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WEATHER OAKLAND AND VICINITY Fodr but morning fog Sunday and Monday: moderate West wind. Cmlct rather Benri Fast t-A VOL CXXXn NO. 147 10c SUNDAY OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY. MAY 28, 1940 5c DAILY 86 PAGES PAGES A-l TO 18 Allied Planes Blast German 9 Fair Reopening Advance; GREATEST U.S. TEST AT HAND, SAYS SPROUL Draws 125,000 Berlin Foe Doomed in Belgium, Says 0 Ceremonies, Exhibits, Pageants and French Hold Channel Ports-Gap in Line Cut to 12 Miles; Gayway Fun of $50,000,000 Show All Get Share of Attention From Throngs Additional Exposition newt on Face 9-A pictores on Face 16-A The folks' opened the Fair yesterday.

'SUPREME EFFORT' ASKED BY CHURCHILL Nazis Slash at Encircled Forces in Flanders; Britain Warned of 'New Weapon' By JOSEPH W. GRIGG JR. Terrific Battle Mother and father and the Island in numbers apprladhing PARIS, Mav 25. (U.R) Allied air nL BERLIN, May 25. Authorized military sources said out oi jne first day ox the 1S4U Uolden Gate International Exposition.

They listened to the praise of the $50,000,000 show. at the forces in the channel region was laid across the German effort to cut off supplies and A military spokesman said tonight that swift German advances in Flanders had assured "annihilation" of the trapped Allied Armies of the north, and that Nazi power would then strike with a "secret weapon" at England. p.m. showed both Calajs and Boulogne still in French hands, although a terrific battle was raging in the whole channel Promising the most sensational military surprises in the By WALLACE CARROLL LONDON, May 25. (U.R Winston Churchill tonight called for a "supreme effort" to save Britain and its heritage of liberties a channel wind bore the smoke and thunder of battle oyer the Kentish coast, German bomb fell in East Anglia and the peril of.

imminent invasion was in every mind. "The gravity of the situation deep en hour by hour," (aid the prime minister. "We 'are all called upon to" make a supreme effort to defend the country, to preserve our liber ties and to win the war." Churchill's words, addressed in letter to British union leaders, were placed against this situation: 1 British military spokesman called the situation in northern France most grave. GUNFIRE HEARD 2 Heavy gunfire in the vicinity of Boulogne held by the Germans and Calais rattled windows, on the the British side of the channel British naval units were reported shelling Boulogne and its. ap proaches: British fighter planei were battling German plane over the channel.

3 Armed smarts were increased and barbwire entanglements deep ened around Government buildings and vital points in London and throughout Britain. 4 German bombsrdropped over 245-mile area last night, wounding 12 persons in North Riding, York hire and East Anglia, but doing little damage. In a situation of deepening crav Ity, there were two hopeful ray. In hi latest statement on tht military situation London's spokesman stressed that it was still "most crave'' but declared that "coordl npted effort can still retrieve the situation." NAZI WEAKNESS "It ihould be he aid. "that the form of warfare em' ployed by Germans ha weak nesses as well a ctrngth.

The other was a report which cir culated but which had no confirma tion in official quarter that Allied attack had tuceeded in driving a wedge through the German corridor across northern France and thus cutting off the strong German force now on the channel. On the military front tpokeimen aid that a large number of German tank had penetrated behind th Allied northern line but that the exact number wa not known. It was explained that at the request of the French high command no spe cific information will be given which might aid the German who were believed to be having diffi culty maintaining up-to-the-minute communication with th most ad vanced fighting unit. Isles, it was asserted in Nazi France Ousts 15 Generals Action Recalls 'PurgV By Joffrc; 500 Seized In 5th Column Raids PARIS, May 25. (U.K) An official communique revealed tonight that 15 French generals have been re mcyed from duty lince appointment of Gen.

