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Evening star., 1940-05-24
Several Houses Destroyed
In Lima Earthquake
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LIMA, Peru, May 24.-A strong
earthquake of one-minute duration
demolished several houses today and
sent the population into the streets
in panic.
First reports said a few persons
were injured, but none killed. Tele-
phone and power service was inter-
rupted in some parts of the city.
Ten minutes after the disturb
ances, frightened persons were still
leaving the area of damage.
Lima, capital of Peru, with pop
ulation of more than 10000, has
been stricken several times by earth
quakes.
The most disastrous on record was
that Of 1746 when 5000 of the $4,000
inhabitants were killed and many
buildings destroyed.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Fuel Lack Stalls
MOTORIZED Nozis,
| Paris Hears
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 24.-Paul Ar
chinard, National Broadcasting Co.
representative in Paris, said in q
broadcast today that 5000 German
troops of mechanical units were
reported isolated" in Amiens and
that other Nazi mechanical forces
had stalled" from lack of fuel.
Although French military authori-
ties were unable to confirm the re-
port of the isolated" forces at
Amiens, Archinard said, they told
of numerous motorized units stalled
in the Flanders region and added
that allied forces were busy mop
ping them up"
Amiens had been taken by the
Germans. but the French command
claimed today that French troops
had returned to the city and were
holding newly wen lines.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Art Treasures Spirited
Out Of Brussels Vanish

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, May 24.-Thirty truck
loads of art treasures including
paintings by Rubens, Rembrandt
and Van Dyck are missing. it was
disclosed today, after being spirited
out of Brussels during the German
invasion.
The priceless treasures were taken
,from the Brussels museum and
placed in trucks which set out for
France over the bombed and refugee
tangled roads of Belgium.
They departed before the fall of
the Belgium capital a week ago
today, but have not been heard from
since.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Nozi 'Chutists Wiped Out
In Clash in French VILLAGE

few French soldiers resting at a
nearby estaminet, set out in search
of the Nazi machine gunners, the
Air Ministry said, and there followed
house-to-house fight through the
village.
by daybreak every parachutist
was dead" said the Air Ministry
announcement.
ROUEN, France, May "a GA Ger
man parachutist, carrying a bicycle
and incendiary equipment, was re-
ported captured last night after he
landed In the Gournay region near
Rouen, south of the Somme, on a
mission of spreading fire behind the
allied lines.
He said he had been ordered to
mingle with Belgian refugees and
set fires wherever he could.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
1rotsky Is Fired On
By Mexican Band;
Stain Blamed
ExiIed Revolutionary,
Attacked in Home, Is Hurt
Slightly by Gloss
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY. May 24-At least
20 men disguised as police and
armed with machine guns, rifles and
incendiary bombs raided the guarded
residence Of Leon Trotsky early to-
day and fred volleys into the bed
room Of the exiled Russian revolu-
tionary and longtime foe Of Joseph
Stain. Trotsky. slightly injured,
blamed the attacks directly" on
Stain.
One of an undisclosed number OF
secretary -bodyguards on duty at the
time was kidnapped and his fate was
undetermined. He was identified as
Sheldon Harte, IS, Of New York City
The attackers hurled incendiary
bombs into the yard of Trotsky's
suburban villa to light the scene
it was before dawn-and then
opened fire.
Police declared it was an amaz-
ingly well-planned attempt on
Trotsky's life, but that his only in
juries were minor cuts from splinters
and flying glass.
Bullets ripped into the bedroom
where Trotsky and his wife had
lain asleep only a few minutes be-
fore. The bearded, little Russian
and his wife crouched in a corner
between the heavy stone walls OF
the bedroom to escape the fusillade.
Trotsky came to Mexico in 1887
after the wandering exile that fol-
lowed his falling out with the powers
of the Soviet Russia he helped to
build as one of the leaders of the
October, 1917, revolution.
Trotsky first resided at the sub
urban villa of the Mexican muralist,
Diego Rivera, but lately has lived in
a walled-in house in the village of
Coyoacan, Mexico City suburb.
Evening star., 1940-05-24

Germany, where he remained until
his appearance in England. He said
he would not remain in Germany
under Nazi rule.
His detention came as London po-
lice pressed their roundup of fifth
column" suspects, and arrested five
more members of Fascist Leader Sir
Oswald Mosley's British Union.
Police announced the arrest of 81
men and women in the London
area today.
Won Rintelen. self-styled fugitive
from Nazi-ism," told newspapermen
Yesterday that German invasion of
Britain was impossible" although
he considered the British "lethargic"
to the wars dangers. He hinted at
that time that he was engaged in
secret work for the British govern.
ment.
More than 40 suspects have been
taken into custody.
Three members of Sir Oswald's
Icao "TTIJ COI IIN1N Doro A-oI
Evening star., 1940-05-24
BouIoqne Is Lost

