Th 02EG0N STATESMAN SaUrrn. Orsgoa, Ijldoy Morning,' May 31. 1S43
PACE TWO
Extra Billion .
Asked by FDR
Supplies Will Be Bought
Need for Which Was
not Anticipated
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department "civil function,' ap
propriation, was approved some
time ago hy the senate. Today's
action was a reversal of a p re
float stand. In which the house
refused to rote the funds.
TTader the plan, fl5.000.000
would be made, amiable Imme
diately, and the army wonld be
empowered to enter Into con
tracts totalling 191.000.000.
While the president held his
first meeting with the defense
commission. Senator Byrnes (D
SC) . acting with Mr. Roosevelt's
approval, proposed a vast pro
gram of traininK SO 0.0 00 Civilian
Conservation Corps enrollees m
motor vehicle maintenance, first
aid. road building, cooking, pho
tography and other non-combatant
. activities vital to the armed
services - in war-time. The pro
posal took the form of an amend
ment to the pending relief MIL
. ; Another development was
senate banking committee vote
approving a bill permitting the
Jteconstruction finance corporation
to set up a new agency empow
ered to build plants or acquire
machinery for the production of
defense supplies. Senator Taft (It
Ohio) opposed the measure as
granting powers that were too
sweeping.
for nearly an hour and a half.
Mr. Roosevelt was closeted with
the, defense commission a group
of1 seven, drawn from industry,
labor and government, to over
see the big expansion of industry
and -prod action which the defense
program necessitates and stand
guard against labor difficulties
and inflated prices.
Work of Hillman
' Is Explained
Then, he called correspondents
to his office and told them what
had been done, and cleared up, in
part at least, an aspect of the
commission's work upon which
there had been much speculation
ever since the announcement of
its creation on Tuesday.
Sidney Hillman, mho was pre
vented by illness from attending
today's meeting, will supervise
all non-combatant employment
needs, and will take np a pro
gram of coordination about to be
relinquished by Harry Hopkins.
His work Is to cover the provi
sion of men for basic civilian pi
lot training, apprentices for in
- struction in mechanics and radio
by the national youth administra
tion work which also is to bo
extended to the CCC, Mr. Roose
velt said as well as employment
requirements and labor relations
ef industry.
Chester C. Davis, of the federal
reserve board. Is to keep tn touch
with agricultural supplies and
prices, the president continued, to
see to It that we dont run Into
a-Jam on such commodities. In his
activities. -the objective of parity
prices for the farmer will be kept
la sight, said Mr. Roosevelt, add
ing that this was sot a partisan
question but one on which both
parties were -agreed.
Leon Henderson and Miss
Harriet Elliott are respectively, to
watch raw material prices and
prices to the consumer, which In
volves setting up a statistical or
ganization, linked with the regu
lar statistical agencies of the gov
ernment. Going Into more detail on the
transportation phase of defense
production, the president said
that from Knudsen and Edward
. Stettlnlus, in charge of raw
materials, would go a call tor a
specific number of freight ears or
ships to carry ore. for Instance,
from the mines to the steel mills.
drops Need Rain,
Bureau Declares
. PORTLAND. May 3MAV
Oregom needs rain to maintain
good to excellent crop conditions
and assure a strong crop at har
vest the weather bureau reported
tedsy. y
Haying conditions remained
favorable. Some vetch Is lodging.
restores are adequate and live
stock Is in good shape.
i Some cherries have reached
(market and the strawberry crop
is abundant. Althouxh northwest
Oregon districts had a compara
tively small set, other fnrits are
going welL
; . Nuts are setting satisfactorily
ru.i peach and apricot thinning is
fh advanced.
.Warmer localities have new po
rta bea on the market. Planting of
rmam crop continues.
Obituarv
V Hellenbraad
John W. Hellentrcsod, late re
sident of 1654 South High, pass
ed away at a local hospital
Thursday, May 30. Survived by
wife Leona and daughter,. Mrs.
Maude Klmman of Oretown. Ore
gon. Funeral announcements la
ter from the Clough-BarrlckrCo.
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polios are from a great part of the French army trapped and captured during the Basis breakthrough
oa the Meow river front. On that occasion the Germans declared they captured General Henri Giraad
and his entire staff during attack In that sector. II N photo.
