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Order Warship
A Ariz Cnoorlori
Al Navy Yards
Additional Shifts to Em
ploy 15,000 President
Consults Admirals
Washington, May 21 (IP)
Naval air strength of not less
than 10,000 planes and 16,000
pilots to man them was pro
posed in legislation introduced
today by house and senate na
val committee chairmen after
a conference with President
Roosevelt and ranking ad'
mirals.
Washington, May 21 (fP)
All navy establishments were
ordered today by Lewis Comp-
ton. acting secretary, to speed
up defense preparations by
working additional shifts and
by increasing civilian ship,
building forces by at least 15,'
000 within three months.
Compton sent a letter to
the commandants of all naval
districts, yards and stations,
nil bureaus and offices of the
navy department and to headquar-
mjih ui Mio mature vviixi.
The proposed Increase of 15,000
in shipbuilding forces, the navy
said, would be distributed between
the Portsmouth, New York City,
Mare Island, Philadelphia, Boston,
Charleston, Norfolk and Puget
Sound navy yards.
66 Warships Building
There are 66 warships under con
struction or projected, including 8
battleships.
Even as Compton's order was an
nounced President Roosevelt con
centrated on navy affairs, summon-
lng ranking admirals and senate and
house naval committee chairmen to
a conference at which the effects of
federal labor laws on ship building
were expected to be discussed.
The house committee approved
a proposal to authorize the navy to
dismiss, without regard to the civil
service law, employes engaging In
.subversive activities. The committee
P'wlthheld final action on the legis
lation, however, until Vinson could
take to the White House a set of
amendments designed to relax the
labor laws,
Mr. Roosevelt, Vinson said, had
asked to see these amendments.
This gave rise to speculation that
the chief executive might turn
(Concluded on pure 14, column 4)
Germans Claim
Berlin, May 21 OP) A battleship,
probably of the 29,150-ton "Reso
lution" class, was hit heavily twice
near the forward turrets and
heavy cruiser also hit with heavy
bombs yesterday off Narvik, Nor
way, the high command reported
today in a special communique.
(The class, which the British call
composed of five dreadnoughts each
of 28,150 tons with normal com
plements of about 1100 officers and
men.
(One, the Royal Oak, was tor
pedoed and sunk In Scapa Flow
October 14, the only battleship the
British have acknowledged losing,
The, others are the Resolution.
Royal Sovereign, Ram 11 les and Re
venge. (All are World war veterans.)
The text of the communique:
"Fighting units of the air force
near Narvik took effective part In
surface engagements relieved our
troops.
"An attack against units of the
British fleet operating off Narvik
was highly successful. A battle
ship probably of the 'Resolution'
class received two heavy bomb hits
near its forward turret, and a hea
vy cruiser was hit between Its fight
ing top and the forward funnel.
"Heavy fire and explosions were
observed on both warships.
V"It can be assumed with the
greatest probability that at least
two other war vessels and three
merchantmen were damaged by
bomb hits."
Reynaud
A t Fifth Co lumn
Premier Promises Punishment for French Officers'
Conduct of Meuse Campaign Which He Says
Badly Disorganized Still
Paris, May 21 (U.R) France
the "disaster" of a German
ports, but Premier Paul Reynaud blaming the advance on
unbelievable laults promised that the allies yet would
conquer, even if a miracle is needed to save them. Promising
punishment xor those iesponsibie
for the German break through
the River Meuse, Reynaud said that
failure to blow up bridges had been
partly responsible for the nazl suc
cess and he charged that the army
of Gen. Andre Corap failed to reach
the river in time to oppose the Ger
man Panzer (mechanized) division
attacking defenders who were "bad
ly officered, badly trained and thin
ned out."
The premier, addressing the sen
ate, referred to the German advance
in terms of "disaster" and admitted
that the Important cities of Amiens
and Arras as well as Peronne and
Hamm on the River Somme, had
been taken by the Germans.
Referring to the "total disorgan
ization" of the French armies de
fending the Meuse in the Sedan sec
tor, Reynaud said:
"You now understand the disas
ter. . . . This Is how the hinge of
tne.Freneh front was broken. . . .
