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EXPECTED FRIDAY
oosevelt N ominates Knox,
: timson For Cabinet Places
o aiitlon
biiiet Is
Prospect
Nominated Sec
y ot Navy, Suo
i;ii> Edison; Stim
Nominated Secre
• r War As Wood
Resigns.
.fur,.. L'ti. _ (AIM—
»e\ t-l! t>»>•; step: td
• ■ i {ml.iy foy
• S- ;:.:t< The nontina
!\' \ t" foe -ecre
\ :u:d iii:fv L. Stim
• vf. ... W;,V.
• •! the Chicago
JUpufil iran vuv
it.ii.v :i Still1.—
: S'.ite lit tin*
stration and secretary
Ptotden! Tail.
• >:: ut the nominations
• ci by ;i Whit-- House
without amplication
y \\\ Mcir::!i; had re
• | tioli< > ot teetive
-n i»f the noiiu
>ucci >s< »r.
■ . ;.r;:.is did say that
• "V' "t resignation was
• t the usual custom
. 'i!"v.vd and it would
public.
-aeeeed Charles Kdison.
4.. beco::;es el't'ectivt
• :i <;u ' the cabinet J"b
governor i • t New Jersey
ctatic slate.
initiations. coining only
e lite opening ol the
. tioiia! conventiun in
... caught Washington un
>el congressional and
a: with tall; over
n presidential politics.
. ana St .:»ot. on oc
r.-tct ti.e adimmstra
cy. K: 'X ii;.been,
hcan. a relatively fre
rtt ;>l IvIr. Koosevelt.
• -centiy organized
• t<> pn>: !'»te the
".raining 50.000 titers.
%
entice is
. s^iiSincI
.^.yjn Says (J. S.
i Choose Between
« J and Fake Secur
v 'leasures,
• •• i i; W KABSON,
• iii I !> l'». Publishers
i ttKiiiciul Bureau.
. M;- .. June TIn
i A •ri iea today is:
. - fake security. Every
/i that country
, • iri billions nt dol
• < . Vet. for ten yeaiv
S" '• r;.i tailed to bal
i ■ r. di:e ii> relief, farm
-i >-i " oeial security*
add the defenst
t::t reli< i billions. U'(
"t■ < r; it:;tand
I"
at or "social
• expenditure
!)( ;■[" expenditure.
> I i . ' X t V.'I > y •< I i\
iifi<prophe
that lit had the pow
■■ t ■ l.'.i s around wiiih
» .. 't.n*4 to .-trip for <i
!.• _::i:«' 1 !in: !Jy stripped
• i' recent dictatorship
i i■'•■{• -rl ''i "com" (>■ '
France trod the ; anil
(I diet: torship with re
1 •' u when the situation
■ She clung to the
.»;» to labor and re
• rent interc t for in
i • ^ the middle class a
of a vise. England
'he need of ;»»'ttins
• . fl to give up "gad
! > *u\ Was Suicidal
weak. stupid, and stub
• -ot ting to self-sacri
■ i i'-ct of disarming th<
Two precious. price
- e lost. w-t~N'd in dill
• fli l ion- tint sennit}
•i f.o wn w'hoot ivv
r. We live today m j
After Nazi Air Raid on English Coast
C. P. Cable photo
Hu.ce demolition bombs were used by German air raiders who swept the east coast of England, leaving
death and destruction in their wake. The raid was in retaliation for British bombing of the liuhr and
Rhine. These nouses in Cambridgeshire, England, were leveled by a direct hit. Almost a score were killed
in the raids. Photo cabled from London to New York,
U,S* To Aid Mexico
In Expanding Army
Senate Agrees to Low
er income Tax Ex
emptions ana Most of
Excise Tax Boosts Ap
proved by House,
Then Adds New Taxes
Wa-hingion. June 2n.—(AP)— A
cl> liant Senate ignored administra
j t!• >ii pleas fin* a non-controversm!
! revenue bill last night and approved
I deten e tax legislation only after
; voting siring'-rt levies on those who
| would profit 1 row war.