Maxine Weygand a French commander. The discharged general Include commander of Armies a well as commander of corp and several divisional commanders and chiefs of large Army service unit. The official announcement said: "As a result of military operation which already have had a a con' sequence the nomination of Wey gand as chief of the theater of operation, there have been important change the high command. "Today 15 generals were relieved of their command, including general commanding armies a well a Army corp and alio several divisions! commander and chief of large service unit. The announcement rawed a sen sation here.

It was recalled that a similar extensive purge but not carried out in war ime with France fighting for her very existence was made by Marshal Joffra in 1913. Today' action created even more of an impression since it was completely unexpected. It wa pointed out that Gen. Gustav Samelin, predecessor of Weygand, was a follower of Joffre and that Weygand i a follower of Marshal Foch. It wa announced also that police have raided more than 2000 cafes hotels in the last few days and arrested 500 persona, of whom 334 foreign suspect were interned.

Ciano Returns to Roma From Albania ROME. Mav 25. CU.R) Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano returned tonight from Al bania where he had gone on a tour of inspection. He came home by way of Brindlii. (More commencement news oi paces 6 and pictures on page 8) BERKELEY, May 25.

"To main tain freedom for at least one peo pie" is the paramount duty of the United States, President Robert Gordon Sproul told the University of California's largest graduating class today. "Upon this Nation at this moment perhaps the most tragic in all his tory, may be placed the awful responsibility of proving democracy's power to survive," Dr. Sproul said to more than 20,000 persons, ath ered in the Memorial Stadium to witness presentation of degrees to 4097 candidates. "Our first duty, then, is to avert war, but our greatest duty is to lay the foundation for peace," were the solemn words of the university head, uttered as the speaker de Dlored the "paganism which is drenching the world with human blood." 'CHALLENGE TO YOUTH' As the spectre of war made, the university's 77th commencement a somber celebration of graduation, President Sproul voiced a challenge to "you, young modern Americans," to play a part in the solution of the world problems. "For courageous souls," he said, "this is a challenging opportunity." The United States, the university head averred, must erect defenses against totalitarianism and collec tivism defenses which will break down class distinctions and raise the standards of living to re-affirm a Nation faith in democracy.

we are then attacked by dicta tors, by the priests of political witchcraft, we shall be able to strike back and we shall not strike softly!" FALSE PROPHETS HEEDED "The tragedy today is that too many of the ideas which control the destinies of men have been drawn from the bibles of fanaticism, Das Kapital, and Mein Kampf, and are drenching the world with human bloo" the speaker continued. "Somehow we must find a religion of pur own that will overcome the political religions of Marxism and Nazflsm, each with its Book and Prophet. We must not become entangled in other men's errors; our fight 1 to build freedom in at least one area of the world. If we do not wish in these United States collectivism and totalitarianism advertised and lauded as more complete democ racy, we must labor with sincerity for-a truly American community." To youth, assembled in cap and gown of graduation in numbers making world history, their presi Continued Page 7, Col. Trotzky 'Staged' Raid, Says Paper Incident Faked to Give U.S.

Basis for Intervention, Claim MEXICO CITY. May Leon Trotzky, exiled Russian revo lutionary, charged last night that hi enemy, Josef Stalin, had "personally directed" th eattempt to assassinate him yesterday morning. The lefWwiag newspaper "El Popular" charged today that Trotzky had -staged the raid, possibly with the aid of agent of the Dies committee of the United States Congress, investigating un-American activities, to provide an excuse for United States intervention in Mexico. ifaged more for the benefit of the United States than for the Mexican public It said the "false assault construed a dire provocation against Mexico," since it came only 48 hours after President Lazaro Cardenas 'proved" that so-called fifth-column activitie in Mexico were merely emanations from various internal and external political factions. Police Lieutenant Jesus Rodriguez Casas and five of hb men have been arrested in connection with the case, it was learned tonight Five of the policemen taken Into custody were on guard at Trotzky" suburban home when a cross-fire of machine-gun bullets wa fired Into the house.

