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Show THE WEATHER , 4 Generally fair tonight and Sunday; warmer Sunday. TEMPERATURES Maximum Friday .... 73 10 a.m. Saturday ..... Minimum Friday ...; 50 I 12 noon Saturday ....' 69 1 p.m. Saturday Minimum Saturday .. 52 71 6 a.m. Saturday ..... 53 ,: , Sunset Saturday, 7:41; rise Sunday, 5;06. ' 1111) Price: Five: Centlfr'''.- - alit , , - l hp a -- -. e ." , t. Lake , City, Utah, -- Spending - said that to "give assurance to private Industry that so long as it behaves be free," will start itself, a boom with the government reduced to its functions under the American system and with sol, vency that will come with a free t industry address folMr, Farnsworth' lowed a parade through downthis town Salt Lake streets morning. Speeches by Marcus Austad of Weber College . and Mrs. Ruth Hasiam of Jensen, Uintah County. originally achedtiled for the afternoon session. were included in the morning - 'k' :'.iP'.::T:.;.:;,..:il.. ;',....:0'., ;:,;.:..:;,:',:':.) PARIS. I They Directed A Revicalize d:G.O.P. ConventionRomo-Tell- Itallans ht s . - - Bucharest- Defense- Fthia ble To Be Us-a- - Without Dely law. 18,-0(A- P) , of S132,000,000 to be spent at the the-fund- 1935 class, which is made up of 26 years old. They will re- men port The alarm ended at 5 p.m. (11 p. S. T.) without incident a.m. I LBaseball 1,' . . - ' f - I 'AMERICAN 100 002 000 000 000- -- MIL 5. - lRuAzcznia that this group, report. ed to number 60,000,, would re. ceive a month's training "in the use of new weapons." s Verdun Mild Veteran Says Of War Today Escapes Battle Zone On Bicycle Eye-Witne- BY-H- ss . PARIS, TAYLOR BENRY May ing crowds of (three words censored) refugees from Belgium and northeastern France are streaming toward the interior -- while the French army meets the blows of the invad--intriphammer shock forces. German I have Just returned to Paris from a week's stay along the sector of the front Where the fighting is now heavist. I For more than 70 miles bicycled along roads packed With slowly plodding peasants and automobiles and convoys moving in the opposite direction. back-tc- Informed military observers said the most of the class would be sent to the wild, mountainous d border fronting Albania, 'to bolster- - the already large number of troops manning fortifications against any possible Italian thrusts. At the same time Premier Gen. eral John Metaxas of Greece, held. long conferences with the Yugoslav and Rumanian ambassadors, it was ...reported from Athens.' The Yugoslav envoy, Aleksand.. out sounded arSukcevic, Metaxas last Tuesday on what assistance Yugoslavia could ex. Italian-occupie- See BALKANS On Page 3 , r Parib 24 from Cambrai after being bombed for more than an hour Your words censored). At least 30 old men, women and children severe fighting had occurred there. The department had ready for transmission through Cudahy to the Belgian government the German government's announcement that it no longer consider. ed Brussels an open town, but was - uncertain - where to - send State Department E communications with Belgium 0 (INS)----Al- l , 3 11 0 2 1 6.75 90 d - -- -- -- , -- ' zx , , , ? Paris..,..-.A1.7eA-: - - - Crumbles - 27-4- t. '4k 1. .4,apofri.t:i".441 ,ke r 4 1 , 4 i Ili The French met the German onrush in the Vervins and Aves-- : nes sectors on the western side of the pocket with massed artillery fire. doggedly determined infantry- and stheir own heavy mechanized units. The Germans were estimated tebe using between 2,500 and 3,000 French pocket and French ry- at some places was firing point blank at the lum7, , bering monsters. In their effort' to carve pocket in France,' the Ger-mans have equipped large 'nun berg of tanks with flame throw ing mechanism. As many as tett' armored divisions of tanks have been thrown against the French. forth flames front- its flame throwers, into the ranks of the defending poilu& --- , r I 410. 7 li I h out-grea- t f ,t 4 ) ,7;:, ::-- ....;',,, . i 7 :.! , k-- .,i, ".:N .: owe , 1,- -, , 4,,, , , :,,..:.. 1. l Bombs Bring; ilavoc 20 - te , ,t;:i I 4t tt.4o .., k,li, ( ,, , ,,,..., - -; ..,-,-- , .",.. ''"4 vv?. ,t :ci'll a 4. ,. ,;LJ - , ., 4 , t ',) .41..t : 1 ittft. ' " ,lt 'I ,,,--- -, ala,-- - m Mile's1Frii-- Pa'ris - - - caption soy; this is a house hit by a Nazi bomb in Mery Sur Oise, 20 miles- north of Fttritt At right an Associated Press ,correspondent, - - ' Great numbers of these, accompanted by masses of planes and followed by lighter units and infantry, were striking through the Vervins region toward 'the Oise River and through the Ayes-fle- a region) toward the Sambre .MacGaffin, takes note.