I :
Sek Frontiers of
jGrmany Widened
Allies Are Handicapped;
Hitler's Next Move
not yet Certain
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the western approaches to the
English channel to Narvik in Nor
way. That does not ena me war.
It does Immensely Increase the
difficulties of communication be
tween Franc and Britain for the
moment of armies and goods to
continue the struggle!.
Previously the British had only
to take a 20-mile step across the
Straits of Dover to join the French
for battle.. It Is now twice or three
times that distance across the
channel south of the straits to
French ports and railheads behind
the Somme-Alsne defense line.
And over the whole channel hovers
the menace of nasi bombers based
on close-up fields in northwestern
France.
There are other routes still
open between Jngiana ana
France, well protected by dis
tance. They run from England's
west coast to the southern coast
of France. They involve, however,
extending allied communications
lines, both afloat and ashore, by
hundreds of miles.
Against the background of a
German-remapped Europe and a
re patterned French defensive
front still to bo tested, the lost
battle In Flanders is already out
of significant focus. Its psycholo
gical effect on the fighting spirit
of the French and British peo
ples Is apt to be more Important
even than the dreadful toll in
lives and war. gear the allies are
paying.
Unless those peoples have lost
the grim courage that sustained
them through long, dark years in
the world war. the tight will go
on to the bitter end. The test of
that will corns only when events
make known Hitler's will as to
where his legions shall strike
next, at France, at England or
perhaps eastward into the Bal
kans to rivet his clutch on oil
and food resources vital to Ger
many. :
What Italy finally does, or
where she strikes first if she
enters the war, seems of less con
sequence at the moment to the
allies and the world than what
design for expansion of the relch
may be guiding Hitler's decision.
There can be no longer any doubt
that Russia's favor toward Ger
many is cooling. Franco-British
hopes of inducing at this late
date a Russian realignment
against Germany, or against an
Italo-German war partnership, re
flect that sharply.
Russia, for all her high-cost
victory In Finland, is as much
trapped by German expansion
along the whole west coast of the
continent as Is neutral Sweden.
The Tdaltic Is now In grim fact
what It has long been In effect, a
German lake. Germany, in In
vaded Denmark and conquered
Norway, la a Colossus bestriding
Baltic i outlets seaward. Thus
Moscow's, dreams of economic ex
pansion are menaced.
Intimations of Berlin sanction
for a Rumanian defensive mobil-
ibation against a possible Rus
sian move to re posses Bessarabia
and Its oil fields cannot have
been lost on Moscow. Italy wav
ering toward war, with a foot
already planted In the Albanian
corridor to the Balkans. Ru
mania's back door, is another
Item worthy of Russian note.
J. W. Hellenbrand
Called at Age 85
J. W. Hellenbrand, 1SS4 South
High street, died last night at a
local hospital at the age of 85
years. Mr. Hellenbrand was a
pioneer dairyman of Tillamook
county ! having been in that occa
patioa . f or more than ,60 years.
He was born tn Maine but - had
lived in .Oregon since boyhood.
He is survived by the wife,
Mrs. -Laura Hellenbrand,' and a
daughter, Mrs. Maude Klmman of
Oretowu. Funeral announcements
will be msde - later by Clough
Barrlck company.-
Narvik Objective,.
Gained Say Nazis
NEW YORK.: MayS 0-gp)-The
official German radio broadcast a
statement, picked up ; by Colum
bia , broadcasting ' system today.
that the Germans had "achieved-
their aim" at- Narvik," northern
Norwegian ore port, by destroying
the railway there and thereby pro
venting "shipment of Swedish ore
to England. : 1
Narvik, which was captured by
British troops Tuesday, had been
used for shipment of Swedish ore
to Germany as well as other -nations.
; ' .
Prison Camp Ahead tor Poilus
Berlin - released caution accomDanvins!
Satko and Family
Reach Aler Bay;
Making Good Time
ALERT BAT, BC. May 30-
lCP)-Paul Satko. Jobless Rich
mond, Va., machinist In search of
a new home in Alaska, arrived
here today In his home-made "Ark
of Juneau" with his wife and
seven children.
The amateur mariner, who
sailed his boat into Canadian wa
ters after a Seattle, Wash., court
order declared his unwieldy craft
unsafe for the six minor children
aboard, arrived at 4: IS p. m.