Irish Revolt Plot Nipped Uprising Set forThis Weekend; Employee Of U.S. Embossy Held By REUEL 8. MOORE LONDON, May 25. (U.R Docu ment seized from an arrested offi cer of the outlawed Irish Republl can Army tonight gave rise to re port that this week-end ha been set a the zero hour for an uprising in Ireland, possibly with German aid, as a preliminary to a blow at England. Police arrested at least three per sons today, when the drive against fifth columnist wa extended to Croydon, site of the large airdrome serving London.

A vast roundup 1 going forward in which it wa estimated that hun dreds will be arretted. Already prominent person have been taken into custody as well a a person connected with th. United State me-assy here. It wa learned that this person -Is an American citizen. Ouard art, being increased at all Dublia building, sower plants bridges.

wire barricades were erected along highway and barricades already in place were strengthened. NEW ARRESTS r' 'New arrests are being mad In Dublin and Ulster ft well a 'in Britain. The possibility was em phasized that I.R.A. element might cooperate with a German, parachute invasion both in Ireland and Britain. (Private advices reaching ib United Press in New York asserted that Sean Russell, commander In chief of the I.R.A may be in Ger many or Italy, presumably to -ob tain aia or cooperation in me ru mored PROMINENT SUSPECTS It wa laid 60 men and women were arretted in the past 4fl hour under the special defense regulations designed to control organizations (uipected of foreign connection.

These arrest were a Id to-be only the prelude to a vast roundup in which many prominent persons are expected to be taken into custody. The total expected to be detained was estimated in th hundred for London, alone. In the province similar action i being taken. New Stratolincr In Successful Hop PITTSBURGH, May 25 (U.R) The new $350,000 Boeing stratollner. purchased by Transcontinental and Western Air, designed to make flying Just below the substratosphere fast and comfortable, was christened today in an inaugural flight from Chicago to Pittsburgh.

The big altlture-conditioned plane, built along the line of the Army' four-englned "flying fortresses," cruised at high and low level on the 433-mile Jaunt climbing wiftly to 12,000 feet over Ohio and dropping to a hedge-hopping 2000 feet a it approached Pennylvania. Lord Cambridge, on Near tonight as heavy artillery fire line of communications in an reinforeempnts that rpnnrt area, v- Allied units are blasting at German tanks and mechanized units, while from the sea British naval forces are bombarding Toads and points held by the BREACH NARROWED Heavy artillery barrages were being laid across the German Corridor in Northern France in anr effort to interrupt movement of supplies and reinforcement. The newspaper Tin-tarnsigeant reported that the Ger- man Corridor had been narrowed to mile between Bapaume and Per- rone. However, a military spokesman revealed that the German atill were moving mechanized units and truckloads of troop tip toward th coast Fighting wa in progress, he said, at several points including Boulogne and Calais. The evening communiaue of the high command said: In the north the situation con.

tlnuea without important changes. Our troop are fishtine with viiror and fury which indicate the in. tensity of the enemy effort and ar inflicting heavy losses on the Germans in every encounter. Between th Aisne and the Meuse activity continues a fierce a ever. However, since yesterday we dominate" the enemy." BELGIANS RESIST The military spokesman said that the Belgian were resisting strongly against enemy attack of great strength the Courtrai region where the German today launched some of i their Strongest blow.

It appeared, it wa said, that the Ger man wer striving to roll up th left flank of the Allied Northern Army. A Belgian counterattack was said to have kept German progress to a minimum. The possibility wa admitted that th German may have taken, Vimy Ridge but heavy lighting was said to be going on in this area. The British were laid to be driv ing from the north from positions at Arras and while th French pounding up between Ham and Amiens. GAP BOMBARDED Into the gap which remains the Allied artillery wa pouring a heavy bombardment forming a gantlet which must be run by the German mechanized forces seeking to reinforce th element operating along the channel.