(AP Wirephoto.) ..., 1 - Vervins is 95- -- miles-- airline northeast of Paris; Armes is 20 miles north of Vervins and 110 miles airline northeast of Paris. TheFrIench reported the German progress was only. "slight" in the Avessies sector.. The principal effort seemed to be around Vervine, where French artillery not- - only was shells pouring ' against the German tanks but French said they bad brought up enough of their own tanks to hold the ground; The French command said that after the experience of the last few days the French had learned how-t- o deal with the German tank onslaughts. -- 4 Simmo010 DUTCH YIELD t 3. The last Vestiges of sown; --- Dutch resistance on Waleheren Island, part of Zeeland Province. was eliminated as the Dutch army his army commander offered capitulation, while on the islands BeveSchouwen of and South land more than 2,000 Dutch and were French captured. After smashing a hole in northern France in the Maubeuge-Montmed- y region. the German army dashed on madly In a rush for the French capi- I 4 - i - ,x The German high command in stark language the speed and the weight of the drive south of Maubeuge. which Is about Th, inUes airline north: east of Paris. - I , It t P. r Nazis Rusk Headlong In Total War ' This striking picture 'showing steel helmeted German" fixed bayonets Infantrymen rushing headlong With , through a flaming village was made, according . to German caption, by a Nazi photographer who ac(Al' Wirephote.) companied the troops '. , :- , Antwerp Rated As Among' Strongest European Forts s partment shortly will appeal to Berlin. nevertheless, to clear mes--, sages to and from Gort The navy's temporary Euro. Grain Market - TtilSuspenctTra d based Press yet to the channel ports , from which they might launch an aerMilitary men have rated AntforJai blitzkrieg on England.. one the of stronest 3Yerpas 7:Second. AntNierP tifications in EuropeI. But the Germans say they have strong anchor for the on the Western northern captured it now even more quickFront, and, therefore, a position ly than they did in their 1914 of vital importance to their whole drive through Belgium Berlin declared It fell swiftly defense structure.' In the World War, German artoday after the Allied line in Bel had to fall back from the tillery let loose on Antwerp Sept. defense of Brussels to preserve 28, 1914, in the Germans' second bid for victory after the battle contact with the battered and im' of the Marne had stopped : the perilled Allied line in northern France. The Belgian army.'. began 'to' Its fall to the Germans may withdraw on Oct; 5not 'with-- . prove far more Costly to the Allies in this War than it did in the standing the arrival of 2,000 Brit ' ish .set. by Winston Churchill, last. First, it would give the Nazis a then First Lord of the Admiralty .new wedge on the North Sea and Kaiser Wilhelm's legions coastthe closest they have come marched Into th city Oct. By The Associated the nations grain futures markets to prohibit until future notice all trading in grain futures be. low the closing prices of today; This request was made after wheat prices had declined more than 25 cents a bushel this week. Wallace explained that the federal government probably was without authority to require ces- .sation of trading in future contracts, but he said he felt the markets would cooperate. Prohibition .of ,trading for several days, officials said. might clarify factors causing - the sharp drop in prices.' Uncertainty over the European war has been blamed as the ma. jor cause of the price losses. - places." (A Belgian communique said Belgian troops "In Antwerp pray. Lice especially" Inflicted heavy See GERMAN On Page , I , Read what two natioluli leaders say on this cur- rently important subject ' The American Forum , , (On Page 2) - ; t , : , 1 ' ; f - ' 4: 1' "Are Warplanes Stronger ' Than Battleships?!' . ' - - -- - said: "South of Maubeuge Germain armored forces penetrated French frontier ' fortifications, dispersed two enemy divisions and pursued the retreating enemy beyond the Upper Sambre (River) in a southward - direction as far as the Upper