(PST). Ho left Nanalmo, BC, har
bor, some 183 miles south of here.
last Tuesday.
Bound for Ketchikan, Satko
said when he left Nanalmo his fu
ture stops would be "where I am
around noon."
The Ark, carrying Satko, his
wife, 18-year-old daughter and
six younger children. Is powered
by a 13-year-old automobile mo
tor.
French Deny any
Troops Surrender
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southern wing had its first big
success of the day in the capture
of Mount Cassel two miles from
the town itself and was carrying
on tonight.
Declared by a French spokes
man to be outnumbered nearly
three to one, the allies left the
tragic fields of Flanders punished
as they never had been. Many
areas lay under water, flooded by
the French in a last effort to de
lay the conquering German march
to the sea. They were alight with
the fires of burning buildings and
torn by the Incessant explosion
of thousands of guns.
Despite the loss of Flandtra
which gave the Germans control
of 10,000 squsre miles of rich
territory, virtually all of France's
coal mining region and about half
her industrial area the French
authorities took it with chins up,
Homes and buildings lay la
black ruins.
"Now, more than ever, Ameri
can Industrial aid is absolutely
necessary." said a spokesman for
the ministry of information.
But the face of defeat and dev
astation, the French spoke with
pride of the "glory" of the allied
struggle from the beginning of
the battle to its present end and
declared. In contrast to Berlin re
ports, that there had not been
"single surrender.
Tom Pendergast
Quits US Prison
KANSAS CITY, May J0-V
Tom Fendergast, a glum-raced
man one year ago as he left ' his
democratic political machine in
control of Kansas City and went
to prison, came out smiling today
from Leavenworth federal peni
tentiary stripped of his power
and facing a fight to stay from be
hind cell bars.
The 87-year-old stocky figure,
whose very nod . once meant the
election of a state governor, was
in genial spirits on his arrival
here after completing a term for
Income tax evasion.
"Hello, so glad to see you, he
beamed to old friends he picked
out on his way to the federal of
flee where rigid terms of a five
year probation were read to him,
including one forbidding him to
resume his role of political boss.
Then he accepted service of a stats
warrant charging him with brib
ery, pleaded innocent and r was
freed on $3000 bond furnished by
a business associate. :
Olson to Head up
Sunshine Division
Dr. O. A. Olson has been Ap
pointed to head a police depart
ment c h a r 1 1 a ble organization
modeled after the Portland police
department's Sunshine division
Chief of Police Frank A. Mlnto
announced yesterday. .
Mlnto ' said an organisation
meeting at which it is hoped' to
get a number of citizens interest
ed In the project will bo held soon.
No name has yet been selected
tor the organization-
Retreating British Leave
Nothing Useful to Enemy
A SOUTHEAST PORT IN
ENGLAND, May 31.-JPV-Britlsh
troops" retreating - In Flanders
have In almost every case- suc
ceeded In blowing up gasoline
dumps and leaving nothing nseful
to the enemy.' a returned offW
ter of the BEF declared today.
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above photo. Apparently these
Farm Bill Fight
In Extra Inning
Only 267 Blillion Between
two
Houses Versions;
Method Disputed
WASHINGTON, May 80-P-The
congressional contest over
the $1,000,000,000 farm bill
went into extra Innings today as
the senate requested a second
conference with the house over
Items Involving more than $267.-
000.000.
Before sending the annual
farm supply bill back to the other
chamber, the senate agreed to a
80,000,000 Increase for rural
electrification added by the house
early this month.
Senator Russell (D-Ga), floor
leader for the bill in the senate
said only about 15,000,000 was
In actual dispute between the tito
chambers but there were serious
differences over how another
262.000.000 should be spent.
House provisions would re
quire spending of the entire
$212,000,000 provided for parity
payments to farmers,' the sena
tor-said. "Under the senate plan.
part of this might not be need
ed."
Senator Russell explained that
the senate inserted the $212,
000,000 for use. If needed, to
bring incomes of cotton, wheat.
corn, tobacco and rice growers up
to 75 per cent of their pre-war
(1909-14) purchasing power.
Under market conditions of sev
eral weeks ago, wheat growers
would have received none of these
funds and corn growers very lit
tie because prices were above the
7S per cent level. The house wrote
In a provision for use of the tuaaa
to attain 100 per cent of the so-
called parity Income leveu
This would mean that ail the
sarltv fund probably must be
used. Russell said.