It wa not a whether the fire curtain is heavy enough to prevent th 1 German from bringing motor convoy of infantry through the gap. Along the Somme it wa reported that some German detachment which held Bridgehead' on the South bank of th river were wiped out In these operation several hundred Germans were said to hav been captured. The Pari Solr said that the Ger man bridgehead at Amiens had been captured. This was regarded as the most important" German position on the south bank of th Somme Continued Page t. Col I Italian Line Suspends Far Eastern Service SINGAPORE.

May 26. (Sunday) U.R Lloyd-Triestino Line agent announced today that Italian shipping service to the Far East was suspended and that the Italian liner Conte Verde due at the British port of Singapore May 25 would proceed instead to Shanghai. Cousin of King, The dispatch said that it wa understood that Queen Elizabeth r--s been making anxious inquiries fcvM ai the war office and the Red regarding Cambridge. Cambridge is a seeon-5 the King. Last month was named Governors ener-i ri Canada, succeeding the late i Tweedsnjuir, in blitzkrieg attack on the British sources that England would 'find out soon enough" what in store for her when the German offensive in North France has destroyed French, British and Belgian fighting forces estimated at a million men.

Additional- gains made since to day's high command communique announced attacks on the com' pletely encircled Allied force have assured the: destruction of these enemy elements. Nazi military sources said. The German capture of the chan nel oort of Boulogne and encircle. ment of Calais, one authorized source said, is being followed up by steady tightening of the "ring around enemy forces, and the effect of aerial bomb 03 the trapped enemy becomes more terrible a they are queezed closely togeiner. REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE "German reinforcement continue to pour into the wedge ariven 10 the channel coast and thu have destroyed the last hope that relief can reach the trapped force rrom other Dart of France." it wa added.

What the high command wui 00 after the fighting in Flander 1 ended is not disclosed. But' we can rest assured it will be. a lightning and decisive blow." German thrusts 'were said here to have diced off two-third of the around which the Allies originally held in Flahderi, Picardy and west ern Belgium. uerman aw the Allied northern force; compri- in the British expeditionary foroe, the First, Seventh and Ninth French Armies and two Belgian divisions Is now bound firmly by a steel ring of powerful German mechanized and Infantry division. The German said the remaining Allied outlet to the sea Dunkirk, Ostend and Zaebrugge are being heavily bombed from the air.

PORTS IN PERIL Zeebrugge and Ostend, caid the German, are in imminent peril be cause of the German drive in Bel gium. With the occupation of Ghent and Courtrai and the German break through along the River Ly it was believed here that the Allies will be forced to fall back to the Yser Canal the line held by the Belgians during the greater part of the World War. A retreat to the Yser Canal, would force the Allies to give: up both Zeebrugge and Ostend, allowing the German air force to concentrate it effort on the single port of Dun kirk which would be the ole clear channel port for. arrival of Allied supplies and for evacuation ihould that be ordered. Meantime, other powerful German ihrusts are being made in an effort to split up th Allied Army.

One thrust was made north from historic Vimy Ridge. Here the Germans claim to have pushed all the way to th channel at Gravellne along the height of land which run from. Vimy to Liller and St Omer. 2ND NAZI THRUST Another German thrust is being made on either tide of Douai. The Douai' drive i toward the north, It is believed that the German hope to link this drive to rush west from Tournii, thu effecting a criss-cros pattern and cutting the Allied force into small detachments which could be dealt with more easily.

Accordine to the Berlin Ammit' tag, thousands of British troop have been concentrated in Calais for withdrawal across the channel to England. These forces have been pounded with a tremendous air bombardment the Ammittag said. Many of them, it was were withdrawn quickly that road are- littered with abandoned 'equipment even artillery. After War many, and that Hitler was aware of bis views in that respect It was reliably reported that children took over Treasure 125,000, and got all they could they peered at exhibits galore, Youth Dies in Lake Merrift Deaf Victim Unable to Hear Instructions Shouted by Rescuers Unable to hear the shouted Instructions that would have saved his life, because an artificial hearing aid he wore ad been rendered useless by water, Thornton Martin, 18, 2609 Ivy Drive, drowned in Lake Merritt yesterday, with, help at his fingertips. His companion, who was rescued, was Jack McCarthy, 15, of the same address.