Oise (River). "Infantry divisions are now closely following up in tremendous marches. Many prisoners among the defeated French troops were made and large supplies captured." South of there, south of Sedan in the region where the main Maginot Line has its western anchorage,- - the high command said "we gained ground in a southerly direction." The entry Into Antwerp. portant and heavily fortified port at the northern end of the Al. lied lines, was reported by the German official news agency. at almost the same time as the high command communique, reviewing yesterday's developments. had announced "we succeeded in into the outer ring of breaking the Antwerp fortresses at two 0006V. 75's---ha- WASHINGTON. May 18.(AP) Secretary Wallace today asked 18..(AP).---Ge- n - o 1,;' y BERLIN, May t 4,, - -, many's mighty forces, raced into strategic Antwerp today while to the south their left wing thunder, ed to within 60 miles of Parish authorized sources said, and , to the north their right wing mopPed up in southern Holland. , where resiztance on islands of Zeeland province crumbled. Heavy attacks by Nazi warplanes against enemy troops reeling back under the impact warriors were of the reported by the high command to have turned the Allied with- -- drawal into a retreat which "at a number of places -resembled a ' rout." Three high points ' of the west topounding drive in the ward the Belgian and-- French channel ports facing England and toward Paris stood out in ' German reports: 1. Advance guards' in northern France cut through to withitt 60 wiles of , Pavia while , the,,,,!0 main army is within 100 miles of the French capital. (Paris,' however, insisted the Germans at no point were nearer than 100 miles). to2. Antwerp was ." entered day and the swatstika flag raised over the City. Hall following yesterday's sweep in Belgium which netted Brussels. 28 miles south of Antwerp, Mechelen (Malines) and Louvain. woo N dous casualties.-- - LONDON,----Ma- -- British Warplanes made ',Lien- sive bombing attacks last. 'against road and rail communicse tiono being motet by advancing Germea columns west of Namur Belgium, the air ministry an Bounced tonight. British bomka planes also bombed Hamburg bg and Bremen. - BY LOUIS P. LOCHNER 41 May HEAD TOWARD RIVER, Resistance , 'I by Rio Paul Reynaud in P Germans, ' hurling wave after wave of tanks Into the stiffening French lines, today widened the pocket they had carved out of the great battle in northern France but at the expense of what the French called ,tremen- , :,i Last Of Dutch 6 4tp, .: r ' M.., were killed.. The fighting in this first of really modern battleshas been in ATTACK NEAR SEDAN terrific4ike nothingbefore history. The Germans - als- o- attacked A French officer who fought in near ,Sedan, at 'the southeastern the last war told me "there can extremity of the pocket more be no comparison betweenthis than 60 miles airline southeast of battle and the worst ones of the last war. Two hours of this is Avesnes,- - and further - east worse than two days of the battle Montrnedy. a fortified position guarding the western end of the for Verdun." (Verdun was the greatest cen- ;main Maginot Line, but these ter of resistance to the German attacks were beaten off, the French said Invasion during the World War Heavily arnióred Germart60-ton-- and both the French and Gerto any guns mans suffered tremendous loss short of the formidable French ve crashed at several Losses are reported (two words pointis with France's' famed "land ee ,WITNESS On Page 3 battleships," military reports said. The French declared their own tanks have proved superior in combat where these ,glants have met. British and French- fighter , planes without regard to-- the Nazis' numerical superiority, were pitted against the hundreds of German machines ficials said, all telephone,- cable which swept forward to support and radio facilities of the country the Nazi ground. forces... Other Allied fliers dumped have been controlled by - the German military, which thus far what the French said were thouhas refused clearance of this sands of tons of bombs on the German communications lines government's messages. Control of communications in See FRENCH On Page 3 occupied territory is an cc. knowledged right of belligerents under the rules of war, it was Wallitee-Ask- s' Indicated the de. cruiser and three destroyers at Lisbon, Portugal, is available for American evacuees should the. government decide to detach it for that Service, officials pointed outl They indicated the present dbiposition is to use merchant yes. eels which. when under charter by the- - government, may enter combat waters barred to all other American vessels by the neutral. , ity act Officials based their estimates Of the percentage likely to refuse evacuation upon their perience in Norway, where only leans heeded warping - to go. Even-1-1 twice that percentage leave the British Isles, France and southern Europe, they said. the proportion remaining will be nearly 50 per cent. 7Allies-7,0.