"Yet, if tomorrow, someone came
to me saying 'a miracle Is needed
to save Prance' I would believe that
a miracle would come because I be
lieve In France. The two great peo
ples of two great empires . . . can
not be beaten. They will conquer."
General Giraud
Said Captured
Berlin, May 21 (P) (via radio)
The Berlin wireless broadcast a des
cription today of the capture bv
the Germans of "General Giraud,"
whom It identified as the newly
transferred commander of a French
army.
(The high command said the gen
eral and his staff, from the French
seventh army, had been taken in
action which "crushed" the ninth
French army.)
"His predecessor had been dis
charged by order of the high com
mand of allied troops and had al
ready left his army," the wireless
account said.
"Shortly afterward the staff head
quarters was overrun by German
troops and the whole staff was cap
tured. "The new army leader, General
Giraud, entered the staff head
quarters, unaware of what had hap
ped, to take over command. He was
received by German troops and ta
ken prisoner."
Nunes Called For
London, May 21 MV-The health
ministry today appealed for "every
available nurse" in its program for
building up a "hospital machine"
to care for possible air raid casual
ties on the home front as well as
wounded from continental battle
fields. Wounded soldiers now are
arriving In convoys at English ports,
Germans Again Burn
Library of Louvain
By Loull P. Lochner
With The German Western Armies, May 21 (IP) An
other World war tragedy has been repeated. The library of
the University of Louvain, burned in 1914 and rebuilt in 1928
with American funds, Is charred
wreckage once more.
Flames have gutted the $500,000
structure, erected through public
subscription In the United States,
and have destroyed Its 700,000 rare
volumes, collected from around the
world and contributed to replace
those lost in 1914.
Loss of the new library was dis
covered by American newspaper cor
respondents visiting Louvain as
guests of Adolf Hitler. No one seem
ed to be able to say how the fire
started. All floors had been swept by
flames, and smoke still came from
the basement as we looked at it late
yesterday.
Many American universities coop
Hints
Believes in Victory
fought grimly todav against
offensive toward the channel
Spies Aid Nazis
rive
With the British Expeditionary
Force in France, May 21 (ff) (De
layed: passed by military censor)
The German air orce, sowing death
by day and night, has bombed ob
jectives far behind the fighting lines
in 72 hours of extensive operations.
(Note: this dispatch was written
before Middle ton returned to Lon
don with other correspondents, on
orders of the B. E. F.)
At the same time, the raiding
planes undoubtedly are aided by
spies working with nazl parachute
troops, who destroy communications
lines, signal fliers at night, gather
military information and encourage
panto behind the line. by wild ru
mors of defeat.
Until the confused situation on
the western front settles Into some
form of stability such operations are
expected to continue, with the allies
taking what measures they can,
where they can, to meet them.
Here, as elsewhere, counter
espionage Is handicapped by these
surges of population. With the en
tire nation on the move, all a para
chutist needs to become a "refugee"
Is a bicycle, tattered clothes and
a forged Identification card.
Rumors run through every town.
There Is wild talk of revolution In
Paris, breaks In the defense lines
and the landings of German
troops behind the lines.
Arras, Amiens
Masses of Ruins
By Drew Middlcton
London, May 21 (P) Arras, the
birthplace of Robespierre, "is dead
and burled" under the German on
slaught In northern France, I was
told this morning Just before re
turning to London with other war
correspondents who have been with
the British expeditionary force.
"Arras as we knew It last fall Is
dead and burled," a British officer
told me, "its buildings are demolish
ed; Its people have fled and are
dead."
Amiens, when I saw It Fri
day, was Jammed with pathetic
refugees from France, Belgium and
Holland. Now it has felt the weight
of Mars' fist.
A flying officer told me that Its
cathedral had been shelled and
bombed by Germans before they en
tered the city. He did not know the
extent of the damage.
erated to erect the new building on
Herbert Hoover square.
In the Germans' World war ad
vance through Belgium they occu
pied Louvain on August 19, 1914. A
week later the library was destroyed
by fire, with thousands of books and
manuscripts which could not be re
placed.
To help equip the new building,
which was built after Cardinal Mer-
cler, head of the university, had vis
ited the United States and suggested
aid for it, various governments con
tributed a total of 350.000 volumes.
Of these 30,000 came from Germany,
55.000 from Britain and 33,000 from
France.