The Martin boy, son of R. C. Mar. tin, Richmond fish cannery executive, was partially deaf and without the use of the artificial hearing aid heard little. SAILING IN KAYAK Yesterday, he and his friend put out on the lake In a 10-foot kayak.

If was a sunny afternoon a trlfjq windy. The boys paddled their frail craft into the wakesvof power boats so that it would be lifted on the swells. iThe subject of swimming was broached and Martin assured his companion that he was "a food Lswimmer." Hardly had the words left his lips when the, kayak was tossed by an especially heavy swell. tipped crazily. The Martin boy, apparently panic stricken, his weight sud denly.

The kayak1 capsized, pitching both boys Into 11 feet of water. It was then that McCarthy dis covered that his friend's claims as a swimmer were merely a boast Terrorized, Martin clung to Mc Carthy. They went down. As they reappeared on the surface, McCarthy managed to break the hold and seized a pillow life preserver. TOSSES PRESERVER Then he tossed one to young Mar tin.

But the Martin boy shoved the proffered aid away. McCarthy threw him a second preserver, and for the second time, Martin, pushed the life preserver from him. Then McCarth. realized what had happened. His friend's hearing aid had been disabled by the water and could not hear his instructions, McCarthy stroked desperately to ward him.

It was too late. The boy had gone down again. At that moment, John Straub, 17, 378 Euclid Avenue, sailed up in snip boat He hauled McCarthy aboard and they, raced to the boat- house for aid. Two incidents led to the recovery the body. First, prisoners in the jail atop the County Courthouse who had witnessed the affair sum moned a jailer and told him the searchers were far from the proper location.

Instructions were telephoned to the boathouse. Then the searcher saw what appeared to be a buoy bobbing on the lake's surface. They approached it It was the boy's hearing aid which had floated to the surface. A wire dangled downward into the roiled water from it Martin's body was found on the bottom. The wire was still entangled in Jacket.

Index COMIC SECTION- 12 Pggej in Color AUNT ELSIE SECTION Aunt Elsie Funland KNAVE SECTION The Knave. War Map The World This Week Book Reviews Poets Corner Walter Llppmann George E. Sokolsky "Lucius Beebe Harlan Miller Crossword Puzzle Frank Hester's. Dogwatch i Radio Schedules Art and Music Boy Scout News Uncle Ray's Corner Camp Fire Girla Girl Reserves Fraternal News' Girl Scouts. Screen, Stage News and Reviews Editorials AUTOMOTIVE SECTION Automotive News Stamp Collector various opening ceremonies, tney appiauaea tne aancing or pretty girls and the pageantry of other spectacles, and they plunged into the fun of the Gayway." The Exposition drew so many in its first few hours that officials thought the total-before the 2 a.m.

closing would approach or equal the 128,697 total of opening day last 'year. NEAR 1939 FIGURE By 10 p.m. the attendance figure was about 6000 less than the total admits is on opening day last year. Betwe'9 and 10 o'clock 73B3 paid dmfssions poured through the gates, bringing the 10 o'clock total to Last year at that' hour it was 124,184. Despite the throng, there were no traffic jams and no other difficulties.

The island police and fire departments reported "everything O.K.," ad highway patrolmen said traffic on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge moved smoothly. The Exposition was rededicated as symbol of peace in a world of i ftrife at the main ceremonies of opening day, held In the evening in the Federal jUaza. "We hope," said Marshall Dill, Fair president, "we have done something here at Treasure Island to lift the sadness from a weary day a little Island where peace, beauty and humanity abound, FEACI LAMP L1GH1ED have lighted a lamp of tht spirit, and we lean only fervently hope that soma of Its rays may light the dark places." Just before Dill spoke of a figurative lamp lighting there had been a real one. The Fair's illumination system, improved since last year. blazed into brightness on a cue sent fey radio from Little America.