-f::-T- .(0 low-flyin- g BY WALTER FITZMAURICE WASHINGTON, May 18. . 4 - and The have been ( . Pearson and Bosse; Lee, and cut off and,Neterlands the fate of an estimated 2,000 U. S. nationals in .,, .,. German-invadecountries 202 001 010- -Phila. is unknown. IL .1)etroit ... . .000.400 40x 8 Last cable from John Babich.Caster and Hayes, Bruck. pressdispatchescU. S. ambassador at Brussels, laimed the capture of Brus- er: Newsom and Sullivan; was 5 at delivered here sels land x 000 Oxx by 'x x troops, officials had , Washn., ....100 x x yesterday. U. S. Minister George regarded the German announceCleveland . .000 000 tut-- -I a pre. Hague has been ment -- of int - Chase and Ferrell; AliensEisen. --'Gordon at The . Isolated CU houm officialssaid. Tude to Atsdemolltiorr-br-div- e. ... ; 1,..f.:-- stet and Hemsley. -The government, meantime, ' bombings. The capture- - claim left Boston at St. Louisspestpon-edtonsidered using U. uncertain otthe situation warships or chartered steamers to evacof Americans there. ----.. , , ' - Concerning minister - Gordon's uate other American refugees, NATIONAL LEAGUE I 300 000 000...- - 3' 7 1 whom it has urged to assemble staff and those of the American Cincinnati I , Philadel ... 022 006 00x- -- 0 14 0 in Ireland, at Bordeaux France consulates at Amsterdam tuul Rotterdam an official said: Derringer, Moore and Herabber. and at - Spanish and Portuguese ,'"We are hoping for the best." ports. per; Mulcahy and Atwood. T 0 Gordon's last dispatch was de, The department estimates that St. Louis . 000 111 003. 001 000 010... 2. 2 , 0 at least 28.000 Americans are livered here at 11 a.m., Wednes, 'Brooklyn but officials McGee, Shown and Padgett; Ham. in danger zones day, more- - than 12 hours after - Iin. doubted that more than half of the Dutch high command surrenTamitlis, Doyle, and Phelps. 000 040 000, 4 8 2 these will heed its waiting to dered all Holland, save Zeeland chkago 200 100 30x..- - 6 11 1 come home. They reserved deYork to the conquerors. New j - Olsen, Root. Raffessberger, Mooty cision On evacuation measures Province, Gordon, the previous day; bad and 'veld; Gumbert, Brown and pending determination of the , cabled that there were no known facilities they will require. casualties among 900 registered Donning. - Pittsburgh 200 030 00z--z fl Gravest anxiety prevailed for American residents during Rot-41x100 333 z z the several hundred .Americans terdam bombardment and street Boston Butcher.' Klinger, Heinizeiman, believed to be in Brussels. ' Alfighting with German parachutand Po0e. Limning, Schnitz; .Bauers though the - deparement lacked; , ista and "fifth colUmnists" in the and Piechota ,confirmation of the city'e fall to Hague and Amsterdam. del, Lopez. D Since Holland's surrender,- - of. Germans,' lofficials assumed chkago ....000 60 InLotylands Fate Unkhown In Capital .. , New 'York 1 No. 42.: 90th Year Foe .. - -''.- 1' Two Thousand U. S. Citizens Trapped today. - May-2- ttonas - - 1 - , They were advisedby tion to go home. A.Irtiost concurrently, the fluMartian ministry of interior presumably intensifying- efforts to stamp out "fifth columnists".ordered all foreigners without work .permits to leave the cowlissued try and cancelled permits -before May I. At least 10,000 aliens were at- fected.. ThoSe not departing-a- t once were to be interned in a concentration camp opened last : night. Greece, in stern preparation for any eventuality, called up another class of reservesthe -- 1 Order To Leave - The measure, as approved by the military subcommittee, carried both regular army.funds and emergency appropriations - asked by President Roosevelt Thursday as part of his unprecedented peacetime rearmament program. - 10 000Altens ' BUCHAREST, May 18.