The chamber agreed to the lower
; income tax exemptions and most of
f the excise lux boosts which the Utilise
passed in ;.ii elicit to raise an extra
.Sl.on7.nou.oiU) a year. Then the Sen
| ate added:
1 ,\n iri;it»«.ch:ite exces. profits tax
on ali corporation; to produce be
tween >' ino.ono ooo and S5uo,uoo.oou
annually.
j 2 War profits taxes which Sen
i ato; Connallv. I)em<>er.;l. Texas. the
I sponsor. <stimated would raise about
! eight billion dollars a year from in
dividuals and po.- ibly a like amounl
I !roui corporations, i he levy would
•go into effect only upon a congres
sional declaration of war.
"Thi* amendment." Connallv said,
"milks me oid eow down to the point
ol exhaustion hut it doesn't quite put
her out ol i.ii mess."
I he legislati m now ijoc- to a joint
lion.vt -Senate committee which many
lawmaker- predicted would throw
nil: the .Senate proposal.
Senator Lafollette. progressive,
Wisconsin. argued that the country
Would regard as "pure .-ham" any
revenue bill which increased income
i taxes on individual/ and made no
provision, for uiaining off excess
profits from >m -trie: which profit
li'oiji the Kuropi-au war.
Lafoliette v.- -»i to i>l. clespite
iasgunient by administration lieute
i:ants ll.at excess profits legislation
i should await <i thorough study bv
I congre: ■ ioiiaI committees.
' world where no nation has the privi
lege of choosing between free-and
; <-a y indulgence and resolute devo
i tion to duties. The only alternative
is between dictation Ov force.. from
without and self-discipline develop
ed from within.
The cold realism ol what the Ger
' mans in lf).'!8 told me 'about the allies
I has a ruthless application to America
! today. Just as England and France
i were at last driven to strip for the
necessities of warfare, so the United
States will be driven to strip for the
necessities of defense. Any other
'policy on our part will give us only
"phoney" defenses. lit only for
(Continued on pa^e two)
Bankhead Named
Demo Keynoter j
Chicago. June —(AIM—The
committee on arrangements to
day '"lectcd Speaker William 51.
Ilankhead for keynoter and re
commended Senator .Albeit W.
Barklcy of Kentucky }"«>:• I'm* post j
<»! permanent chairman of the
Democratic national convention.
Opposition Develops
In Resolutions Com
mittee To Such A Plat
form Flank.
Philadelphia. .June lit;.— (APj
' 'pposition was report* (I developing
1«.-(I.iv in the Republican n «*'«>»s;11 con
vention's re.-olu lions commitu e lit
any plank advocating l.Tni!ed Stat.
; distance t«> tin- Furopcan democra
cies.
All .AT. Landon, chairman of the
sub-committee on national defense,
announced he had postponed a ;ehe
duled meeting of his group until to
morrow '•heeaii.se of development ."
The ISJ.'W Republican presidential
! nominee did not amp! fy hi-. state
! incnl hut it was understood that at
least live members of t >e eleven
member sub-committee h."d hai'd"d
together to oppose the party commit
ting itself to any type of aid to Eng
land or France.
Meanwiiile. (lie re,;nlulions com
' mittee wa> confronted with a de
mand that it declare itself against
any measures that might lead Ame
rica into war.
It came from a delegation of 'Jfi Re
publican House member led by Rf-p
rcM-ntetive Hamilton Fish <.r New
York, who denounced President
Roosevelt's foreign policies, and de
j elated:
'•Republicans should stand for
keeping America out of war."
HINCKLEY NAMED
FOR NEW POSITION
Washington. June 2'S. — (AP)—
President Roosevelt sent to the .Sen
ate today the nomination of Robert
11. Hinckley .now chairman of the
C'i\ il Aeroautics Authority, to be as
sistant secretary of Commerce.
tie would succeed J. Monroe .John
son. who was appointed to ti v. in
terstate Commerce Commission.
United States To
Bolster Unity Through
Money Credits and As
sistance of Army and
Navy Technical Ex
perts.
rivvic-o City. Juno U'»— (AP)— A
hit;1i source declared today President
C; rdenas had approved a program
vh '•»! v.'iin'd more than quadruple
Mexico's i.>rco. with the aid
"I iho United States.