LONDON, May "a P.-Boulogne,
Frances strategic seaport, 20 min
utes by air from London, has fallen
to the German spearhead on the
English Channel coast, authoritative
sources acknowledged today.
The Germans took possession of
Boulogne last night" they said.
Prime Minister Churchill told
Parliament yesterday severe fighting
was raging around and in" Bou-
logne and that the fighting, threat
to British communications, had
implications of serious character" !"
Today came word of the German
seizure of the beautiful port city,
whose population in peacetime
numbered more than $4,000.
A spokesman said that virtually
all the British troops at Boulogne
got away He indicated that the
Germans we're able to seize the
town because of their stronger
forces. He added, however, that he
, had no knowledge of the size of the
German capturing force.
rs Miles From FOlkstOne.
- Boulogne, the point farthest west
of the German sweep through the
Low Countries and France in the
15-day-old real war is only 26
miles by boat from Folkstone, los
miles by water from London and
about 80 miles by air.
Boulogne was seized apparently
by German mechanical columns
worming north along the Channel
coast from Abbeville, France, which
was reached last Tuesday.
En- route, according to German
diplomatic sources at Bern, Switzer-
land, the Germans captured the
French town of Montreuil, near the
Channel and occupied the Channel
port of LIE Touquet, about IL miles
south of Boulogne. LIE Touquet is a
famous coastal resort.
The British authority, who an
nounced Boulogne's fall, said that
other points reached by German
mechanical detacnments were not
being disclosed because such dis
closures might be the first news of
the actions to reach the German
command itself.
Presumably the German conquer
ors would try to push 20 miles across
q hump in the French coastline to
attack Calais. CThe Germans have
pictured Calais as the most impOr-
tant of their Channel objectives)
Claim 20 Planes Downed.
The advance on Calais, coupled
with German thrust pointed
through Ghent, Belgium, would
practically seal the ring thrown
. about half million to million
allied troops on the plains of
(See LONDON, Page A-120
Evening star., 1940-05-24
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May PA small band
OF British and French soldiers was
reported tonight to have wiped out
German parachute attackers, aimed
with sub-machine guns. dropped on
small French village behind the
western front.
The British were said to have
been armed only with rifles.
The Air Ministry announced that
Is members of the ground staff OF
a Royal Air Force squadron had
stopped to rest at the village, weary
from II hours on the road, when at
dusk German bombers came roaring
over the rooftops. The bombers new
around until night fell and then
dropped the parachutists.
The r. A. r. men, Joined by q
Evening star., 1940-05-24


The Civil Aeronautics Authority
will launch an airplane pilots train
ing program on July / calculated to
furnish basic instruction to $4,000
young men within one years time,
1t was announced today by Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
The President told his Friday
press conference that about $50
primary training centers will be
established by the c. A. A., with
the costs to be met in special sup
Elementary appropriation by Con-
gress. No estimate of this cost is
yet available, he said, but it will be
supplied in the near future.
Men between the ages of 18 and
Is will be eligible for the training,
Mr.. Roosevelt announced, and will
be drawn from three principle
sources.
Colleges Are First.
First will be the 435 colleges and
schools already participating in c.
A. A. training activities, plus other
institutions which may desire to
join the program.
Second will be the large group of
citizens who have had some flying
instruction or may even have held
licenses in the past but have more
recently discontinued their active
interest.
p Third will be those who fall in
the proper age and eligibility cate
CORY but are neither college students
nor have had any previous instruc-
ton.
In announcing this immediate
plan to step up the Nations pre-
paredness in the air, the President
reminded his conference that the c.
A. A. is just now completing its
initial training program, with about
10000 persons having obtained basic
instruction in the present fiscal year,
ending June 80. Actually, he added,
the new program will be merely an
expansion of the present one.
Three Months Gain Seen.
With the primary training thus
provided, the flying candidates are
estimated to be about three months
advanced to eventual acceptance as
military pilots as needed. In addi-
ton to the initial instruction for the
10000 this year, the G. A. A. also
provided advanced training for about
1900 pilot instructors, Mr. Roosevelt
said.
Provision will be made, the Pres
ident added, to enroll those who pass
the basic instruction a reserve units.
Not all of those wno receive this
training will be completely eligible
for the more advanced military re-
quirements of the Army and Navy,
he added.
The President remarked that a
group of able and Well-known citi-
zens already has sensed the value
of this contemplated program and
their support is appreciated by the
Government. Presumably, he was
referring to the civilian committees
being formed by Col. Frank Knox,
Chicago publisher and 1886 Repub-
lican vice presidential candidate.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Invaders 1eaen Caa British Jail Rteen in Big Spy Roundup
English Admit Loss Of Bou|oqne;
Nazis Over Sche|dt> in Ghent
War Bulletin
Kinq Accuses Nozis