Ground Allies
French Admit
Nazi Progress
On Two Fronts
Amiens and Arras Ablaze
In German Hands Drive
On Paris Stalled
Paris, May 21 (IP) The
Germans, striking with devas
tating force, hurled their ar
mored cars today almost to
the English channel.
Amiens and Arras, on the
edge of the coastal plain, were
ablaze and in German hands.
Nazi motorcycle vanguards
had reached the outer envir
ons of Abbeville, 12 miles from
the channel. (The Germans
said they had taken Abbeville.)
The French had withdrawn from
Laon, on the southern edge of the
nazl "bulge" Into France.
Premier Reynaud warned France's
anxious senate that "the fatherland
is in danger."
Drive to Channel
The full might of the nazl power
fell on the allied forces as the Ger
man drive rushed toward Its goal
possession of the channel and sep
aration of the allied armies.
The region immediately west of
Cambral was described by an lnfor
mation ministry spokesman as
"completely in flames."
The Germans, he said, systemati
cally fired villages and hamlets.
Some nazl troops carried flame
throwers, he declared, while others
descending from the sky, set blazes
to railroad stations, postofllce and
hotels.
Desolate Area
The destructive advance ot the
Germans, the spokesman said, was
"certainly not confined to military
objectives, but objectives of all sorts
were attacked and ruined."
Laon, approximately 75 miles
northeast of Paris, Is closer to the
French capital than any other city
which the French have acknow
ledged abandoning.
Heavy fighting continued north
west of Laon.
The southern end of the German
pocket in France, the French spokes
man said, now runs 35 miles along
an almost straight line Just north of
the Alsne river, a natural barrier to
hinder a further advance south to
ward Paris.
While the melee continued on the
World war battlefields of Plcardy,
German bombers sped to attack
channel ports.
Little Progress
Advance motorcyclists and other
light armored units of the enemy
pushed west and north of St. Quen
tin to be met In violent combat In
the Peronne-to-Cambrai region,
which Is midway between the Meuse
river and the English channel.
However, the French spokesman
drew a conclusion of "little appre
ciable change" In the situation dur
ing the last three days.
German refueling was Interrupted
vigorously, he said, by French bomb
ers which caused "considerable dam
age" on "magnificent objectives'
formed by the enemy's rear line con
centrattons of armored vehicles.
German aerial losses now far sur
pass the three-to-each - allied - one
previously announced, the spokes
man asserted.
(Germans maintain they have the
edge on a four-to-one basis.)
Yugoslavia Border
Closed by Italy
Skoplje, Yugoslavia, May 21 (P)
The frontier between Yugoslavia
and Italian-held Albania was closed
late today by Italian order.
News of the border closing was
received here shortly after the an
nouncement in Rome that Italian
Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo
Ciano was leaving for Tirana, cap!
tal of Albania, now part of the
Italian empire.
Reports filtering across the fron
tier to Yugoslav military quarters
here said the Italian army had
speeded up transport of large quan
tities of war materials across the
J Adriatic to the Albanian port of
uurazzo.
German Leader Confers With Aides At Front Fuehrer Adolf Hitler (left) with Relchminlster Her
mann Goerlng (second from right), according to the- German approved caption to this radiophoto
from Berlin, listens to a report being made by Adjutant Colonel Schmundt (right). The exact location
was not disclosed. Associated Press Photo.
President
R iver-Harbor Bill
' Washington, May 21 (P)
day a bill authorizing appropriations of $109,985,450 for river
and harbor improvements and surveys. In a message to the
house, he said he believed projects already authorized sup
plied "a sufficient backlog" and that "regardless of every
Dock Workers
Resume Parley
San Francisco, May 21 (JP) Nego
tiations for a new Pacific coast
longshore labor contract will be re
sumed next Monday where they left
off a month ago, Frank P. Folsle,
president of the Waterfront Em
ployers association, said today.
A date for resuming negotiations
was set at the request of Harry
Bridges, president of the CIO In
ternational longshoremen's and
warehousemen's union.
