> 1940 ~ .. - -- " Killg C(lrl Pardy Cloudy , ".II JIO Hubbell Beata Cincinnati For IOWA: Partl, cloudy, not warm lit 1IOribnIit' today and 11th Stralrht I See Story on Pare 4 ~: partly cloudy. ~, I 10 III a City', MorRin., Nelll,paper FIVE CENTS fte._ r... IOWA CITY, IOWA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5,1940 no............... VOLUME XL NUMBER 210 ~~~~~~~~======~~======~~~~~~~~~~~======~======~==~~==~~, , ----------------------~~--------------- -------------------------------------------------------~-~ . * * * * * * The Nazi GrllslJ High Command Announce End ~--~--------~ Allies' Bomb German ' Cities , .. t., •• Of Create t Battle of All • . .~ Hard-Held DUllkerquc Capture.l ith 40,000 Report Hitting Italian Cabinet Approves New Pri on 1'8; Predict 'Total De trncHon' ReichFactories P d M c. W Of Allied Fore During Raid BY THE ASSOCIATED PRE 'repare ness oves lor ar BERLIN, June 4 (AP)-Adolf Hitler's high command an­ • * * * .-~-------- nounced tonight the conclusion of "the great l d tructive battle of all times," with the capture of hard-held Dunk t'Que French Announce End No Hint Given Envoy Quill Italy Latin American along with 40,000 prisoners, and then threat n d th Fr nch Of Northern Campaign; .. and British with "totaJ destruction." As to When It told the German people that they could be c rtain "that Tl~rn to Ail' Foray~ Countries Act final victory is ours," now that Flanders is won. llaZy May Enter Suggestion that a big offensive might thus be in the mak­ BY THE ASSOCIATED PilES f Caribbean Conference ing in the south toward Paris was accompanied by a jubilant , PARIS, June 4 - The allies II Duce Must Order recapitulation in which the high command said that English, ",:ote ort the bnttle of Flanders Committee Approves Extraordinary Session French, Belgian and Dutch prisoners numbered 1,200,000 with the abandonment 01 Dun­ Move lor Independence since May 10, exclusive of an undetermined numb r kill d ~erque today :;,ld slnshed bock Before March Begins and wounded. :.t the Germans in grim bomb­ CIUDAD TRUJILLO. Domini­ The message from the Cront-a message which was rend for-bomb reprisals to a lirst By THI: ASSOCIATED PRESS can Republic, June 4 (APl-A over all G1!rman radio sta Uons Ilazi raid on Paris Mondny ROME, June 4-Armed and Caribbean conterence committee after the public had [or on hour which left 1,000 F·.. enchmen shouting its readiness for war, . today approved a declaration for Defense Tax been told repeat dly to listen in, dead or wounded. I the independence of American thus directly challenged the allies: I Italy waited tensely today through With moyt of theJr troops out J colonies ot European nations, and "Inasmuch liS the enemy still of the besieged channel port, a cal(inet meeting that approved a resolution that all airlines in the Streng allied troops had smashed to the Bill Boosted spurns peace, th fight will be cn)"­ the French annou\1ced the end nl!W preparedness moves but gave western hemisphere be owned by ried on to his tolal destrucUon!" or the nOI'thern campaign and £o·: mies · in Flnnders coo t before fnst·d'dving nazis no hint as to when fighting might citizens of American nations. three rings or allies, in northern Clot thrQugh above Lille and In a review of the w stern cam­ lurned swittly to the task of !'C­ The declnrat\on for indepen­ To One Billion begin. ~rl!.'I1ce. • The greater mass of Ypres. paign, the high commond erted plying lo the Gt·.man air forays dence of the colonies, was pro­ equipment lor trom 7!1 to 80 divi- which continued today with new > Arterward speculation on the posed by Dr. Miguel Angel Cam- ions hod been captured from the assaults ('.\ the Rhone volley and date ot Italy's plunge rnnged from Admini tl'ation Pl'eM pa, the Cubnn ecretnry of state, Fear-More Than FlO ve LIe ve enemy; that from May 10 through the Port ot Le Havre. the \!nd of lhe week to the end ot and the commit.tee asked that. it. be . yesterday the nazi had hot down Strike Back Arms Program., Request Less thnn 12 hours after the the month, nnd one sOurce close placed before the next consulta- Lo ~ · D · I od 1,841 enemy plnne In air battle tive .meeting. of torelgn. ministers st In evastatlng F 0 For Guard Mobilization and with anti-aircraft, and ihat an Germans loosed 1,000 bombs on to the govemment commented of the Amertcan republics. Paris and Vicinity yesterday, the that 'no immediate move was addltional 1,600 to 1,700 had b n The committee suggested that WASHINGTON. June 4 (AP) destroyed on the ground. war mlnisl':y announced that likely. European