This source asserted that within a
few woo|<s a credit of more than
bl(i.aii'i.oiin i'i-«>m the United States
would be made available i» the
xic i government to carry cr.it til is
i\\ j> ui-ion under 0.') technical experts
In.,)) the United States Armv and
Navy.
Additional millions would be al
located later bv the Mexican finance
ministry.
The Uni'ocl State- government was
sai.l ; i lie determined that Mexico
:i: iuid not be u. cd as an avenue of
invasion by any a-;;-lessor nation and
it was understood the American
credit, u'oiiitl bo made available on
generous terms. The American d<'tcr
oiMiatioii ua. said to ha\'e been com
muiiicat'-d to I're-id'lit Cardenas be
fore yesterday's cabinet session at
which u'ii\ers.!l military training and
■ tin r d- ii n e me; -ures wore indorsed
'i»r - ubmi>sion iu xt mouth to an ex
traordinary session of congress.
This defeiiM pr 'grain was report
id on high authority to include:
increase of the standing army to
ni' re than tfuO.OOO.
Increase of lite officer corps by
approximately 10,01)0. of whom 1,
ono wciiild I>e sent to American Army
centers for special training.
Acquisition ol . ix destroycis from
the United States to strengthen the
Mexican navy.
Establishment oi air bases at stra
tegic points.
Fan-American
Report Ready
Washington. June 2n. - (AP)—
President Roo.-evclt will receive to
day a report from a special cabinet
eon itiit'ee which has been studying
how be-t to lighten Pan-A»"nerica'ss
economic unity.
The White House said the Presi
dent probably would approve the re
port immediately and that the State
department then would submit it to
the other western hemisphere gov
ernments.
This step has been generally inter
preted as designed to establish in the
America's a united economic front
against such systems as the baiter
system empieyea by Germany.
Official Italian News Agency
Says French Plenipotentiaries
Have Started Back To Bordeaux
Italy's Air Force In
Op eraiions Oyer Vast
Zone in Mediterran
ean, Claiming Great
Damage to British;
i f'o-''t:cn?.
Home. Jump 2<» - ( AP)—Italy's ail
j power v.'i'i filing today into «»|i«»m .
| over ;i vast v.<«nin the Meditcrrau
; can and |',ir H<iy n the eastern roast
: 'if Alrira a Slrlaii. »ilI'ici:»I Italian
! ii'\v ■ ai'mry. declared t1 :it i»v Sat
! urdav at the Ide I there will be in»
| more fighling In Jween the a a is jnv.'
I ers find France.
French representatives already
have met Hi'' Germans. said Stafani
and ;:re enronte bark 1 •» Bordeaux.
Tiii' Maium high commend declar
ed il< widespread <iir raids h:ul eaus
ed great damage and liad deslroyed
| Pritish tanks in a fight on the in.n
tier between Egypt and Libya.
Acknowledging that her home ter
ritory had been bombed on the Ligur
ian en .si and in Sardinia, the Ital
ians report- il they + j(| bum bed lit it-'
tisli bases at Aden. Zeila in llriti-i
I Somaliland. Port Sudan on thei
j African coast of the Med sea and
j oilier points in Sudan and Kenya.
In tiie . ea war. a 2,lidO-ton French;
j de; troyer was slink by an Italian!
ubmanne, the Italians said.
An Italian newspaper said the
pincer.' formed by Gorman forces;
and th'' Italian army along the Alpine
■ frontiers was about In close in on i
the only French army reported here
to be still intact.
Italian troops plan to occupy the
Savoy regions of France while await
ing tiie outcome of armistice parleys
between France and Hitler, Italian
i sources indicated.
Savoy i.-. one of the regions Italy
; had demanded from France, along
willi Nice, the island of Corsica, and j
i Tunisia in Africa.
15,000-Plane
Navy Air Force1
Is Proposed
Washington, .Tunc 2i». -- (AT')—I
Alter hearing testimony 1h:it 10.000
planes win Id not be adequate lor a ]
proposed two-ocean fleet, the i louse
naval commit tee recommended today j
a N ivy air forte of 15,(100 planes. j
The testimony was given by Rear
Admiial John 11. Towers, thief of'
the Naval air corps. who retailed that
a lately-enacled law puts a 10,000-1
plane ceiling on the Navy. Hut that,'
he reminded the committee. was lie
lore a new S 1.000.000.000 expansion
of the fleet, designed to give it the
[ vj/.e of a two-ocean navy, was pro-|
i 'f-tled.