He reported some senator also
objected to restrictions on farm
tenancy loans Inserted In the bill
by the house when it accepted a
senate Increase of $80,000,000 for
these purposes.
Other disagreements between
the two houses involve the amount
of funds for forest land acquisi
tions, pest and plant disease erad
icatlon, and similar Items.
Ski Meet Scheduled
KALISPEL, Mont.. May 10-UP)
-The third International ski meet
will be held at the summit of Lo
gan pass in Glacier national park
Sunday.
Hi e
a completely
erfield because it has the qualities that
smokers like best . . . it's Cooler-Smoking,
Better-Tasting and Definitely Milder.
Every day more people enjoy Chester
field's right combination of the best tobaccos
that grow in our own Tobaccoland and in
far-offTurkey snrl Greece. Next time ask
Chesterfield America9 Busiest igarctte.
COTiclB IMS.
SUraaTi
Italy's Entry
Now Forecast
Coebbels ' Summoned for
Surprise Statement
at Hitler Camp - - -
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on the allied flight from Flanders
last night as the nasi armies an
nounced ' capture of the veteran
French General- Reno Jacquea
Adolphe Prioux with j uncounted
hundreds of his battle-shot troops.
Prioux and his mechanised men
had been fighting to. 1 hold open
the lower end of the allied escape
corridor to the sea. f -
The Berlin radio said the 41-
year-old. general, commanding
parts of the first French army,
was trapped yesterday with his
entire staff, at Steenvoorde. just
east of Cassel barely 20 miles
from Dunkerque, France.
It was added that the number
of prisoners taken by the Germans
cannot yet be estimated, even ap
proximately." !
The high command prociaunea
destruction" of the escaping
armies of the allies and their ships
bv the score.
Two whole flying corps, iana
guns, and even leveled muzzles of
anti-aircraft weapons tore at the
remnants of the British expedi
tionary force, struggling in the
sea and along the coast between
Dunkerque and Ostend.
Behind the British were the
French, many of their units cut
off from .the shore, declared by
the high command to be annihi
lated or laying down their arms,
helpless, uncounted.
Despite these scenes, with the
German air force claiming the
sinking of three warships and six
teen transports and the bombing
of a total of sixty ships, neutral
military men here believed the
British must have succeeded al
ready in taking , a considerable
number of troops out of the Flan
ders trap.
They said there had been trans
port movements off the channel
coast for four days.
Yet to Germans the bloody
coastal chatper written by massed
dive bombers and German artil
lery opened up a "tremendous
perspective for the future," In the
words of the authoritative com
mentary, Dienst Aus Deutschland.
Dienst said the war Is entering
a wide open phase, and that the
first great attack of the German
sir fleet In the Dunkerque-Ostend
area was a prelude not only to In
creased air assaults but to intense
submarine warfare, conducted
from Belgium and Dutch bases.
Most Germans, watching straws
in the wind, believe the fury of
the land and air attack will de
scend within the next few weeks
upon the French armies shielding
Paris.
Activity on Rhine
Held Camouflage
BASKI Switzerland. May 10-
(Py-The French shot hundreds of
parachute flares over toward the
Germs hank of the Rhino to
night and tried to pick off trench
dlggtng sappers revealed in the
glare as the front along the Rhine
continued am exhibition of war
acUvtiy.
Here, where It Is known that
both the German and French
Rhino forces have been greatly
reduced to back up the action In
the northwest.. It was said, how
ever, that such activity was "In
consequential.
Last week French artillery
shelled German Rhine communi
cations three days in succession.
Throughout the war both aides
on the Rhino front have resorted
to frequent attempts to tool one
another.
THAT'S COOLER
BETTER-TASTING
DEFINITELY MILD EH
one cigarette that gives yon
satisfying smoke is Chest -
in One Ear
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Mrs. John K. Plncemlnk who Is
marrying the socially prominent
scion of the Watermelon millions.
But, contrary to general opin
ion, Juno Isn't all for brides. For
instance, Juno t ushers In na
tional hotel week June 9 Is Flow
er Shut-In day .. and. . stringing
along j behind comes June 23,
which Is Accident and Health In
surance day, a sorry excuse for a
day ifj we ever heard of one.