LONDON, May "a (P.-On a
black Empire Day, with Eng
land threatened by the first
invasion since 1866, King
George vi today accused Nazi
Germany of a "long-planned
scheme to subjugate by force
the nations of the world"
The King, in a personal
broadcast, called upon his
peoples to keep your resolve
unshaken."
Speaking gravely, King
George told the far flung en-
pire that a decisive struggle
is upon U.S."
"The issue is now plain: 1t is
an issue of life or death for us
ALL" he declared.
Defeat will not mean some
brief eclipse from which we
shall emerge with strength
renewed-it will mean the de-
struction of our world as we
have known it and the descent
of darkness upon its ruins"
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Trade Mission to Moscow
Weighed by Britain

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 24.-Britain was
reliably reported today to be con-
sidering the dispatch Of q trade
mission to Moscow. This would be
in line with Prime Minister
Churchill's government policy Of
seeking improved relations with
Soviet Russia.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Bomburdment Of Metz
And Strosbourg Reported

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 24.-Helen
Hiett, N. B. c. correspondent in
Paris. said in a broadcast to the
United States today that word has
just come in that Strasbourg and
Metz have been bombarded during
the night
She added that no details were
available.
Both cities remain in French
hands. Metz is about Is miles south
of Luxembourg, and Strasbourg is
on the Rhine 80 miles southeast of
Metz.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Press Advises Germans
Victory Soon Is Unlikely
By the Associated Press.

NEW YORK, May 24.-The Ger
man press advised Germans today
against expecting an immediate VIC
tory, william Kerker, N. B. G. cor
respondent, said in talk from
Berlin.
The newspaper acknowledged, Mr..
Kerker said, that the German Army
was up against well-trained and
well-equipped forces, and hazard
that q decisive victory probably
would not come for at least q month,
estimated on the basis Of the Is days
1t took to conquer Poland.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Giruud and Stoff Held
In Villa in Germany
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, May 24.-Gen. Henri
Giraud, a prisoner of war, identified
by the Germans as the commander
of the broken 9th French Army, is
in custody with his staff at villa
somewhere in Germany.
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Speedy Executions
And Sensational Soy
Disclosures Assured
BY WILLIAM H. STONEMAN,
Chicago Daily News Foreisn
Correspondent

correspondent.
LONDON, May 24.-When
the story of the British fifth
column" is finally revealed-as
it cannot be at this moment
the whole western world Will
have a profound shock and the
consequences may easily be ap-
palling in character.
This correspondent hereby
wishes to make a prophecy
without revealing any facts
which it would be disloyal to
disclose. First, a good many
people who have been living in
comparative security are going
to be shot-and speedily. Sec
ond, one of the most sensational
stories of the war will be broken
within the near future.
(Copyright. 1910. by Chicago Daily
News, Incl
Evening star., 1940-05-24
{. A. A. Starts Traininq
$4,000 as Airp|ane
Pilots July I
$50 Primary Centers
To Be Established,
President Reveals
BY JOHN C. HENRY.

ARMY AIR PROGRAM may center
on two types of planes. Page Al
Evening star., 1940-05-24
GUIDE FOR READERS

Complete Indsx, Page AID
Evening star., 1940-05-24

(see FIFTH COLUMN, Page ABB
Evening star., 1940-05-24
Weather Forecast (

Rain tonight and probably tomorrow
morning; not much change in tempera-
ture; lowest tonight about go. Tempera-
lures today-Highest, so, at midnight;
lowest, 81, at 7:30 am; 50 at 2 pm.
From the United States weather bureau report.
Full details on Page Az.
Evening star., 1940-05-24

(see POLITICS, Page A-33
Evening star., 1940-05-24

Most people in Washington have The
Star delivered to their homes every
evening and Sunday morning.
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-11
Jim Walden
To Announce
Candidacy