At the Capital, the Senate naval
I ?»ITairs eommitt"e had before it a
j -itgye.'lion by Chairman Walsh. l)em-'
ocrat. .M.i'sachusctls. that it might
be ad-. : able to give the President
: authority to hull work on all private j
and foreign airplane contracts in or
. der to Im inn production for defense
: up to requirements.
Kstablishment of Latin-American'
: bases for the Navy, a usually well
' informed . ouree >aid, may be one of
! the subjects raised at the projected
j Pan-American conference on hemis
phere problems of military and eco
j niimif defense.
Loth aircraft and fleet bases would j
be involved, this official said.
Petain Sadly Tells Of
Reasons For Defeat
Bordeaux. June 30.—(AP)—Old
Marshal Henri Philippe Petain.
Fiance's premier r»f defeat, sadly
i inld his people today they h;id lost
tlie fighl to Germany because they
I had "fewer friends" than in 1914
18—"fewer young men, less arms,
too few allies."
i
But. he promised in ii radio broad
cast: "We will learn our lesson from
the lost battle." lie blamed defeat
on the lush years since The World
War victory when "our sense of en
joyment predominated over our
sense of sacrifice."
Petain disclosed that at the begin
ning of the "battle of Franro" th^
nation had but 2.730.000 ^ild1" or
; 500,0U0 less than alter three years o:.
bloody fighliiiK in the Woi Id War.
In contrast with o.l J!• i 1 isli divi
sions in May ol he ;n' \' d, thcr ■
were but ten in May of J!140.
Then he coinpared the "><! Italian
World War divisions on the side of
Fiance and 42 from the United States
•with the present: Italy an enemy,
America a neutral.
French planes in the battle of j
Fiance were outnumbered by the
enemy one to six*, he said.
The hero of Verdun concluded: "1
wa • with you in your day of glory]
and I am and v ill remain with you
in your days of sadness."
He explained why he had asked
(Con tinugc2 on liji'co) i
French 1 roups
Tr\ To Escapc
I1 rom Nazi i rap
IjorilcaiiA. .June :!■!.— (AIM —
!'silts the famous hollow s(|i:are
formation. irrnvh M.r ir,ot line
troops of the arnn of Alsace anil
l.orraiitc arc attempting to fifihl
llivir way tiiro'.nh («ennan troops
which have hottlcd up their last
avenues of escape by A march to
the Sm jss iroitlicr. a French war
offie;* svckcsmati said tonb'ht.
Tin* spokesman report <1 that
flerman motorized pnits cut
northeast from I-yon today to the
S\\ frontier. oit!y ! ."» miles from
fJeneva.
In the we*-t. he aclcU'fl. there is
!"-ome fifteen mil'\s south
of .\'a»jles at the mouth of the
Loire rive!*.
Along (he lire of th«* I.oire tb*!
French central army withdrew a
few miles .south of Tours to the
f'.rr river.
At Least Six Persons
Killed and Many In
jured in Air Raids
Over Island Kingdom.
London. June 2u.—f Ai')—A nazi'
air fleet, authoritatively put at con-j
siderablv more than 1 Of) planes,;
dumped hundreds <>f bombs on Kr.,si
land. Scotland and Wales last night
and early today in the most ex ten- :
sive air raid of llie war on this is
land kingdom.
At least six civilians were killed
nd •'some (in" injured, the govern
ment announced. It was the second
raid in as many days on Britain and.
considering the number of bomb.-:
dropped, the reported damage was
slight.
The na/.i apparently changed their
line of attack and timed more at the
industrial areas than on Tuesday!
night. win 11 twe lve were killed.
Ilritish air men exact.d their toil
of the raiders downing three bomb
ers while other British aircraft were, i
the government reported, wrecking
hangars and del roving aircraft on
the ground 't (Ji i man-occupied air
porls in France. I iritis! i planes also
attacked the Rhur. Khineland, and
western fit rmany.
Anti-aircraft lire accounted fori
another na/.i raider, while several
others were badly damaged.
Meanwhile, more help has arrived
I'm Britain from Australia and New i
Zealand. Thousands of fighting!