Folsle said the employers had al
ways stood ready to resume discus
sions for a contract to replace the
old agreement which has been ex
tended since its expiration last Sep
tember. Negotiations had been Interrupted
by the ILWU convention nearly a
month ago. At the time they were
dropped Bridges had proposed
long-term contract based on seven
fundamentals. These were accepted
in principle by employers who coun
tered with two fundamental de
mands of their own guarantees
the contract would be observed and
that the stevedores would put In
full day's work. Union negotiators
rejected a system of fines attached
to the employers' proposal.
Indications were that negotiators
would discuss these divergent basic
proposals before again turning to
longshore demands for higher wages
and a unlvcral six-hour day.
Balloon Barrage
Volunteers Called
London, May 21 (!) The air
ministry called today for more men
of 30 to 45 "for duties with the bar
loon barrage," the system of bal
loons attached to steel cables by
which a defensive cordon has been
placed around London and other
cities and along Britain's coasts.
The so-called balloon barrage,
"floating In the air like mine fields
In the ocean," is Intended to snare
enemy bombers under conditions of
poor visibility. Both Germany and
England employ them.
The balloons, strung several thou
sand feet In the air on cables, with
Inter-lacing wires to form a net'
work, keeping raiding bombers high
and affect their accuracy. The bar
rage is useless in clear air.
Martin Reappointed
New York, May 20 (IF) The board
of governors of the New York stock
exchange today re-apnolnted Wil
liam McChcsncy Martin, 32, presl
dent of the exchange for a one-year
term commencing June 1,
Vetoes
President Roosevelt vetoed to
other consideration, It seems to be
that the non-military activities of
the war department should give way
at this time to the need for military
preparedness."
About 17,750,000 worth of pro
jects in Alaska, Oregon and Wash
ington were involved in tne bill.
The projects included: Columbia
river at Camas, turning basin, $45,
000; Columbia river at Arlington,
approach canal, (39,000; Tacoma
harbor. Improve Wapato waterway.
$160,000; Umpqua river and harbor
channel, $55,000; Salmon river rock
removal, $5000; Baker Bay, Colum
bia river channel Improvement,
$170,000; Willamette river channel
Improvement, $3,600,000; bry cen
ter channel, Wlllapa harbor, $30,
000; Olympla harbor channel Im
provement, $88,000. Other projects
were in Alaska.
Crescent City Harbor, Calif., ex-
tend breakwater, $1,610,000.
Cotiullle river, Ore., provide for a
channel 13 feet deep from the sea
to a point one mile above the Co-
quille river lighthouse, and for
snagging to the state highway
bridge at Coqullle City. Annual
maintenance $2,000. No other costs.
Columbia river at Bonneville, Ore.,
authorizes secretary of war to ac
quire lands and provide facilities to
replace Indian fishing grounds sub
merged or destroyed as a result of
construction of Bonneville dam. No
amount specified.
Big Guns Heard
In English Towns
London, May 21 WP) Heavy rumb
ling like distant thunder was heard
tonight in the cast coast towns of
Great Yarmouth and Gorlcston,
stirring speculation among res!
dents that it was gunfire on the
continent.
Doors were shaken and crockery
rattled on shelves in seashore homes
Old-timers recalled they often
heard continental artillery fire in
the world war.
More U. S. Warships
In Portuguese Waters
Lisbon, May 21 (Additional
United States warships are expect
ed In Portuguese waters, It was re
ported here today.
A new naval squadron, It was
said, Is coming to replace the one
now on the Tagus river, but both
will be here for several weeks so
"the United States may have
number of units on the Tagus at the
opening of centennial celebrations."
The United States cruiser Omaha
flagship of the new squadron, It
was said, Is due next week. The
cruiser Trenton is flagship of the
squadron now stationed here.
033 WW
im Belgium
Britons Admit
Cruiser's Loss
London, May 21 () The 0550-ton
British cruiser Effingham has betn
lost after striking a rock off the Nor
wegian coast, the admiralty on
nounced today.
She became a total loss, but all
aboard were saved. The Effingham's
normal complement was 749 officers
and men. !
The admiralty communique:
"The secretary of the admiralty
regrets to announce that, as a result
of damage sustained through strik
ing an uncharted rock off the Nor
wegian coast, H.M.S. Effingham has
become a total loss. There were no
casualties."
The Rawalpindi, sunk November
25 by the German pocket battleship
Deutschland off Iceland with the
loss of 280 men, was a merchant
steamer converted to an armed mer
chant cruiser.