Jim Walden, business manager of
the Prescott Courier, will announce
his candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for state treasurer with
in a month, acoor ding to authori-
tative reports from Prescott. 1t will
be his first bid for public office.
An experienced auditor and busi-
ness man, Mr.. Walden has operated
a business of his own and before
moving to Prescott served five
years as auditor and business man
ager Of the Phoenix Gazette. fIe
established a record in public serv-
ice during the two years he was
superintendent Of the Arizona Pho
neers' home. After increasing the
facilities of the institution. improv-
ing its cuisine and providing addi-
tional comforts for the elderly
guests, he returned $4,000 to the
state general fund from the legis-
lative appropriation
Friends quote Mr.. Walden as
saying: "I don't believe in spend
ing a dollar when rs cents will do
the job"
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-11

Il new squirt in Phoenix building,
activity is assured with the OPEN
ing OF bids on the construction of
the colored unit of the Phoenix
Housing Authority's slum-clear-
ance program, which will cost an
estimated $46O,00O, contractors
eaid.
The bids are to be opened June
q and actual construction should be
Under way by June Is, 1t was said
at the Office of Lescher and Ma
honey, supervising architects.
The project has been under way
for more than one year, but va
rious technical and legal delays
had to be- overcome before building
could be begun. The suct esSful
contractor will have 270 days in
which to complete the buildings;
EOS days for the installation of all
utilities, sucn as roads and side
walks; and 425 days to complete
the landscaping.
This unit will be known as the
Matthew Henson Housing Develop
ment. Already the site between
Seventh and Ninth avenues and
Tonto and Sherman streets has
been cleared of old buildings. It
cost $45, 600.
The unit will have provision for
housing 1872 families in A build
ings, and an administration build
ing. Plans for the development
were prepared under the supervi-
sion of Lescher and Mahoney,
architects.
ALTERNATES ASKED
These buildings will have con-
crete block walls, unless the alter
nate Of brick walls is decided upon
after the bids have been opened
The contractors are asked to bid
On providing rigid asbestos roofs
with am alternate of tile. Likewise
trev may offer alternate bids on
steel and wood sash, double hung
for the windows.
Each apartment will have con-
crete floors The walls will bt
rlastered and painted. Electric fix
tures will be provided. Each bath
room will have a tub and eacf
kitchen will have a porcelain-linee
sink.
In each kitchen an electric re-
frtgerator will be provided. Ga
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-11
Organize Council
OF National
Negro Congress

MILWAUKEE,, Wis.-(SNS)-
A small group of men, Negro and
white, met at the home of Mr..
Leroy ,7.. johnson, 810 w. Galena
Street, Sunday afternoon, May 5.
for the purpose of organizing a
council of the National Negro
Congress.
Mr. Johnson is vice S~eSident of
the State Industrial Union Council
Of the CLIO in Wisconsin, and rep
resented the CIO of Milwaukee
County at the recent National Me-
gro Congress held in Washington,
D. C..
According to Mr.. johnson. the
purpose of this branch is to elm
mate racial prejudice, increase the
appropriations to the WPA and
Medical Care, and to act in unison
with organized labor.
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-11
Phoenix City
Welfare Lea'e
Stages Contest

The Phoenix Civic Welfare
League, Inc, has a group of out
standing women sponsored by
member organizations in a popu-
larity contest. Money raised in this
way Is to purchase lot upon
which a building will be built for
the activities of the Phoenix civic
welfare league. Three cash prizes
will be awarded to the successful
contestants amounting to $50. First
prize of SIS to contestant raising
the highest amount over $40; sec
ond prize of $40 to the contestants
raising the highest amount over
$4,000 and $500 to the contestant
raising the highest amount over
$40. Select one of these contestants
and get out and work for her and
help her to win. Miss G. E. G. Cop
land, 1918 e. Jefferson Street, for
Tilden Whitepost No. 40 American
Legion, Mrs. Christine jackson,
1888 e. Masison Street, for Mari.
copa Chapter No. OES. Miss
Gray, 735 w. Grant Street for
West Gate Consistory Scottish
Rite Masons, Mrs. Ann Y. Ward,
745 s: Third Street for Salt Valley
Lolge No. 4F. & A. M. Mrs.
Pearl L. Turner, 211 w. Hadley
Street, for Maricopa Lodge No. l
F.. g. A. M. Mrs. Vera Belle Will
son, goth Street, and indian school
road. firorude if Arizona, Temple
No. 2 knights of Tabor, Mrs. Edna
Gonaway, 1906 w. Sherman Street,
for Moslem Temple No 10 Shriners
for information.
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-11
Tragedy
Shocks
GreenviIIe
Notes Indicate
Killings Were
Premeditated