Anzacs landed from Jim r:; at a Bril
tish port.
The air attacks began shortly be
fore midnight (ti p. m. c. s. t.) and!
lasted until just before dawn. At
Miine point the alarm lasted live i
)i<.111 . They ranged from the soiil'i j
co:i. i up the east coast to Scotland, I
aero to northwest England and
then to Wales.
UJmiPwi
I OK NOHTII CAROLINA.
Generally fair and sliyhll.v
cooler tonight and Friday.
Place of Meeting of
French Envoys and
Germans is Not Given;
Nazis Report Continu
ed Gains in French
Conquest.
(Fly Tin- Associated 1'ress.)
Hostilities between France ;md the
:i>:is armies ;ire expected to cease
Friday or Saturday at tin* latest —
the olficial Mali-ill news agency re
port' 'd today. a-serting that French
plenipotentiaries have started hack
to I>o!cieaa\ with tin- terms dictated
by Hitler and Mussolini.
The place oi meeting between the
French envoys. who arrived in a
snow white airplane "somewhere" in
GiTiiian-ocetipied northern France,
was not i»iveil.
IJeriin. blaming "the difficulties of
news' transmission via Spain, said
a French government communiea
tion naming France's four peace
plenipotentiaries did not reach the
German government until 1 a. in.
today ((! p. m. e. s. t. Wednesday).
"It could be transmitted to the
fuehrer only at I a. m." the broad
cast said.
"The high command thereupon
gave the necessary instructions im
mediately and made preparations for
receiving the French armistice dele
gation."
Hitler's high command meanwhile
announced the fail of Lynn. France's
third largest city. 2nd mile, north ol'
Mar.-aille and the capture of more
than 200.(Kill pri-oners including Gen
era! Altmeyer. commander of the
10th French army.
Fifty thousand French soldiers
from the Maginot line surrendered
their arms this morning to Swiss sol
diers and poured across the Swiss
frontier.
The German radio declared that
"m< mbeis of the French government
are not not at all agreed on the ques
tion of iaying down arms"—lending
credit to unconfirmed reports that
France has learned the gist of the
axis terms, found them too harsh for
the nation'.* honor, and resolved to
fight oil.
Tin -e reports said President Lc
bruii and member- ol his government
were ready t.. lite to Algiers, North
Afr'ca. e n i .v <.'i the war from
there < ■ r il German troops capture
all France.
Tne Fiench admitted nazi troops
hive occupi'-d L.von. but dispatches
from Genev; simultaneously gave the
first hint that the German mechaniz
ed machine ha: begun to wear out
and falter.
Ii'efuu'-c- reaching Geneva from the
battle zone lold ol seeing quantities
of abandoned Geiman tanks, armor
ed car- and motorcycle.; along the
main highway.-.
Kevcrtheiess under dwindling
French n si lance, Hitler's armies
swept further down into France.
Big Defense
Bill Passed
Senate Approves
Emergency Defense
Appropriation, Add
ing to House Measure.
Washington. June 2').— (AP) —
A Si,777.-'89,788 emergency defense
appropriation inea ure—!;i.-t major
mom y hill in Pre ident Hoosevelt's
defence program to diite—v.;is po-s
• <1 by the Senate today on a voice
vole;.
The bill now goes back to the
Motive lor action on Senate amend
me-nt;. which added to the bill a net
.>7U3:VJ08 ol which $43,500,0(10
would go lor airplane engines ord
ered from the Ford Motor Co.
As approveel by the Senate th"
measure prov ideel SI,488,353,027 in
cash .and 5289.136,761 in contract
authority.
Fund- w^re included to add 95.000
n en to the regular Army, bringing
v total en I!- ted trength to 375.000.
Money and contract authorities were
wrif.en in for 3.000 new army air
- Mid an unspecified number
of tanks and other weapons.
Fund- were voted lor the Navy to
tart work on 68 combat ships.
Expansion ol the Federal Bureau
oi Investigation by 500 agents to
combat spies and saboteurs would
be linancee] with a P3.358.0O0 appro
priation and the Civil Aeronautics
\'i!ho;-ity wa granted C32.000.00:)
tc, train 87,000 civilian air pilots.