possessions in this hem- H' l S HU11(-Jreds Are H0111el ...... s -The extrnO'rdinary defense tax: As to sea operations, it was de­ allied bombers had stnrted Some observers who thought the . iSllhere not capable of maintain- lt er wears "" striking bnck "with great suc- 90-minute session of Premier Mus­ . d I I "111 was boosted to al'()und d red that In th b tt\ at 'F\\l.t\.d: ra ing lndepen ence be p nced under A, Rain nun date the British navy lost 1ivl' cruisers, cess" in ','aids on Mt;llich. Frank- solini and his ministers might sig- -' J'oint mandate of the 21 American To Wt-'l War $1,000,000,000 - a - yeer todoy, Sir P erey Lo...ne N C .. seven destroyers, three subma­ 10rt nnd the Ruhr basin. nal the hour to strike tnlked later republ1cs. Illnerou Olwllunlt1e while the administration press- . "ONE OF THE MOST 1M. of a new procedure. I B d rines, nln other worship, 66 SIr Percy Loraine, above, Britl~h The resolution on airlines wes 11 roo east ed forward with its arms pro- tronspOl'ts and comm rcial shlQs. ' PORTANT AIRPLANE MO- Under t.his, it was said, II DuCe ambassador to Italy, baa made. all understOOd to be aimed nt Ger- OMAH J 4 (AP) A d 'fOR FACTORIES OF THE would proclajm Italy's war aims preparations for quitting j Rome ,man-controlled lines opernting in A, une, - ev- II"'nm including the controvel'- ALL TnE E VE EL, TilE REICH WAS HIT; NUMER- at an extraordinary session of the and returning to Englam'l. Italy's South America. BERLIN, June 4 (I\.P) (via ra· astating flood thal inundnted sial reQIJ t for authority for HIGH Ol\tMAND AID, WERE OUS EXPLOSIONS COlJLD tascjst .chamber and senate before ~ntry . intD . tbewar · on U\eO~'1" .. n . Nations I'epresented at the con~ dio)-Adolf Hitler, ' in a special numerOus communities in six President. Roosevelt to mobilize VNK BY B01\1B • BE 0 B S E R V E Di" THE ordering the "march ovel' th\! • . 8ide . app,ear~ l1!'mln~~t· i. ierence include Cubu, Mexico, the message." rom his 'weslern head- northeast Nebraska countie took the National GUard in nny mer- In addition, light G rman noval FRENCH W A It MINISTRY mountnins." uni.\$ reported the sInking ot ~ix l.>t"· ..... --~.r-'-I -;-. ....,........,:...,.~...... .,-,~~'01.~........... - .DQJTl.inican Repllblie, Venezuelll.· quarters broodeasttonight on the a I 1\ f 1 ]on$l Live lives ond geney. .... ANNO NCED lN DETAiLING Measures 'Ap))rov~d destroyers, two submarin s, one " Colotn~ill, the Centl'~l Amerjcan Germnn radio was declllred to fenrs were f It tonight the list. The tUK measul'e, oriiinolly THE RESULTS OF THE Mussolini's ministers approved • A ' , ts repubill's and the Untled Stal,es. ' transpol·t, one uxiliary crul' r OOMBINED BRITISH AND th.ese new measures: SoVlet . .ccep . , have "sworn to l'/ltry through the of victims may be incre()'"ed to 12 intended lo ,. i about $656.- and one other war vessel. FRENCI( AIJl RAIDS. I-Extending war preparations war to the final and complete 01' more o! search .AWent forwnrd 000,000 n year, WIIS revnmped Great ophe Whlle the allied airmen were to Italy's African empire and im­ 'h d ' onnihilation of all allied forces." tor even persons reported miss- by the house way and means The hlrh command's report on their retaliatory missions, posing penalties for commodity Arn . assa Of '_ HOllse Votes added thnt bombs n Iso serloUilly Parisians diggi-:1g Into the ruin. hoarding iri Ethiopin and Libya; 292 to 106 On This messaie from the fueh- ing. committee WI view of recent od- damng d to cruisers, 24 d stroy­ left after yesterday's raid found 2-Provision for nn undisclosea ref's Cield headquarters was Hundr ds are homeles (\ a re- dlUons to the defense progrnm. ers, three torpedo bonts, 22 other Agrees to Appointment additional casualties, bringing amount of money for warship con­ Wagner {.let broadcast to the German people suit of torrential ruins that ';ent The committee also approved a war ves els, 117 transpu .. ts nnd the t.oll in the French capital struction and ent.rance of more Of Sir Stafford Cr~pp8 after mnny minutes of martial small streams I'Dglng out of their pl:ln to rnlse the national debt commercial ve .. L In the Finn­ area to 254 delld :.nd 65~ student officers in the royal naval ders action-lion of the grellt­ wounded. academy; As British Env'oy . WASHINGTON, June'" (AP)- music over the Berlin radio. bnnks to sweep houses and busi- limit from $45,000,000,000 to est catllstroph s or history." Prajse Soldiers 3-Dlsciplining the war indus- The house voted 292 to 106 todny It spoke of the great battle of ness buildIngs from their foun· $49,000,000,000.