(AP) Italians in Rumania were caught up today in the scifrrying of ,foreigners for cover from war' clouds over the Balkans. Emergency Provision Procludes Wait - - Till hay -- Gives - -- 1 - ToGoHonte;GreeceBolstersArm3 own discretion. --president's would not Ordinarily become available until the beginning of the fiscal year July 1. But Chairman Thomas (D. Okla.) reported that the subcom,: mittee wrote in his amendment to make all funds available as when the convention adopted soon as President Rooseveltt a motion that the secretary cast signed the bill. once it had won a unanimous vote for full congressional who was unopposed. POWER ASKED ,approval. ReThe election of national Depending on how quickly how- Congress-acts,-this publican committeeman, . provision, if I ever, divided the convention approved by Senate and House, : along lines which will determine might Make the money available most of the other officers of the as much as a month earlier than , state ond national Republican orotherwise. -- ' Chairman Vinson (D. Gal ofr ganizations. As the votes were the. House naval committee,,, See G.O.P. On Page 3 meanwhile, .whipped into shape See DEFENSE On Page 3- -Air Raid Alarm Given air PARIS, May 18.(AP)--- An raid alarm was sounded in Paris at 4:20 p.m. (10:20 a.m. E. S. T.) , - National ,Committeeman George Snyder, Phil o T. Farnsworth, convention keynoter, and State Chairman David J. Wilson talk ov er the coming political campaign. man at the convention's afternoon sessions.- - However, - selection of a national committeeman appeared undecided between George W. Synder, incumbent,..and William . J. Lowe. Mr. Yilson was retained as the Utah State chairman, late today - May PARIS, -- . , !. an address to the French nation tonight said that the German "pockets had spread toward the west and the situation was r " "grave." chair- - schedutedtif-beFeelict- 1 5 , Vol. 358 Line - Pocket Discarding the usual restraint on when new troropriations may be spent, an appropriatins sub- . committee sped a $1,827.491,724 ' -army bill towardSenate action today after inserting a provision to make the full sum available for, emergency defense purposes as soon as the measure becomes , , Q(1-1- in time tones bring late news from world capitals for today's Deseret News , Allies Resist Exi)ansioil Of -- session. of Ogcletlma David J. Wilson ed 0 I 3 ..4t roWar e , WASHINGTON, May it-w- - Difference I glI t" Extra. Tanks 4& . ' , FrenchRif Meddling." Mr. Farnsworth t 1940. i s - 7 tAti 8 5 - : - A Having squandered the national income for the next 50 years and gone bankrupt,even , on Ideasthe New Deal now 18 seeking acclaim on a "paper Keynoter Jr.. said Philo when he addressed the Repubbean state convention, at the - Rainbow Randevu, 41 East Fifth South Street. , State Chairman David J. Wilson. calling therneeting to or- der, sounded a warning when he cost said that regardless of America should be always "armed to the teeth and prepared to destroy any enemy." It is a bad commentary on the present government, which has been spending a war budget . In peace, time, when the presi- dent of the United States tells the people that we are weak, that we have no modern arms. that we have an inadequate army, navy and air corps, Mr. Wilson said Addressing an enthusiastic the crowd - that jammed declared, hall,, Mr. Farnsworth 'The United States is approaching bankruptcy. This steady ad- vance to insolvency Is not due realone to the billions spent-f- or more for lief, nor to the billions -bureaucrats who administer relief and other unnecessary , func tions-- The income of the government today is less than enough to pay for necessary govern- inent functions," he declared. --keynote speaker said that The most alarm concerning this con-- dition should be among the relief '. clients living by the hour, growing old, without savings and "facing the day when the government will have either no money or inflated money to sup- port them." - in He recommended a large cut government bureaucracy to save a billion dollars in salaries 'indirectly save an- - addi- tional three billion dollars of wealth annually destroyed. by these bureaucrats in destructive , -- V , -, ---- 10.3 3 ;- 1911- ODAY'- , At Heavy .1. 4 Saturday,--May:71- 8, Keynoter lilts , 1,111" 00114 .. 1 I LVIL.P r,' ' F ,, New Vea ers Assailed Ill -- G.- O. 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