"Let there be light and laughter said Dr. Paul Siple, commander of Admiral Byrd's West Base in the Antarctic. Gov. Culbert L. Olson, another speaker at the Federal Plata ceremony, called the Exposition "a symbol of civilized mankind's desire to build rather than to destroy, to beautify rather than tor desolate, to live in amity and understanding rather than to wage savage war- fare." GOV.

OLSON SPEAKS Olson said that the words peace, tolerance, beauty and gayety are "all but forgotten today in the world outside our two American continents; but here, on this transcendency beautiful, man-made Island, wa find the terms typified in great abundance." "We in America," Olson said. "should appreciate the good fortune that enables us to gather here and enjoy these interesting exhibits of our modern industrial and cultural achievements and the fascinating features of this great Fair in the way of delightful entertainment. George Creel, United States commissioner to the Exposition, read a message from President Roosevelt. Te President wished the Fair well and said it represents "the combined action of many countries and many men." "It shows what civilization can be and what it ought to be." the President said of the Exposition. HALF-HOUR CEREMONY The half-hour ceremoify at which these men spoke was the last of several opening ceremonies on the day's program.

Visitors had as much fun "poking around" the 400-acre island as they Continued Page CoL 1 Sunday Tribune SCREEN AND RADIO WEEKLY 12 Pages la Color Serlal erV MAIN NEWS SECTION Complete News Report Townsend Notes Summer Resorta Complete Weather Report Shipping Exposition Program Sports News Financial Newt Commodity Markets DEVELOPMENT SECTION Development and Building Photography. Calendar Negro Activities Playground Activities StaW News CLASSIFIED SECTION Classified Advertising Lodge and Fraternal Notices Vital Statistics SOCIETY SECTION Society and Clubs Nan Bentley Covers the Shops Geraldine Pattern In the Home and Garden It he of THE WAR TRAP WERE HERE n-- --( 3. 1 1 1 Missing in Flanders Fighting Nazis Drafting Economic Plan aar aaw LONDON. May 25. (U.

The Sunday Dispatch reported tonigh' th Lord Frederick Cambridge, cousin of King George VL is missing in active Cambridge, con of th can oi Athlon, i a captain in the Cold Stream Guards, crack British regiment which ha been reported in service in th Northern Allied front In riander. For All Europe BERLIN. May 25. (OB Adolf Hitler has Instructed Dr. Hjalmar Schachti Germany'' foremost eco nomic expert, to draft a "complete economic plan" for- Europe based on the assumption of a German victory in the present war, reliable tources, said tonight Schacht former president of the Reichsbank and Minister of Economy, has secluded himself with, a large staff of collaborators to com plete the work.

It was stated that SchacM, de scribed a a complete realist wa opposed to any settlement of the war by a second Verjallles, even ifl th treaty was dictated by Linnmahh Uinks American ri Fate With Outcome of Schacht's plan, as worked out thus far, envisions the following: Re-establishment of deteriorated capital goods. Reorganization of Germany's currency funds on entirely new. principles. The planned parceling on European market with consideration of the productive capacities oi the various countries, especially in Southern and Southeastern Well informed persons said Schachfs plan would include proposals for a European disarmament program. a th battlefield in which Berlin claims 1.000X00 Allied troop are trapped wtr placed In California, wiih Vimy Rldaf located at OaJtlcfnd, the area would hart) boundaxiei xtending north to Potaluna, east to Sacramento, eouthwett to Plttsbura thence to lirermore and on to a point Just north of Eca Jest, tlL-llg the tack to C-Hrri Free government here parity of democracy sc I'-svs r--t:.