When It begins to get hot along
comes June 2i. which is Nstional
Ice Coffee week, and we'd better
not catch you drinking Ice tea
those days. ; ; ;'
Xo, Jane isn't all for the
brides. Even pop gets a break,
for Jose IS is Father's day.
jdtbovgb if you're a father yom
probably won't bear match more
about it,
. - . -
- The French are losing so many
generals that pretty soon they'll
hare to turn to the Mexicans for
reinforcements.
.
ir, Zizzle, the demos motor
ist, says there was bad
peace or good war, except a
gmaoliae war.
$1,C00,CC0 Road
Letting Scheduled
Woodb urn-Sand j, Santiam
Highways Improvement
Included in List
Bids for road projects, aggre
gating a cost in excess of f 1,
000,000, will bo opened at a meet
ing of the state highway commis
sion In Portland June IS and 14,
R. IL Baldock, state highway en
gineer, announced Wednesday.
projects include:
Benton county Surfacing and
oiling 4.38 miles of Fir Grove-Al
bany section of the Independence-
Albany county road.
- Benton county Paring and
grading of .8 mile of Corvallis-
Lincoln school section of Pacific
highway west.
Benton county Remodel and
widen Fischers mUbrace bridge on
Pacific highway west, south of
Corvallls.
Multnomah county Surfacing
C.47 miles of German town road
Barnes read section of Skyline
boulevard.
Multnomah county P a v 1 n g
2.SS miles of Lombard street from
Alma avenue to Interstate avenue.
Washington county Grading,
tunnel excavation, lining and pav
ing .115 mile of Sunset tunnel
section of Wolf Creek highway.
Washington and Yamhill conn
ties Improving f.49 miles of
roadside oa Mlddletoa - Newberg
section of Pacific highway west.
Clackamas county Surfacing
4.9 miles of Rock Creek-MolaUa
section of Woodburn-Sandy sec
ondary highway.
Linn county Surfacing S.S
miles and -paving HI miles of
Albany-Crabtreo corner section of
Santiam highway.
Malheur . county Improving
1.27 miles of roadside on Ontario-
Snake river section of Old Oregon
trail.
C A. Howard Gets
Honorary Degree
PORTLAND, May 10-fJP)-
Three honorary vud degrees will
bo conferred at Portland univer
sity commencement ceremonies
here Sunday.
Recipients will bo Charles A.
Howard, president of Oregon Col
lege of Education-and former state
superintendent of publle Instruc
tion; the most Rev. Charles D.
Whlto. bishop of 8pokane. . and
Brother Arator Justin, head of
Sacred Heart high school In San
.
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British Await
Nazi Invasion
Relief Expedition. Navy
Credited With Heroic
Aid During Rescue
(Continued from page 1)
role deeds in the annals of the
British army.'
The communique did not say
exactly what happened to this
small force but mentioned that
"its refusal to surrender Calsls
In spits of repeated attacks and
of -continuous - air and artillery
bombardment.
The Royal Air force was cre
dited with successful screening of
the withdrawing troops. In , "con
stant engagement with the en
emy. the communique said, ths
Royal Air force destroyed "over
77 enemy aircraft."
While news of the partly suc
cessful jamming of the nasi trap
was announced In Britain, the ci
tizenry was warned by Home Sec
retary Sir John Anderson, that
there Is every prospect of early
call upon the civil defense,
meaning that invasion of Englsnd
appeared imminent.
He . urged all units to keep
fully manned -and in a stats of
readiness and efficiency.
Spectators viewed In tears and
wrath the tired and battered
troops home from Flanders.
The admiralty aald In report
ing losses of the destroyers Graf
ton. Wakeful and Grenade and
other vessels that "operations of
this nature cannot be carried out
without losses.
The Grafton and Grenade, both
built In 1I3C, were of 1335 tons
each and carried 14 S officers and
men. Each carried four 7.7-lnch
guns, six smaller guns and eight
torpedo tubes.
The Wakeful, 1100 tons, was
completed In 1917 and refitted in
1939. It carried four 4-lnch gnns
with two heary machine guns.
The transport lost was a small
ona. ths Abukir, 39 tons.
The admiralty aald "ths next
of kin of ths casualties are be
ing notified as details become
available. presumably meaning
that few rescues were made.