Correspondents
Called Back
London, May 21 (fl1) American
correspondents who had been with
the British army in Belgium return
ed today to London. Among them
were Drew Middlcton of the Asso
ciated Press and Arthur Mann of
Mutual Broadcasting System.
Messages reaching New York said
it was believed that all correspond
ents with the British troops on the
continent had been ordered back.
This was interpreted as an indi
cation that the situation of the Brit
lsh army of 300,000 men In Belgium
had become extremely precarious as
a result of the German army's great
mechanized thrust toward the Eng
lish channel.
If that drive reaches the coast,
said Berlin dispatches, the British
army will be cut off from its French
allies and penned between greatly
superior numbers of Germans and
the coast.
Italy Preparing to
Enter War with Nazis
Rome, May 21 (P) Italy, Germany's non-belligerent
ally, appeared today to be preparing to enter the war as she
ordered black-outs and air raid drills in her chief industrial
areas for a three-day test begin -
nlng tonight. Speeches of Foreign
Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano In
Milan and Cremona, In which he
said that Italy awaits only "the or
der of the day" from Premier Mus
solini "when he will have decided
upon It," Increased the feeling am
ong Italians that they might be
called shortly to fight on one of
their frontiers.
Diplomatic circles attached signi
ficance to an article by Giovanni
Ansaldo, editor of Count Clano's
newspnper II Telcgrafo, who wrote
"the hour Is near when our In
fluence on the course of events
must be more active."
CSS
Nazis Within
15 Miles of
Sea Coast
French 9th Army Crush
ed and General Captur
ed Successes Claimed
Berlin.May 21 (IP) In a
lightning break through, the
nazis declared today that they,
had stormed to within 15 .
miles of the English channel
while their vanguards on the
southern front pushed within
sight of the Eiffel tower in
Paris.
The Germans reported
these successes:
1. Capture of Abbeville.
Amiens and Arras in the drive
toward the English channel;
3. Crushing ot France's ninth
army and the capture of a French
commander, General Giraud, with,
his staff;
Rcthel Captured
3. Elimination of the last allied
resistance in Rethel, the capture of
Lano and an advance to the Alsne
Olse canal on the southern edge of
the "bulge" in northern France;
4. Capture of the last fort la
Belgium's Namur fortifications, at
tacks east of Ghent and frustration
of an "enemy attempt to force a
way out southward from Valencien
nes":
S. Heavy damage by air attack:
to transports, merchantmen and
war vessels on the French-Belgian
coast; bomb hits on a British bat
tleship and heavy cruiser off the
Norwegian coast.
The racing plunge to Abbeville,
about midway between the French
channel porta of Dieppe and Bou
logne, was said by nazis to have
put Adolf Hitler's army In position
for a battle which might bring
destruction to the British expedi
tion In France as well as to a
large segment on the Belgian-
French defenses.
Allies Cut-off
Opposing the German march,
nazis have estimated, are about
300,000 British, 250,000 Belgians and
1,000,000 French troops.
In the drive westward, called by
the Germans a march of unprece
dented magnitude, the nazl armies
apparently had succeeded In cut
ting off the mass of allied troops
fighting for the past 12 days on
Belgian soil.
They said the developments of
the past 24 hours apparently carry
ing the nazis farther at some points
than the German armies pushed
throughout the World war Indi
cated the allies were on the verga
of paralyzing losses in Belgium and
northern France.
The Germans seemed confident
that they had bottled up the whole
British expeditionary force.
Say British Fleeing
Acidly, these sources asserted
that the English were fleeing to
the channel ports to embark for
home "In the century-old convic
tion that the British Isles are in
vincible." In the dozen days since crossing
the Belgian border May 10, the
Germans have raced a total of 240
miles, first toward Paris and then
(ConrluilFil on pnse 13, cnlumn )
'
When Italy does move, he added,
one of Its objectives will be "terri
torial Increases."
He declared that, although Bri
tain and France undoubtedly would
react differently now to Italian
claims than they did 18 months
ago, It would be "too late."
Telephone connections between
Rome and London, meanwhile, re
mained suspended.
The possibility of Italy's entrance
Into the conflict in the Immediate
future was indicated further by the
air raid drills, which were the first
ordered since the opening days of
the war last September.
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