end of June as Premier
Mussolini's cabinet stamped an okay
on undisclosed plans for war.
One source close to the govern
ment said no move to step into the
conflict was likely in the immediate
future.
But Italy made ready
In an anxiously awaited 90-min-
ute session, with II Duce presiding.
the ministers moved to extend war
preparations to Italy's African en-
Evening star., 1940-06-04

report added, they will find
nothing"
All other ports along the French
Belgian coast. the agency added,
had been rendered unstable" be-
fore the departure of the Allied
troops.
The entrance to Nieuport Harbor
(See PARIS, Page A-3D
Evening star., 1940-06-04

suming the Germans do not requisi-
ton it.
Realizing that Leopolds dramatic
story had never been told. we made
detour of more than 100 miles from
France into Brussels.
Since Mr. Cudahy felt it in
compatible with his present position
to comment, an intimate friend of
the royal family was interviewed
(See LEOPOLD, Page A-3.)