Vice Admiral 81r James Som-
ervillo assured the kingdom la
a broadcast tonight that British
naval forces are prepared to meet
any kind of a German attempt at
invasion.
Extermination of
Poles Is Charged
NEW YORK, May S0-V-A
Polish "bUck book Issued this
weak charged that the nasi gov
ernment was attempttng- to
terminate the whole Polish race
to create tor Germany an
open living space.'
The book, edited by T. Francis
Bennett and County Anthony
Tarnowakl of .tho Polish Informa
tion, confer, attached to the Pol
ish consulate, estimated that
1.100.000 civilian adults, 100,-
09 children and 320.000 officers
and soldiers had boon killed tn
tho German campaign and occu
patton of Poland.
Farther, the book claimed,
4.0 00,900 civilians had been de
ported from their Polish corri
dor homes to the so-called Oou
vernemeat-GeaeraL and 7.00 0.0 00
now were suffering from famine.
Since tho war, the book con
tinued. 33,000 civilians had been
executed.
1 First Installment of the book
was published in ths Polish-
American magazine.
Francisco. Father Michael J. Ear
ly, president, announced
Dr. Howard will deliver the
commence meat address and Blah
top Whlto will preach the bacca-
laureaU sermon.
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LafoSportd
LOS ANGELES. Msr 2 0.-;Pt-
Los Angeles detested the 8s n
Diego Padres t to 2 in the first
gams tonight but the Padres
msnaged a 3 to 3 tie la the sec
ond, which was called st the end
of the sixth Inning on account of
iam time limit. k
Lee Stine of the Antela rerta.
tered his seventh victory of the
season In vananUhinr Ran ntcm
In the opener.
Ban Diego 1 a j
los Angeles ..; ; g o
Crarhead. Dnmlr iA mH cut.
keld; Stine and Hernandez.
San Diego s 0
Los Angeles ;.;. j g 4
Morris. Ilumohreva it ' Tii-
lotto (I) and Detore; Wetland,
Berry (I) and Hernandez.
SALISBURY BKAPIf M ...
May lO.-tiTV-E 1 1 1 o n "Tsrzsn"
Brown, the Westerly, RI. Indian,
ran ths fastest marathon of all
time today, while out-dutanrtn
Johnny Kelley. of Arlington, and
S 1 other rivals in the fourth an
nual Lawrence-to-the-sea race.
Brown was about 300 yards
ahead of Keller, runner-so In
this event for the third strsleht
year, when bo completed the 2C
miies, ss ysrds in 2 hours, 27
minutes 29 33 seconds.
WATERLOO. Is.. Msy 30p)
-Ed "Ttpperary- Murray of Sud
or, unio. Knocked out Frank
Jones of Fort Dodge. Is., in 'the
first round of their scheduled 10
round heavyweight mstch here to
nlght. j
FORT WILLIAM. Ont.. Mar SO
-iVPour American hunters; have
come oui 01 me Thunder Bay dis
trict wun a prize catch of three
bears they claimed to have
brought dowa with bows and ar
rows. They said they brourht down
their biggest catch, a 100-pound-er
7V4 feet from tip to tip, with
iwo arrows at a range of 20 yards.
Rome Expects no
War Declaration
(Continued from page 1)
Roosevelt he intended to honor
his military pledges to , the Ger
man fuehrer. .
One embassy official said. "It's
a blank, but refused to elaborate
on the cryptic remark.
Meanwhile, Italy went ahead
getting ready her war mchlne
but easting no light oa when It
may move. .
Amerlcaufl.' whose duties keep
them In Italy, dashed oft .what
they believed probably would be '
their last letters home to go by
boat before Italy is cut off by
sea from the United States. r
English and French citizens
pressed for exit visas. 1
Everyone watched an approach
ing, cabinet meeting Tuesday In
expectation a war statement
would follow or precede It close
ly. It was announced yesterday the .
cabinet would meet to consider
"Important matters. . ,
(Usually the -most important
decisions of Italian policy, such
as a war announcement, would
bo made at a meeting of the
fascist grand council, which in
cludes some members of the cab
inet, and other Important Italian
leaders.
(So far no summoning of the
council has beea made. Although
a meeting could be called on short
notice, it usually is done in ad
vance. The council meets at 10
o'clock at night, so . that a meet
ing of that body would coincide
with . any sudden war develop
ments.) Famed Ilockeyist Killed
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