GREENVILLE, S. c.
(ANP)---Murder and suicide
snuffed out the lives of two
of Greenville's prominent res
idents Saturday. Juan Heni-
to Molina, AZ, only Negro
architect in this section, shot
and killed Miss M a RI e
Knight, a teacher in the city
schools, and then blew out his
own brains. r.
The shooting was the result of
series of lovers quarrels which
had been the talk of Greenv!lle's
upper crust for several weeks. Mo-
lima and Miss Knight had been
friendly for years and the double
billing shocked the entire COM
munity.
Molina, a native of Cuba and a
graduate of the University Of Ha-
var1a, was an outstanding architect
and number of churches and
residences here in North Carolina
attested to his ability. He was al
so manager of boxers and a pro-
moter of prize fights. He started
such fighters as School Boy"
Cook, "Hotdog' Powell and News
boy" Brown on their fistic careers.
Miss Knight, a resident of
Orangeburg, S. c., had taught in
the local school for number of
years.
The couple had been out riding.
r quarrel developed and Miss
Knight attempted to leave the
car Molina followed her and as
she stumbled and fell Molina shot
her and then turned the gun on
himself.
That the killing was premeditat-
ed was evidenced by the three notes
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-11
DEDICATORIAL PROGRAM OF
THE YOUTH CENTER

'-~f Those Of you who failed to at
tend this wonderful program over
locked a wonderful treat. During
this program. the essay contestants
were permitted to appear and read
their essays On youth center which
were interesting There were sew
eral selections from the Board from
7th Ave. Mission under the super
vision of Mr.. E5gefield Also Mrs.
Estella Hogans' chorus sang several
numbers. Short talks from the
following Individuals all pointing
directly to the youth center were
made. Prof. Aldridge who mad
lcharge of the essay contestants,
Mr.. Householder, Mrs. Jane Ri
der, and Mr.. H. c.. Murrell, Essay
contest conducted among the pu-
pills of Dunbar school, Booker IT.
Washington school, and the Phoen-
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-11
ZiegfeId
Estate To
Divine
Pays $4,000
For Property
Worth 100000

MISREPRESENTATION,
N. Y.-(ANP)-The $780,
0C0 estate of the late Florenz
Ziegfeld, Broadway producer,
was purchased for $4,000 at
an auction sale last week by
the real estate broker who
has negotiated several trans
actions for Father Divine,
the Harlem evangelist.
The fact that the realtor, Edward
Rosemanan, said ne had no. i'm
mediate plans for the property.
Burkely Crest, named for Mr..
ziegfeld's wife. Billie Burke, the
actress, gave credence to rumors
that Father Divine may take over
the property as a rural heaven. .
Consisting of a 22-room stone
mansion, several smaller buildings
and "a acres of cultivated gardens
The estate was occupied a part of
each year by ziegfield ard wife un-
til the producers death in 1882
Miss Burke declared then that she
would never live on the estate
again because it was too full OF
memories"
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-11
Women
Picket Pickets

RICHIOND-(ANP the Truck Drivers and Helpers
began Brothers Freight Lines terminal
Saturday pcets supplemented colored
bearing signs reading Walking Baby Back Home" and
We Origin of the female pickes unde
their striking much
they walked side by side with the unionsts
throughout The afternoon.
by the two spectacular to
Of attention multi
the other dazzling yellow
dress Both pickers grim vsage
however pursuing their forth stoically
occupied
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-11
TWENTY-FTRST ANNUAL
COMMUNICATION

Representative from all over the
state arrived in the city Sunday
for the 21st annual setting of the
Most Worshipful Sovereign Grand
Ledge F.. and A. NJ of Arizona.
Jurisdiction, Inc, and Twentieth
annual session of the Sovereign
Grand chapter, O.. E. S., of Ari-
zona, and Jurisdiction, Inc, which
opened Sunday, May S.
The Phoenix index., 1940-05-11

The Episcopal Committee at
the same time voted to let Bishop
w. 7. Vernon, retired. remain on
the retired list instead of return
ing to the active list. This rec
ommendation brought some pro-
test from a large number of dele
gates who favored Bishop Yer
mons returning to active duties.
Bishop Vernon was suspended at
the General Conference in Cleve-
land, Ohio, in 1882. At that time
he was the presiding bishop of
Arkansas. At one time he served
as Register of the United States
Treasury. --.----